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SSC Stenographer Examination

 Held On 16-10-2011

General Knowledge Solved Paper

51. The Nobel Prize for Economics was instituted by

• Alfred Nobel
• Sweden’s central bank
• The Nobel Committee
• World Bank

52. The main competitor for the Indian jute industry is

• China 
• Nepal 
• Bangladesh 
• Japan

53. ‘Hire and Fire’ is the policy of

• Capitalism 
• Socialism
• Mixed Economy
• Traditional Economy

54. The latest volume of food grains to be given par family as determined under ‘Annapurna
Scheme’ is

• 35 kg 
• 20 kg
• 10 kg 
• 40 kg

55. The fish catch by Indian fishermen in the international waters are part of the GDP of

• Sri Lanka
• India and Sri Lanka
• India
• India and Indonesia

56. The essential feature of democracy is giving prominence to the

• Executive 
• Judiciary 
• Citizen 
• Civil Society

57. Which of the following writs can lie only against a person holding a public office?

• Habeas corpus 
• Mandamus 
• Prohibition 
• Certiorari

58. Which of the following items is under the State List?

• Agriculture 
• Criminal law 
• Education 
• Defence

59. ‘Dual citizenship’ is a feature of

• Unitary government
• Federal government
• Parliamentary government
• Presidential government

60. In the Constitution of India, which Article mentions about the establishment of Welfare
State in India?

• 99 
• 39 
• 59 
• 69

61. The Greek were driven out of Indian by

• Chandragupta Maurya
• Chandragupta Vikramaditya
• Ashoka
• Bindusara

62. Sulatana Razia Begum was the daughter of

• Baldan
• Qutub-ud-din Aibak
• Ilutmish
• Rukn-ud-din

63. Who among the following establishment the Ghadar Party?

• V.D. Savarkar 
• Bhagat Singh
• Lala Hardayal
• Chandrashekhar Azad

64. Mahatama Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930 from

• Sabarmati Asharam
• Ahmedabad
• Probandar 
• Dandi

65. Who among the following was the first Viceroy of India?

• Lord Cornwallis
• Pitt 
• Lord Canning
• Robert Clive

66. The only bird that flies backward is

• Sparrow 
• Koel
• Siberian Crane
• Humming bird

67. In India, maximum area under jute is found in

• Assam 
• Bihar
• Orissa 
• West Bengal

68. Which of the following is an iron ore?

• Bauxite 
• Magnetite 
• Lignite 
• Nitrite

69. The Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) is located at

• Pune 
• Guwahati 
• Chennai 
• Srinagar

70. ______ was the port town of the Indus Valley Civilization.

• Lothal 
• Kalibangan 
• Ropar 
• Mohenjodaro

71. The tallest plant in the world is

• Eucalyptus 
• Pterocarpus 
• Polyalthia 
• Tectona

72. From which one of the following is quinine extracted?

• Sarpagandha 
• Opium
• Cinchona
• Datura

73. Which vitamin deficiency causes the disease, Pernicious anemia?

• Vitamin B5 
• Vitamin B12 
• Vitamin B6 
• Vitamin C

74. ‘Pigeon milk’ is produced by

• Crop 
• Birds 
• Mammals 
• All of the above

75. In which one of the following is swim bladder absent?

• Cuttlefish 
• Bony fish 
• Cartilaginous fish
• Silverfish

76. Which one of the following is an extinct animal?

• Passenger pigeon
• Mountain quail
• Pink-headed duck
• Ibis

77. Railway tracks are banked on curves so that

• Necessary centrifugal force may be obtained from the horizontal component of the weight of the train
• No frictional force may be produced between the tracks and the wheels of the train
• Necessary centripetal force may be obtained from the horizontal component of the weight of the train
• The train may not fall down inwards

78. The pitch of sound depends on its

• Frequency 
• Intensity 
• Velocity 
• Amplitude

79. Magnifying Glass is basically a

• Plano-concave lens
• Concave lens
• Convex lens
• Cylindrical lens

80. Water will not be vaporized if

• the temperature is 0oC
• the humidity is 0%
• the humidity is 100%
• the temperature is 100oC

81. Which of the following is not a part of a CRT?

• Phosphor screen
• Shadow mask
• Electron gun
• Gas plasma

82. A tree like structure of records in a database is

• Network model
• Hierarchical model
• Relation model
• Multi-dimensional model

83. Which of the following is a conductor of electricity?

• Rubber 
• Pure water 
• Salt water 
• Benzene

84. Which one of the following is an example of a gel?

• Cheese 
• Milk 
• Face cream 
• Shaving cream

85. Bakelite is a copolymer of Phenol and

• Formaldehyde 
• Acetaldehyde 
• Benzaldehyde 
• Cinnaldehyde

86. When a spoon is to be electroplated with nickel the spoon is

• dipped in a nickel sulphate solution 
• make anode and a pure nickel, road the cathode
• made cathode and pure nickel rod, the anode
• coated with nickel sulphate and dried

87. ‘Means Sanctuary’ is located in the State of

• Rajasthan 
• Assam 
• Jharkhand 
• Chhattisgarh

88. First United Nations Conference on Environment was held in

• Montreal 
• Stockholm 
• London 
• Paris

89. The Bhopal tragedy was caused by the gas

• Phosgene 
• Carbon monoxide 
• Methyl isocyanate
• Chlorine

90. Which one of the following contributes largely to the ‘green house effect’?

• Ozone
• Carbon monoxide
• Carbon dioxide
• Water vapour

91. Who was the first musician to be felicitated with ‘Bharat Ratna’?

• Lata Mangeshkar
• M.S. Subbulakshmi
• Pt. Ravi Shankar
• Pt. Bhimsen Joshi

92. In Indian Premier League, 2011 which of the following won the ‘Golden Player Award’?

• Lasith Malinga
• Sachin Tendulkar
• M.S. Dhoni
• Chris Gayle

93. Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film on National Integration under 58th National Film Awards 2010 has been bagged by

• Adaminte Makan Abu
• Mone Manush
• Dabangg
• None of the above

94. Who of the following is a famous Tabla player?

• Zakir Hussain
• Vikku Vinayakram
• Pt. V.G. Jog
• Palghat Mani Iyer

95. Who discovered North Pole?

• Robert Peary 
• Amundsen
• Tasman 
• John Cabot

96. As per the result of the legislative assembly elections declared on 13th May 2011, the
AIADMK with its leader J. Jayalilithaa came to power with

• 2/3rd majority 
• 3/4th majority 
• 4/5th majority 
• 5/6th majority

97. The oldest Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest is

• Bachendri Pal
• Premlata Agarwal
• Prabha Kumari
• Tina Mena

98. Norman Anil Kumar Browne took over recently as the Chief of

• Indian Navy
• Indian Army
• Indian Air force
• DRDO

99. The letter ‘G’ used in ‘2G Spectrum’ stands for

• Governance
• Global
• Generation
• Google

100. Which of the following groups of State Governments has provided 50 percent reservation for women in local bodies till 2010?

• Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh
• Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh
• Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana
• Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan