സഹൃദയ, പാലുവള്ളി, മീന്മുട്ടി.പി.

ഒ,
തിരുവനന്തപുരം
പി.എസ്.സി ചോദ്യശേഖരം

January

01 – New Year Day

11 – APSRTC Establishment Day
12 – National Youth Day
13 – World Laughter Day
15 – Army Day
21 – Manipur Day, Meghalaya Day, Tripura Day
23 – Desh Prem Divas
25 – Himachal Pradesh Day
26 – Indian Republic Day, Jammu & Kashmir Day, International Customs Day
30 – Martyr’s Day, Sarvodaya Day

February

14 – Valentines Day
24 – Central Excise Day
28 – National Science Day

March

08 – Mothers Day
13 – No Smoking Day
15 – World Disabled Day
17 – St. Patricks Day
21 – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
22 – World Water Day
23 – World Meteorological Day
27 – World Stage Artists Day
31 – Financial Year Ending

April

01 – Fools Day
05 – National Maritime Day
07 – World Health Day
18 – World Heritage Day
22 – World Earth Day
23 – Easter Day
24 – World Lab Animals Day
25 – National Administrative Professionals Day

May

01 – Gujarat Statehood Day, International Labour Day, Maharastra Statehood Day

03 – International Sun Day, World Asthma Day, World Press Freedom Day
04 – Coal Miner’s Day
05 – World Athletics Day
07 – National Institute of Sports Founder’s Day
08 – World Red Cross Day
11 – National Resurgence Day, Technology Day
12 – International Nurses Day, Mothers Day
13 – International Criminal Court Day, National Solidarity Day
15 – International Day of Families
16 – Sikkim Day
17 – World Telecommunications Day
20 – World Metrology Day
21 – Anti Terrorism Day
22 – International Day for Biological Diversity
24 – Commonwealth Day
28 – Official Language Day, Telugu People’s Self-respect Day
30 – Goa Statehood Day
31 – World No-Tobacco Day

June

01 – International Children’s Day

03 – World Naturist Day
04 – International Day for Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
05 – World Environment Day
16 – Father’s Day
21 – Hugging Day, World Music Day
23 – International Olympic Day, Rath Yatra
26 – International Anti – Drugs Day, International Day against Drug Abuse and illicit
Trafficking
27 – World Diabetes Day

July

01 – Architecture Day, Doctor’s Day, International Jokes Day

02 – World Sports Journalists Day
04 – Free 4th of July
06 – World Zonnosis Day
07 – International day of Co-Operatives
11 – World Population Day
20 – Man Walks on the Moon
26 – Kargil Vijay Divas

August

01 – World Breast-feeding Week

03 – Liberation Day
05 – Friendship Day
06 – Hiroshima Day
09 – August Kranti Divas
10 – Dengue Prevention Day
12 – International Youth Day
13 – Left Hander’s Day
15 – Indian Independence Day, West Bengal Day
19 – World Photography Day
20 – World Mosquito Day
24 – Kolkata’s Birth Day, Sanskrit Day
26 – Women’s Equality Day
29 – National Sports Day, Telugu Language Day

September

01 – Nutrition Week 1-7

04 – Minority Welfare Day
05 – Teachers Day
08 – World Literacy Day
10 – Haryana Statehood Day, Punjab Statehood Day
14 – Hindi Day
15 – Engineers Day
16 – International Day of the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
18 – International Day of Peace
21 – Biosphere Day, World Alzheimer’s Day
22 – Girl Child Week 22-26
24 – Girl Child Day, World Heart Day
26 – CSIR Foundation Day
27 – World Tourism Day
28 – Gunners Day

October

01 – International Music Day, International Day for Older Persons, National Voluntary
Blood Donation Day, World Habitat Day(1st Monday)
02 – Gandhi Jayanthi, Human Rights Protection Day, Prisoner’s Day, World Ostony Day,
World Wide Life Week (2-8)
03 – World Animal Day
04 – International Mental Health Health Week (4-10)
08 – Air Force Day
09 – National Postal Week(9-14), World Postal Day
10 – World Disaster Reduction Day (2nd Wednes Day), World Mental Health Day
12 – World Sight Day
13 – World Arthritis Day
14 – World Standards Day
15 – World White Cane Day
16 – World Anaesthesiologists Day, World Food Day
17 – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
21 – Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Day
24 – Disarmament Week(24-30), United Nations Day
27 – Infantry Day
30 – World Thrift Day
31 – Halloween Day, National Integration Day

