SSC GL Exam 2014 - 26.10.14 (P.M.)

Solved Question Paper - General Awareness

1. In the case of direct taxes, the payment liability and the ultimate burden of the tax lies upon

  1. the person on whom it has not been imposed
  2. the tax department who collects the taxes
  3. both on whom it has been imposed and on whom it is not imposed
  4. the person on whom it has been imposed

2. Interest paid to a bank for a crop loan is

  1. a factor payment
  2. capital formation
  3. intermediate consumption
  4. a transfer payment

3. Economic growth refers to

  1. continuous growth of national income for at least two years
  2. continuous growth of per capita real income over a period of time in an economy
  3. continuous growth of agriculture sector
  4. prevention of concentration of wealth

4. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

  1. Economy faces the problem of utilization of resources.
  2. Economy faces the problem of growth of resources.
  3. Economy faces the problem of excess of resources.
  4. The central problem of an economy is the problem of allocation of resources.

5. Which of the following provides Representative Government?

  1. Direct Democracy
  2. Democracy
  3. Presidential form of Government
  4. Indirect Democracy

6. What is the main duty of the Legislature?

  1. Implementing judicial matters
  2. Implementing laws
  3. Central administration
  4. Enacting laws

7. Chandragupta Maurya spent his last days at

  1. Ujjain
  2. Sravanabelgola
  3. Kashi
  4. Pataliputra

8. If only a part of the labour force employed by a firm can be dismissed at any time and without pay, the total wages and salaries paid by the firm must be considered

  1. a fixed cost
  2. party a fixed and partly a variable cost
  3. neither a fixed cost nor a variable cost
  4. a variable cost

9. Members of the Union Public Service Commission are appointed by the

  1. Prime Minister
  2. Chief Justice
  3. Law Minister
  4. President

10. Who said, "A state is known by the rights that it maintains"?

  1. MacIver
  2. J.S. Mill
  3. Machiavelli
  4. Laski

11. Which of the following systems is based on the principle of surplus value?

  1. Individualism
  2. Idealism
  3. Communism
  4. Capitalism

12. The busiest ocean from the point of view of trade is

  1. Indian Ocean
  2. Atlantic Ocean
  3. Arctic Ocean
  4. Pacific Ocean

13. Buddha died in the year

  1. 453 BC
  2. 468 BC
  3. 483 BC
  4. 438 BC

14. The new name of Burma is Myanmar and its capital is

  1. Rangoon
  2. Ava
  3. Naypyidaw
  4. Arakan

15. The famous Jain centre in South India is located at

  1. Madurai
  2. Sravanabelgola
  3. Rameshwaram
  4. Kanchi

16. The Asokan Inscriptions were engraved in which script?

  1. Pali
  2. Devanagari script
  3. Magadhi
  4. Brahmi

17. Which of the following lakes is called ‘Honeymoon Lake’?

  1. Titicaca
  2. Toba
  3. Nyasa
  4. Chad

18. Harmattan blows in Sahara desert from

  1. West to East
  2. North to South
  3. South to North
  4. East to West

19. A member of Liliaceae that shows reticulate venation is

  1. Smilax
  2. Aloe
  3. Allium
  4. Scilla

20. Euphenics is

  1. Improvement of race
  2. Study of conditions affecting organisms
  3. Treatment of defective heredity through genetic engineering
  4. Manipulation of genes

21. Araneology is

  1. Study of aphids
  2. Study of spiders
  3. Study of mites
  4. Rearing of bees

22. What does "Corpus luteum" secrete?

  1. Estrogen
  2. Haemoglobin
  3. Progesterone
  4. Testosterone

23. The male sex hormone is

  1. Testosterone
  2. Insulin
  3. Progesterone
  4. Estrogen

24. The forest in Silent Valley of Kerala is an example of

  1. tropical rainforest
  2. alpine coniferous forest
  3. mangrove forest
  4. deciduous forest

25. Annaimudi peak is located in the

  1. Nilgiri hills
  2. Palni hills
  3. Sahyadri
  4. Eastern Ghats

26. Commercially important cotton fibres are

  1. woody fibres of roots
  2. phloem fibres of roots
  3. bark fibres of stems
  4. epidermal hairs of seeds