Kerala PSC First Grade Draftsman/Overseer civil (Public Works) (41/2017) Mock Test

1. Which river is referred as 'Churni' in ancient texts?

2. Ozone Day is on

3. Who succeeded the office of Diwan in Travancore after the resignation of Sir C.P. Ramaswami Ayyar on 19 August 1947?

4. The molten material inside the Earth is called

5. The upper most layer of the atmosphere above Thermosphere is known as

6. Which session of Indian National Congress accepted the tri-color flag as the Official flag of congress?

7. Who presided over the first session of the constituent assembly on 9th December 1946?

8. Author of the book 'The General theory of Employment, Interest and Money'

9. Indian National Congress and Muslim League signed ____ in 1916.

10. Vaikom is situated on the banks of the ___ lake in Kerala.

11. Father of Muslim renaissance in Kerala

12. Author of the book 'Atmavidya Kahalam'

13. 'Become Enlightened through education and strengthened through organization'. These are the words of ______.

14. _____ setup the third printing press in Kerala in 1846.

15. A Social reformer nominated twice to Sreemulam Prajasabha

16. Author of the book 'The God of Small Things'

17. Ottava is the capital of

18. 'Kalidas Samman', a prestigious award given by the state government of ____.

19. Dhanraj Pillay is related to

20. The first film directed by G. Aravindan

21. The ultimate tensile stress of mild steel compared to ultimate compressive stress is

22. Shear stresses on mutually perpendicular planes are

23. A long column fails by

24. If the modulus of elasticity is equal to zero, the material is said to be

25. Principal planes are planes having

26. Shear force is

27. In short columns, failure occurs by

28. The workability of concrete can be improved by the addition of the following compounds

29. The split strength of cement can be determined by

30. Under constant load the creep strain in concrete is

31. In order to have segregation in concrete dropping height should not be less than

32. The ratio of Young's modulus of elasticity for steel to that of concrete is known as

33. The modulus of elasticity for mild steel is approximately equal to

34. The tensile test is caried on ____ materials.

35. The neutral axis of a beam is subjected to ____ stress.

36. The most efficient section of a channel is

37. Water belongs to

38. Geological, marble is known as

39. The tendency of a stone to split along

40. The frog of a brick is normally made on its

41. The water supply schemes are generally designed for a design period of

42. An infiltration gallery is a

43. Socket and spigot joint is used

44. The permissible turbidity in mg/l for potable water is

45. Alum is used for

46. Odour and taste is controlled by

47. Pressure filters are used for

48. Valves which allows water in one direction only is known as

49. The liquid waste of the community is called

50. Sanitary sewage is also known as

51. The type of dam which requires least maintenance is

52. The major overturning force in the case of gravity dam

53. The most common type of spillway used in gravity dam is

54. Gibb's module is a type of

55. The top of the weir or spillway is called

56. Bitumen is soluble in

57. Abrasion test is conducted to find

58. The best type of ballast is

59. In Indian railways, the spikes used for holding flat footed rails on wooden sleepers are known as

60. A track is elastic mainly because of

61. Laterite is an example of

62. The vertical sides of opening for doors and window are called

63. The approximate weight of a brick should be

64. The setting of quick lime is due to the presence of

65. Turpentine oil is used in paints as

66. The steel used for making rail tracks is

67. The main ingredient in the manufacture of glass is

68. The covering on the exposed top of a wall is called

69. Critical path

70. CPM network is

71. Mode of transportation for alluvial soils is generally

72. Cohesionless soils are formed due to

73. Permeability of soil varies

74. A soil having uniformity co-efficient more than 10 is called

75. If the plasticity index of a soil mass is zero, the soil is

76. Effective size of soil is

77. Which of the following is cohesive soil?

78. Handles of chains are made up of

79. Distance between two neighbouring brass rings is

80. Due to curvature of earth the object

81. Generally while chaining, the arrows which accompany with one chain must be

82. Generally the limiting length of an offset should be

83. In rise and fall method, a complete check is provided on the calculations of

84. The straight line tangential to the longitudinal curve of the level tube at its centre is called as

85. The axis about which the telescope and the vertical circle of a theodolite rotate in the vertical plane is called

86. The maximum tolerance in a 20 m chain is

87. The size of a plane table is

88. The direct cost of a project with respect to normal time is

89. The weight of an item is measured correct to nearest

90. The expected out turn of cement concrete 1:2:4 per mason per day is

91. A Gantt chart indicates

92. The pitch of stair should never exceed

93. Puzzolanais essentially a silicious material containing clay upto

94. The surface area of A0 drawing sheet is

95. A conic which have only one directrix

96. Which modify command allows you to cut off unwanted lengths of objects

97. Restoring deleted files from the recycle bin can be done by using ______ command

98. ___ is the command used in convert polyline to line.

99. The most widely used antenna in GPS is

100. Which of the following is not a type of map projection?