Solved Question Paper Secretariat Assistant Exam 2015 GK: Part 2

26) Who was the Chief Organiser of the 'Ghadar Movement'?

(A) Lala Hardayal

(B) Mahatma Gandhi

(C) Lala Lajapat Rai

(D) Lal Chand Falak

27) The famous Champaran Satyagraha was started by Gandhiji in the year :

(A) 1916

(B) 1917

(C) 1919

(D) 1920

28) Which education reform was considered as the 'Magna Carta' of English Education in India?

(A) Charter Act of 1813

(B) Hunter Commission

(C) Wood's Despatch

(D) Indian University Act

29) Who was considered as the father of Indian Local Self Government?

(A) Lord Mayo

(B) Lord Curzon

(C) Lord Lytton

(D) Lord Rippon

30) In which year Rash Bihari Bose organised the Indian Independence League at Bangkok?

(A) 1938

(B) 1940

(C) 1942

(D) 1944

31) The famous Tirunelli temple lies in the valley of :

(A) Ezhimala

(B) Brahmagiri

(C) Puralimala

(D) Malayattor

32) Which of the following river was called as 'Churni' in Ancient times?

(A) Bharatapuzha

(B) Pampa

(C) Chaliyar

(D) Periyar

33) Which of the work contains the earliest reference to the town of Quilon?

(A) Topographia Indika Christiana

(B) Periplus of Erythrean Sea

(C) Tao-i-Chilio

(D) Si-Yu-Ki

34) Who was the leader of the first agricultural labourers strike in Kerala demanding the socia and economic issues?

(A) A.K. Gopalan

(B) P. Krishna Pillai

(C) EMS Namboodiripad

(D) Ayyankali

35) What was the original name of Vagbhatananda?

(A) Kunhiraman

(B) Kunhikannan

(C) Kunhunni

(D) Kumaran

36) Who started Prathyksha Raksha Daiva Sabha, a Dalit liberation movement in Kerala?

(A) Poykayil Yohannan

(B) Pandit Karuppan

(C) Thycaud Ayya

(D) Natraja Guru

37) The famous work Mokshapradeepam' was written by :

(A) Dr. Palpu

(B) Kumaranasan

(C) V.T. Bhattatirippad

(D) Brahmananda Sivayogi

38) Where was the famous news paper "Swadeshabhimani"started by Vakkom Abdul Khadar Maulavi?

(A) Kannur

(B) Cochin

(C) Anchutengu

(D) Attingal

39) Nair Service Society was formed in the year :

(A) 1911

(B) 1914

(C) 1917

(D) 1918

40) Who founded 'Advita Ashram' at Aluva in 1913?

(A) Chattampi Swami

(B) Ayya Vaikundar

(C) Thycaud Ayya

(D) Sri Narayana Guru

41) Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental Rights by the :

(A) 43s Amendment 

(B) 45th Amendment

(C) 44th Amendment

(D) 42nd Amendment

42) The chairman and members of the State Public Service Commission are appointed by :

(A) The President

(B) The Chief Justice of the High Court

(C) The Chief Minister of the State

(D) The Governor

43)  Who act as the friend, philosopher and guide of the Public Account Committee?

(A) The Prime Minister

(B) Comptroller and Auditor General

(C) The Speaker of the Lok Sabha

(D) Attorney General

44) An order of cout to produce a person suffering detention is called :

(A) Mandamus

(B) Certiorari

(C) Habeas Corpus

(D) Quo-warranto

45) The concept of Directive Principles was borrowed from :

(A) Irish Republic

(B) Switzerland

(C) Constitution of USA

(D) Constitution of UK

46)  'Sati' — Self immolation of widows — was prohibited by law in Bengal in 1829 by the British governor :

(A) Sir John Shore

(B) Warren Hastings

(C) Wellesley

(D) William Bentinck

47) What is the time limit within which an information is to be provided regarding the life and liberty of a person under the B.T.I. Act 2005?

(A) 30 days

(B) 24 hours

(C) 60 days

(D) 48 hours

48) The SC/ST (Prevontions of Atrocities) Act 1989 enforced with effect from :

(A) 30th January 1990

(B) 22nd February 1991

(C) 30th November 1990

(D) 30th July 1990

49) Who wrote the book "A vindication of the rights of woman"?

(A) Frieden

(B) Mary Wollstone Craft

(C) Ginsburg

(D) Casgrain

50) The Lokayukta and Upalokayukta Act was first passed in :

(A) Maharashtra

(B) West Bengal

(C) Karnataka

(D) Tamil Nadu