November

01 – Andhra Pradesh Formation Day, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,

Punjab States Formation Day
05 – International Week of Science & Peace (5-11)
09 – Legal Services Day, Uttaranchal State Formation Day
10 – Forest Martyrs Day
11 – Armistice Day, Education Day
12 – National Broadcasting Day
14 – Cooperative, Universal Children’s Day, World Diabetes Day
15 – Jharkhand State Formation Day
16 – International Day for Tolerance, National Press Day
17 – National Day for the Deaf
18 – Territorial Army Day
19 – National Integration Day
20 – Africa Industrialization Day
21 – World Fisheries Day, World Television Day
25 – Flag Day, International Day against Violence against Women
26 – National Law Day

December

01 – Border Security Force (BSF) Raising Day, Nagaland Day, World AIDS Day
02 -International Day for Abolition of Slavery (UNO)
03 – International Day of Disabled Persons, World Conservation Day
04 – Chemical Disaster Prevention Day, Navy Day
05 – International Volunteers Day
06 – Armed Forces Day, Civil Defence Day
07 – International Civil Aviation Day
08 – Handicrafts week (8-15)
09 – National Immunization Day
10 – Human Rights Day, International Childrens Day of Broadcasting
11 – UNICEF Day
12 – Assam Rifles Raising Day
14 – National Energy Conservation Day
16 – Vijay Divas
17 – Pensioner’s Day
18 – International Migrants Day, Minorities Rights Day
22 – Mathematics Day
23 – Kisan Day
24 – National Consumer Day
25 – X-Mas Day
26 – Boxing Day
28 – Central Reserve Police Force Anniversary
29 – International Day for Biological Diversity

PHYSICS

1. Spectacles used for viewing dimensional films have ..........?

Ans. Polaroids

2. ‘Light Year’ is used as a unit to measure:

Ans. Distance

3. In a sprayer the liquid rises in the tube due to:

Ans. Lower pressure at the upper end

4. The best conductor of heat among liquid is:

Ans. Mercury

5. The image formed on the retina of the human eye is:

Ans. Real and inverted

6. Ampere is the unit of:

Ans. Flow of electric current

7. Instrument that is used to convert AC to DC?

Ans. Rectifier

8. What is the unit of illuminance?

Ans. Lux

9. What is the colour of Hydrogen vapour lamp?

Ans. Blue

10. Who discovered cosmic rays?

Ans. R.A millikan

11. What is the shape of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun?
Ans. Elliptical

12. A shooting star is basically a:

Ans. Meteor

13. Where is the National Remote Sensing agency situated?

Ans. Shadnagar

14. Fuses are connected to the live wire in:

Ans. Series

15. Speedometer of an automobile measures ..........?

Ans. Instantaneous speed

16. The three primary colours are:

Ans. Blue, Green and Red

17. Which part of the Sun is visible during total solar eclipse?
Ans. Corona

18. Mach number is used in connection with the speed of ..........?

Ans. Aircraft

19. Radio Isotopes are:

Ans. Isotopes that are radioactive

20. The process responsible for the enormous energy in the sun is ..........?
Ans. Nuclear fusion

CHEMISTRY

1. The hottest part of the gas flame is known as:

Ans. Non luminous zone

2. The alloy used to produce permanent magnet is ..........?

Ans. Alnico

3. Chemically baking soda is:

Ans. Sodium bicarbonate

4. Who discovered vulcanization?

Ans. Charles Goodyear
5. Alloy containing mercury is known as ..........?
Ans. Amalgam

