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Solved Question Paper of SSC Combined Graduate Level Exam 2010 (2nd shift) : Set - 1
General Knowledge
1. Which of the following is not a nucleon ?
- a) Proton
- b) Neutron
- c) Electron
- d) Positron
Correct Answer: (c)
2. TRIPS and TRIMS are the terms associated with
- a) IMF
- b) WTO
- c) IBRD
- d) IDA
Correct Answer: (b)
3) The acceleration due to gravity at the equator
- a) Is less than that at the poles
- b) Is greater than that at the poles
- c) Is equal to that at the poles
- d) Does not depend on the earth’s centripetal acceleration
Correct Answer: (a)
4) During period of inflation, tax rates should
- a) Increase
- b) Decrease
- c) Remain constant
- d) Fluctuate
Correct Answer: (a)
5) NIS stands for
- a) National Infectious diseases Seminar
- b) National Irrigation Schedule
- c) National Immunisation Schedule
- d) National Information Sector
Correct Answer: (c)
6) Angle of friction and angle of repose are
- a) Equal to each other
- b) Not equal to each other
- c) Proportional to each other
- d) None of the above
Correct Answer: (a)
7) India attained ‘Dominion Status’ on
- a) 15th January, 1947
- b) 15th August, 1947
- c) 15th August, 1950
- d) 15th October, 1947
Correct Answer: (b)
8) A Presidential Ordinance can remain in force
- a) For three months
- b) For six months
- c) For nine months
- d) Indefinitely
Correct Answer: (b)
9) Which of the following Indonesian regions was a victim of massive earthquake in 2004 ?
- a) Irian Jaya
- b) Sumatra
- c) Kalibangan
- d) Java
Correct Answer: (b)
10) The first nonstop airconditioned ‘DURANTO’ train was flagged off between
- a) Sealdah—New Delhi
- b) Mumbai—Howrah
- c) Bangalore—Howrah
- d) Chennai—New Delhi
Correct Answer: (a)
11) The terms ‘Micro Economics’ and ‘Macro Economics’ were coined by
- a) Alfred Marshall
- b) Ragner Nurkse
- c) Ragner Frisch
- d) J.M. Keynes
Correct Answer: (c)
12) Which among the following agencies released the report, Economic Outlook for 2009-10 ?
- a) Planning Commission
- b) PM’s Economic Advisory Council
- c) Finance Commission
- d) Reserve Bank of India
Correct Answer: (b)
13) What happens to a person who receives the wrong type of blood ?
- a) All the arteries constrict
- b) All the arteries dialates
- c) The RBCs agglutinate
- d) The spleen and lymphnodes deteriorate
Correct Answer: (c)
14) Windows 7, the latest operating system from Microsoft Corporation has ............... Indian languages fonts.
- a) 14
- b) 26
- c) 37
- d) 49
Correct Answer: (b)
15) The Speaker of the Lok Sabha has to address his/her letter of resignation to
- a) Prime Minister of India
- b) President of India
- c) Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha
- d) Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Correct Answer: (c)
16) If all bullets could not be removed from gun shot injury of a man, it may cause poisoning by
- a) Mercury
- b) Lead
- c) Iron
- d) Arsenic
Correct Answer: (b)
17) Processor’s speed of a computer is measured in
- a) BPS
- b) MIPS
- c) Baud
- d) Hertz
Correct Answer: (d)
18) The isotope used for the production of atomic energy is
- a) U-235
- b) U-238
- c) U-234
- d) U-236
Correct Answer: (a)
19) The material used in the manufacture of lead pencil is
- a) Graphite
- b) Lead
- c) Carbon
- d) Mica
Correct Answer: (a)
20) Silver halides are used in photographic plates because they are
- a) Oxidised in air
- b) Soluble in hyposolution
- c) Reduced by light
- d) Totally colourless
Correct Answer: (b)
21) India and U.S. have decided to finalize agreements related to which of the following ?
- a) Trade and Investment
- b) Intellectual Property
- c) Traditional Knowledge
- d) All of the above
Correct Answer: (d)
22) Which one of the following states does not form part of Narmada River basin?
- a) Madhya Pradesh
- b) Rajasthan
- c) Gujarat
- d) Maharashtra
Correct Answer: (b)
23) Which of the following countries has recently become the third largest market for Twitter ?
- a) China
- b) India
- c) Brazil
- d) Indonesia
Correct Answer: (a)
24) A want becomes a demand only when it is backed by the
- a) Ability to purchase
- b) Necessity to buy
- c) Desire to buy
- d) Utility of the product
Correct Answer: (d)
25) Sarkaria Commission was concerned with
- a) Administrative Reforms
- b) Electoral Reforms
- c) Financial Reforms
- d) Centre-State relations
Correct Answer: (d)
26) The exchange of commodities between two countries is referred as
- a) Balance of trade
- b) Bilateral trade
- c) Volume of trade
- d) Multilateral trade
Correct Answer: (b)
27) Ringworm is a ................. disease.
