Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 20

1 In February 2005, which renowned Canadian short
story writer was awarded the Medal of Honor for
Literature from the USA National Arts Club?
2 In which game is a flat stone bounced across the
surface of water?
3 Who was represented in Greek mythology as
wearing winged sandals?
4 What is the common name for pyrites or iron pyrites?
5 What name is given to the permanent freezing of the
ground in areas bordering on ice sheets?
6 What is the capital of Indonesia?
7 Which German composer wrote the opera Der
Rosenkavalier?
8 In which country is the port of Jaffna?
9 What was the name of the official bodyguard of
Roman emperors, created by Augustus?
10 Which archangel announced the birth of John the
Baptist to Zechariah?


ANSWERS:
1 Alice Munroe, 2 Ducks and drakes, 3 Hermes, 4 Fools’ gold, 5 Permafrost,
6 Jakarta, 7 Richard Strauss, 8 Sri Lanka, 9 Praetorian Guard, 10 Gabriel.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 19

1 What is the capital of Botswana?
2 Which bandleader born in 1891 was known in his early
days as ‘the King of Jazz’?
3 Which famous sea captain who commanded HMS
Bounty died in 1817?
4 What is the colour of the ball worth six points in
snooker?
5 Which prophet led the Israelites out of Egypt into the
Promised Land?
6 Which genus of trees and shrubs includes the holly?
7 What is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet?
8 In which European country is the formerly important
gold-mining town of Tomsk?
9 What is the state capital of Pennsylvania?
10 In which sport is the term ‘hookcheck’ used?


ANSWERS:
1 Gabarone, 2 Paul Whiteman, 3 Captain Bligh, 4 Pink, 5 Moses, 6 Ilex,
7 Zeta, 8 Russia, 9 Harrisburg, 10 Ice hockey.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 18

1 Which city in Switzerland was the headquarters of
the League of Nations?
2 At which sport have Keiji, Okada and Yuko Hasama
been world champions?
3 Which man set a world record of 10.2 seconds for
the 100 metres sprint on 20 June 1936?
4 Who wrote the novel The Fourth Protocol?
5 Ljubljana is the capital of which republic of central
Europe?
6 Which boardgame was invented by Alfred M Butts?
7 What is Kim Basinger’s profession in the 1987 film
Nadine?
8 In which US state is the port of Tarpon Springs?
9 In which European country is the ski resort of
Obergurgl?
10 The Whit Sunday Islands lie off the coast of which
Australian state?



ANSWERS:
1 Geneva, 2 Karate, 3 Jesse Owens, 4 Frederick Forsyth, 5 Slovenia,
6 Scrabble, 7 Hairdresser, 8 Florida, 9 Austria, 10 Queensland.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 17

1 Who was the first president of the United States of
America?
2 Who was the youngest member of the Beatles?
3 Of which country is Managua the capital?
4 Who directed the film Back to the Future?
5 Which British composer wrote On Hearing the First
Cuckoo in Spring?
6 What does a hippologist study?
7 Buster Bloodvessel was the frontman of which 1980s
pop group?
8 Which cartoon bird was created by Walter Lantz?
9 Of which country is Bangui the capital?
10 For which novel is the Spanish author Miguel de
Cervantes famous?


ANSWERS:
1 George Washington, 2 George Harrison, 3 Nicaragua, 4 Robert Zemeckis,
5 Frederick Delius, 6 Horses, 7 Bad Manners, 8 Woody Woodpecker,
9 Central African Republic, 10 Don Quixote.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 16

1 Which Russian gave his name to the famous AK47
assault rifle?
2 Which two primary colours are mixed to make purple?
3 Established as an independent kingdom in 1946,
which Middle Eastern country has a seven-pointed
white star on its national flag, representing the first
seven verses of the Koran?
4 What is a pashmina?
5 In what did Cleopatra supposedly bathe to remain
beautiful?
6 What is the name of the sedative drug which caused
deformities in babies born in the late 1950s and early
1960s?
7 Which popular female country and western singer was
killed in a plane crash in March 1963?
8 What type of creature is a fulmar?
9 Whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter and
Lord Carnarvon in 1922?
10 Who was born the son of a customs official in
Braunau, Upper Austria, in 1889?


ANSWERS:
1 Kalashnikov, 2 Red and blue, 3 Jordan, 4 A type of shawl, 5 Asses’ milk,
6 Thalidomide, 7 Patsy Cline, 8 A bird, 9 Tutankhamen, 10 Adolf Hitler.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 15

1 In which country are the headquarters of the
multinational company Nestlé?
2 In which play by Shakespeare do Elbow and Mistress
Overdone appear?
3 What name is given to a Hindu prince ranking above a
rajah?
4 By what name do we know the Bahia de los Cochinos
on the coast of Cuba?
5 What was the real first name of jazz musician Bix
Beiderbecke?
6 Which English poet wrote The Listeners?
7 With which sport is Lou Gehrig associated?
8 What name is given to the process of removing waste
products from the blood?
9 Which French poet wrote Cautionary Tales?
10 What name was given to the settlers who established
the first permanent colony in New England in 1620?


