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General Awareness Question Paper of SSC (10+2) LDC, DEO & PA/SA EXAM 2015 (Test Form No. 7203752)
1. Which of the following Scientist prove that the path of each planet around the Sun is elliptical?
- 1) Kepler
- 2) Galileo
- 3) Newton
- 4) Copernicus
2. How much of world's surface is covered by water?
- 1) 55%
- 2) 70%
- 3) 80%
- 4) 25%
3. Natural system of classification was proposed by __________ botanists.
- 1) Indian
- 2) German
- 3) Swedish
- 4) British
4. Which was the first linguistic state to be created?
- 1) Kerala
- 2) Tamil Nadu
- 3) Andhra Pradesh
- 4) Maharashtra
5. Arundhati Roy is the author of
- 1) God of Small Things
- 2) Disgrace
- 3) The Tin Drum
- 4) My Childhood Days
6. Among the following districts of Tamil Nadu, which district is unfit for cultivation due to increased salinity
- 1) Coimbatore
- 2) Tiruchirapalli
- 3) Nagapattinam
- 4) Ramanathapuram
7. Which of the following phenomenon helps to conclude that light is a transverse wave?
- 1) interference
- 2) diffraction
- 3) polarisation
- 4) refraction
8. All forms of ROM are also known as
- 1) Freeware
- 2) Middleware
- 3) Firmware
- 4) Shareware
9. What is Kyoto Protocol?
- 1) It is an agreement among countries to take steps for reducing acid rain
- 2) It is an agreement among countries to take steps for planting trees to control pollution
- 3) It is an agreement among countries to start using nuclear energy
- 4) It is an agreement among countries to take steps for reducing global warming
