Staff Selection Comssion : Combined Graduate Level General Awareness Paper

Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level-2013

General Awareness Solved Paper Held on 20.07.2014

1. Which of the following is not a nitrogenous fertilizer?

1. Ammonium sulphate 
2. Urea
3. Ammonium nitrate 
4. Super phosphate

2. CaC2 on treatment with water gives–

1. Methane 
2. Ethane 
3. Ethylene 
4. Acetylene

3. The ‘fine respiratory particles’ which deteriorate air quality for breathing by human beings are categorized as–

1. PM 0.0 
2. PM 2.5 
3. PM 8.5 
4. PM 10.0

4. The snow leopard population is found in–

1. Sikkim 
2. Assam 
3. Mizoram 
4. Manipur

5. Total interacting animals and plants in any well defined area is known as–

1. Population 
2. Biome 
3. Community 
4. Species

6. ‘IPCC’ stands for–

1. Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change 
2. Indian Panel on Climate Change
3. International Policy on Climate Change 
4. Indian Policy on Climate Control

7. In Bollywood, the actress popularly known as ‘Dream Girl’ is–

1. Zeenat Aman 
2. Rakhi Sawant 
3. Helen 
4. Hema Malini

8. The most healthy edible oil for heart is–

1. Butter oil 
2. Olive oil 
3. Rape-seed oil 
4. Mustard oil

9. Telengana creation as in independent state is primarily the outcome of–

1. 13th Lok Sabha 
2. 14th Lok Sabha 
3. 15th Lok Sabha 
4. 16th Lok Sabha

10. Which of the followings is not correct?

1. SIT -Special Intelligence Team 
2. CNG -Compressed Natural Gas
3. NGT -National Green Tribunal 
4. KYC -Know Your Customer

11. World’s tallest women record is up to 7ft. and 8 inches from–

1. U.S.A. 
2. China 
3. Pakistan 
4. Italy

12. Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?

1. Annie Besant 
2. Sarojini Naidu 
3. Vijaylakshmi Pandit 
4. Kadambani Ganguli

13. ICMR is the abbreviation for–

1. International Council for Malarial Research 
2. Indian Council of Medical Research
3. International Council of Medical Research
4. Indian Council of Microbial Research

14. Rubber is a product of–

1. Fibre 
2. Latex 
3. Resin 
4. Gum

15. The first indigenous silent feature film (released on May 3, 1913) was called–

1. AlamAra 
2. Raja Harishchandra
3. Bhakta Prahlad 
4. Mother India

16. The book entitled ‘Spell of the Tiger’ is written by–

1. Jim Corbett 
2. Valmik Thapar 
3. Sy Montgomery
4. Atul Sethi

17. In the long run the fixed costs become–

1. Money costs 
2. Real costs 
3. Opportunity costs 
4. Variable costs

18. Increase in cash reserve ratio leads to–

1. increase in bank credit 
2. decrease in bank credit
3. constant bank credit 
4. excess bank credit

19. The food corporation of India was established in the year–

1. 1965 
2. 1966 
3. 1967
4. 1955

20. The Phillip’s curve is the schedule showing the relationship between–

1. aggregate supply and demand 
2. total saving and investment
3. the rate of unemployment and rate of inflation 
4. demand for and supply of loanable funds

21. A firm practising price discrimination will be–

1. charging different prices for different qualities of a product 
2. buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest markets
3. charging different prices in different markets for a product 
4. buying only from firms selling in bulk at a distance

22. Fascism believed in leadership of–

1. Feudals 
2. Working classes 
3. Political elites 
4. Oneman

23. The parliament is empowered to make laws on any subject of the state list during–

1. Election 
2. War 
3. Agitation 
4. Emergency

24. Rule of law prevails in–

1. Dictatorship 
2. Aristocracy 
3. Democracy 
4. Oligarchy

25. Which of the following feature of Indian constitution was borrowed from U.S.A. ?

1. Rule of law 
2. Fundamental Right
3. Rigid Constitution 
4. Directive principles of state policy

26. Term of office of the President of U.S.A.–

1. 6 years 
2. 5 years 
3. 4 years 
4. 7 years

27. When and where was the All India Kisan Sabha formed?

1. 1935 - Bombay 
2. 1942 - Kanpur 
3. 1938 - Calcutta 
4. 1936 - Lucknow

28. Who was the founder of the City of Agra?

1. Ala-ud-din Khalji 
2. Muhammad Tughlaq 
3. Firoz Tughlaq 
4. (D) Sikandar Lodi

29. When did the British make English the medium of instruction in India ?

1. 1813 
2. 1833
3. 1835 
4. 1844

30. Lord Buddha gave his first sermon at–

1. Sarnath in U.P. 
2. Bodha-Gaya in Bihar 
3. Nalanda in Bihar 
4. None of the above

31. What is the meaning of the word ‘Sangam’ in the Sangam Age?

1. Royal Court 
2. Assembly of poets 
3. Assembly of religious leaders 
4. Meeting of rivers

32. Ivory coast is located in–

1. South Africa 
2. North America 
3. West Africa 
4. South America

33. Seasonal migration of people is known as–

1. Pastoralism 
2. Nomadism 
3. Intra migration
4. Transhurnance

34. The country with the world’s largest natural gas reserves is–

1. Saudi Arabia 
2. Kuwait 
3. Russia 
4. United States of America

35. Which of the following lakes is situated on the West Coast of India?

1. Astamudi 
2. Chilka 
3. Pulicat 
4. Kolleru

36. GIS stands for–

1. Geographical Integrated System 
2. Geographical Information System
3. Geometrical Integrated System 
4. General Immunity System

37. National AIDS research Institute is at–

1. Chennai 
2. New Delhi 
3. Murnbai 
4. Pune

38. A contemporary of Charles Darwin who came to the same conclusion in the matter of organic evolution was–

1. Jean Baptist Lamarck 
2. Thomas Huxley
3. Alfred Russel Wallace 
4. Franklin Benjamin

39. Ink is prepared from–

1. Dye 
2. Tannin 
3. Starch 
4. Latex

40. Formic acid is produced by–

1. White ants 
2. Cockroaches 
3. Red ants 
4. Mosquitoes

41. Casuarina is a–

1. Hydrophyte 
2. Mesophyte 
3. Xerophyte 
4. Epiphyte

42. Male mosquitoes take their food from–

1. The human blood 
2. The standing water
3. The sap of plants 
4. The dung and other debris

43. Radio Carbon Dating is used to estimate the age of–

1. Soil 
2. Monuments 
3. Fossils 
4. Rocks

44. According to kinetic theory of gases, at the temperature of absolute zero, the gas molecules–

1. Start movement 
2. Become massless 
3. Start emitting light 
4. (D) Stop movement

45. The nuclear force is–

1. Short range repulsive force 
2. Short range attractive force
3. Long range repulsive force 
4. Long range attractive force

46. A satellite in vacuum–

1. Is kept in orbit by remote control 
2. Is kept in orbit by retro-rocket
3. Derives energy from gravitational field 
4. Does not require any energy for orbiting

47. Unsorted transaction that can be used to immediately update a database is called is–

1. Direct database access 
2. Sequential database access
3. Alternate database access 
4. Instance database access

48. Which of the following number is not correctly written?

1. 1018 
2. 1012 
3. 1H12 
4. ABC16

49. Chemical decomposition of an organic compound by water is called as–

1. Hydrogenation 
2. Hydration 
3. Hydrolysis 
4. All of these

50. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

1. Vitamin B-Pyridoxine 
2. Vitamin C-Ascorbic acid
3. Vitamin E-Alphatocopherol 
4. Vitamin D-Sunshine