6. The chemical which has the worst smell in the world?

Ans. Methyl mercaptan

7. The element added to matchstick is ..........?

Ans. Red phosphorus

8. Indigo is used in which industies?

Ans. Dyeing industry

9. Hypo used in photography is chemically ..........?

Ans. Sodium Thisulphate

10. The purity of primary gold is ..........?

Ans. 24 carat

11. The nature of Saliva is ..........?

Ans. Amphoteric

12. The term ‘pH’ denotes the:

Ans. Acidity or basicity of solution

13. The greatest number of compounds are formed by the element:

Ans. Carbon

14. If sodium salt is used in fire works, the colour imparted is:
Ans. Bright yellow

15. What is dry ice?

Ans. Solid carbon dioxide

16. The first artificial element is:

Ans. Technitium

17. Aluminium is exctracted from:

Ans. Bauxite

18. Sea gets heated up and cooled down slower than the land because:
Ans. Water has a higher specific heat

19. Aquaregia is a mixture of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid in the ration of:
Ans. 3:1

20. Ordinary glass, when kept for long, turns opaque, This is due to ..........?
Ans. The formation of crystallites

1. What are the constituent elements of sugar?

Answer. Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen

2. What is known as Table sugar?

Answer. Sucrose

3. Which sugar is used by the cells as the primary source of energy?

Answer. Glucose

4. Name the sugar which is most commonly present in the fruits?

Answer. Fructose

5. What is also known in the names dextrose and grape sugar?

Answer. Glucose

6. What is known as fruit sugar?

Answer. Fructose

7. What is the sweetest of all naturally occurring carbohydrates?

Answer. Fructose

8. What is the average PH of honey?

Answer. 3.9

9. Which is the leading sugar in the honey?

Answer. Fructose

10. Which is the antiseptic present in honey?

Answer. Hydrogen peroxide

11. What is usually called as paraffin?

Answer. Kerosene

12. Name the Canadian Geologist who invented Kerosene?

Answer. Abraham Pineo Gesner

13. What are the ingredients in Kerosene?

Answer. Carbon and Hydrogen

14. What is the full form of LPG?

Answer. Liquefied Petroleum Gas

15. What is the main constituent in the LPG?

Answer. Propane

16. What is added to LPG to help warn of gas leaks?

Answer. Ethanethiol or Ethyl mercaptan

17. What is the Chemical name of the bleaching powder?

Answer. Calcium hypochlorite

18. What is the chemical name of the Table salt?

Answer. Sodium Chloride

19. What gives hardness to water?

Answer. Chlorides and sulfates of calcium and magnesium

20. Which gases are the constituents of the Ammonia gas?

Answer. Nitrogen and hydrogen

21. What is produced through the Haber-Bosch process?

Answer. Ammonia

22. Which chemical is used in the cloud seeding or the artificial rain?
Answer. Silver iodide

23. What is ‘Dry Ice’?

Answer. Solid Carbon Dioxide

24. What was once called ‘Lunar caustic’?

Answer. Silver Nitrate

25. Which chemical is also known in the names ‘Blue vitriol and Bluestone’?
Answer. Copper sulfate

Highest and biggest

1. Which is the largest Parliament?

Ans. China

2. Which is the highest Mountain Range?

Ans. Himalayas

3. Which is the highest Lake?

Ans. Titicaca

4. Which is the largest Land animal?

Ans. African Elephant
5. Which is the largest man-like ape?
Ans. Gorilla

6. Which is the highest Mountain?

Ans. Everest

7. Which is the highest Airport in India?

Ans. Leh

8. Which are the highest Waterfalls?

Ans. Angel Falls, Venezuela

9. Which is the oldest National Flag?

Ans. Denmark

10. Which is the Fastest animal?

Ans. Cheetah
11. Which is the longest railway Platform?
Ans. Kharagpur (West Bengal)

