TSPSC
TSPSC
Windows 2003
Windows 2005
Linux
Unix
Which of the following is NOT an essential component of a computer to work?
Memory
CPU
Keyboard
Motherboard
Phenomenon of accidental discoveries during scientific experimentation is:
Laws
Theory
Serendipity
Hypothesis
None of these
Production and management of crop is discussed under the branch:
Apiculture
Sericulture (Your selection was wrong)
Agronomy
Environmental biology
Horticulture
Pangenes carried through the blood are collected into the gametes. This theory was proposed by
Louis Pasteur
Charles Darwin
Robert Brown (Your selection was wrong)
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
August Weismann
Nature and Scope of Biology; Understanding Life; Origin and Evolution of life
Choose the correct statement(s) only:
1. Rhinoplasty and human anatomy are studied and carried by Susruta
2. Non-poisonous leeches are used in Surgery by Susruta
3. Ophthalmic surgery especially in Cataracts is carried by Susruta
4. During the ancient agriculture time, rice cultivation is believed to be practiced in India.
Select Answer:
Only 2 and 3
Only 3 and 4
Only 1 and 4
1,2,3 and 4
Only 1 and 3
Different populations of plants and animals interact with one another to form:
Biome
Ecosystem
Community
Population
Biosphere (Your selection was wrong)
Warm receptors are lacated at:
Epidermal surface
Below the epidermis
Deeper in dermis
Around blood capillaries (Your selection was wrong)
None of these
Which scientist found out the vaccine against anthrax which is caused by Bacillus anthracis?
Theodor Schwann
August Weismann
Louis Pasteur
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
None of these
Who first demonstrated that heart pumps the blood and blood circulates in the body?
Andreas Vesalius
William Harvey
Leopold Cuvier
System in which continuous exchange of matter and energy taken place is:
Open system
Closed system
Isolated system (Your selection was wrong)
Mixed system
None of these
A body dropped from a great height falls freely towards the earth. Another body is dropped exactly two seconds later. The
separation between the two bodies three seconds after the release of first body is
4.9 m
39.2 m
44.1 m
49 m
none of these
A man is running around a circular path of radius 20 m. He takes 50 seconds to complete one trip. The distance covered
by him ( in metre) in 2 minutes 5 second is
40
60 pi (Your selection was wrong)
80
100 pi
150 pi
A stone is dropped from rest from the top of a tower of 78.4 m high. The distance travelled during the last second of fall is
9.8 m
39.2 m (Your selection was wrong)
4.9 m
8.4 m
34.3 m
Which of the following is not an example of analogous organ?
RNA
DNA (Your selection was wrong)
Proteins
Polysaccharides
Single stranded DNA
Which of the following is/are the energy sources on the primitive earth?
Covalent bond
Ionic bond
Peptide bond
Hydrogen bond
Metallic bond
Differentiation
Secretion of extra-cellular materials
Morphogenesis
All of these
None of these
Morphologically identical species which cannot interbreed form:
Sibilling species
Polytypic species
Sympatric species (Your selection was wrong)
Evolutionary species
Allopatric species
The Adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) is made up of:
Recombination
Gene migration
Mutations are pre adaptive
Hardy-weinberg Equilibrium (Your selection was wrong)
Industrial melanism
Coavervates are
Primitive cells
Colloidal suspensions
Mixture of ammonia, water, methane and hydrogen. (Your selection was wrong)
Prokaryotic cells
Lipoproteins
Oparin and Haldane's view of origin of organic molecules in the primeval Earth condition was experimentally proved by:
Eugenics
Euphenics
Ethnology
Ethology
Evolutionary Biology
Branch of biology which deals with the cultivation and rearing practices of vegetables is:
Edward Jenner
Louis Pasteur
Sir Ronald Ross
Robert Hooke
George Leopold Cuvier
Substance that binds to an enzyme and decrease its activity is called:
Activator
Promoter
Inhibitor
Suppressor
Regulator
Phospholipid contains:
C,H,P & S
C,H & O
3
4 (Your selection was wrong)
5
6
7
The area under velocity - time graph gives
maximum velocity
acceleration
displacement
distance
speed (Your selection was wrong)
A body moving with uniform acceleration, crosses two fixed points A & B with velocities of 20 m/s and 30m/s respectively.