ANSWERS:
1 Switzerland, 2 Measure for Measure, 3 Maharajah, 4 The Bay of Pigs,
5 Leon, 6 Walter de la Mare, 7 Baseball, 8 Dialysis, 9 Hilaire Belloc, 10 The
Pilgrim Fathers.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 14

1 South Park, 2 Charles Dickens, 3 An edible fungus, 4 France, 5 Electrical
current, 6 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 7 Acetic acid, 8 The Beat Movement,
9 Lake Maracaibo, 10 Colombian.
1 In which cartoon series do the characters Chef and
Cartman appear?
2 Who wrote Great Expectations?
3 What is a champignon?
4 In which country is the port of Dieppe?
5 What does an ammeter measure?
6 What was the full name of the US president known as
LBJ?
7 What is the common name for ethanoic acid?
8 What name was given to the literary movement in the
USA in the 1950s of which William Burroughs and
Jack Kerouac were prominent writers?
9 About 70 per cent of Venezuela’s total oil production is
obtained in and around which lake?
10 What nationality is author Gabriel Garcia Marquez?


ANSWERS:
1 South Park, 2 Charles Dickens, 3 An edible fungus, 4 France, 5 Electrical
current, 6 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 7 Acetic acid, 8 The Beat Movement,
9 Lake Maracaibo, 10 Colombian.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 13

1 What name is more commonly given to a tree of the
genus Taxus?
2 What is the only form of gambling permitted in the
British armed forces?
3 What is the name of Katharina’s younger sister in
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew?
4 In The Pilgrim’s Progress, what is the name of the
hero?
5 In which novel by George du Maurier does the
character Svengali appear?
6 Which island is also called Rapa Nui and Isla de
Pascua?
7 Which Hebrew prophet picked up the mantle as
successor to Elijah?
8 In Mary Shelley’s novel, what is the first name of
Dr Frankenstein?
9 To which novel by Robert Louis Stevenson is Catriona
the sequel?
10 What is the subtitle of Dvorák’s Symphony No 9 in E
minor?


ANSWERS:
1 Yew, 2 Bingo, 3 Bianca, 4 Christian, 5 Trilby, 6 Easter Island, 7 Elisha,
8 Victor, 9 Kidnapped, 10 From the New World.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 12

1 Which colour is produced by adding together yellow
and cyan?
2 Which disease carried by bark beetles was first
described in The Netherlands in 1919?
3 What was invented by Sir Frank Whittle in 1930?
4 On which area of the moon did Armstrong, Aldrin and
Collins make their landing on 20 July 1969?
5 For which film did Steven Spielberg win an Oscar for
Best Director at the 1999 Academy Awards?
6 What is the British English word for the eggplant?
7 Which French town on the Scarpe River gave its name
to a type of tapestry?
8 Which musical set in the slums of New York is based
on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?
9 The movie Apocalypse Now is based on the book
Heart of Darkness by which author?
10 The Quarrymen was the original name of which pop
group?


ANSWERS:
1 Green, 2 Dutch Elm Disease, 3 The jet engine, 4 Sea of Tranquility,
5 Saving Private Ryan, 6 Aubergine, 7 Arras, 8 West Side Story, 9 Joseph
Conrad, 10 The Beatles.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 11

1 Who succeeded Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet
Union in 1984?
2 What was the name of the submarine in the TV series
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?
3 Which actor played James Bond in GoldenEye?
4 With which Italian motor company is the Agnelli family
associated?
5 Of which Canadian province is St John’s the capital?
6 Which English adventurer and courtier to Elizabeth I
was executed in 1618?
7 In which country did the rottweiler originate?
8 Which Pulp Fiction actor starred in the remake of the
movie Shaft?
9 Who wrote the novel Roots: The Saga of an American
Family?
10 Which Turkish dish comprises thin layers of filo pastry
containing nuts and honey?


ANSWERS:
1 Konstantin Chernenko, 2 Seaview, 3 Pierce Brosnan, 4 Fiat,
5 Newfoundland, 6 Sir Walter Raleigh, 7 Germany, 8 Samuel L Jackson,
9 Alex Haley, 10 Baklava.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 10

1 What is corium?
2 Which Stanley Kubrick film was based on a Stephen
King novel and starred Jack Nicholson?
3 ‘Indices’ is the plural of which word?
4 Zr is the symbol of which chemical element?
5 Which drug is known in Australia as ‘twang’?
6 To which part of the body does the adjective ‘rhinal’
refer?
7 What was the name of the character played by Tracey
Ullman in the television drama series Ally McBeal?
8 In which play by Shakespeare does the character
Beatrice appear?
9 Which US state is further east: Ohio or Wyoming?
10 ‘Bitser’ is an Australian word for which animal?


