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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. Banks earn interest on
- 1) Deposits
- 2) Loans
- 3) Demand Drafts
- 4) Bills of Exchange
2. Which is the most important factor that determines whether advertising by manufacturing sector will lead to higher sales?
- 1) Demand is elastic
- 2) Demand is inelastic
- 3) The product can be differentiated
- 4) The product can be homogenous
3. Which among the following is true for the Supreme Court of India?
- 1) Federal Court
- 2) Court of Appeal
- 3) Guardian of the Constitution
- 4) All of these
4. Who was the revolutionary leader who ended his days as a Swami of Ramakrishna Mission?
- 1) Ajit Singh
- 2) Aurobindo Ghosh
- 3) Jatindranath Bandopadhyay
- 4) Hemachandra Kanung
5. The "Red Shirts" movement was led by?
- 1) Maulana Azad
- 2) Mohammed Ali
- 3) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- 4) Asfaqulla Khan
6. In the context of non-conventional energy, what is the meaning of 'OTE'?
- 1) Ocean Tidal Energy
- 2) Ocean Thermal Energy
- 3) Ocean Tidal Electricity
- 4) Other Thermal Energy
7. The atomic bomb is based on the principle of
- 1) Uncontrolled nuclear fusion
- 2) Uncontrolled nuclear fission
- 3) Controlled nuclear fission
- 4) Controlled nuclear fusion
8. Systems running more than one process concurrently are called
- 1) Multiprocessing
- 2) Multiprogramming
- 3) Real time
- 4) Batch processing
9. Butter is a colloid formed when
- 1) Proteins are dispersed in water
- 2) Water is dispersed in fat
- 3) Fat globules are dispersed in water
- 4) Carbohydrates are dissolved in water
10. Charcoal can be made at home by burning
- 1) wood in absence of air
- 2) coal in absence of air
- 3) coal in an insufficient supply of air
- 4) wood in an insufficient supply of air
11. Depletion of ozone layer causes
- 1) Breast cancer
- 2) Skin cancer
- 3) Lung cancer
- 4) Blood cancer
12. SMOG is a combination of
- 1) Air and water vapour
- 2) Water and smoke
- 3) Fire and water
- 4) Smoke and fog
13. ATM is the abbreviated form of
- 1) Automatic Teller Machine
- 2) Automated Teller Machine
- 3) All Time Money
- 4) Automatic Tally Machine
14. The Chairman of NITI Ayog is
- 1) Industry Minister
- 2) Prime Minister
- 3) Finance Minister
- 4) Commerce Minister
15. The film 'Phoolan Devi' was directed by
- 1) Raj Kapoor
- 2) Shashi Kapoor
- 3) Shekhar Kapoor
- 4) Anil Kapoor
16. Which of the following is not a scheme/programme started by the NDA Government?
- 1) Mission Indradhanush
- 2) Jan Dhan Yojana
- 3) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
- 4) MNREGA
17. We are able to walk on earth without slipping because of
- 1) Gravitational force
- 2) Frictional force
- 3) Viscous force
- 4) Centrifugal force
18. Majority of the fungal bionts of lichens belong to
- 1) Baridiomycetes
- 2) Ascomycetes
- 3) Gomycetes
- 4) Deuteromycetes
19. Which of the following has open vascular system?
- 1) Cockroach
- 2) Human
- 3) Rat
- 4) Birds
20. The warm and cold ocean currents are caused by
- 1) Prevailing winds
- 2) Earth's rotation
- 3) Variations in density of sea water
- 4) All of these
21. Who was known as the Second founder of the Maratha Empire?
- 1) Balaji Bishwanath
- 2) Balaji Baji Rao
- 3) Baji Rao I
- 4) Madhav Rao
22. Mahatma Gandh's concept of 'Ram Rajya' was
- 1) A centralized government
- 2) A totalitarian state
- 3) A stateless society
- 4) Power in the hands of religious leaders
23. Credit Rationing in India is done by
- 1) RBI
- 2) SBI
- 3) LIC
- 4) Finance Ministry
24. The human faeces is yellow in colour due to the presence of a pigment called
- 1) Pepsin
- 2) Renin
- 3) Amylase
- 4) Urobilin
25. Where are coins minted in India?
- 1) Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata
- 2) Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad
- 3) Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore
- 4) Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Noida