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Solved General Awareness Question Paper of SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam 2016 Tier-I held on 28.08.2016. [1st Sitting]
1. Trickle down theory ignores the impact of economic growth on
- 1) Investment
- 2) Savings
- 3) Income distribution
- 4) Consumption
2. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India does not audit the receipts and expenditure of
- 1) Central Government
- 2) Local Bodies
- 3) State Government
- 4) Government Companies
3. In which year did the Kakori conspiracy case take place?
- 1) 1925
- 2) 1924
- 3) 1926
- 4) 1927
4. The Taj Mahal is called 'a dream in marble'. Which monument is called as 'a dream in stone'?
- 1) The Rang Mahal
- 2) The Panch Mahal
- 3) The Red Fort
- 4) The Bahai temple
5. Sex-ratio in India is measured as
- 1) Number of males per thousand females
- 2) Number of females per thousand males
- 3) Number of males per hundred females
- 4) Number of females per hundred males
6. Companion cells are unique to
- 1) Bryophytes
- 2) Pteridophytes
- 3) Angiosperms
- 4) Gymnosperms
7. Which one of the following is an insulator?
- 1) Copper
- 2) Wood
- 3) Mercury
- 4) Aluminium
8. Bubbles of air rise up through liquids due to
- 1) Surface tension and adherence
- 2) Viscosity and buoyancy
- 3) Air current over the liquid and buoyancy
- 4) Up thrust and surface tension
9. Zeolite is
- 1) hydrated ferric oxide
- 2) hydrated sodium aluminium silicate
- 3) sodium hexameta phosphate
- 4) sodium tetra borate
10. The boiling point of liquids vary as
- 1) pressure varies
- 2) temperature varies
- 3) volume varies
- 4) density varies
11. The largest source of pollution in the world is
- 1) Herbicides and insectides
- 2) Automobile exhausts
- 3) Sewage and garbage
- 4) Industrial effluents
12. Among the following states, the literacy rate is highest in
- 1) Odisha
- 2) Punjab
- 3) Maharashtra
- 4) Mizoram
13. The minimum number of members that must be present to hold the meeting of the Lok Sabha is
- 1) One-fourth of the total membership
- 2) One-tenth of the total membership
- 3) Fifty percent strength of the Lok Sabha
- 4) At least hundred members
14. India's population growth is characterized by
- 1) An increase in rate of death
- 2) An increase in the ratio of females
- 3) An increase in the birth rate and declining death rate
- 4) Increasing number of old people
15. What will you call a system of taxation under which the poorer sections are taxed at higher rates than the richer sections?
- 1) Progressive tax
- 2) Proportional tax
- 3) Regressive tax
- 4) Degressive tax
16. The most important function of an interest group is to
- 1) form the government
- 2) alter government policies to its liking
- 3) build up public opinion
- 4) Contest elections
17. Which among the following is not correctly paired?
- 1) Shivaji-Afzal Khan
- 2) Nurjahan-Mahabat Khan
- 3) Akbar-Rana Pratap
- 4) Babar-Bairam Khan
18. Which of the following deserts is rich in gold reserves?
- 1) Arabian
- 2) Thar
- 3) Mongolian
- 4) Atacama
19. Lacrymal glands are situated in the
- 1) Palms
- 2) Buccal cavity
- 3) Eye orbit
- 4) Stomach
20. The most extensive use of molasses after fermentation is for producing
- 1) Methanol
- 2) Sugar
- 3) Ethanol
- 4) Sugarcane
21. Acid rain is caused due to pollution of atmosphere by
- 1) oxides of nitrogen and sulphur
- 2) oxides of nitrogen and phosphorous
- 3) oxides of carbon and nitrogen
- 4) oxides of nitrogen and methane
22. The dispute over Siachin Glacier is between
- 1) India and China
- 2) India and Afghanistan
- 3) India and Pakistan
- 4) India and Nepal
23. Who wrote the famous line: 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever'?
- 1) John Keats
- 2) V.S. Naipaul
- 3) Sir Richard Burton
- 4) Larry Collins
24. Who was the first lady Governor of an Indian State?
- 1) Mrs Sucheta Kripalani
- 2) Miss Padmaja Naidu
- 3) Mrs Tarkeswari Sinha
- 4) Mrs Sarojini Naidu
25. Which of the following is an application protocol?
- 1) HTTP
- 2) TCP
- 3) IP
- 4) UDP