Solved Question paper for Village Extension Officer [VEO / LADY VEO]

Kerala PSC Village Extension Officer [VEO / LADY VEO] Examination on 28-4-2007.

1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the central figure in the awakening of modern India. Deeply devoted to the work of religious and social reforms, he founded the Brahmo Samaj. Which was the year of establishment of Brahmo Samaj?

Answer: 1828

2. Which continent has the maximum number of countries in it?

Answer: Africa

3. Two of the planets of our Solar System have no satellites. Which are those planets?

Answer: Mercury and Venus

4. Some substances, such as carbon dioxide change from a solid to a gas when heated, without becoming liquid in between. This is known as:

Answer: Sublimation

5. Which type of lenses are prescribed for the correction of astigmatism of human eye?

Answer: Cylindrical

6. Among the various longitudes passing through India which one forms the basis of the Indian Standard Time?

Answer: 820300E

7. A number of political organizations came into existence in India in the latter half of the 19th century. In which year did the Indian National Congress come into being?

Answer: 1885

8. Name the political party of India which was formed in 1952 by Syama Prasad Mookerjee a nationalist leader, former Union Minister and freedom fighter?

Answer: Bharatiya Jana Sangh

9. Normal members of a particular species all have the same number of chromosomes. How many chromosomes are found in the cells of human beings?

Answer: 46 or 23 pairs

10. Kabaddi (Kabbadi or Kabadi) is a game most popular in South and South East Asia and a national game of an Asian country which is that country?

Answer: Bangladesh

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Village Extension Officer [VEO] Exam 2014

General Science for preparing Kerala PSC Village Extension Officer [VEO] Examination 2014 

• The Chief food of a mosquito larva is:

Answer: Micro-organisms found in water

• The chief food of a butterfly larva is: 

Answer: Leaves of plants

• The part of the body directly affected by Rickets is: 

Answer: Bone tissue

• The part of the body directly affected by Pneumonia is: 

Answer: Respiratory system

• The part of the body directly affected by Rabies is: 

Answer: Nervous system

• The part of the body directly affected by Beri Beri disease is: 

Answer: Nervous system

• As the amount of clay in a soil increases, its water retaining capacity? 

Answer: Increases

• As the number of micro-organisms in a soil increases, the amount of humus in the same soil? 

Answer: Increases

• Which of the following plants adds more oxygen to the atmosphere than it removes? 

Answer: Corn

• Which of the following blood groups of human beings is a universal donor? 

Answer: O

• It is customary to transfuse blood of the same group as that of the patient, and only in emergency to give the blood of the donor whose blood group is: 

Answer: O

• Haemoglobin in the blood is a complex protein rich in:

Answer: Iron

• Haemoglobin is rich in a mineral which has great affinity for:

Answer: Oxygen

• Amino acids are a product of the digestion of:

Answer: Proteins

• Which of the following is a starch digesting enzyme?

Answer: Ptyalin

• Which of the following has the highest fat content?

Answer: Milk

• Which one of the following secretions does not contain enzymes?

Answer: Bile

• Which of the following is the product of digestion of proteins?

Answer: Amino acids

• Pepsin, a digestive enzyme, is produced in the:

Answer: Stomach

• The element Nitrogen is found in:

Answer: Proteins

• Corn kernels are seeds and contain digestive enzymes which convert starch into:

Answer: Glucose

• The kidneys in the human body

(a) Regulate the water balance in the body

(b) Regulate the concentration of the salts in the blood and of the reaction (acid-base balance) of the blood

(c) Excrete waste products and any excess of salts

(d) All of the above

• Which of the following is nearly a complete food by itself‘?

Answer: Milk

• Which of the following foods (one ounce of edible raw portion of each) provides the largest number of Kcal. of energy?

Answer: Margarine

• If you wish to have the maximum value of in respect of Vitamin D, which of the following would you choose?

Answer: Cheese

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Kerala PSC Village Extension Officer Examination 2014

General Science for preparing Kerala PSC Village Extension Officer [VEO] Examination 2014

• All of the following foods lack vitamin C, except: 

Answer: Milk

• Which of the following statements is not correct? 

Answer: Vegetable fats contain enough vitamin A and D

• All of the following statements are correct, except: 

Answer: Bile contains enzymes

• The vitamin concerned with blood clotting is: 

Answer: Vitamin K

• When there is a decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the blood, the rate of breathing 

Answer: Increases

• The skin is an excretory organ. Which of the following substances is not excretory material? 

Answer: Oil

• Camels have greater adaptability to long periods of drought in hot deserts than other animals. This is because: 

Answer: Its thick fur insulates its body against high external temperatures and reduces water loss.

• All the following facts about camels make them adapt to long periods of drought in hot deserts, except: 

Answer: Camels can drink as much as 1/3 of their body weight in ten minutes, which other mammals cannot.

• Babies should be always kept in a reasonably warm temperature whereas adults can with stand extreme cold. The reason for this is that? 

