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SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam 2011 : Set - 1
General Knowledge
1. Indian Parliament Means
- a) Rajya Sabha - Lok Sabha - Prime Minister
- b) President of India - Vice-President of India - Lok Sabha - Rajya Sabha
- c) President of India - Rajya Sabha - Lok Sabha
- d) Rajya Sabha - Lok Sabha
Correct Answer: (c)
2. Hard steel contains
- a) 0.01 to 0.04 per cent carbon
- b) 0.1 to 0.4 per cent carbon
- c) 0.5 to 1.5 per cent carbon
- d) 2 to 5 per cent carbon
Correct Answer: (c)
3) Microsoft Office's personal information manager is
- a) Internet Explorer
- b) Organiser
- c) Outlook
- d) Access
Correct Answer: (c)
4) Generally, the soil of the northern plains of India has been formed by
- a) aggradation
- b) weathering in situ
- c) erosion
- d) degradation
Correct Answer: (a)
5) Lambert's law is related to
- a) Refraction
- b) Reflection
- c) Illumination
- d) Interference
Correct Answer: (c)
6) What did the first electronic digital computer contain?
- a) Transistors
- b) Core memory
- c) Valves
- d) Semiconductor memory
Correct Answer: (c)
7) In the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, which languages were added subsequently?
- a) Marathi, Oriya, Konkani, Nepali
- b) English, Sindhi, Marathi, Sanskrit
- c) Sanskrit, Sindhi, Konkani, Manipuri
- d) Sindhi, Konkani, Manipuri, Nepali
Correct Answer: (d)
8) Which phenomenon do bats or dolphins use to find prey, predators or obstacles?
- a) Echo location
- b) Formation of beats
- c) Scattering
- d) Refraction of sound
Correct Answer: (d)
9) The coral reefs are the marine counterparts of
- a) Savannahs
- b) Scrublands
- c) Temperate forests
- d) Tropical rain forests
Correct Answer: (d)
10) Hiuen Tsang visited India during the reign of
- a) Harshavardhana
- b) Rudradaman
- c) Chandragupta I
- d) Chandragupta II
Correct Answer: (a)
11) The method of Impeachment of the President of India is adopted from
- a) U.S.A.
- b) France
- c) U.K.
- d) U.S.S.R.
Correct Answer: (a)
12) Cement is formed by strongly heating a mixture of
- a) limestone and graphite
- b) chalk and graphite
- c) clay and graphite
- d) limestone and clay
Correct Answer: (d)
13) The Refrigerant 'FREON' is
- a) Hydrofluosilicic Acid
- b) Diflouro Dichloro Methane
- c) Flourspar and Felspar
- d) Calcium Tetra Flouride
Correct Answer: (b)
14) The 'break-even' point is where
- a) average revenue equals average cost
- b) total revenue equals total cost
- c) marginal revenue equals marginal cost
- d) none of the above
Correct Answer: (b)
15) The Muslim adventurer who destroyed the Nalanda University was
- a) Muhammad-bin-Tughlak
- b) Muhammad-bin-Quasim
- c) Muhammad-bin-Bhaktiyar
- d) Alla-ud-din Khilji
Correct Answer: (c)
16) The rear side of the moon was photographed by
- a) Viking I
- b) Viking II
- c) Luna III
- d) Mariner IX
Correct Answer: (c)
17) In the budget for 2011-12 presented by the Finance Minister on 28-2-2011, the growth rate for the year 2010-11 was projected at
- a) 7.6%
- b) 8.0%
- c) 8.6%
- d) 9.0%
Correct Answer: (c)
18) Among the following materials sound travels fastest in
- a) Steel
- b) Vacuum
- c) Water
- d) Air
Correct Answer: (a)
19) Painting reached its highest level of development during the reign of
- a) Shah Jahan
- b) Akbar
- c) Jahangir
- d) Aurangzeb
Correct Answer: (c)
20) In the budget speech on February 28, 2011, the Finance Minister has announced that an international award with prize money of Rs. 1 crore is
being instituted in the memory of Rabindranath Tagore for promoting
- a) emancipation of underprivileged
- b) human rights
- c) international peace
- d) universal brotherhood
Correct Answer: (d)
21) A geostationary satellite revolves round the earth from
- a) East to West
- b) West to East
- c) North to South
- d) South to North
Correct Answer: (b)
22) In the Budget Estimates for 2011-12, an allocation of Rs. 300 crore has been made for promoting output of pulses in 60,000 villages in rainfed areas with a view to attaining self sufficiency in pulses in a period of
- a) two years
- b) three years
- c) four years
- d) five years
Correct Answer: (b)
23) Glass is a
- a) supercooled liquid
- b) superheated solid
- c) supercooled gas
- d) superheated liquid
Correct Answer: (a)
24) The communal electorate was introduced for the first time in India in
- a) 1906
- b) 1909
- c) 1919
- d) 1936
Correct Answer: (b)
25) The strong earthquake-cum-tsunami which has moved Japan's main island Honshu by a few feet has also caused Earth's axis to wobble by about
- a) 2 inch
- b) 4 inch
- c) 6 inch
- d) 8 inch
Correct Answer: (b)
26) Which four countries are called the Asian Tigers?