ANSWERS:
1 A deep inner layer of the skin, 2 The Shining, 3 Index, 4 Zirconium,
5 Opium, 6 The nose, 7 Dr Tracey Clark, 8 Much Ado About Nothing, 9 Ohio,
10 A mongrel dog.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 9

1 Which Canadian singer recorded the albums Blue
and Miles of Aisles?
2 Which device in a jet engine provides extra thrust for
take-off or supersonic flight?
3 The film Jerry Maguire featured which sport?
4 What is the chief river of Ghana?
5 Which 2001 film about the Cuban missile crisis
starred Kevin Costner?
6 Which epic poem by Dante begins on Good Friday in
the year 1300?
7 Which German motor manufacturer was set up in
1937 to produce a ‘people’s car’?
8 The River Tamar forms a historic boundary between
which two English counties?
9 Who played Sally Bowles in the film Cabaret?
10 Which fish is smoked and sold as finnan haddie?


ANSWERS:
1 Joni Mitchell, 2 Afterburner, 3 American football, 4 Volta, 5 Thirteen Days,
6 The Divine Comedy, 7 Volkswagen, 8 Devon and Cornwall, 9 Liza Minnelli,
10 Haddock.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 8

1 The coronations of most of the French kings took
place in which city in the Marne region of France?
2 In which country is the ski resort of Val Gardena?
3 Van Gogh cut of part of his own left ear during a
quarrel with which other artist?
4 To which breed of dog was Longfellow referring when
he wrote “A traveller, by the faithful hound, half buried
in the snow was found”?
5 Who had an occasional rôle as Guinan, the female
bartender, in the TV series Star Trek: The Next
Generation?
6 What do the initials J S stand for in J S Bach?
7 Who wrote the opera La Boheme?
8 Michael Nesmith is associated with which 1960s pop
group?
9 Who had a hit with On the Banks of the Ohio in 1971
and Hopelessly Devoted to You in 1978?
10 Robert Redford and Paul Newman played two 1920s
conmen in which film?


ANSWERS:
1 Rheims, 2 Italy, 3 Paul Gauguin, 4 St Bernard, 5 Whoopi Goldberg,
6 Johann Sebastian, 7 Puccini, 8 The Monkees, 9 Olivia Newton John,
10 The Sting.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 7

1 In which US state is the Mojave Desert?
2 Which former MI5 officer wrote Spycatcher?
3 Whom did Jacques Chirac succeed as French
president in 1995?
4 About which event did Winston Churchill say “Never
in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so
many to so few”?
5 With what weapon was Leon Trotsky assassinated in
Mexico in 1940?
6 What sort of creature is a cotinga?
7 What is the name of the full moon closest to the
Autumn Equinox?
8 What is a tsunami?
9 Which Irish surname means ‘warlike one’?
10 What is the name given to a cross in the form of an
‘X’?


ANSWERS:
1 California, 2 Peter Wright, 3 Francois Mitterand, 4 Battle of Britain, 5 An ice
pick, 6 Bird, 7 Harvest moon, 8 A tidal wave, 9 Kelly, 10 Saltire.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 6

1 In which card game, played with a deck of 32 cards,
are the jacks known as bowers?
2 Who wrote Waiting for Godot?
3 The Wrigley Building is located in which US city?
4 What nationality was the 14th/15th century astronomer
Tycho Brahe?
5 What was first seriously advocated by a British
builder, William Willett, in his 1907 pamphlet Waste of
Daylight?
6 By the end of which period in Earth’s history had most
dinosaurs become extinct?
7 Calypso, cattleya and pogonia are types of which
flower?
8 Who played Flint in a series of spy films?
9 Who performed the first surgery in England under
antiseptic conditions?
10 Which part in the Munsters TV series was played by
old-time film actress Yvonne de Carlo?



