ANSWER KEYS for TNPSC GROUP-I SERVICES 2011

(Preliminary Written Examination)

(Date of Examination: 05.06.2011 FN)

Subject: General Knowledge (Degree Standard)

(Objective Type) Question Series – C

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Q A Description 01 D Sathanur Dam is constructed across Thenpennai river 02 C 2007-09 – International Year of Planet Earth 03 A Udayagiri fort is located in Kanniyakumari

04 A The Chola dynasty was an ancient Tamil kingdom along the banks of the river Kaveri

05 D Major source of irrigation in Tamil Nadu in general is Well

06 C

Sankaracharya – Advaita

Ramanuja – Visistadvaita

Madhvacharya – Dualism

Basaveswara – Vira Saivam

07 C The Indian Independence bill was brought in the House of Commons on 4th July, 1947

08 C Pie-diagram

09 B The National Population Register is undertaken under Citizenship Act of 1955 & Citizen Rules, 2003

10 A not continuous 11 D A great exponent of Mahayanism was Nagarjuna

12 A Lateritic soils are formed under conditions of high temperature and rainfall

13 D Barbara McClintock got the Nobel Prize for discovering the concept of jumping genes (or) transposons

14 D India share the longest land border with Bangladesh 15 D The uncertainty principle was proposed by Heisenberg

16 B Recently Bicentenary birth anniversary was carried out for Charles Darwin

17 D The toxic carcinogenic metal ion in the following is Cr6+

18 A Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A)

19 A Venturimeter is used to measure fluid velocity

20 A Poondi Reservoir was planned to provide water to Madras by Sathyamurthy Iyer

21 A The Special Economic Zone Act was passed in Indian Parliament in May 2005

22 D The earliest brick temple in India was built by Guptas 23

24 A

Nana Sahib – 1857 Revolt

Vellore Mutiny – 1806

Lord Curzon – Partition of Bengal

Indian Independence Act – 1947

25 C The first state in India to introduce insurance scheme for State Government Employees was Tamil Nadu

26 B The Pandiyan king who consolidated and expanded the Pandya kingdom up to Kaveri was Sundara Pandyan

27 B The first ruler of the Chola dynasty who kept strong navy was Rajendra I

28 C National Emergency was declared by the Congress Government headed by Indira Gandhi in 1975

29 A Directive Principles of State Policy is not a salient feature of the Constitution of India

30 B Which organelle in the cell, other than nucleus contains DNA? Mitochondria

31 C Find out the missing observation of the following data with mean 5 2, 6,5,3,8,2……,9,7,7,6,4

32 C The extent of rural electrification done in Tamil Nadu is 99% 33 B Correctly matched: Mahavira – Last Tirthankara

34 A 3250-2750 B.C was the date assigned to the Indus civilization by Sir John Marshall

35 A The Aryans had popular Assemblies, Sabhas and Samitis to check on the power of the king

36 D Incorrect: C. Rajagopalachari – Anti-Brahmin, Anti-North and Anti-Aryan

37 B Longest river in Tamil Nadu is Kaveri

38 C Mullai Periyar dispute is between Tamil Nadu and Kerala

39 C Mahatma Gandhi suspended the Non-co-operation movement due to Chauri Chaura incident in the year

40 A According to the year 2000-2001 in India, the major irrigation sources are in the order of Canels, Wells, Tubewells, Tanks

41 C Amoebic dysentery is caused by Entamoeba histolytica 42 43 A Cellulose is a natural polymer

44 D The ground state energy of the electron in the hydrogen atom is 13.6 eV. The energy of the state n = 2 is 3.4eV

45 D The Red Fort at Delhi was constructed by Shah Jahan 46 C Botanical name of Turmeric is Curcuma domestica

47 A Barack Obama is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace – 2009

48 C The Director of Tamil orgin who sent Chandrayan to space is Dr. Mayilsamy Annadurai

49 D Seismic waves are recorded with the help of an instrument known as Seismograph

50 B C. Rangarajan is the current Chairman of the Prime Minister of India’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC)

51 A

TIFR – Mumbai

Space Physics Laboratory – Thiruvananthapuram

SHAR centre – Sriharikota

ISRO satellite centre – Bengaluru 52 C The last census was undertaken in 2011

53 D The scope of land reforms does not include housing loan to farmers

54 B Captain Lakshmi – Daughter of Ammu Saminathan, a Patriot, Captain of Jansi military wing

55 B Stars, Nebula and Interstellar material

56 B A Shopkeeper marks his goods to gain 30%. But he allows 10% discount for down cash payment. His profit per cent is 17%

57 D Function(s) of statistics is/are all of these 58 A IRDP was introduced in the year 1978-79

59 C A total expenditure of a family is Rs. 1,080 and they are spending Rs.450, for food. Then to draw a pie diagram the degree value is 150