12. Which is the largest Church?

Ans. Basilica of St. Peters, Vatican City

13. Which is the largest Zoo?

Ans. Kruger National Park, South Africa

14. Which is the biggest Flower?

Ans. Rafflesia

15. Which is the tallest Animal?

Ans. Giraffe

16. Which is the largest Continent?

Ans. Asia

17. Which is the largest Island?

Ans. Greenland

18. Which is the largest Ocean?

Ans. Pacific

19. Which is the largest Peninsula?

Ans. Arabia

20. Which is the largest Freshwater Lake?

Ans. Lake Superior
21. Which is the largest Archipelago?
Ans. Indonesia

22. Which is the smallest Continent?

Ans. Australia

23. Which is the highest Plateau?

Ans. Pamir (Tibet)

24. Which is the largest Saltwater Lake?

Ans. Caspian Sea

25. Which is the largest Desert?

Ans. Sahara (Africa)

Headquarters of Famous Organizations

 Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)- Rome

 International Labour Organization (ILO)- Geneva

 United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)- Paris
 International Monetary Fund (IMF)- Washington DC
 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)- Nairobi
 United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)- New York
 World Health Organization (WHO)- Geneva
 International Police (Interpol)- Leonz (France)

Questions and Answers related to UNO

Overview of United Nations Organization (UNO). This will help you to answer questions
related to United Nations Organization in any exam. Questions and answers related to
UNO.

• Expand UNO
United Nations Organization

• Where is the headquarters of UNO?

New York, USA

• On which date UN charter was signed?

26th June,1945

• United Nations came into existence from which date?

24th October,1946

• How many countries are member to United Nations?

193 countries

• What are the aims of United Nations?

International Security
World Peace
Economic Development
Cooperation in International Law
Human Rights
Social Progress

• What was replaced by United Nations Organization?

League of Nations

• How many languages has been named official by United Nations?

Six languages (English,Chinese,French, Spanish,Arabic and Russian)

• How many Principal Organs does United Nations has?

Six
1) The General Assembly
2) The Security Council
3) The Economic and Social Council
4) The Secretariat
5) The International Court of Justice
6) The United Nations Trusteeship Council

• Which is the top post in United Nations?

Secretary General

• Where did the first General Assembly meeting held?

Westminster Central Hall,London

• Who gave the name as United Nations for the this organization?
Franklin D Roosevelt

• Who is the current UN Secretary General?

Ban ki-moon

• Who is the current Deputy Secretary General?

Asha Rose Migiro

• Who is the current General Assembly President?

Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
• Who is the present Security Council President?
Susan Rice

Biology

1. Water stimulus induces growth movement of plants is called hydrotropism and

Chemical stimulus induces growth movement is called chemotropism.

2. The vegetation of Deserts is called Xerophytes.

3. Pituitary gland is called the master gland.

4. Tocoferol is the chemical name of Vitamin E.

5. Cranium is the part of the skull that encloses the brain.

6. Kangaroos at never drinks water in its life.

7. Rhodopsin is the light sensitive pigment of the rod cells of eye.

8. The normal blood pressure of an adult is 120/80 mmHg in which 120 mmHg is the
systolic pressure and 80 mmHg is the diastolic pressure.

9. There are 24 ribs (12 pair) in human body.

10. The study of tissues is called Histology.

IT and Cyber Law

1. The number of functional keys in a key board:

Answer: 12

2. The top most bar in any application window is the .......... which displays the name of
the document or application:
Answer: Title bar

3. When the mouse pointer is positioned on a .......... It is shaped like a hand.

Answer: Hyperlink

4. The cut, copy and paste features use keyboard shortcuts with the .......... key and a key
board letter.
Answer: Ctrl

5. Computer and Internet usage in the area of market known as:

Answer: E-Commerce
6. .......... are capable of capturing live video and transfer it directly to the computer.
Answer: Webcams

7. The process of adopting software for a particular country or region is called ..........
Answer: Localization

8. .......... is the set of programs necessary to carry out operations for a specified
application:
Answer: Application Software

9. The initiative of the US Government which is considered as the early form of internet:
Answer: ARPANET

10. World Computer Security Day:

Answer: November 30

11. This is the exclusive right granted by statute to the author of the works to reproduce
dramatic, artistic, literary or musical work or to authorize its reproduction by others:
Answer: Copy Right

12. .......... are a bundle of exclusive rights over creations of the mind, both artistic and
commercial:
Answer: Intellectual property rights