Sample
Paper Of Examination For Excise Inspector
(Intelligence, Observation and
General Knowledge)
(Kerala
PSC)
Maximum: 100 marks
Time: 3 hours
Answer all questions including
objective type questions inseparate answer book supplied. Do not write your
answers in the question paper:
Part I (55 marks)
1. If
IUIJT means Green then what does XLSQKA mean.
(a) INDIGO (b) VIOLET (c) PURPLE (d)
ORANGE
2. If Malu says "Raju's father is the only son of my father", how
is Malu related to Raju:
(a) Daughter (b) Mother (c) Sister (d) None of these.
3. PQSTVW
(a) Z (b) A (c) X (d) Y
4. Life of RBC in human blood is:
(a) 30 days (b) 60 days (c) 120 days (d) 15 hour
5. Ratan ranked 8th from the top and 37th from the bottom in the class. How
many students are there in the class:
(a) 44 (b) 46 (c) 45 (d) 43
6. Artical is to magazine as slokas is to
(a) Ascetic (b) Veda (c) Recite (d) Book
7. A father is twice as old as his son 20 years ago, the age of the father
was 12 times the age of the son. The present age of the son is:
(a) 44 years (b) 22 years (c) 40 years (d) 20 years
8. Which river crosses the equator twice?
(a) Amazon (b) Congo (c) Nile (d) Orinoco
9. A piece of wood is floating in water. If we heat the water the piece of
wood will:
(a) Increase in size (b) Rise a little (c) Float at the same level (d) Sink
a little
10. The gland, which in relation to body size is largest at birth and then
gradually shrinks after puberty is:
(a) Thyroid (b) Pituitary (c) Thymus (d) Adrenal
11. In fireworks, the green flame is produced because of:
(a) Mercury (b) Barium (c) Sodium (d) Potassium
12. Which plant of the solar system spins on its axis at the fastest rate?
(a) Mercury (b) Earth (c) Jupiter (d) Saturn
13. The salient feature of Rig vedic religion was the worship of:
(a) Nature (b) Pashupati (c) Mother Goddess (d) Trimurti
14. If two equations 45 + 15 = 30, 17 + 7 = 10 are solved on the basis of a
certain system. Then, 52 + 25 = ?
(a) 77 (b) 27 (c) 50 (d) 45
15. The court language of the Mughals was:
(a) Arabic (b) Persian (c) Hindustani (d) Urdu