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General Awareness Question Paper of SSC (10+2) LDC, DEO & PA/SA EXAM 2015 (Test Form No - 6636838)
1. In India, Dugong (sea cow) is found in the bioreserve site of
- 1) Gulf of Mannar
- 2) Nokrek
- 3) Manas
- 4) Sundarban
2. Life originated by chemosynthesis was proved in the laboratory by
- 1) Sanger
- 2) Pasteur
- 3) Miller
- 4) Aristotle
3. Air is said to be saturated when
- 1) it contains maximum content of water vapour
- 2) its pressure is minimum
- 3) its thickness is maximum
- 4) it blows over the barren land
4. World Human Rights Day is observed on
- 1) December 7
- 2) April 8
- 3) September 5
- 4) December 10
5. The abbreviation LHC stands for which machine?
- 1) Light Heat Collider
- 2) Large Hadron Collider
- 3) Long Heavy Collider
- 4) Large High Collider
6. Richter Scale is used for measuring
- 1) Velocity of wind
- 2) Density of liquid
- 3) Magnitude of earthquake
- 4) Humidity of air
7. USB is ____________ type of storage device.
- 1) Auxillary
- 2) Primary
- 3) Secondary
- 4) Tertiary
8. Which of these travels in glass with minimum velocity?
- 1) red light
- 2) violet light
- 3) green light
- 4) yellow light
9. Normal blood pressure reading of an adult human
- 1) 80/120 mm Hg
- 2) 120/80 mm Hg
- 3) 130/90 mm Hg
- 4) 160/95 mm Hg
10. When was the railway system established in India?
- 1) 1969
- 2) 1753
- 3) 1853
- 4) 1953
11. Which of the following monuments is the oldest?
- 1) Qutub Minar
- 2) Khajuraho
- 3) Ajanta Caves
- 4) Taj Mahal
12. The disease which has been eradicated
- 1) Mumps
- 2) Measles
- 3) Small pox
- 4) Chicken pox
13. The 1st Battle of Panipat was fought in the year
- 1) 1761
- 2) 1516
- 3) 1526
- 4) 1556
14. Who was the first Vijaynagar ruler to wrest the important fort of Goa from the Bahamanis?
- 1) Reva Raya II
- 2) Harihara I
- 3) Harihara II
- 4) Bukka I
15. Which of the following is commonly used in preparing custard powder?
- 1) raagi
- 2) wheat
- 3) maize
- 4) rice
16. To become a judge of the High Court one must be a practicing advocate of the High Court for at least
- 1) 20 years
- 2) 5 years
- 3) 10 years
- 4) 15 years
17. The capital of Rawanda is
- 1) Libreville
- 2) Bogota
- 3) Kigali
- 4) Copenhagen
18. Excretion in Hemichordates takes place by
- 1) Glomerulus
- 2) Pronephron
- 3) Mesonephron
- 4) Metanephron
19. 'Madhubani', a style of folk paintings is popular in which of the following states in India?