60 B

Chera – Bow & Arrow

Chola – Tiger

Pandya – Fish

Pallava – Bull 61 D The packing fraction of a face centred cubic lattice is 74% 62 A The ocean floor is a flat plain known as the Abyssal plain

63 A In mitochondria, which of the following process/es take(s) places? – Tricarboxylic acid cycle

64 A India is a member of Asian Development Bank 65 66 A Synapse is seen in nervous system

67 C Ammonia burnt with O2, liberate which of the following ions/radicals? – NO2 + H2O

68 C Namakkal District was formulated in the year 1997

69 A The first telegraph line of India was set up between Kolkata and Diamond Harbour

70 A A graph of cumulative frequency distribution is called ogive 71 B Name of Tamil Nadu state bird is Emerald Dove

72 D The Queen who took the lead in the South Indian Rebellion was Velu Natchiyar

73 C V.O. Chidambaran pillai founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company to operate between Tuticorin and Sri Lanka

74 C High urbanisation is a feature of Tamil Nadu economy 75 A The resolving power of a telescope is highest for Blue light 76 C A time series graph is also known as Histogram

77 D The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act was passed during the period of Narasimha Rao

78 B Skeletal soils are found in South western Rajastan and Cuddapah region

79 D The two major cities of Indus Valley Civilisation revealing uniform urban planning were Mohenjodaro and Harappa

80 B Shri Sundarlal Bahuguna received Padma Vibhushan award

81

82 B As per the division of powers of India, in the concurrent list there are 66 items

83 A Tuberculosis immunisation was developed by Albert Calmette

84 B Cricketer Brain Lara belongs to West Indies 85 B Typhoons usually found in West Pacific

86 A The Portuguese were the first to come to India and leave India last

87 B The largest planet in the solar system is Jupiter 88 C

89 D Energy is not recycled in an eco-system

90 B Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

91 A I alone is correct.

92 D UPA Government appointed National Commission on Farmers in 2004 under the Chairmanship of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan

93 C The single membrane surrounding vacuoles in plant cells is known as Tonoplast

94 B The doctrine of Fundamental right cannot be ammended under Art. 368 was propounded by the Supreme Court in the case of Keshavanand vs State of Kerala

95 D C. Linnaeus introduced the ‘binomial nomenclature’ to name organisms

96 C The term ‘Brahmadeya’ denotes land granted to the Brahmanas

97 A Dempster’s mass spectrograph – Masses of isotopes 98 B The famous book ‘Cell Biology’ was written by De Roberties

99 D Which of the following (Sales tax, Excise duty, Customs duty) is a direct tax? – None of these

100 B China is not a member in ASEAN

101 D The institution(s) which is/are set up to promote funding of voluntary organizations is/are – All of these

102 B Tirupur Kumaran died in the year 1932

103 C Kanchipuram Kailasanatha temple was built during the reign of Rajasimha

104 A Krishna river water supplements the drinking water needs of Chennai

105 C Peroxisome is involved in the process of photo respiration 106 D Visceral arches support Gill filament 107 B The laws of electrolysis are given by Faraday 108 B Total geographical area of Tamil Nadu is 1,30,058 sq. km. 109 B Electromagnetic waves were proposed by Maxwell 110

111 B

Salt Sathyagraha – Vedaranyam

Protest against Devadasi system – Dr. Muthulakshmi Redy

Neil Statue Sathyagraha – N. Somayajulu

The Hindu – Kasthuri Ranga Iyengar 112 A National Remote Sensing Centre is located at Hyderabad

113 A Thirumangalam Assembly by-elections saw the highest voter turnout during 2010 in Tamil Nadu

114 C The World Classical Tamil Conference held on July, 2010 is Ninth World Tamil Conference

115 C Article 243 of the Constitution of India gives provision to set up village panchayats

116 D Not Matched: Medha Patkar – Indian representative in the UNO

117 A Robert Clive laid the foundation of the British Empire 118 B

119 D Under Public Distributions System, rice is distributed at the rate of Re. 1 per kg in Tamil Nadu

120 C The National Rural Employment Guaranteed Programme came into force to provide 100 days of employment in 2006

121 C 10 electrons can be accommodated in d-orbital 122 D One tesla is weber – m-2 123 B Bihar has the lowest level of literacy 124

125 B Relative frequency is defined as Class frequency / Total frequency

126 C The National calendar based on the Saka Era was adopted from 22nd March, 1957

127 B Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

128 A The President of India appoints the Finance Commission in India

129 C Botanical Survey of India is located in Tamil Nadu at Coimbatore

130 A Data which are not collected by the organization for the specified purpose, is known as primary data

131 A In India, life expectancy was considereably improved during the year 1981 to 2001 as 54 years to 65.3 years

132 C According to Census 2001, in India the sex ratio is 933 females per 1000 males. (here 935 is the nearest answer)

133 B Madras government issued the first communal G.O in 1921 134 C Rabindranath Tagore gave the title ‘Mahatma’ to Gandhiji