- a) Bacterial
- b) Protozoan
- c) Viral
- d) Fungal
Correct Answer: (d)
28) Which is the biggest tax paying sector in India ?
- a) Agriculture sector
- b) Industrial sector
- c) Transport sector
- d) Banking sector
Correct Answer: (d)
29) Soil erosion on hill slopes can be checked by
- a) Afforestation
- b) Terrace cultivation
- c) Strip cropping
- d) Contour ploughing
Correct Answer: (a)
30) The excess of price a person is to pay rather than forego the consumption of the commodity is called
- a) Price
- b) Profit
- c) Producers’ surplus
- d) Consumers’ surplus
Correct Answer: (c)
31) Pituitary gland is situated in
- a) The base of the heart
- b) The base of the brain
- c) The neck
- d) The abdomen
Correct Answer: (b)
32) According to RBI’s Report on the trend and progress of banking, the Non-performing Assets (NPA’s) in India for 2008-09 for Indian Banks in 2008 have stood at
- a) 2.3 per cent
- b) 2.6 per cent
- c) 3.5 per cent
- d) 5.2 per cent
Correct Answer: (b)
33) Despotism is possible in a
- a) One party state
- b) Two party state
- c) Multi party state
- d) Two and multi party state
Correct Answer: (a)
34) Curie point is the temperature at which
- a) Matter becomes radioactive
- b) A metal loses magnetic properties
- c) A metal loses conductivity
- d) Transmutation of metal occurs
Correct Answer: (b)
35) 'C' language is a
- a) Low level language
- b) High level language
- c) Machine level language
- d) Assembly level language
Correct Answer: (b)
36) Which of the following is called the ‘ecological hot spot of India’ ?
- a) Western Ghats
- b) Eastern Ghats
- c) Western Himalayas
- d) Eastern Himalayas
Correct Answer: (a)
37) The art and science of map making is called
- a) Remote Sensing
- b) Cartography
- c) Photogrammetry
- d) Mapping
Correct Answer: (b)
38) The age of the Earth can be determined by
- a) Geological Time Scale
- b) Radio-Metric Dating
- c) Gravity method
- d) Fossilization method
Correct Answer: (b)
39) Who coined the word ‘Geography’?
- a) Ptolemy
- b) Eratosthenese
- c) Hecataus
- d) Herodatus
Correct Answer: (b)
40) Which one of the following is the guardian of Fundamental Rights ?
- a) Legislature
- b) Executive
- c) Political parties
- d) Judiciary
Correct Answer: (d)
41) Who discovered cement?
- a) Agassit
- b) Albertus Magnus
- c) Joseph Aspdin
- d) Janseen
Correct Answer: (c)
42) The monk who influenced Ashoka to embrace Buddhism was
- a) Vishnu Gupta
- b) Upa Gupta
- c) Brahma Gupta
- d) Brihadratha
Correct Answer: (b)
43) “Economics is what it ought to be.” — This statement refers to
- a) Normative economics
- b) Positive economics
- c) Monetary economics
- d) Fiscal economics
Correct Answer: (a)
44) Which Governor General is associated with Doctrine of Lapse ?
- a) Lord Ripon
- b) Lord Dalhousie
- c) Lord Bentinck
- d) Lord Curzon
Correct Answer: (b)
45) Who among the following was an illiterate ?
- a) Jahangir
- b) Shah Jahan
- c) Akbar
- d) Aurangazeb
Correct Answer: (c)
46) The Lodi dynasty was founded by
- a) Ibrahim Lodi
- b) Sikandar Lodi
- c) Bahlol Lodi
- d) Khizr Khan
Correct Answer: (c)
47) Harshavardhana was defeated by
- a) Prabhakaravardhana
- b) Pulakesin II
- c) Narasimhavarma Pallava
- d) Sasanka
Correct Answer: (b)
48) Marx belonged to
- a) Germany
- b) Holland
- c) France
- d) Britain
Correct Answer: (a)
49) The declaration that Democracy is a Government 'of the people, by the people; for the people' was made by
- a) George Washington
- b) Winston Churchill
- c) Abraham Lincoln
- d) Theodore Roosevelt
Correct Answer: (c)
50) Tetra Ethyl Lead (TEL) is
- a) A catalyst in burning fossil fuel
- b) An antioxidant
- c) A reductant
- d) An antiknock compound
Correct Answer: (d)