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Solved General Awareness Question Paper (Test Form No. 765 PK 3) of SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) TIER-I Exam 2014 held on 26.10.2014
1. Interest paid to a bank for a crop loan is
- a) intermediate consumption
- b) a transfer payment
- c) a factor payment
- d) capital formation
2. Economic growth refers to
- a) continuous growth of agriculture sector
- b) prevention of concentration of wealth
- c) continuous growth of national income for at least two years
- d) continuous growth of per capita real income over a period of time in an economy
3. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
- a) Economy faces the problem of excess of resources.
- b) The central problem of an economy is the problem of allocation of resources.
- c) Economy faces the problem of utilisation of resources.
- d) Economy faces the problem of growth of resources.
4. In the case of direct taxes, the payment liability and the ultimate burden of the tax lies upon
- a) both on whom it has been imposed and on whom it is not imposed
- b) the person on whom it has been imposed
- c) the person on whom it has not been imposed
- d) the tax department who collects the taxes
5. Which of the following systems is based on the principle of surplus value?
- a) Communism
- b) Capitalism
- c) Individualism
- d) Idealism
6. Which of the following provides Representative Government?
- a) Presidential form of Government
- b) Indirect Democracy
- c) Direct Democracy
- d) Democracy
7. What is the main duty of the Legislature?
- a) Central administration
- b) Enacting laws
- c) Implementing judicial matters
- d) Implementing laws
8. Chandragupta Maurya spent his last days at
- a) Kashi
- b) Pataliputra
- c) Ujjain
- d) Sravanabelgola
9. In only a part of the labour force employed by a firm can be dismissed at any time and without pay, the total wages and salaries paid by the firm must be considered
- a) neither a fixed cost nor a variable cost
- b) a variable cost
- c) a fixed cost
- d) partly a fixed and partly a variable cost
10. Members of the Union Public Service Commission are appointed by the
- a) Law Minister
- b) President
- c) Prime Minister
- d) Chief Justice
11. Who said, "A state is known by the rights that it maintains"?
- a) Machiavelli
- b) Laski
- c) Maciver
- d) J S Mill
12. A member of Liliaceae that shows reticulate venation is
- a) Allium
- b) Scilla
- c) Smilax
- d) Aloe
13. Euphenics is
- a) Treatment of defective heredity through genetic engineering
- b) Manipulation of genes
- c) Improvement of race
- d) Study of conditions affecting organisms
14. Araneology is
- a) Study of mites
- b) Rearing of bees
- c) Study of aphids
- d) Study of spiders
15. What does "Corpus luteum" secrete?
- a) Progesterone
- b) Testosterone
- c) Estrogen
- d) Haemoglobin
16. The male sex hormone is
- a) Progesterone
- b) Estrogen
- c) Testosterone
- d) Insulin
17. Buddha died in the year
- a) 483 BC
- b) 438 BC
- c) 453 BC
- d) 468 BC
18. The new name of Burma is Myanmar and its capital is
- a) Naypyidaw
- b) Arakan
- c) Rangoon
- d) Ava
19. The famous Jain centre in South India is located at
- a) Rameshwaram
- b) Kanchi
- c) Madurai
- d) Sravanabelgola
20. The Ashokan Inscriptions were engraved in which script?
- a) Magadhi
- b) Brahmi
- c) Pali
- d) Devanagari
21. Which of the following lakes is called 'Honeymoon Lake'?
- a) Nyasa
- b) Chad
- c) Titicaca
- d) Toba
22. Harmattan blows in Sahara desert from
- a) South to North
- b) East to West
- c) West to East
- d) North to South
23. The busiest ocean from the point of view of trade is
- a) Arctic Ocean
- b) Pacific Ocean
- c) Indian Ocean
- d) Atlantic Ocean
24. The forest in Silent Valley of Kerala is an example of
- a) mangrove forest
- b) deciduous forest
- c) tropical rainforest
- d) alpine coniferous forest
25. Annaimudi peak is located in the
- a) Sahyadri
- b) Eastern Ghats
- c) Nilgiri hills
- d) Palni hills
26. Commercially important cotton fibres are
- a) bark fibres of stems
- b) epidermal hairs of seeds
- c) woody fibres of roots
- d) phloem fibres of roots
27. Herman Hollerith had perfected his tabulating system and developed a machine called
- a) Analytical Engine
- b) Census Tabulator
- c) Tabulation Engine
- d) None of the above
28. DBMS used for building computer applications stands for
- a) Database Micro System
- b) Database Machine System
- c) Database Maintenance System
- d) Database Management System
29. The total energy of an electron inside an atom is
- a) Infinite
- b) Zero
- c) More than zero
- d) Less than zero
30. The velocity of light is
- a) 3 x 108 m/sec
- b) 3 x 108 km/sec
- c) 3 x 108 miles/sec
- d) 3 x 108 cm/sec
31. A seconds pendulum is a pendulum whose time period is
- a) 1 second
- b) 4 seconds
- c) 3 seconds
- d) 2 seconds
32. A jug is filled up to the brim with water at 0oC. A piece of ice floats in it. The moment the ice melts
- a) water spills out of the jug
- b) water level increases
- c) water level decreases
- d) water level is unchanged
33. The rusting of metal iron in air needs both?
- a) Oxygen and grease
- b) Oxygen and moisture
- c) Carbon dioxide and moisture
- d) Water and paint
34. Arsenic problem in India is primarily due to
- a) Overexploitation of surface water in the affected areas
- b) Overexploitation of arsenopyrite in the hinterland
- c) Overexploitation of coal in Bihar and Bengal
- d) Overexploitation of ground water in the affected areas
35. Acid rain is caused by
- a) NO2 and O2
- b) CO and CO2
- c) SO2 and O2
- d) SO2 and NO2
36. Iodine test is used to detect
- a) Cholesterol
- b) Carbohydrate
- c) Protein
- d) Fat
37. Which of the following is used in pencils?
- a) Charcoal
- b) Graphite
- c) Sulphur
- d) Phosphorus
38. The branch of medicine involving synthetic chemical compounds is
- a) Unani
- b) Ayurveda
- c) Allopathy
- d) Homoeopathy
39. Who is the author of the book "Romancing With Life"?
- a) Shashi Tharoor
- b) Bill Clinton
- c) Kapil Dev
- d) Dev Anand
40. Which Mughal Emperor prohibited the use of tobacco?
- a) Muhammad Shah
- b) Bahur
- c) Jahangir
- d) Aurangzeb
41. A South Rajasthani tribe earning its living by song and dance is
- a) Mayas
- b) Moors
- c) Khasis
- d) Garasia
42. Hydrogen was discovered by
- a) Cavendish
- b) Priestley
- c) Boyle
- d) Charles
43. The biggest delta in the world is the
- a) Nippon Delta
- b) Sicily Delta
- c) Ganges Delta
- d) Caspian Delta
44. Absorption of water from cut ends of stems disproves the
- a) Imbibitional pressure theory
- b) Theory of Capillarity
- c) Cohesion-tension
- d) Root pressure theory
45. The loss of water in the form of water droplets is called
- a) Bleeding
- b) Transpiration
- c) Guttation
- d) Evaporation
46. "Vatsalya Mela" is annually organised in
- a) Chandigarh
- b) Bangalore
- c) New Delhi
- d) Bhopal
47. Who is the Director General of the BBC?
- a) Tony Hall
- b) Jimmy Savile
- c) George Entwistle
- d) Karan Thapar
48. Who is Australia's High Commissioner to India?
- a) Simon Tirkey
- b) M P Samuel
- c) Peter Varghese
- d) Patrick Suckling
49. Who was elected as the President of Indian Football Federation?
- a) Praful Patel
- b) Hardev Jadeja
- c) Subrata Dutta
- d) Shrinivas V Dempo
50. Who took over as the Chairman of Tata Sons?
- a) Ratan Tata
- b) Shapoor Mistry
- c) Ravikant
- d) Cyrus Pallonji Mistry