The velocity of the body when it is at midpoint of A & B is
24 m/s
24.5 m/s
25 m/s (Your selection was wrong)
23 m/s
25.5 m/s
displacement
acceleration
initial velocity
speed
distance
Who is the First President of Independent India ?
V.V. Giri
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Radhakrishnan
Dr. Zakeer Hussain
For a horizontal range of 100m, one angle of projection requires a time of flight of 5s. What is the time of flight of another
angle of projection (for same initial velocity), which gives the same horizontal range?
Kunchakko
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Ramu Kariat
Sathiajith Ray (Your selection was wrong)
The year in which Vascoda Gama arrived in India ?
1498
1598
1698 (Your selection was wrong)
1798
A boat has a speed of 10 km/h in still water. It crosses a river of width 1 km along the shortest possible path in 10
minutes. The speed of river water is
10 km/h
6 km/h
2 km/h
1 km/h (Your selection was wrong)
8 km/h
World population crossed 5 billion on July 11, 1987. When did it cross the 6 billion mark ?
50%
65% (Your selection was wrong)
75%
85%
The amount of actualwater vapour per unit volume of air is known as
its ______________.
Dew point
relative humidity
condensation point
absolute humidity
Which of the following takes place due to surface tension ?
Gravitation pull
Capillary action
Viscosity
Radiation
Which of the following is the cause of weightlessness experienced
while orbiting around Earth in a spaceship?
Inertia
Zero gravity
Acceleration
Centre of gravity
Whose signature is found on the one rupee notes ?
President
Finance minister (Your selection was wrong)
same mass
same density
same volume
same pressure
How many players are there in a Hockey team ?
10
12
14
11
The science of cryogenics deal with ___________.
high temperatures
low temperatures
molecular biology
bio-technology (Your selection was wrong)
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is infected by:
Virus
Fungus
Bacteria
None of these
When two men talk on moon _____________.
Centrifugal force
None of the above
We cannot see during a fog because of ________________.
reflection of light
internal reflection
refraction
scattering of light
Which one of the following is NOT an astronomical object?
Pulsar
Brittle star
Black hole (Your selection was wrong)
Quasar
Radar is based on the principle that
12:1
36:1
720:1
1:18 (Your selection was wrong)
360:1
One should not connect a number of electric appliances to the same power socket because,
atmosphere refraction
scattering of light
dispersion
persistence of vision (Your selection was wrong)
seen through a mirror the arms of a clock show 9.30. what is the actual time?
2.30
3.30
6.30 (Your selection was wrong)
6.10
On an arched railway over bridge, a car A is at rest at the highest point. An identical car B is moving over the bridge with a
uniform speed 'v'. Then at the highest point of the bridge,
To keep correct time modern watches are fitted with a balance wheel made of
steel
platinum
invar (Your selection was wrong)
tungsten
In each of the following a pair of physical quantities are listed. Which pairs containts vectors
energy, force
displacement, speed
velocity, work
acceleration, momentum
speed, distance (Your selection was wrong)
A man carrying a load of on his back bends forward because of which of the following reasons?
To adjust the C.G. of the system such that the vertical line through the C.G. passes within the base
The man feels lighter because of greater reaction
To prevent the load from slipping over and falling down (Your selection was wrong)
To keep the C.G. of the system outside the body (C.G = Centre of Gravity)
Which of the following is not a delived physical quantity?
velocity
electric current
gravitational constant
charge (Your selection was wrong)
frequency
The number of atoms present in 8 g of oxygen is same as the atoms in:
24 g of Mg
12 g of carbon
32 g of sulphur (Your selection was wrong)
0.5 g atom of nitrogen
1 g of hydrogen
Volume of gas obtained at STP by the complete hydrolysis of 1 mole of calcium phosphide is:
5.6 L
11.2 L
22.4 L
44.8 L
4.48 L
Which of the following compounds contain the percentage of carbon same as that in propene?
Cyclohexane
Ethylene
Ethyne
Benzene
Both (a) & (b)
A man sitting inside an open vehicle moving uniformly throws a stone vertically upwards. the stone will fall
ahead of him
behind him
over him
ahead or behind him depending on the velocity (Your selection was wrong)
Which of the following compounds have the same empirical formula?
