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Solved Question Paper of SSC Cabinet Secretariat RO(ECO), DFO(T) and DFO(GD) TIER-I Exam 2013
General Knowledge
1. The headquarters of RBI is in:
- a) Delhi
- b) Kanpur
- c) Mumbai
- d) Nasik
Correct Answer: (c)
2. Which one of the following is not included in the foreign-exchange reserves of India?
- a) Foreign-currency assets held by the RBI
- b) Gold holding of the RBI
- c) Silver holding of the RBI
- d) SDRs
Correct Answer: (c)
3. The number of workers who would offer themselves for employment at different wage rates is known as:
- a) Labour Market
- b) Demand for Labour
- c) Supply of Labour
- d) Surplus Labourers
Correct Answer: (c)
4. Which one of the following is not a factor of production?
- a) Land
- b) Organisation
- c) Capital
- d) Technology
Correct Answer: (b)
5. As income increases the demand for inferior goods:
- a) increase
- b) remains constant
- c) fluctuates
- d) decreases
Correct Answer: (d)
6. Quo-warranto means:
- a) without authority
- b) with what authority
- c) a warrant
- d) petition
Correct Answer: (b)
7. The Government of India Act of 1935 was the outcome of:
- a) First Round Table Conference
- b) Second Round Table Conference
- c) Third Round Table Conference
- d) Communal Award
Correct Answer: (d)
8. The Lokayukta and Upalokayukta Act was first passed in:
- a) Maharashtra
- b) West Bengal
- c) Karnataka
- d) Odisha
Correct Answer: (a)
9. Who said, "Socialism is like a hat that has lost its shape because everybody wears it"?
- a) C.E.M. Joad
- b) Karl Marx
- c) V.I. Lenin
- d) H.J. Laski
Correct Answer: (a)
10. Who supported the principle of "survival of the fittest"?
- a) The Utilitarians
- b) The Socialists
- c) The Individualists
- d) The Fascists
Correct Answer: (d)
11. One of the most controversial projects of Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq was:
- a) Market Control
- b) Iqta System
- c) friendship with the Mongols
- d) introduction of token currency
Correct Answer: (d)
12. Nishka, a type of coin was used during _________ period.
- a) Guptas
- b) Bahmanis
- c) Pallavas
- d) Vedic
Correct Answer: (a)
13. The King who called himself Devanampriya and Priyadarshi was:
- a) Bindusara
- b) Bimbisara
- c) Ashoka
- d) Harshavardhana
Correct Answer: (c)
14. Sher Shah became the Emperor of Delhi after defeating Humayun in the battle of:
- a) Kannauj
- b) Khanva
- c) Goghra
- d) Panipat
Correct Answer: (a)
15. Who among the following Bhakti saints has been regarded by his follower as an incarnation of Vishnu?
- a) Chaitanya
- b) Namdev
- c) Ramananda
- d) Ramanuja
Correct Answer: (a)
16. Which one of the following is not a Biosphere Reserve?
- a) Gulf of Mannar
- b) Nilgiris
- c) Sunderbans
- d) Kaziranga
Correct Answer: (d)
17. Where is the Coral Sea located?
- a) Eastern part of Carribean Sea
- b) North-Eastern part of Australia
- c) Western part of Europe
- d) Western part of North America
Correct Answer: (b)
18. The capacity of rock to allow water to pass through is called:
- a) Permeability
- b) Jointing
- c) Hardness
- d) Porosity
Correct Answer: (a)
19. Which of the following is called the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes?
- a) Finland
- b) Minnesota (USA)
- c) Canada
- d) India
Correct Answer: (b)
20. The region best known for the production of grapes is:
- a) Tropical
- b) Equatorial
- c) Mediterranean
- d) Monsoon
Correct Answer: (c)
21. The term 'ecology' was coined by:
- a) Haeckel
- b) Odum
- c) Darwin
- d) Linnaeus
Correct Answer: (a)
22. Which one of the virus was crystallized for the first time?
- a) Parrot fever virus
- b) Smallpox virus
- c) TMV
- d) HIV
Correct Answer: (c)
23. Tortoise lives usually for:
- a) 40 years
- b) 100 years
- c) 200 years
- d) 400 years
Correct Answer: (b)
24. A dead and protective animal structure is:
- a) Feathers
- b) Nails and claws
- c) Skin surface
- d) All of the above
Correct Answer: (b)
25. Urobiology deals with:
- a) preservation of dead animals
- b) urinary system
- c) genital system
- d) urino-genital system
Correct Answer: (a)
26. Scanning Electron Microscope produces images, which are:
- a) big and sharp
- b) two-dimensional
- c) three dimensional
- d) cytological details
Correct Answer: (c)
27. When sound travels from air to water the quantity that remains unchanged is:
- a) speed
- b) frequency
- c) intensity
- d) wavelength
Correct Answer: (b)
28. A leaf appears green in day-light. When seen in red light it appears to be:
- a) red
- b) green
- c) black
- d) white
Correct Answer: (c)