Answer: They have a large surface area to volume ratio; hence they lose much more heat than they produce

• A newly born normal child will thrive best if it is given milk of: 

Answer: Mother

• Excretory products of mammals are useful to plants. Which of the following is not a part of such secretions? 

Answer: Mineral salts

• A flaming splinter is thrust into a bottle of oxygen, a bottle of nitrogen, and a bottle of carbon dioxide. The flame will go out in: 

Answer: Nitrogen and carbon dioxide but not in oxygen

• The phases of the moon are partially the result of the 

Answer: Revolution of the moon about the earth

• The statutory warning "Cigarette smoking is injurious to health that appears on cigarette packet is based on the finding that 

Answer: Lung and oral cancer are more common among smokers than non-smokers

• Molasses are a 

Answer: By-product of sugar industry

• Which of the following processes does not increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the air? 

Answer: Photosynthesis

• Which of the following processes is unsuitable for softening water possessing temporary hardness? 

Answer: Adding calcium hydroxide

• A green leaf is partially covered and placed in the light for several days. If it is then boiled and tested for starch with iodine, what will be the result? 

Answer: Starch will be found only in the part of the leaf exposed to light

• All of the following glands in the human body are ductless glands, except: 

Answer: Lachrymal

• A body that is falling freely from a height (no air resistance) under the influence of gravity?

Answer: Increases its speed by about 32 ft/sec. during each second it falls

• A difference between a compound and a mixture is that a compound 

Answer: Always has the same composition whereas a mixture does not

• A person, who met with an accident, was partially paralysed and lacked a sense of feeling after treatment. Which apart of the nervous system was affected by the accident? 

Answer: The spinal cord seemed damaged

• On a cool and wet day a large quantity of dilute urine is passed out by most people. This is because: 

Answer: There is reduced loss of water through sweat

• Through which of the following media does light travel fastest? 

Answer: Vacuum

• Excessive intake of polished rice causes deficiency of: 

Answer: Vitamin B

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General Knowledge for the preparation of Kerala PSC Village Extension Officer

Kerala PSC Village Extension Officer [VEO]

• The year in which the Dada Saheb Phalke award was instituted?

Answer: 1969 {The Award is given for lifelong contribution to Indian Cinema. The first winner of Dada Saheb Phalke Award was Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich (1969).}

• Name the Commission which investigated the Rajiv Gandhi murder case?

Answer: Jain Commission.

• Who was the youngest elected President of India?

Answer: Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

• Who was the first woman IPS Officer in Kerala?

Answer: Srilekha {Smt. Padma Ramachandran was the first woman Chief Secretary of Kerala.}

• Who said, ‘‘Liberty is my birthright’’?

Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

• The constitution of India was adopted on:

Answer: November 26, 1949. Our Constitution came into existence on January 26, 1950.

• Rourkela steel plant is in:

Answer: Orissa.

• The headquaters of UNICEF is in:

Answer: New York

• The headquarters of World Bank is in:

Answer: Washington.

• Which state in India having maximum number of Lok Sabha seats?

Answer: Uttar Pradesh. {There are 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh also has the maximum number of Legislative Assembly seats.}

• Who is the author of the book 'Randamoozham'?

Answer: Vasudevan Nair

• The first Indira Gandhi Award for International Justice and Harmony was given to:

Answer: Nelson Mandela.

•  Who started the Bhoodan Movement?

Answer: Vinoba Bhave.

•  Name the person who received both Bharat Ratna and Nishan-E-Pakistan:

Answer: Morarji Desai.

•  The first district in India to attain total literacy?

Answer: Ernakulam.

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Village Extension Officer Previous Question Papers

Previous Question Papers of Kerala PSC Village Extension Officer [VEO] 

• Bharathappuzha originates from:

Ans. Anamala

• Which is the largest district in Kerala State?

Ans. Palakkad

• Who was the first Chief Minister of Kerala?

Ans. E.M. Sankaran Namboodiripad

• The chemical name of bleaching powder is:

Ans. Calcium oxy chloride

• The twinkling of star is due to:

Ans. Refraction

• Global warming is caused by:

Ans. Increased level of Carbon dioxide

• A nuclear reactor works on the principle of nuclear:

Ans. fission

• Which is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?

Ans. Aluminium

• Which day is celebrated as the Earth day?

Ans. April 22

• Who invented Penicillin?

Ans. Alexander Fleming

• Name the river which is known as ‘River of sorrow’.

Ans. Damodar River

• Which is the highest gravity dam in the world?

Ans. The Bhakra dam

• Name the layer which makes radio communication possible on the earth.

Ans. Ionosphere

• Who appoints Chief Justice of India?

Ans. The President

• Who wrote the ‘Ashtadhyayi’?

Ans. Panini

• Whose period is known as the Golden age of the Indian History?

Ans. Period of Chandragupta Vikramaditya

• Name the capital of Pallavas.

Ans. Kanchipuram

• Gandhiji started Civil Disobedience Movement in:

Ans. March 1930

• Quit India movement started in which year?

Ans. 1942

• Name the first President of India.

Ans. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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