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Solved General Awareness Question Paper of SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam 2016 Tier-I held on 29.08.2016. [1st Sitting]
1. In a Parliamentary form of Government:
- 1) The Legislature is responsible to the Judiciary
- 2) The Executive is responsible to the Legislature
- 3) The Legislature is responsible to the Executive
- 4) The Judiciary is responsible to the Legislature
2. Which of the following statements is correct about the President of India?
- 1) Addresses first session of parliament after each General Election
- 2) Addresses first session of Parliament at the beginning of each year
- 3) Addresses every session of Parliament
- 4) Never addresses Parliament
3. Which of the following periodicals is not correctly matched with its editor?
- 1) Vande Mataram: Aurobindo Ghosh
- 2) New India: Bipin Chandra Pal
- 3) Yugantar: Bhupendranath Dutta
- 4) Sandhya: Barindra Ghosh
4. Silk worms feed on
- 1) Basil leaves
- 2) Curry leaves
- 3) Rose leaves
- 4) Mulberry leaves
5. Who among the following has been appointed the new Coach of the Indian Cricket team by the BCCI recently?
- 1) Saurav Ganguly
- 2) Anil Kumble
- 3) Rahul Dravid
- 4) S R Kulkarni
6. What is the product formed when sodium bicarbonate is heated strongly?
- 1) Sodium Carbonate
- 2) Sodium Hydroxide
- 3) Sodium Peroxide
- 4) Sodium Monoxide
7. Mission Indradhanush – a programme introduced recently in the country by the NDA Government is related to:
- 1) Systematic immunization of children against disease
- 2) Providing insurance cover to farmers against crop failure
- 3) Development of fisheries in rural areas
- 4) Development of multiple cropping in hilly region
8. Who among the following Indians has been honoured by a special Oscar?
- 1) Mahesh Bhatt
- 2) Satyajit Ray
- 3) Mira Nair
- 4) G.P. Sippy
9. What situation would result if Government expenditure exceeds the Government revenue on Current Account?
- 1) Deficit budgeting
- 2) Zero-based budgeting
- 3) Performance-based budgeting
- 4) Surplus budgeting
10. Disguised unemployment in India is mainly related to
- 1) Agricultural sector
- 2) Rural Area
- 3) Factory sector
- 4) Urban Area
11. Which of the following is not guaranteed by Indian Constitution?
- 1) Right to Equality
- 2) Right to religious freedom
- 3) Right to Constitutional remedies
- 4) Right to free education for all
12. A wide inlet of the sea usually concave in shape, is termed as a
- 1) Strait
- 2) Sound
- 3) Bay
- 4) Fjord
13. Punjab has a large number of inundation canals drawing water from
- 1) Jhelum river
- 2) Chenab river
- 3) Beas river
- 4) Sutlej river
14. The sexual reproductive organs of aspergillus are
- 1) Spermatium and Oogonium
- 2) Antheridium and Oogonium
- 3) Spermatium and Ascogonium
- 4) Antheridium and Ascogonium
15. Stars twinkle but planets do not twinkle because
- 1) they emit light of a constant intensity
- 2) their distance from the earth does not change with time
- 3) they are very far away from the earth resulting in decrease in intensity of light
- 4) they are nearer to the earth and hence we recive a greater amount of light and therefore minor variations in intensity are not noticeable
16. Which of the following is not true about X-rays?
- 1) have low penetrating power
- 2) travel with the speed of light
- 3) can be reflected or refracted
- 4) can affect photographic plates
17. ............. changes each time it is installed to avoid detection by antivirus software.
- 1) Polymorphic virus
- 2) worm
- 3) logic bomb
- 4) Trojan horse
18. Which one of the following weeds is effective in controlling water pollution caused by industrial effluents?
- 1) Parthenium
- 2) Elephant grass
- 3) Water hyacinth
- 4) Mogar grass
19. One of the following is also called as World Bank
- 1) IMF
- 2) IBRD
- 3) WTO
- 4) IDA
20. The book entitled, 'Playing it my way' has been authored by
- 1) Sachin Tendulkar
- 2) V V S Laxman
- 3) Saurav Ganguly
- 4) Chetan Chauhan
21. Which of the following is an example of cartel?
- 1) OPEC
- 2) IMF
- 3) WTO
- 4) UNO
22. Sullage water is
- 1) waste water released from kitchen
- 2) waste water released from toilets
- 3) waste water released from factories
- 4) waste water released from hospitals
23. Who was the first woman Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
- 1) Annie Besant
- 2) Mayawati
- 3) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
- 4) Sucheta Kriplani
24. The most pure form of carbon among the options is
- 1) Anthracite
- 2) Lampblack
- 3) Graphite
- 4) Wood Charcoal
25. Chalukya temples (Jain temples) at Dilwara are situated in
- 1) Madhya Pradesh
- 2) Uttar Pradesh
- 3) Rajasthan
- 4) Haryana