10. The Simplest CPU - scheduling algorithm is ________________.
- 1) SJF scheduling algorithm
- 2) Round robin scheduling algorithm
- 3) Multilevel scheduling algorithm
- 4) FCFS scheduling algorithm
11. Who is the author of the book "Romancing with Life"?
- 1) Kapil Dev
- 2) Dev Anand
- 3) Shashi Tharoor
- 4) Bill Clinton
12. In which of the Round Table Conference Mahatma Gandhi participated?
- 1) First Round Table Conference, 1930
- 2) Second Round Table Conference, 1931
- 3) Third Round Table Conference, 1932
- 4) All of these
13. The headquarters of the Survey of India Department is located at
- 1) Jaipur
- 2) Dehradun
- 3) Hyderabad
- 4) New Delhi
14. Plank's constant has the dimensions of
- 1) energy
- 2) linear momentum
- 3) angular momentum
- 4) force
15. The most suitable unit for expressing nuclear radius is
- 1) nanometre
- 2) fermi
- 3) angstrom
- 4) micron
16. The Lalita Kala Akademi is devoted to the promotion of
- 1) Fine Arts
- 2) Literature
- 3) Music
- 4) Dance and Drama
17. A demand curve will not shift
- 1) When only income changes
- 2) When only prices of substitute products change
- 3) When there is a change in advertisement expenditure
- 4) When only price of the commodity changes
18. Kathakali is a dance prevalent in which state?
- 1) Kerala
- 2) Andhra Pradesh
- 3) Tamil Nadu
- 4) Odisha
19. Who composed the Allahabad Pillar inscription?
- 1) Harisena
- 2) Mahasena
- 3) Veerasena
- 4) Vishnusena
20. Transpiration increases in
- 1) Hot, dry and windy condition
- 2) Hot, damp and windy condition
- 3) Cool, damp and windy condition
- 4) Cool, dry and still condition
21. Christmas factor is involved in
- 1) Blood coagulation
- 2) Excretion
- 3) Digestion
- 4) Respiration
22. If the President wants to resign, he shall address his letter of resignation to
- 1) Prime Minister of India
- 2) Vice-President of India
- 3) Speaker of Lok Sabha
- 4) Chief Justice of India
23. If xylem and phloem are arranged in the same radius, such a vascular bundle is called
- 1) collateral
- 2) bicollateral
- 3) concentric
- 4) radial
24. Todar Mal, the brilliant revenue officer served under
- 1) Sher Shah
- 2) Bhagwan Das
- 3) Humayun
- 4) Baz Bahadur
25. Amino acids are required for the synthesis of
- 1) Alkaloids
- 2) Lipids
- 3) Proteins
- 4) Carbohydrates
26. Mixed Economy means
- 1) Promoting both agriculture and industries in the economy
- 2) Co-existence of public and private sectors
- 3) Co-existence of rich and poor
- 4) Co-existence of small and large industries
27. By whom was the automomous investment separated from induced investment?
- 1) Schumpeter
- 2) Malthus
- 3) Joan Robinson
- 4) Adam Smith
28. The first Biosphere Reserve in India has been established in
- 1) Kanha
- 2) Nilgiri
- 3) Nanda Devi
- 4) Hazaribagh
29. When price of a substitute of commodity 'x' falls, the demand for 'x'
- 1) falls
- 2) remain unchanged
- 3) increases at increasing rate
- 4) rises
30. India born Vijai Sheshadri won prestigious '2014 Pulitzer Prize' in which of the following categories?
- 1) Music
- 2) Poetry
- 3) Drama
- 4) Journalism
31. When was the League of Nations established?
- 1) 1918
- 2) 1920
- 3) 1939
- 4) 1914
32. Iron fillings can be separated from a heterogenous mixture using the technique of
- 1) Sublimation
- 2) Magnetization
- 3) Sedimentation
- 4) Evaporation
33. The time element in price analysis was introduced by
- 1) J.M. Keynes
- 2) Alfred Marshall
- 3) J.S. Mill
- 4) J.R. Hicks
34. The most abundant element by number in the living system is
- 1) Nitrogen
- 2) Hydrogen
- 3) Oxygen
- 4) Carbon
35. Where did the Black-Hole tragedy took place?
- 1) Monghyr
- 2) Calcutta
- 3) Murshidabad
- 4) Dacca
36. World Wild Life Fund was founded in
- 1) 1965
- 2) 1969
- 3) 1992
- 4) 1961
37. Blowing Air with open pipe is an example of
- 1) Isothermal process
- 2) Isochroric process
- 3) Isobaric process
- 4) Adiabatic process
38. Which Article of the Indian Constitution deals with the Election Commission?
- 1) Article 352
- 2) Article 356
- 3) Article 360
- 4) Article 324
39. Dr. P. Rama Rao Committee is related to which of the following?
- 1) Taxes
- 2) Defence
- 3) Industry
- 4) Agriculture
40. The amount of matter in a ball of steel is its
- 1) Weight
- 2) Mass
- 3) Density
- 4) Volume
41. The largest reservoir of fresh water is
- 1) Glacier
- 2) Ground Water
- 3) Ponds
- 4) Lakes
42. Kimono is a dress style of which Asian Country?
- 1) Japan
- 2) Korea
- 3) Laos
- 4) China
43. The "King of Metals" is
- 1) Gold
- 2) Silver
- 3) Iron
- 4) Aluminium
44. Who built the famous Shiva temple at Ellora?
- 1) Rashtrakuta Ruler Krishna I
- 2) Mauryan Emperor Ashoka
- 3) Gupta King Samudra Gupta
- 4) Chalukyan King Pulakeshin II
45. What is the number of players on each side in Rugby Football?
- 1) 15
- 2) 16
- 3) 12
- 4) 11
46. Which of the following rivers originates from Trans Himalayas?
- 1) Yamuna
- 2) Sindhu
- 3) Saraswati
- 4) Ganga
47. Minamata disease is caused by pollution of water by
- 1) lead
- 2) tin
- 3) methyl isocyanate
- 4) mercury
48. Earth Day is celebrated on
- 1) April 4
- 2) April 22
- 3) September 17
- 4) February 16
49. Rand is the currency of
- 1) Namibia
- 2) Iran
- 3) Romania
- 4) Norway
50. Who discovered the link between electricity and magnetism?
- 1) Volta
- 2) Maxwell
- 3) Diesel
- 4) Michael Faraday