Previous Year Question Paper 50

Welfare Officer Gr II - jail Cat No:124/2018  Date Of Test:30/08/2019  Question Code:41/2018
ANSWER KEY

1. Which of the following rivers is NOT originated from the Himalayas? 

(A) The Sindhu 

(B) The Ganga 

(C) The Brahmaputra 

(D) The Krishna 

2. The smallest neighbouring country of India is 

(A) Nepal 

(B) Bangladesh 

(C) Bhutan 

(D) Myanmar 

3. Where was the headquarters of Lakshadweep before Kavaratti? 

(A) Kochi

(B) Kozhikode 

(C) Andrott 

(D) Bangaram 

4. Who was the first martyr of the Revolt of 1857? 

(A) Nana Saheb 

(B) Rani Lakshmi Bhai 

(C) Tantia Tope 

(D) Mangal Pandey 

5. Who named the association Indian National Congress? 

(A) A.O. Hume 

(B) Dadabhai Naoroji 

(C) W.C. Banerjee 

(D) Lord Dufferin 

6. Who among the following persons is NOT a moderate leader of Indian National 

Congress? 

(A) Lala Lajpat Rai

(B) Pherozeshah Mehta 

(C) Surendra Nath Banerjee 

(D) Dadabhai Naoroji 

7. When did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre happen? 

(A) April 30, 1919 

(B) 1919, April 13 

(C) 1918, April 13 

(D) 1919, December 28

8. As per the historic Lahore Congress of 1929, which date was observed as the 

Independence Day of our country? 

(A) August 15 

(B) August 8 

(C) November 1 

(D) January 26 

9. 'Ezhimala', the headquarters of the Mushaka dynasty, is in which of the following 

districts today? 

(A) Kozhikode 

(B) Kannur 

(C) Kasaragod 

(D) Wayanad 

10. Marthandavarma, the famous ruler of Travancore, defeated whom in the 'Battle of 

Colachel' in 1741? 

(A) The Dutch 

(B) The British 

(C) The French 

(D)The Portuguese 

11. Which of the following social reformers called the British rule as 'White Devil Rule'? 

(A) Ayyankali 

(B) Sree Narayana Guru 

(C) Thycaud Ayya 

(D) Vykunda Swamikal 

12. Who was the first harijan member of Sreemoolam Prajasabha? 

(A) K.P. Karuppan 

(B) P.K. Chathan Master 

(C) Ayyankali 

(D) Velukkutty Arayan 

13. Who is known as the Jhansi Rani of Travancore? 

(A) A.V. Kuttimalu Amma 

(B) Lalithambika Antharjanam 

(C) Arya Pallam 

(D) Akkamma Cheriyan 

14. The Malayalam Poet, who called Sree Narayana Guru as 'Second Budha" 

(A) G. Sankara Kurup 

(B) Kumaran Asan 

(C) Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer 

(D) Vallathol 

15. The leader who is known as 'Kerala Gandhi' 

(A) T.K. Madhavan 

(B) K. Kelappan 

(C) Mannath Padmanabhan 

(D) C. Krishnan 

16. Who won the Jnanpith Award in 2017? 

(A) Shankha Ghosh 

(B) Krishna Sobti 

(C) Raghuveer Choudhari 

(D) Amarkant 

17. I.P.L. (Indian Premier League), a Twenty-Twenty cricket league in India was founded by 

(A) B.C.C.I. 

(B) I.C.C. 

(C) K.C.A. 

(D) C.A.B. 

18. Who won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor in 2016? 

(A) Dulquer Salmaan 

(B) Nivin Pauly
(C) Vinayakan 

(D) Prithviraj 

19. The present Chairman of ISRO is 

(A) K. Sivan 

(B) G. Madhavan Nair 

(C) A.S. Kirankumar 

(D) K. Radhakrishnan 

20. Who is the present Chairman of Rajya Sabha? 

(A) Hamid Ansari 

(B) Ghulam Nabi Azad 

(C) Arun Jaitley

(D) Venkaiah Naidu