ANSWERS:
1 Euchre, 2 Samuel Becket, 3 Chicago, 4 Danish, 5 Daylight Saving Time
(putting the clocks forwards and backwards), 6 Triassic, 7 Orchid, 8 James
Coburn, 9 Joseph Lister, 10 Lily Munster.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Questions Kerala psc Quiz 5

1 The name of which animal is an Aboriginal term
meaning ‘no water’?
2 Which animal has the biggest eyes of any living
creature?
3 Which founder of Protestantism appeared before the
Diet of Worms in 1521?
4 Which African statesman received the Freedom of the
City of Cardiff in a ceremony in 1998?
5 Which Roman god of the sea is identified with the
Greek god Poseidon?
6 Who directed The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen
and The Dead?
7 Which French chemist and microbiologist devised
vaccines for anthrax and rabies?
8 Which revolutionary anthem was the Soviet national
anthem until 1944 ?
9 Which British admiral had an affair with Emma
Hamilton?
10 What name is given to a dealer licensed to lend
money on the security of an item of portable personal
property?



ANSWERS:
1 Koala, 2 Horse, 3 Martin Luther, 4 Nelson Mandela, 5 Neptune,
6 John Huston, 7 Louis Pasteur, 8 The Internationale, 9 Horatio Nelson,
10 Pawnbroker.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Question of Kerala psc part 4

1 What is a cat-o’-nine-tails?
2 Of which Caribbean country is Montego Bay the main
tourist centre?
3 Who wrote David Copperfield?
4 What name is given to the programs run by a
computer, as opposed to the hardware?
5 In medicine, what name is given to a state of deep
unconsciousness in which the subject is unrousable?
6 What are the flat, treeless plains of Argentina called?
7 Which bay of the Atlantic, between northern Spain and
western France, is noted for its rough seas and high
tides?
8 What was the first British film to take more than one
hundred million dollars at the US box office?
9 What is the capital of Vietnam?
10 What name is given to members of the Roman
Catholic Society of Jesus?


ANSWERS:
1 A nine-lash whip, 2 Jamaica, 3 Charles Dickens, 4 Software, 5 Coma,
6 Pampas, 7 Bay of Biscay, 8 Notting Hill, 9 Hanoi, 10 Jesuits.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Question of Kerala psc part 3

1 Which rock star was born Marvin Lee Aday?
2 Which 2000 film starred veteran actors Clint
Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and
James Garner?
3 Of which planet is Phoebe a satellite?
4 Which film actress and wartime pin-up girl married
bandleader Harry James in 1943?
5 How many counters has each player in a game of
backgammon?
6 Which food item takes its name from the French for
‘twice cooked’?
7 Who wrote The Thorn Birds?
8 Who wrote The Call of the Wild and White Fang?
9 Which common childhood illness related to shingles is
also called varicella?
10 Which sign of the zodiac is also called The
Waterbearer?


ANSWERS:
1 Meat Loaf, 2 Space Cowboys, 3 Saturn, 4 Betty Grable, 5 15, 6 Biscuit,
7 Colleen McCullough, 8 Jack London, 9 Chickenpox, 10 Aquarius.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Question of Kerala psc part 2

1 What was the name of the Addams Family butler?
2 Which theoretical temperature corresponds to minus
273.15 degrees on the Celsius scale?
3 Which seven-a-side ball game is played in a
swimming pool?
4 Which Roman Catholic organization takes its name
from the Latin for ‘God’s work’?
5 Bamboozled is a film by which controversial US
director?
6 Which word meaning ‘rebirth’ describes the period in
European history which began in the 14th century?
7 Who starred opposite Pierce Brosnan in the remake of
The Thomas Crown Affair?
8 Who directed the 1995 film Heat, which starred Al
Pacino?
9 Of which French overseas region in South America is
Cayenne the capital?
10 In which year did David Koresh and the Branch
Davidians Christian cult hold a siege in Waco, Texas?


ANSWERS:
1 Lurch, 2 Absolute zero, 3 Water polo, 4 Opus Dei, 5 Spike Lee,
6 Renaissance, 7 Rene Russo, 8 Michael Mann, 9 French Guiana, 10 1993.

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Last Grade Servant Exam Solved Question of Kerala psc part 1

1 Which strait separates the North and South islands of
New Zealand?
2 In which city is the Doge’s Palace?
3 Who plays Johnny Depp’s uncle in the 1993 film
Arizona Dream?
4 Which New Zealand golfer won the 2000 Australian
Masters in Melbourne?
5 Which continent has the larger land mass: Africa or
North America?
6 Aston, Aston, Rizzo, Stevenson, Gilvear: which 1980s
group?
7 What name is given to the art of preparing, stuffing
and mounting the skins of animals to make lifelike
models?
8 Which artist was appointed court painter to Charles IV
of Spain in 1786?
9 The name of which Roman god means ‘shining father'
in Latin?
10 What is the name of the dog in Punch and Judy
shows?


ANSWERS:
1 Cook Strait, 2 Venice, 3 Jim Carrey, 4 Michael Campbell, 5 Africa, 6 Gene
Loves Jezebel, 7 Taxidermy, 8 Goya, 9 Jupiter, 10 Toby.

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