SSC CGL 2016 02-09-16 - I

Directions: In the questions given below, four options have been given. Click on the option which you think is the RIGHT ANSWER to the question. You can change the answer any number of times.

QuestionAns

1. Who among the following Sikh Gurus had laid the foundation of Amritsar?

  1. Guru Amar Das
  2. Guru Ram Das
  3. Guru Arjan Dev
  4. Guru Har Govind

2. In the 42nd Constitutional Amendment 1976, which word was added to the Preamble?

  1. Democratic
  2. Equality
  3. Secular
  4. Socialist

3. Which monument is known as “The National Monument of India”?

  1. India Gate
  2. Gateway of India
  3. Raj Ghat
  4. Red fort

4. Which of the following country has recently declared 3 month emergency following a failed military coup?

  1. Sudan
  2. Turkey
  3. Maldives
  4. Syria

5. The award which, the famous writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi, who passed away recently, did not win

  1. Sahity Akademi Award
  2. Jnanpith Award
  3. Magsaysay Award
  4. Padma Vibhushan

6. Which place is said to be the Manchester of South India?

  1. Coimbatore
  2. Salem
  3. Thanjavur
  4. Madurai

7. A galvanometer can be converted into a voltmeter by connecting with it a

  1. high resistance in parallel
  2. low resistance on parallel
  3. high resistance on series
  4. low resistance in series

8. In computer processing, _________ selects processes from the pool and loads them into memory for execution.

  1. Job Scheduler
  2. Resource Scheduler
  3. CPU Scheduler
  4. Process Scheduler

9. Name the first cricketer to score 1000 runs in an innings in any competitive match

  1. Prithvi Shaw
  2. Pranav Dhanawade
  3. Virat Kohli
  4. Shikhar Dhawan

10. The beach sands of Kerala are rich in

  1. Calcium
  2. Radium
  3. Thorium
  4. Manganese

11. During which of the following operating conditions of an automobile, carbon monoxide content in exhaust gas is maximum?

  1. Acceleration
  2. Cruising
  3. Idle running
  4. Deacceleration

12. India’s first Railway University will come up at

  1. Vadodara, Gujarat
  2. Bengaluru, Karnataka
  3. Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh
  4. Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

13. The Himalayas is the example of ____

  1. Fold mountains
  2. Block mountains
  3. Ancient mountains
  4. Residual mountains

14. The largest irrigation canal in India is ___________

  1. Yamuna canal
  2. Indira Gandhi canal
  3. Sirhand canal
  4. upper Bari Doab canal

15. Even after sunset, the air near the Earth’s surface continue to receive heat due to

  1. Insolation
  2. Terrestrial Radiation
  3. Conduction
  4. Convection


QuestionAns

16. At the Rio Olympics, who was the flagbearer of the Indian contingent?

  1. Narsingh Yadav
  2. Abhinav Bindra
  3. Dipa Karmakar
  4. Sania Mirza

17. A landscape which is caused due to the fissure in the earth along which one side has moved down with reference to the other is known as

  1. Rift Valley
  2. U Shaped Valley
  3. V Shaped Valley
  4. Hanging Valley

18. The largest artery in human body is

  1. Aorta
  2. Capillary
  3. Vena cava
  4. Pulmonary vein

19. An eudiometer measures

  1. Atmospheric pressure
  2. Time
  3. Volume of gases
  4. Vapour pressure

20. Trinitrotoluene is

  1. used to melt metals
  2. used to fuse two metals
  3. used as an abrasive
  4. used as an explosive

21. In a cut motion, when the amount of demand is reduced by Rs 100/- , it is known as

  1. Disapproval of policy cut
  2. Economy cut
  3. Vote on Account
  4. Token cut

22. One of the leading producers of asbestos in the world is

  1. Australia
  2. Russia
  3. Canada
  4. Armenia

23. Beighton Cup is associated with which of the following?

  1. Cricket
  2. Hockey
  3. Football
  4. Volleyball

24. If Reserve Bank of India reduces the cash reserve ratio, it will :

  1. increase credit creation
  2. decrease credit creation
  3. have no impact on credit creation
  4. have no definite impact on credit creation

25. Nitrification is the biological process of converting

  1. N2 into nitrate
  2. N2 into nitrite
  3. Ammonia into nitrite
  4. Ammonia into N2