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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