Glucose
Fructose
Acetic acid
Both (a) & (b) (Your selection was wrong)
All (a), (b) & (c)
The percentage of copper and oxygen in samples of cupric oxide obtained by different methods were the same. This
illustrates the law of:
Conservation of mass
Multiple proportion
Definite proportion
Reciprocal proportion
Combining volumes
The percentage of metal in a metallic oxide is 60%. Then equivalent mass of the metal is:
48
40
24 (Your selection was wrong)
12
36
The oxide of a metal M has general formula MO. If the specific heat of metal is 0.16, then the equivalent weight of M is
30
32
20
16 (Your selection was wrong)
40
Which of the following is the heaviest
Hygrometer
Hydrometer
Pantometer
Barometer
If a bomb was released from a plane mving with uniform velocity, by the time the bomb reached the ground, the plane
would be
Earth's gravity does not act on the satellite due to the great distance between them (Your selection was wrong)
Earth's attraction produces the necessary centripetal acceleration
Earth's attraction is balanced by the attraction of other planets
there is an engine in the satellite which constantly applies an upward force to balance its weight
If the radius of Earth were to shrink by one per cent, its mass remaining the same, the acceleration due to gravity on
Earth's surface would
increase
remain unchanged
decrease (Your selection was wrong)
None of the above
A dental plate clings to the roof of the mouth because
rises
does not change
falls down
first increases then decreases (Your selection was wrong)
A hot body will radiate heat most rapidly if its surface is
The ratio of the velocity of the body to the velocity of the sound is called
magic number
replace number
natural number (Your selection was wrong)
match number
When a stone thrown into a deep lake sinks deeper and deeper into the water, the upthrust acting on it
increases
decreases (Your selection was wrong)
A bucket containing water is rotated in vertical circle at a high speed. What will happen to the water when the bucket is
upside down at the highest point?
the pressure at higher altitudes is higher than that on plains (Your selection was wrong)
the downward pull due to gravity is higher than that on plains
the rarefied air offers less resistance to the ball
the air is more pure at higher altitudes
Which law is involved in the act of cleaning a carpet by beating it with a stick?
the pressure of the blood capillaries is higher than the outside pressure
the pressure at high altitudes is greater than that of the outside pressure
blood pressure increases at high altitudes
blood pressure fluctuates and causes the blood vessels to break (Your selection was wrong)
When a car takes a sharp turn along a curve at very high speed, the set of tyres which loses contact with the ground will
be
back tyres
outer tyres
inner tyres
all tyres at once
One litre of cool air weighs heavier than one litre of dry air because of the
mostly downward
mostly upward
in all directions
mostly on the sides
A jet plane flies in the air because
19.97%
20.05%
50%
75% (Your selection was wrong)
80.03%
What is full form of CAS?
tom
GARY
THOMAS (Your selection was wrong)
mary
tony
The number of right angles in a square is:
1
2
3 (Your selection was wrong)
4
Complete the seqence: 77 - 49 - 36 - 18 - ?
15
10
9
8
The alphabets A to I are inside the 3 x 3 box. E is to the right of C. A is to the right of G which is above B, which is to the
left of F. I is above D which is to the left of G. where is H?
352
370
145
253
Which of the following is not a leap year ?
2004
1972
1902
1728
The city known as the Manchester of India:
Mumbai
Surat (Your selection was wrong)
Ahemedabad
Ludhiana
The day celebrated as Women's day:
March 10
March 8
December 4
December 14
The iron pillar of Delhi near Qutub Minar is a marvellous work belonging to :
long sightedness
short sightedness (Your selection was wrong)
astigmatism
night blindness
The founder of Shantiniketan
Myanmar
Cambodia (Your selection was wrong)
Libya
None of these
'Bhojshala' is located in
Dhar (M.P)
Kulu ( Himachal Pradesh) (Your selection was wrong)
Dhar (U.P.)