- a) Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Taiwan
- b) Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, China
- c) Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Taiwan
- d) Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan
Correct Answer: (d)
27) For how many years have the dinosaurs been extinct?
- a) About 25 million years
- b) About 65 milion years
- c) About 100 million years
- d) About 135 million years
Correct Answer: (b)
28) The two states which had non-Congress Ministries in 1937 were
- a) Punjab and NWFP
- b) Madras and Central Provinces
- c) Bengal and Punjab
- d) Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Correct Answer: (c)
29) WIKILEAKS, a whistleblowers website is an international organisation based in
- a) U.S.A.
- b) Norway
- c) Sweden
- d) U.K.
Correct Answer: (c)
30) Who is authorised to issue coins in India?
- a) India Overseas Bank
- b) Reserve Bank of India
- c) Ministry of Finance
- d) State Bank of India
Correct Answer: (b)
31) The vector of disease sleeping sickness is
- a) tse-tse fly
- b) sand-fly
- c) fruit-fly
- d) house-fly
Correct Answer: (a)
32) Sea breeze is formed during
- a) Seasonal
- b) Night time
- c) Day time
- d) Both Day and Night
Correct Answer: (c)
33) The reserves held by Commercial Banks over and above the statutory minimum, with the RBI are called?
- a) Cash reserves
- b) Excess reserves
- c) Momentary reserves
- d) Deposit reserves
Correct Answer: (c)
34) ***'Nomadic Elephant' was the joint military exercise held some time back in India between India and
- a) U.S.A.
- b) China
- c) Mongolia
- d) Russia
Correct Answer: (c)
35) Rate of interest is determined by
- a) The rate of return on the capital invested
- b) Commercial Banks
- c) Central Government
- d) Liquidity preference
Correct Answer: (d)
36) What percentage of world's freshwater is stored as glacial ice?
- a) 10%
- b) 30%
- c) 50%
- d) 70%
Correct Answer: (d)
37) South-South dialogue is associated with
- a) Arms conference
- b) Summit meeting between developed and developing countries
- c) Co-operation among developing nations
- d) All the above
Correct Answer: (c)
38) Normal fasting blood sugar level per 100 ml. of blood in man is
- a) 30 - 50 mg
- b) 50 - 70 mg
- c) 80 - 100 mg
- d) 120 - 140 mg
Correct Answer: (c)
39) The maximum limit on poll expenditure for parliamentary constituencies has been raised in February, 2011 to
- a) 30 lakhs
- b) 40 lakhs
- c) 50 lakhs
- d) 60 lakhs
Correct Answer: (b)
40) Which one of the following rivers of India does not make a delta?
- a) Mahanadi
- b) Tapti
- c) Godavari
- d) Ganges
Correct Answer: (b)
41) Who invented the Jet Engine?
- a) Thomas Savery
- b) Karl Benz
- c) Sir Frank Whittle
- d) Michael Faraday
Correct Answer: (c)
42) An example of false fruit is
- a) Tomato
- b) Apple
- c) Mango
- d) Guava
Correct Answer: (b)
43) Which one of the following states has the longest coastline?
- a) Tamilnadu
- b) Maharashtra
- c) Andhra Pradesh
- d) Gujarat
Correct Answer: (d)
44) Who received Sangeet Natak Akademi's Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for Dance in 2009?
- a) Ragini Chander Shekar
- b) K. Nellai Manikandan
- c) Omkar Shrikant Dadarkar
- d) Abanti Chakravorty and Sukracharya Rabha
Correct Answer: (c)
45) Which of the following books has been written by Kamala Das?
- a) Earth and Ashes
- b) Witness the Night
- c) Tonight, This Savage Rite
- d) The Red Devil
Correct Answer: (c)
46) Which is the most stable eco-system?
- a) Desert
- b) Mountain
- c) Ocean
- d) Forest
Correct Answer: (a)
47) The pass located in Himachal Pradesh is
- a) Zojila
- b) Nathula
- c) Jelepla
- d) Shipkila
Correct Answer: (d)
48) F.A.O. is the abbreviation of
- a) Food and Agriculture Organisation
- b) Fibre and Agricultural Organization
- c) Free Arbiration Organization
- d) Factory Acquisition Organziation
Correct Answer: (b)
49) Match the following and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
| Crops | Producing state |
|---|---|
| (a) Tea | (1) Himachal Pradesh |
| (b) Sugarcane | (2) Assam |
| (c) Groundnut | (3) Uttar Pradesh |
| (d) Apple | (4) Gujarat |
- a) a - 2; b - 4; c - 1; d - 3
- b) a - 2; b - 3; c - 4; d - 1
- c) a - 3; b - 2; c - 1; d - 4
- d) a - 4; b - 3; c - 1; d - 2
Correct Answer: (a)
50) Which of the folloiwng folk dances is associated with Jammu and Kashmir?
- a) Jhora
- b) Rauf
- c) Suisini
- d) Veedhi
Correct Answer: (b)