- 1) Bihar
- 2) Madhya Pradesh
- 3) Uttar Pradesh
- 4) West Bengal
20. What is the name of Research Station established by Indian Government for conducting research in Antarctic?
- 1) Dakshin Gangotri
- 2) Yamunotri
- 3) Uttari Gangotri
- 4) None of these
21. The phenomenon which causes mirage is
- 1) Interference
- 2) Diffraction
- 3) Polarisation
- 4) Total Internal Reflection
22. To conserve coral reefs the Government of India declared one of the following as Marine Park
- 1) Andaman Islands
- 2) Gulf of Kutch
- 3) Lakshadweep Islands
- 4) Gulf of Mannar
23. Which is the best planned city in India?
- 1) Salem
- 2) Chandigarh
- 3) Coimbatore
- 4) New Delhi
24. All vital atmospheric process leading to various climatic and weather conditions take place in the
- 1) Stratosphere
- 2) Troposphere
- 3) Ionosphere
- 4) Exosphere
25. The fastest, costlier and relatively small form of storage managed by computer system hardware is
- 1) Disk
- 2) Flash memory
- 3) Main memory
- 4) Cache
26. Which amendment of the constitution lowered the voting age from 21 years to 18 years?
- 1) 64th Amendment
- 2) 60th Amendment
- 3) 61st Amendment
- 4) 63rd Amendment
27. People with Down's syndrome invariably affected by
- 1) Huntington's disease
- 2) Alzheimer's disease
- 3) Meningitis
- 4) Brain haemorrhage
28. Atoms having the same number of protons but different number of neutrons are called
- 1) Isotopes
- 2) Cations
- 3) Higgs-boson
- 4) Anions
29. Damping off of seedlings is caused by
- 1) Peronospola parasitica
- 2) Albugo Candida
- 3) Phytophthora infestants
- 4) Phythium debaryanum
30. January 15 is celebrated as
- 1) Labour Day
- 2) Army Day
- 3) Republic Day
- 4) Makar Sankranti
31. Who was Akbar's guardian?
- 1) Amir Khusro
- 2) Abul Fazal
- 3) Tansen
- 4) Bairam Khan
32. The deficiency of vitamin A causes
- 1) night blindness
- 2) beri-beri
- 3) rickets
- 4) pellagra
33. The use of heat treatment of ore that includes smelting and roasting is termed as
- 1) Electrometallurgy
- 2) Hydrometallurgy
- 3) Pyrometallurgy
- 4) Cryometallurgy
34. Who is the author of the book 'Magic Seeds'?
- 1) Cyrus Mistry
- 2) V.S. Naipaul
- 3) Jhumpa Lahiri
- 4) Vikram Seth
35. Hari Prasad Chaurasia is a renowned player of
- 1) Shehnai
- 2) Tabla
- 3) Sarod
- 4) Flute
36. The Name of the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands was changed to Lakshadweep by an act of parliament in
- 1) 1973
- 2) 1970
- 3) 1971
- 4) 1972
37. Where do Bhagirathi and Alakananda join Ganga?
- 1) Gangotri
- 2) Karanprayag
- 3) Devprayag
- 4) Rudraprayag
38. The development process under Capitalism has been described as "Creative Destruction" by
- 1) Schumpeter
- 2) Karl Marx
- 3) Hansen
- 4) J.S. Mill
39. Soap helps in better cleaning of clothes because
- 1) Soap acts like catalyst
- 2) It reduces the surface tension of solution
- 3) It gives strength to solution
- 4) It absorbs the dirt
40. J. B. Say's Law of Market was not accepted by
- 1) Adam Smith
- 2) Marshall
- 3) Malthus
- 4) David Ricardo
41. The slogan 'Garibo Hatao' was included in the
- 1) Second plan
- 2) First plan
- 3) Fifth plan
- 4) Fourth plan
42. Which bank is limited to the needs of agriculture and rural finance?
- 1) RBI
- 2) SBI
- 3) IFC
- 4) NABARD
43. How many organs are there in U.N.O.?
- 1) 6
- 2) 3
- 3) 4
- 4) 5
44. Indian Economy is a/an
- 1) Independent Economy
- 2) Mixed Economy
- 3) Capitalist Economy
- 4) Communist Economy
45. The National Emblem of Italy is
- 1) Eagle
- 2) White Eagle
- 3) White Lily
- 4) Lily
46. Who invented the battery?
- 1) Roentgen
- 2) Volta
- 3) Faraday
- 4) Maxwell
47. Which of the following is one of the characteristics of civil services in India?
- 1) Neutrality and Impartiality
- 2) Partisan
- 3) Temporary Political Executive nexus
- 4) All of the above
48. Project Tiger was introduced in
- 1) 2001
- 2) 1973
- 3) 1984
- 4) 1995
49. Who advocated Nazism in Germany?
- 1) Fedrick William IV
- 2) Adolf Hitler
- 3) Bismarck
- 4) William III
50. Ezra Cup is associated with which sports?
- 1) Rowing
- 2) Polo
- 3) Hockey
- 4) Football