135 A Prof. Yash Pal Committee recommended the establishment of the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER)

136 A Physical Research Laboratory is located at Ahmedabad 137 138 A Troposphere – lowest layer of the atmosphere 139 A Pre-history of India can be dated back to 500000 B.C. 140 C The Allahabad pillar inscription was composed by Harisena 141 B The median value for the data (45,40,60,90,80,65,55) is 60

142 C The experiment to measure de Broglie wavelength was first carried out by Davisson-Germer

143 D Nitrogen gas accounts for the maximum of the atmosphere 144 B 1 kB memory is 210 bytes 145 B An example of polycarpic plant is Mango 146 D State Bank of India is the largest public sector bank in India

147 D The shore temple at Mamallapuram was built by Narasimhavarman II

148 C P.L. Gautham (Currently Shri M.F. Farooqui from 11thNov 2010 onwards) is the Chairman of National Biodiversity Authority

149 B The first ‘Special Economic Zone’ created in Tamil Nadu is in

150 D Regarding to India’s Foreign Policy (Promotion of world peace, Non-alignment, Panchsheel) all of these are correct

151 Child Marriage was abolished by the Act in (Ans: 1929) 152 C The Bacterial cell wall consists of Mucopeptide

153 B The system of biologicial classification used today was created by Carolus Linnaeus

154 B The disease diabetes mellitus is caused by the deficiency of Insulin

155 A Thermal power contributes maximum share in power generation

156 C 660 157 A World Water Day is observed on March 22 158 B The Kaveri is called the Ganga of South India

159 B Richter scale, a logarithmic scale to measure earthquake was devised by Charles Richter

160 D Influenza A (H1N1) earlier known as Swine flu was first detected in Mexico

161 A Grants-in-aid to the states by the Centre are provided with the objective of augmenting financial resources of the states

162 C Seats were reserved for woman in local bodies in Tamil Nadu in the year 1994

163 D All of these

164 C The longest solar eclipse of the 21st Century occurred in July 22, 2009

165 B Qutbuddin Aibak was a slave of Muhammed of Ghur

166 C Khilafat movement, Non-cooperation movement, Civil disobedience movement, Quit India movement

167

168 B The deficiency of Molybdenum, a trace element present in the soil, causes Whiptail disease of Cauliflower

169 C The most dominant contributor to GDP in recent years is services

170 D Tamil Nadu is a major producer of Sugar Cane 171 C Whisky and Brandy contain 40-50% ethyl alchohol

172 D Reservation was provided to women in Government services by M. Karunanidhi

173 B Which Mughal emperor was defeated by Sher Shah? Humayun

174 D Delhi High Court allowed plea of gay rights activists and legalized gay sex in 2009

175 B Existance of a League of Tamil states is referred in the Hatigumpha inscription of Kharavela

176 A Article 25 to 28 gurantees right to freedom of religion to all persons in all its aspects

177 C Service sector is the major contributor(s) to Tamil Nadu state’s gross domestic product

178 D The first Mughal Emperor to show interest in painting was Babur

179 A ‘Dyarchy’ was introduced in 1919

180 B ‘Bhuvan’ the new web based mapping of earth was developed by ISRO

181 D What is the name of the famous Indian painter who went on self-exile? M.F Hussain

182 A Ammonotelism is common in fishes 183

184 A When there is increase in economic development the share of tertiary (service) sector in National Income will increase

185 C Dadabhai Naoroji was not the member of the first National Committee of 1949

186 D The lasing material in Ruby laser is Cr3+

187 B Longitudinal half of the chromosome is called Chromatid 188 D The term ‘gene’ was proposed by Johannsen 189 B

190 A Aqueous solution of which of the following is a good conductor of electricity? Ammonium acetate

191 C When the polarising angle for a dense flint glass is 60030’, then its refractive index is 1.627

192 B A bought a horse for Rs. 10,000 and sold it to B at 10% profit and B sold it to C at 10% loss. The amount paid by C is Rs. 9,900

193 D One byte consists of 8 bits 194 C Rapid Transit System in Tamil Nadu – Chennai

195 A Endothecium and endothelium are structures associated with Anther and Integument

196 C Which one of the commercial crops is cultivated in large area in Tamil Nadu? – Sugarcane

197 D

Aqua culture – Fish

Floriculture – Flower

Sericulture – Silk

Viticulture – Grapes

198 D Jammu and Kashmir state of Indian Union has its own constitution

199 B Toda are the tribes of the Udagamandalam 200 A Killiyur waterfall is located in Shervaroy hill