Nithra TNPSC App – Model Question Paper - 28

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TNPSC Group 2 Exam - 2018

Model Question Paper - 28

1. In which year did Subhash Chandra Bose form the Indian National Army in Singapore?
(A) 1939 (B) 1943 (C) 1941 (D) 1938

2. What was the element used in the very cruel bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
(A) Uranium – U234 (B) Uranium – U238 (C) Uranium – U236 (D) Uranium – U235

3. In which year did the writer Thakazhi Sivasankaran Pillai receive the Bharatiya Janapith
Award?
(A) 1975 (B) 1984 (C) 1984 (D) 1957

4. “Successful people are those who manage their time efficiently”.

What is our most valuable resource?
(A) Talents (B) Treasure (C) Time (D) Truth

5. Match the synonym in column A with the relevant meaning in column B

Column A Column A
a. Futile 1. A formal religious function
b. Perils 2. Useless
c. Lapsed into 3. Dangers
d. Ceremony 4. Passed gradually
(A) 2 1 4 3 (B) 1 4 2 3 (C) 4 1 3 2 (D) 2 3 4 1

6. All memories of the bizarre journey vanish when I landed in

(A) Ragesh Kund (B) Milam village (C) Suraj Kund (D) Munsiyari

7. The possibility of winning the prize in the ‘Lottery Ticket’

(A) Thrilled them (B) Bewildered them
(C) Motivated them (D) Encouraged them

8. Where did the renowned children’s writer ‘Ruskin Bond’ spend most of his life time?
(A) Nainital hill station of Mussoorie
(B) Gun hill station of Mussoorie
(C) Garhwali hill station of Mussoorie
(D) Cloud end hill station of Mussoorie

9. “For oh, Say the children, we are weary

And we cannot run or leap”.
Who are weary?
(A) Children (B) Village people (C) The old lady (D) The poet

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10. ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love what does
‘impediment’ mean?
(A) love (B) mind (C) marriage (D) obstacle

11. The first three plans talked of the setting up of a

(A) Mixed economic system
(B) Socialise pattern of society
(C) Establishment of a social and economic democracy
(D) Both (B) and (C)

12. ________ river is called the 'Red river' of India.

(A) Ganga (B) Kosi (C) Brahmaputra (D) Damodar

13. Kattapomman was hanged to death at Kayatharu in the year

(A) 1769 (B) 1779 (C) 1789 (D) 1799

14. Subash Chandra Bose set up Indian National Army Head Quarters at
(A) Nepal and Rangoon (B) Rangoon and Singapore
(C) Singapore and Tibet (D) Tokyo and Nepal

15. A fraction is such that if the numerator is multiplied by 2 and the denominator is reduced
by 4 we get 10/3, but if the numerator is increased by 6 and the denominator is doubled we
get 11/14, what is the fraction?
(A) 7/5 (B) 5/7 (C) 21/17 (D) 17/21

16. A boy cut a sector containing an angle of 140° from a circle of radius 15 cm and he folded
the sector into a cone. What is the curved surface area of the cone ( π = 22/7 )
(A) 572 sq.cm (B) 527 sq.cm (C) 275 sq.cm (D) 257 sq.cm

17. If radii of two cylinders are in the ratio 5 : 3 and their heights are in the ratio 3 : 5 then
ratio of their volumes is
(A) 5 : 5 (B) 3 : 3 (C) 9 : 25 (D) 5 : 3

18. Product of two positive number is 34560. The LCM is sixty times of its GCD. Then the
difference of LCM and GCD is
(A) 1416 (B) 1424 (C) 1460 (D) 1464

19. Find the compound interest on Rs. 31,250 at 8% p.a for 3 years compounded annually?
(A) Rs. 8006 (B) Rs. 8106 (C) Rs. 8096 (D) Rs. 8116

20. In which schedule of the Constitution the recognised 22 languages has been included?
(A) 6th Schedule (B) 7th Schedule (C) 8th Schedule (D) 9th Schedule

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21. Which of the following is not included in the state list in the Constitution of India?
(A) Police (B) Public order
(C) Prisons (D) Criminal procedure code

22. A chromosome with centromere located in the centre is called as

(A) sub metacentric chromosome
(B) telocentric chromosome
(C) metacentric chromosome
(D) acrocentric chromosome

23. The process of removal of damaged part of the DNA by an exonuclease enzyme is called
(A) Excision (B) Incision (C) Re-insertion (D) Synthesis

24. Human karyotypes are routinely prepared from cultures of

(A) Liver cells (B) Blood cells (C) Kidney cells (D) Sertoli cells

25. Which of the following statements is not true for cancer cells in relation to mutations?
(A) mutations destroy telomerase inhibition
(B) mutation inactivate the cell control
(C) mutations inhibit production of telomerase
(D) mutations in proto oncogenes accelerate the cell cycle

26. Which country’s researchers have claimed to create the world’s first single-chromosome
yeast?
(A) UK (B) Japan (C) USA (D) China

27. Which state government has launched “Horn Not Ok’’ awareness campaign?
(A) Madhya Pradesh (B) Himachal Pradesh
(C) Andra Pradesh (D) Arunachal Pradesh

28. The Mughalsarai junction has recently renamed as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya railway station.
It is located in which state?
(A) Gujarat (B) Uttar Pradesh (C) Maharastra (D) Jharkand

29. Which Indian developer has claimed to develop the world’s first Hindi speaking realistic
humanoid robot “Rashmi”?
(A) Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay
(B) Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay
(C) Ranjit Srivastava
(D) Jaipal Singh Munda

30. The joint military exercise ‘Maitree 2018’ has started between India and which country?
(A) Bangaladesh (B) Thailand (C) Indonesia (D) Nepal

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Answer Key:

1 C 11 B 21 D
2 D 12 C 22 C
3 C 13 D 23 A
4 C 14 B 24 B
5 D 15 B 25 C
6 D 16 C 26 D
7 B 17 D 27 B
8 C 18 A 28 B
9 A 19 D 29 C
10 C 20 C 30 B

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