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2500 Model Questions and Answers for PSC Examination - 16

2500 Model Questions and Answers
(Chapter: 16)

01 Next to Amazon the largest the tropical rain forest is found on the banks of the river: 
Congo

02 Founder of Hindustan Times in Delhi : 
Sardar KM Panicker

03 The old name of the city Sialkot : 
Sakala

04 When did Karthika Thirunal (Dharmaraja) come to power in Travancore : 
1758

05 King of cartoons : 
William Steig

06 The first Buddhist Council was held at : 
Rajagriha

07 A native of Thiruvananthapuram who served as the External Affairs Minister in the Government of Independent India established with Kabul as capital :
Chempakaraman Pillai

08 S I Unit of time : 
Second

09 The ground in which Proclamation for Quit India was announced : 
Gowalia Tank (now, August Kranti Maidan)

10 Siam is the name of the country : 
Thailand

11 The venue of Salt Satyagraha (1930) in Tamil Nadu :
Vedaranyam beach

12 The continent with Buddhist countries : 
Asia

13 Founder of Khalsa, the organization of Sikh Warriors :
Govind Singh

14 Post equivalent to Attorney General  in the State :
Advocate General

15 Theory of Evolution was put forward by :
Charles Darwin

16 Mother of Buddha : 
Mahamaya

17 Pala dynasty existed in : 
Bengal

18 The 73rd Amendment of the Constitution is included in which part: 
9

19 The first Muslim country in the world to have a woman prime minister  in power:
Pakistan

20 In which State is renowned physicist E C G Sudarshan born: 
Kerala

21 Headquarters of Catholic Syrian Bank : 
Thrissur

22 Former Union Minister Lekshmi N Menon was a Malayalee. Which state she represented in the Parliament : 
Bihar

23 Name the Viceroy when George V visited India: 
Lord Hardinge

24 Who wrote Canterbury Tales : 
Geoffrey Chaucer

25 The first Pazhassi Revolt was held in : 
1793-97

26 During vulcanization of rubber the element added is :
Sulphur

27 Lal Bagh is in : 
Bangalore

28 Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri football stadium:
Hyderabad

29 The leader who came to power with the largest number of seats in Lok Sabha: 
Rajiv Gandhi

30 Ancient River Aksini  is presently known as   : 
Chenab

31 Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Airport is in : 
Patna

32 Alfred Nobel who instituted Nobel prize was a native of: 
Sweden

33 Who wrote ‘Suthanthira Perumai’ : 
Subramania Bharati

34 Gulistan Palace is in : 
Iran

35 Mughal emperor related to the name Alamgir:
Aurangzeb

36 Waterloo of Vijayanagaram   : 
Battle of Talikota

37 The first President to vote in the Lok Sabha election :
K.R. Narayanan (1998)

38 The first rubberized road in Kerala : 
Kottayam - Kumily

39 Who was the founder of the Green belt movement: 
Wangari Maathai (Kenya)

40 Sangam works are in the language : 
Tamil

41 Which is the first open-defecation free state in India:
Sikkim

42 Vision 2020 is connected with the Organization : 
ASEAN

43 Chairman of the State Reorganization Commission :
Fazal Ali

44 Silk route is : 
Nathula Pass

45 Districts in Kerala without railway line:
Idukki and Wayanad

46 St Angelo Fort in Kannur was built by : 
The Portuguese

47 Place in Kerala which is closely related to 3 C’s namely Cricket, Cake and Circus : 
Thalassery

48 Full name of the traveler Al Masudi : 
Abdul Hassan Ali Almas Udhi

49 Protein in wool : 
Alpha Keratin

50 The skin of the animal used for making Ganjira : 
Monitor Lizard (Udumbu)

51 Rajatarangini deals with the history of : 
Kashmir

52 The country which got separated from Sweden in 1905: 
Norway

53 Victoria waterfalls was discovered by : 
David Livingston

54. Protein-rich source for the vegetarians : 
Soybeans

55 The Indian Prime Minister who lost in the Confidence motion :
 V. P Singh

56 The final resting place of Morarji Desai : 
Abhay Ghat, Ahmedabad

57  ‘Discovery of India’ &  ‘Letters from  Father to His Daughter’ were authored by: 
Jawaharlal Nehru

58 Mona Lisa is preserved in the Louvre Museum in : 
Paris

59 The nine gems in the court of Vikramaditya : 
Dhanwantari, Kshapanaka, Amarasimha, Sanku, Vethala Bhatti, Ghatakarpara, Kalidasa, Varahamihira and Vararuchi

60 Movement connected with Rene Descartes : 
Scepticism

61 The first Indian state to distribute identity card to all voters : 
Haryana

62 The region of Earth where life exists : 
Biosphere

63 Viswanathan Anand is related to the sport : 
Chess

64 The district in Kerala with the least plain : 
Idukki

65 Mahatma Gandhi wrote an article in ‘Young India’ on which tribe of Kerala: 
Nayadi

66 The only district in Kerala with only one railway station: 
Pathanamthitta

67 Who wrote ‘Buddha and His Dharma’  : 
Dr. Ambedkar

68 The paddy species which has medicinal values : 
Njavara

69 Which treaty put an end to the conflict  between the British and the French in India : 
Paris

70 The major component of the hydrosphere: 
Pacific Ocean

71 Notre Dame Cathedral is in : 
France

72 Who called Samudragupta as Indian Napoleon :
Vincent A Smith

73 The first thermal project in Kerala which functions with Naphtha : 
Kayamkulam

74 Which city is known as Pittsburgh of Japan : 
Yuvata

75 Law of multiple proportions was first stated by: 
John Dalton

76 Sangam work which forms the basis of Thottam Pattu :
Chilappathikaram

77 Department of Agriculture was formed in Travancore during the reign of : 
Sree Moolam Thirunal

78 Calico Textile Museum is in : 
Ahmedabad

79 Place in Tamil Nadu known for silk industry :
Kancheepuram

80 Gilbert islands are in : 
Pacific Ocean

81 Kushans  came to India from : 
North Central Asia

82 Lore on Kalaripattu which has a significant role in society : 
Vadakkan Pattukal

83 In the Lok Sabha and in Assembly who has the right to apply to cast vote : 
Speaker

84 The Dynasty that succeeded Sunga : 
Kanva dynasty

85 The deepest natural harbour in Kerala : 
Vizhinjam

86 In which year Napoleon was born : 
1769

87 Law of constant proportion was first stated by the French chemist: 
Joseph Louis Proust

88 Indian Institute of Indology is in : 
Puducherry

89 Tashkent is located in : 
Uzbekistan

90 Union territory in India where French is spoken language:  
Puducherry

91 The first litter-free city in Kerala : 
Kozhikode

92 Who gave his thumb as the fee to the Master Dronacharya: 
Ekalavya

93 The most powerful Sikh ruler : 
Ranjith Singh

94 In which year Spanish War  of succession was started :
1701

95  ‘Grandma’ is the official newspaper of the communist country : 
Cuba

96 Who laid the foundation for the Library Movement in Kerala : 
P. N. Panicker

97 Kerala’s own species of cow : 
Vechur

98 Which is known as the City of Fashion : 
Paris

99 Mozart belonged to : 
Austria

600 The largest Volcano on Earth : 
Mauna Loa

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