None of These
The first ever multi-nation peace keeping training exercise on Indian soil was concluded in
Chenni
New Delhi
Rajasthan
culcatta
India's pioneering R & D outfit in telecom which has got its first patent outside India
April 17
February 24
March 22 (Your selection was wrong)
June 6
Hero Indian Sports Academy (HISA) has been launched in
New Delhi
Kerala
Punjab (Your selection was wrong)
Mumbai
The first Indian to win the Asian junior Squash championship title
Aparna Popat
Joshna Chinnappa
Sania Mirza (Your selection was wrong)
Shikha Tantan
The 13th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was held at
Colombo
Berlin (Your selection was wrong)
Kuala Lumpur
None of These
The only non-common wealth country in the World Cup cricket 2003
New Zealand
zimbawe (Your selection was wrong)
The Netherlands
Keniya
The money back plan which was launched by the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) designed exclusively for
women
Jeevan Raksha
Jeevan Saathi (Your selection was wrong)
Jeevan Dharani
Jeevan Bharathi
The inaugural edition of the Afro-Asian games will be held in
New Delhi
Imphal
Hyderabad
None of These
The RBI reduced the bank rate by 25 basis points to
4.75%
6.13% (Your selection was wrong)
7.4%
6.25%
The country which recently decided to join the European Union
Switzerland
Kenya (Your selection was wrong)
Malta
None of These
The second agro-food park of Rajasthan is proposed to be set up at
Boranada, Jodhpur
Ranpur, Kota
Uri, Rajasthan
None of these
The year 2003-04 had been declared as the year of _________ by the Railway Ministry
customer Satisfaction
Passengers
Both of these (Your selection was wrong)
none of these
The line spectrum observed when electrons fall from higher level to 'L' level in the hydrogen atom is known as:
Balmer series
Lymann series (Your selection was wrong)
Paschen series
Brackett series
Pfund series
Covalent character of ionic compounds is favoured by:
Smaller cation
Smaller anion
Less charge on cation
Less charge on anion
Both a & b (Your selection was wrong)
The frequency ratio between violet light of wavelength 400 nm & red light of wavelength 750 nm in the visible spectrum is:
8/15
4/15
15/8
15/4
1/2
Principal quantum number of an atom is related to:
m
l and m
Intra molecular hydrogen bonding is observed in:
Ortho nitrophenol
Para amino phenol (Your selection was wrong)
Paranitro phenol
o-Dichloro benzene
o-Nitro toluene
Stability of an ionic compound is mainly due to its high value of
Electro negativity
Electron affinity (Your selection was wrong)
Ionization energy
Lattice energy
The liquid which is most difficult to be sneaked into pipette is:
Benzene
Water
Aq alkali
Glycerol
Orange juice
Where ____ last week end?
forgets
forget
forgots
forgot
forgetting
The coordination number of haxagonal close packed structure is
12
10
8 (Your selection was wrong)
6
16
The amount of actual water per unit volume of air is known as its
dew point
relative humidity (Your selection was wrong)
condensation point
absolute humidity
Which of the following is the cause of weightlessness experienced while orbiting around the earth in a spaceship?
Inertia
Zero Gravity
Acceleration
Centre of garvity (Your selection was wrong)
Co-operative movement originated first in
Germany
England
France
None of these
The head quarters if ICA was shifted to Geneva from London
10
20
30
None of these
ICA appointed a committee in ________for reshaped the co-operative principles
1934
1966
1995
Who is the father of Co-operative movement in U.S.A
Luzzatti
Hudson Kelly
Dr. William King (Your selection was wrong)
none of these
Diffusion of light in atmosphere takes place due to :
Carbondioxide
Dust particles
Helium (Your selection was wrong)
Water vapour
Grand-Slam is related to :
Chess
Cricket
Tennis
Polo
The stones formed in the human kidney consist mostly of
Calcium oxalate
Sodium acetate
magnesium sulphate (Your selection was wrong)
Calcium
The gland of the body responsible for secreting insulin :
Liver
pancreas
Gall bladder
Pituitary
Number of bones in the human body :
260
262 (Your selection was wrong)
250
206
Ornithology means that branch of science that deals with the study of :
Birds
Animals
Insects
Earth
The first president of Indian National Congress :
Dr.Rajendra Prasad
Bernard Shaw
Indira Gandhi
Subash Chandra Bose (Your selection was wrong)
Kalidasa the great Sanskrit poet was a member of the court of an Indian king. The name of the king :
Chandragupta I
Chandragupta II
Kumara Gupta I
samudra Gupta
The disease caused by the deficiency of Vitamin C :
Rickets
Beri-beri
Scurvy
Myopia
a marksman is firing at a target. So that he should be able to hit the target, the line of the barrel of the gun should point
A fisherman sitting on the bank of a pond trying to spear a fish should aim
22 days
27 days (Your selection was wrong)
32 days
42 days
A=x and B=3x 1/(A-60)=1/B 1/(x-60)=1/3x x=-30 or x=30(because days cannot be negative) x/30+x/90=1 x=22 and half days
Oil rises up the wick in a lamp. The principle involves
19
20
21
22
A piece of rock was brought from moon to earth. Then
north
north east (Your selection was wrong)
west
north west
Which falls down faster in a vaccum - a feather, a wooden ball or a steel ball?