29. Which of the following properties shows that light is a transverse wave?
- a) Reflection
- b) Interference
- c) Diffraction
- d) Polarisation
Correct Answer: (d)
30. The subject of Data warehousing is related to:
- a) Compilers
- b) Networks
- c) Internet
- d) Databases
Correct Answer: (d)
31. The shifting of a program from one of the memory addresses to another is called:
- a) Data transmission
- b) Data collection
- c) Relocation
- d) Database
Correct Answer: (c)
32. Which of the following is not a valid network topology?
- a) Star topology
- b) Ring topology
- c) Bus topology
- d) Grid topology
Correct Answer: (d)
33. An aerosol is a colloidal system of a:
- a) liquid dispersed in a liquid
- b) liquid dispersed in a solid
- c) gas dispersed in a liquid
- d) solid dispersed in a gas
Correct Answer: (d)
34. Food cans are coated with Tin and not Zinc because:
- a) Zinc is costlier than Tin
- b) Zinc has high melting point than Tin
- c) Zinc is more reactive than Tin
- d) Zinc is less reactive than Tin
Correct Answer: (c)
35. An antigen develops antibodies. The antibodies which protect the body from harmful effects are:
- a) Immunoglobulins
- b) Phospholipids
- c) Albumins
- d) Lymphocytes
Correct Answer: (a)
36. Peptide bond is a key feature in:
- a) Polysaccharides
- b) Proteins
- c) Nucleotides
- d) Nucleic acids
Correct Answer: (b)
37. The theme for 2012 World Environment Day was:
- a) Green Buildings
- b) Green Pesticides
- c) Evergreen Revolution
- d) Green Economy
Correct Answer: (d)
38. Hygrometer is used for measuring the:
- a) relative humidity
- b) discharge rate of water
- c) tidal waves
- d) speed of water run-off
Correct Answer: (a)
39. Biogas produced by the fermentation of animal dung, human sewage or crop residues in an airtight container is rich in:
- a) Propane
- b) Butane
- c) Methane
- d) Carbon dioxide
Correct Answer: (c)
40. Iran earthquake having epicentre of 7.8 magnitude rattled Delhi on 16th April 2013. However, more human casualties were reported from:
- a) Pakistan
- b) Iran
- c) Dubai
- d) North-Eastern India
Correct Answer: (a)
41. Rex-Bionics: a New Zealand based firm has developed robotic legs to:
- a) walk and talk up to hours
- b) walk and stand for rest
- c) walk ans sit for rest
- d) walk, stand, turn and climb
Correct Answer: (d)
42. Ardha Satya - a Hindi film was directed by:
- a) Govind Nihlani
- b) Nandita Das
- c) Guru Dutt
- d) Satyajit Ray
Correct Answer: (a)
43. The "3-State Red Corridor" is a safe passage for the activity of Maoist's. These States are:
- a) Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand
- b) Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh
- c) Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
- d) Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Bihar
Correct Answer: (a)
44. Shamshad Begum one of the first playback singers in Hindi film industry died at the age of:
- a) 74 years
- b) 84 years
- c) 94 years
- d) 104 years
Correct Answer: (c)
45. A normal medium sized washing machine used in household use electricity:
- a) 500 Watts
- b) 600 Watts
- c) 800 Watts
- d) 1000 Watts
Correct Answer: (a)
46. Sextant is used to measure:
- a) weight of an object
- b) height of an object
- c) length of an object
- d) efficiency of sex diagnosis
Correct Answer: (b)
47. DBT as coined by Government recently stands for:
- a) Department of Biotechnology
- b) Database on Bengal Tigers
- c) Direct Benefit Transfer
- d) Development of Biofuel Technologies
Correct Answer: (c)
48. Ricinin is a deadly poison to the human being and has no known antidote so far. It is found in:
- a) Pea nut
- b) Castor bean
- c) Datura seed
- d) Sorghum shoot
Correct Answer: (b)
49. High blood pressure can be managed by eating fishes like Herring, Mackerels and Solomon which are rich in:
- a) Good cholestrol
- b) Sodium salt
- c) Potassium salt
- d) Omega-3
Correct Answer: (d)
50. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
- a) Line of Actual Control (LAC) --- China-India
- b) Line of Control (LOC) --- Pakistan-India
- c) Ancient Trade Route (ATR) --- Ladakh-Yarkand
- d) Indus Water Treaty (IWT) --- India-Bangladesh
Correct Answer: (d)