SSC MTS Exam 2013 - 17.03.13

Solved Question Paper - General Knowledge

1. Name the Commander of the Arab army who conquered the Sindh.

  1. Muhammad bin Qasim
  2. Al Hazzaz
  3. Qutbuddin Albak
  4. Allauddin Khilji

2. Who was the chairperson of the Chinese Communist Party at the time of liberation of China?

  1. Liu Shaoqi
  2. Zhou Enlai
  3. Deng Xiaoping
  4. Mao Zedong

3. Who was regarded by Gandhiji as his political Guru?

  1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  2. Lala Lajpat Rai
  3. Bipin Chandra Pal
  4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

4. Select the High Yielding varieties of seed-crops developed under Green Revolution in India.

  1. Wheat, Rice, Sugarcane, Pulses and Maize
  2. Rice, Wheat, Pulses, Oil seeds and Sugarcane
  3. Maize, Black-gram, Jowar, Coffee and Tea
  4. Rice, Wheat, Jowar, Bajra and Maize

5. In which year did Amartya Kumar Sen receive the Nobel Prize in Economics?

  1. 1990
  2. 1998
  3. 1995
  4. 2000

6. The worldwide Great Depression took place in

  1. 1930
  2. 1936
  3. 1929
  4. 1928

7. India is the largest producer and consumer of

  1. Sugar
  2. Paddy
  3. Tea
  4. Coffee

8. A camera in the hands of a professional photographer is a _________ good.

  1. Capital
  2. Free
  3. Intermediary
  4. Consumer

9. Which among the following movements was not led by Mahatma Gandhi?

  1. Civil Disobedience Movement
  2. Quit India Movement
  3. Swadeshi Movement
  4. Non-Cooperation Movement

10. Constitution of India came into force in

  1. 1949
  2. 1951
  3. 1956
  4. 1950

11. Cold War refers to

  1. tension between East and West
  2. ideological rivalry between Capitalist and Communist world
  3. tension between Superpowers
  4. All of the above

12. Which one of the following is not an All India Service?

  1. Indian Police Service
  2. Indian Foreign Service
  3. Indian Forest Service
  4. Indian Administrative Service

13. In which session of the Indian national Congress was the "Poorna Swaraj" resolution adopted?

  1. Karachi Session in 1931
  2. Lucknow Session in 1916
  3. Belgaum Session in 1924
  4. Lahore Session in 1929

14. The school of arts developed during the Kushan Period with the mixture of Indian and Greek style is known as

  1. Mughal art
  2. Kushan art
  3. Persian art
  4. Gandhara art

15. Where was Christopher Columbus from?

  1. Portugal
  2. Venice
  3. Genoa
  4. Spain

16. Speed of processor chip is measured in

  1. Bytes/second
  2. Mbps
  3. MHz
  4. Bits/second

17. Which command is not used to switch off the computer?

  1. Hibernate
  2. Turn off
  3. Log off
  4. Shut Down

18. Which one out of the following helps in burning?

  1. Carbon dioxide
  2. Oxygen
  3. Carbon monoxide
  4. Nitrogen

19. In organic compounds, nitrogen is estimated by

  1. Dumas’ method
  2. Carius method
  3. Victor-Meyer’s method
  4. Liebig’s method

20. The busiest rail section in respect to goods transportation is

  1. Mumbai – Chennai section
  2. Delhi – Kolkata section
  3. Kolkata – Chennai section
  4. Delhi – Mumbai section

21. The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through

  1. China
  2. Myanmar
  3. Nepal
  4. Bangladesh

22.The country in East Asia which is most conspicuous for its decreasing population growth since 1981 is

  1. Japan
  2. South Korea
  3. Thailand
  4. China

23. The Sethusamudrara Ship Canal Project (SSCP) is supposed to reduce the distance between Chennai and Tuticorin by __________ nautical miles.

  1. 305
  2. 361
  3. 434
  4. 243

24. Cities with population from one to five million are called

  1. Cosmopolitan
  2. Conurbation
  3. Million City
  4. Metropolitan

25. Master copy of genetic information is

  1. DNA
  2. Nucleus
  3. r-RNA
  4. m-RNA

26. Contraceptive pills in the market contain

  1. Steroid-hormones
  2. Inorganic compounds
  3. Herbicides
  4. Antibiotics

27. Nematocysts are present in

  1. Sea anemone
  2. Starfish
  3. Ascaria
  4. Centipede

28. Which of the following micro-organisms is used in milk curdling?

  1. Lactobacilius
  2. Acctobacter
  3. Leuconostoc
  4. Bacillus