A wooden ball
A feather
A steel ball
All will fall down at the same speed in a vaccum because there will be no air resistance
In the letter PREDILECTION, 1st and 3rd is swapped, so is 2nd and 4th,5th and 7th,6th and 8th . What will be 8th letter
from left?
R
A (Your selection was wrong)
G
V
Initially -> G M V R A Swaping G and R -> R M V G A Swaping V and A -> R M A G V
Sum of a number and its one third = 60, 4/5th of the number is ?
30
36
45
60
Let the number be x. x + x/3 = 60 x = 45 4/5 * 45 = 36
In a class, pushpa ranks 8th from top and 28th from bottom. How many students are there in the class?
34
35
36
37
7+27+1 = 35 or 8+28-1 = 35
B is in DOUBT, in the same way H is in ...
HOPE
HOUSE
HONEST
INHIBIT (Your selection was wrong)
5 letters in DOUBT 5 letters in HOUSE hence "HOUSE"
Square root(x)/3 = 243/x value of x ?
27
9
81
18
if + sign is represented as /, - as *(into, not power do not confuse) , * as - and / as + then what will be the value of
(480+20*20)-16 /12 ?
76
67 (Your selection was wrong)
72
70
In a rectangle length = twice that of breadth , cost of grounding is 60 rupees per meter, Total cost is 3600/- what is the
length in meter?
10
15
20
25
l=2b (2l+2b)*60=3600 b=10 l=20
Why platinum wire is used inside a very narrow glass roads
Platinum expands very little compared to glass
Platinum and glass have the same linear coefficiencies of expansion
glass is a bad conductor of heat
platinum does not melt at low temperature
In a car wheel, two spokes cover 15 degree. Then for the entire car,how many spokes are there?
1/4
1/2 (Your selection was wrong)
1
2
first condition is satisfied only if w=1/2 so putting w=1/2 will give the result 2 hence answer 4 is correct
From a pack of cards Jack, Queen, King & ace are removed. Then the algebraic sum of rest of the cards is
220
200
206
216
total of 1 to 10 is 55 so 55 * 4 = 220 subtracting 4 from 220 for four ace gives 216
The average temperature of days from Monday to Wednesday is 37 degree Celsius and that of from Tuesday to Thursday
is 34 degrees. The temperature of Thursday is 4/5th of Monday. Then the temperature of Thursday is
Lactometer
Spherometer
Hygrometer
Barometer
When does Lunar Eclipse occur ?
Maharashtra
Rajasthan
Karnataka
Tamilnadu (Your selection was wrong)
In which year were the first General Elections held in India ?
1947-48
1948-49 (Your selection was wrong)
1950-51
1951-52
Which colour suffers minimum deviation when white light undergoes dispersion ?
Green
Red
Violet
Yellow
The strait that separates India from Sri Lanka
Mandeb
Magallan
Malacca (Your selection was wrong)
Palk
The sum of the smallest six-digit number and the greatest five-digit number is :
199999
201110
211110 (Your selection was wrong)
1099999
CCl4
C2H4 (Your selection was wrong)
C2H2
NH3
Noble gases exist as indivisual
atoms
molecules
ions
compounds (Your selection was wrong)
which of the following can lose two electrons to attain the configuration of organ?
Mg
Br
S
Ca
1joule is equal to?
0.42 cal
4.18 cal (Your selection was wrong)
100000000 cal
none of these
Which of the following is a star?
Sun
Mercury
Pluto
Venus
Shooting star is another name for
comet
meteor
mass
size
shape
any of the above (Your selection was wrong)
The five steps in the formation of a star from gases is
protostar
neutron star (Your selection was wrong)
red-giant star
pulsar
One light year is equal to
3.26 parsec
3.26Km
3.26 A.U (Your selection was wrong)
1/3.26parsec
Electromagnets are used in
electric bells
telephones
dynamos (Your selection was wrong)
all of above