Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Milk tastes sour when kept in the open for some time due to the formation of
A)
lactic acid
B)
citric acid
C)
acetic acid
D)
carbonic acid
Lactobacillus ferments lactose to lactic acid, making milk sour.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Which among the following is not included among the mizo customary marriage prize
A)
Nuta man
B)
Palal
C)
Pusum
D)
Nau puak puan
Bride price includes man, palal, pusum; nau puak puan is separate child-related cloth.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Which one of the followings is used in the synthesis of polythene ?
A)
Methane
B)
Ethylene
C)
Propane
D)
Butane
Polythene is polymer of ethylene (CH2=CH2) via addition polymerization.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Pheromones are found in—
A)
Insects
B)
Snakes
C)
Birds
D)
Bats
Pheromones are chemical signals most well documented in insects for mating, trail marking and alarm.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
The Pendulum clock was invented by
A)
Galileo
B)
Faraday
C)
Christiaan Huygens
D)
Aristotle
Christiaan Huygens invented pendulum clock in 1656 using Galileo's isochronism principle.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
By which process, Alum cleans the muddy water ?
A)
Absorption
B)
Adsorption
C)
Coagulation
D)
Dialysis
Alum (potash alum) acts as coagulant causing suspended clay particles to coagulate and settle.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
In the Mizo marriage ceremony, if a Puandum is included in a woman’s possession it is known as
A)
Puanrin
B)
Mangpuan
C)
Puanhlap
D)
Zawlpuan
Puandum as Zawlpuan when included in woman's possession for husband's funeral.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Which software is used to start a computer?
A)
System software
B)
System hardware
C)
Data
D)
DNT
System software/BIOS is used to start computer.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
A famous mizo chief Sibuta’s memorial stone was erected at
A)
Falkawn
B)
Phulpui
C)
Sumsuih
D)
Tachhip
Sibuta memorial stone (Sibuta lung) at Tachhip.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Pearl is mainly constituted of—
A)
Calcium oxalate
B)
Calcium sulphate
C)
Calcium carbonate
D)
Calcium oxide
Pearl nacre is mainly calcium carbonate (aragonite) secreted by mollusk.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
A gene is
A)
sleeping drug
B)
unit of heredity
C)
a kind of vitamin
D)
a type of body cell.
Gene is unit of heredity located on chromosome transmitting traits.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
A ‘biological death’ is when
A)
there is no pulse and heart beat
B)
pupils show ne reaction to light
C)
all the body cells die after a few hours of clinical death
D)
pupils are fixed and dialed
Clinical death is reversible cessation of heart/breathing; biological death is irreversible death of all body cells after hours.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Buxa Tiger Project is located in which state of India ?
A)
Madhya Pradesh
B)
Rajasthan
C)
Gujarat
D)
West Bengal
Buxa Tiger Reserve is in Alipurduar district, West Bengal, part of Eastern Dooars.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Plants die in winter by frost because
A)
there is no transpiration
B)
no photosynthesis takes place at such low temperature
C)
respiration ceases at such low temperature
D)
of desiccation and mechanical damage to tissues.
Frost causes extracellular ice formation, desiccation and rupture of cells leading to plant death.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
The symbol of World Wild-life Fund is—
A)
Polar Bear
B)
White Bear
C)
Giant Panda
D)
Cheeta
WWF logo since 1961 is giant panda, chosen from Chi-Chi panda at London Zoo.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Polythene is industrially prepared by the polymerization of
A)
methane
B)
styrene
C)
acetylene
D)
ethylene
Polythene formed by polymerization of ethylene monomer.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Which one of the following changes occur when salt is added in the water?
A)
Boiling point is increased and freezing point is decreased
B)
Boiling point is decreased and freezing point is increased
C)
Both boiling point and freezing point are decreased
D)
Both boiling point and freezing point are increased
Salt is non-volatile solute: elevation of boiling point and depression of freezing point (colligative properties).
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Gene is
A)
a segment of DNA
B)
a segment of DNA and histone
C)
segment of DNA, RNA and histone
D)
all of the above
Gene is defined as functional segment of DNA coding for product, classically a segment of DNA.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Which State is not a part of ‘seven sisters’ of North-Eastern States?
A)
Meghalaya
B)
West Bengal
C)
Arunachal Pradesh
D)
Tripura
Seven sisters are Arunachal, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura; West Bengal is not in NE.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
A Mizo ceremony in order to yield productive jhuming cultivation is called
A)
Fanodawi
B)
Kawngpui siam
C)
Chungbawl
D)
Lo-hman
Lo-hman is ceremony for productive jhuming.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
In which premise men are given first priority during the early Mizo culture?
A)
at the village drinking water well
B)
choosing of the jhuming field
C)
at the blacksmith’s (pum)
D)
none of the above
At blacksmith (pum) men given first priority.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
What is the function of CAPS LOCK key?
A)
To type the characters in blocks
B)
To italicize
C)
To delete
D)
Lock the computer
CAPS LOCK toggles typing in capital/block letters.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
The first election of the Village Council in Mizoram was held in
A)
July-August 1954
B)
February- May 1956
C)
June-August 1958
D)
September-November 1954
First Village Council election in Mizoram held July-August 1954.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
What is the function of a printer?
A)
To process data
B)
It is the keyboard
C)
To get a copy of a document
D)
To send fax
Printer is output device to get hard copy of electronic document.
Tourist Officer • 2012 • Paper-III
Puithiam, a village priest in the early Mizo society was remunerated in
A)
Paddy
B)
Flesh of meat
C)
Selection of Jhum
D)
Both A and B
Village priest Puithiam/Sadawt was provided with one basket of paddy per household per year as remuneration.
