SSC Grad. Level Exam 2011

Solved Question Paper - General Knowledge

1. Lambert's law is related to

  1. Reflection
  2. Refraction
  3. Interference
  4. Illumination

2. The coral reefs are the marine counterparts of

  1. Temperate forests
  2. Tropical rain forests
  3. Savannahs
  4. Scrublands

3. The Refrigerant 'FREON' is

  1. Calcium Tetra Flouride
  2. Diflouro Dichloro Methane
  3. Flourspar and Felspar
  4. Hydrofluosilicic Acid

4. 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

  1. international peace
  2. emancipation of underprivileged
  3. universal brotherhood
  4. human rights

5. 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

  1. 1 inch
  2. 2 inches
  3. 4 inches
  4. 6 inches

6. WIKILEAKS, a whistleblowers website is an international organisation based in

  1. U.S.A.
  2. U.K.
  3. Sweden
  4. Norway

7. 'Nomadic Elephant' was the joint military exercise held some time back in India between India and

  1. China
  2. U.S.A.
  3. Russia
  4. Mongolia

8. The maximum limit on poll expenditure for parliamentary constituencies has been raised in February, 2011 to

  1. 30 lakhs
  2. 35 lakhs
  3. 40 lakhs
  4. 50 lakhs

9. Who received Sangeet Natak Akademi's Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for Dance in 2009?

  1. Omkar Shrikant Dadarkar
  2. Ragini Chander Shekar
  3. Abanti Chakravorty and Sukracharya Rabha
  4. K. Nellai Manikandan

10. Which of the folloiwng folk dances is associated with Jammu and Kashmir?

  1. Jhora
  2. Veedhi
  3. Rauf
  4. Suisini

11. Which of the following books has been written by Kamala Das?

  1. Witness the Night
  2. The Red Devil
  3. Earth and Ashes
  4. Tonight, This Savage Rite

12. Who invented the Jet Engine?

  1. Karl Benz
  2. Sir Frank Whittle
  3. Thomas Savery
  4. Michael Faraday

13. South-South dialogue is associated with

  1. Co-operation among developing nations
  2. Arms conference
  3. Summit meeting between developed and developing countries
  4. All the above

14. The reserves held by Commercial Banks over and above the statutory minimum, with the RBI are called

  1. Cash reserves
  2. Deposit reserves
  3. Excess reserves
  4. Momentary reserves

15. Who is authorised to issue coins in India?

  1. Reserve Bank of India
  2. Ministry of Finance
  3. State Bank of India
  4. India Overseas Bank

16. Which four countries are called the Asian Tigers?

  1. Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan
  2. Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Taiwan
  3. Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, China
  4. Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Taiwan

17. 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

  1. two years
  2. three years
  3. four years
  4. five years

18. 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

  1. 7.6%
  2. 8.0%
  3. 8.6%
  4. 9.0%

19. The 'break-even' point is where

  1. marginal revenue equals marginal cost
  2. average revenue equals average cost
  3. total revenue equals total cost
  4. none of the above

20. The method of Impeachment of the President of India is adopted from

  1. U.S.A.
  2. U.K.
  3. U.S.S.R.
  4. France

21. In the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, which languages were added subsequently?

  1. English, Sindhi, Marathi, Sanskrit
  2. Sanskrit, Sindhi, Konkani, Manipuri
  3. Sindhi, Konkani, Manipuri, Nepali
  4. Marathi, Oriya, Konkani, Nepali

22. Indian Parliament Means

  1. Rajya Sabha - Lok Sabha
  2. Rajya Sabha - Lok Sabha - Prime Minister
  3. President of India - Rajya Sabha - Lok Sabha
  4. President of India - Vice-President of India - LOk Sabha - Rajya Sabha

23. Generally, the soil of the northern plains of India has been formed by

  1. degradation
  2. aggradation
  3. weathering in situ
  4. erosion

24. Hiuen Tsang visited India during the reign of

  1. Chandragupta I
  2. Chandragupta II
  3. Harshavardhana
  4. Rudradaman

25. The Muslim adventurer who destroyed the Nalanda University was

  1. Alla-ud-din Khilji
  2. Muhammad-bin-Tughlak
  3. Muhammad-bin-Bhaktiyar
  4. Muhammad-bin-Quasim

26. Painting reached its highest level of development during the reign of

  1. Akbar
  2. Aurangzeb
  3. Jahangir
  4. Shah Jahan

27. The communal electorate was introduced for the first time in India in

  1. 1919
  2. 1935
  3. 1906
  4. 1909

28. The two states which had non-Congress Ministries in 1937 were

  1. Bengal and Punjab
  2. Punjab and NWFP
  3. Madras and Central Provinces
  4. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

29. Sea breeze is formed during

  1. Day time
  2. Night time
  3. Both
  4. Seasonal

30. What percentage of world's freshwater is stored as glacial ice?

  1. 50%
  2. 10%
  3. 70%
  4. 30%