SSC Grad. Level Exam 2012 - 01.07.12

Solved Question Paper - General Awareness

1. The National Commission for Minorities was constituted in the year

1. 1990
2. 1992
3. 1980
4. 1989

2.The first Indian who was chosen as the Secretary-General of Commonwealth is

1. Rakesh Verma
2. Gopalaswami
3. Krishna Murthy
4. Kamalesh Sharma

3. In which of the following systems of government is bi-cameralism an essential feature?

1. Federal system
2. Unitary system
3. Parliamentary system
4. Presidential system

4. Kuldip Nayar, a journalist, was appointed as a High Commisioner in

1. Sri Lanka
2. Australia
3. UK
4. Pakistan

5. Which king is referred to as Devanampiya Piyadassi (Beloved of the Gods) in the inscriptions?

1. Asoka
2. Harsha
3. Bindusara
4. Chandragupta Maurya

6. Socialism succeeds in achieving

1. higher standard of living of the people
2. equal distribution of income in the society
3. higher individual welfare in the society
4. maximum social welfare in the society

7. Monopolist resorts to price discrimination depending upon the

1. Elasticity of supply
2. Elasticity of demand
3. Law of demand
4. Law of supply

8. Economic planning is an essential feature of

1. Socialist economy
2. Capitalist economy
3. Mixed economy
4. Dual economy

9. The HYV programme in India is also called as

1. Traditional Agriculture
2. New Agricultural Strategy
3. White Revolution
4. Blue Revolution

10. The National Policy for Empowerment of Women was adopted in the year

1. 2001
2. 2005
3. 1991
4. 1995

11. Ballots were first used in

1. Australia
2. USA
3. Ancient Greece
4. England

12. The Rashtriya Barh Ayog (RBA) is related with

1. Droughts and Floods
2. Poverty and Alleviation
3. Floods
4. Disaster Management

13. Which of the following criteria is not used for the classification of human races

1. Nose
2. Hair
3. Eyes
4. Ear

14. Railway coaches are manufactured at

1. Jamshedpur
2. Chittaranjan
3. Perambur
4. Varanasi

15. Fertilization occurs normally in the

1. Cervix
2. Vagina
3. Fallopian tube
4. Uterus

16. People consuming alcohol in heavy quantities generally die of

1. liver or stomach cancer
2. weakening of heart muscles leading to cardiac arrest
3. blood cancer
4. cirrhosis

17. The organisms at the base of the grazing food-chain are

1. Carnivores
2. Decomposers
3. Producers
4. Herbivores

18. Who among the following was credited with the destruction of 'Chihalgani', a group of powerful nobles

1. Balban
2. Qutb-ud-din Aibak
3. Iltutmish
4. Razia Sultan

19. Bombay was given away as dowry to the English King Charles II for marrying the Princess of

1. France
2. Portugal
3. Holland
4. Denmark

20. The Grand Trunk Road built by Shershah connected Punjab with

1. Agra
2. East Bengal
3. Lahore
4. Multan

21. Name the Maratha Saint who was a contemporary of Shivaji

1. Saint Eknath
2. Saint Tukaram
3. Saint Dhyaneshwar
4. Namdev

22. The study of lakes is called

1. Topology
2. Hydrology
3. Limnology
4. Potomology

23. A series of lines connecting places having a quake at the same time are called

1. Homoseismal lines
2. Seismolines
3. Coseismal lines
4. Isoseismal lines

24. 'Lumen' is unit of

1. Illuminance
2. Brightness
3. Luminous flux
4. Luminous intensity

25. The transfer of data from a CPU to peripheral devices of computer is achieved through

1. interfaces
2. buffer memory
3. modems
4. computer ports

26. Which of the following items is not used in Local Area Networks (LANs)?

1. Interface Card
2. Cable
3. Computer
4. Modem

27. The mass of 10 moles of water is

1. 90 g
2. 45 g
3. 18 g
4. 180 g

28. Vitamin A is rich in

1. Carrot
2. Lime
3. Beans
4. Rice

29. The high boiling point of water compared to hydrogen sulphide or hydrogen chloride is due to

1. Dipole insulation
2. Van der Waal's attracton
3. Polar covalent bonding
4. Hydrogen bonding

30. Which of the following determines the chemical properties of an element?

1. Number of electrons
2. Number of neutrons
3. Number of protons
4. All of the above

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