TNPSC Subordinate Combined Exam Previous Year Paper 2011 – General Knowledge
| TNPSC – Subordinate – Combined – 2011 – General Knowledge | |
| Sr. No. | Questions with multiple options |
| 1. | Palaeontology is related with
(a) Plants (b) Animals (c) Fossils (d) Bacteria |
| 2. | The description of a society’s culture and its way of living is called
(a) Ethnography (Invailakkaviyal) (b) Anthropology (Mannudaviyal) (c) Realism (Nadappiyal) (d) Classicism (Chevviyal) |
| 3. | Dindugal Federation was formed during the South Indian Rebellion in the year
(a) April, 1800 (b) June, 1800 (c) May, 1801 (d) June, 1801 |
| 4. | Diagrams and graphs are tools of
(a) Collection of data (b) Analysis (c) Presentation (d) Summarisation |
| 5. | The largest share of mineral resources is accounted by
(a) Orissa (b) Maharashtra (c) Assam (d) Tamil Nadu |
| 6. | The population of a city is 5,13,200. If it increases at the rate of 12% per annum, what will be its population after 3 years?
(a) 7,12,009 (b) 7,10,029 (c) 7,21,009 (d) 7,92,100 |
| 7. | The first Jain council was held at ____ in the 3rd Century B.C.
(a) Vaisali (b) Pataliputra (c) Kashmir (d) Rajagriha |
| 8. | An enhanced beam of monochromatic and coherent light is called
(a) MASER (b) LASER (c) TESTER (d) MASTER |
| 9. | What is the name of the land donated by Pandiya kings to the families of the soldiers who lost their lives in the battle?
(a) Thiruvidaiyattam (b) Bhrammadeyam (c) Uthirapatti (d) Nivantham |
| 10. | The oxidant used in the testing of alcohol in breadth is
(a) Mn (b) KMn (c) (d) |
| 11. | Which one of the following Articles of the Constitution of India authorizes the Parliament to create new All-India Service?
(a) Article 303 (b) Article 307 (c) Article 309 (d) Article 312 |
| 12. | The total land area of the state of Tamil Nadu is
(a) 1.3 lakh sq. km (b) 2.1 lakh sq. km (c) 3.1 lakh sq. km (d) 1.4 lakh sq. km |
| 13. | In which Chola King’s period was the practice of writing of ‘Meikirti’ started first?
(a) Raja Rajan I (b) Rajendran (c) Rajathi Rajan I (d) Kulothungan I |
| 14. | Which one of the following is not an output device?
(a) Speaker (b) Computer monitor (c) CD (d) Laser printer |
| 15. | Passage of waste product in the renal tubule is an example of
(a) Diffusion (b) Osmosis (c) Active transport (d) Passive transport |
| 16. | In which of the following years Citizenship Act was not amended?
(a) 1955 (b) 1976 (c) 1986 (d) 1992 |
| 17. | Which of the following is incorrectly paired?
(a) Vande Mataram – Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (b) Partition of Bengal – ord Lytton (c) Vendaranyam March – Rajaji (d) Indian National Army – Netaji |
| 18. | Organisms which eat other organisms are called
(a) Consumers (b) Producers (c) Decomposers (d) Saprophytes |
| 19. | MS-Dos is the name of
(a) A device (b) An application software (c) An operating system (d) A hardware |
| 20. | For dealing with qualitative data, the best average is
(a) Arithmetic mean (b) Median (c) Harmonic mean (d) Geometric mean |
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