General Awarness Question for SSC CGL Exam 2013

1.        Who helped Harshvardhan against Gaur king Shashanka?

(A)          Pulkeshin-II

(B)    Diwakar mitra

(C)    Bhashkar varman

(D)    Rajyavardhan

2.        Who released Sahu the grandson of Shivaji, from the mughal arrest?

(A)          Bahadur Shah - I

(B)    Farrukhsiyar

(C)    Muhammad Shah

(D)    Shah Alam - II

3.        Which of the following British officer was impeached ?

(A) Warren Hastings (B) Clive

(C) Lord Hastings    (D) Cornwallis

4.        Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan was also known as
(A) Young Turk            (B) Young Gandhi

(C) Afghan Gandhi   (D) Frontier Gandhi

5.        Conversion of sound energy into electrical energy is done by

(A) Solar cell                (B) Gramophone

(C) Microphone            (D) Loudspeaker

6.        A small gap is left at the joints of rails in a railway track to

(A)       avoid the tracks being distorted due to seasonal temperature variation

(B)  avoid the heating of tracks to high temperature

(C)  control the speed of train

(D)  keep the rail equidistant

7.        Which of the following criterion is used for any metal to be used as a cooking material?

(A)   More specific heat

(B)   More thermal conductivity

(C)   Less thermal conductivity

(D)   Less electrical conductivity

8.        Sodium vapour lamps glow with yellow colour. This is due to

(A)       sublimation of sodium to emit yellow colour

(B)  the emission of excess energy absorbed by sodium atoms in the yellow region of the spectrum

(C)  the low ionisation energy of sodium

(D)  its ability to absorb all other colours except yellow

9.        Saline and alkaline soils in India are also called as

(A) Kallar                    (B) Khadar

(C) Regur                    (D) Bangar

10.      Sea water is saltier than rain water because

(A)  rivers wash away salts from earth and pour them into the sea

(B)  sea beds have salt producing mines

(C)  sea animals are salt producing

(D)  the air around the sea is saltish

11.      Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

(A)        Bhilai Steel Plant - Maharashtra

(B)        Bokaro Steel Plant - Jharkhand

(C)        Rourkela Steel Plant - Odisha

(D)        Durgapur Steel Plant - West Bengal

12.         The sugar present in DNA is

(A) Pentose                 

(B) Xylulose

(C) Hexose                 

(D) Heptulose

13.    A seed can germinate in the absence of

(A)      adequate light

(B)      supply of oxygen

(C)      suitable moisture

(D)      suitable temperature

14.    Capital Market Regulator is:

(A) RBI                      

(B) SEBI

(C) IRDA                   

(D) NSE

15.    Gandhiji published "Indian Opinion" from –

(A) South Africa      

(B) Ahmedabad

(C) London                

(D) Port land

16.      All the ecosystems taken together in a geographical area form a bigger unit called:
(A) territory                 

         (B) biome

(C) community           

(D) biosphere

17.      Who was the last Mughal emperor to sit on Pea-cock throne?

(A)     Bahadur Shah - I

(B)         Muhammad Shah

(C)         Ahmad Shah

(D)         Bahadur Shah - II

18.      The policy of racial discrimination followed in South Africa was called:

(A)      Civil Rights Movement

(B)      Apartheid

(C)      Suffrage

(D)      Non-Aligned

19.      Monetary policy in India is formulated by:
(A) RBI                      

           (B) SEBI

(C) CLB                     

(D) Finance Ministry

20.      Consumer's surplus is the highest in the case of:

(A) luxuries                 

(B) comforts

(C) necessities             

(D) durable goods

22.      Which one of the following pair of goods is an example of Joint Supply?

(A)   Ink and Pen

(B)   Tooth brush and Paste

(C)   Wool and meat of sheep

(D)   Coffee and Tea

23.      In Indian constitution the power to issue a writ of ‘Habeas corpus’ is vested only in -

(A)          The Supreme Court

(B)    The High Court

(C)    The Supreme Court and The High Court

(D)    Lower Court

24.      Under which article the Parliament of India can legislate on any subject in the state
list in national interest?

(A) Article 229             (B) Article 230

(C) Article 247             (D) Article 249

25.      Governments are classified as Parliamentary and Presidential on the basis of

(A)          relation between the politician and civil servants.

(B)    written and unwritten constitutions.

(C)    relation between the legislature and executive.

(D)    rigid and flexible constitutions.

26.      Which of the following is a chief charateristics of the Parliamentry system of Government in India?

(A)          Autocracy of the Parliament

(B)    Responsible Government

(C)    Non-Responsible Government

(D)    Supremacy of judiciary

27.      Usually which one of the following is not a member of National Development Council (NDC)?

(A)          Cabinet Ministers of union Government

(B)    All members of Planning Commission

(C)    Chief Ministers of all the states

(D)    Governor of all the states.

28.      The High Court which has the distinction of having the first woman Chief Justice is:

(A)  Allahabad High Court

(B)  Delhi High Court

(C)  Himachal Pradesh High Court

(D)  Guwahati High Court

29.      Who was the first Muslim President of Indian National Congress?

(A)  Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(B)  Hasan Imam

(C)  M. A. Ansari

(D)  Badruddin Tyabji

30.      Which of the following is the world's largest desert?

(A)      Gobi

(B)  Sahara

(C)   The Great Australian Desert

(D)   Arabian Desert

31.      The rate of erosion in a stream is lowest where              .

(A)   breadth is greater

(B)   velocity is more

(C)   the river joins the sea

(D)   depth is greater

32.      The name 'Sahyadri' is related to

(A)  Western Ghats

(B)  Cyclone hazards

(C)  A rain- bearing wind

(D)  Himalayan Peak

33.      Tides in the sea have stored in them __________  .

(A)  Hydraulic energy

(B)  Kinetic energy

(C)  Gravitational energy

(D)  A combination of all the three forms of energy

34.      The source of energy in the Sun is ___________  .

(A) nuclear fission   (B) nuclear fusion

(C) radioactivity       (D) electrical energy

35.      Which one of the following materials is used as controller in a nuclear reactor power generator?

(A) Cadmium             

(B) Beryllium

(C) Graphite               

(D) Heavy water

36. ________  is a type of application software used for communication.

(A) FTP                      

(B) Word processing

(C) Database              

(D) Image editing

37.      MDI stands for

(A)       Multiple Document Interface

(B)  Multiple Design Interface

(C)  Multiple Design Interaction

(D)  Multiple Document Interaction

38.      Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistan Prime Minister was assassinated in

(A) Hyderabad            

(B) karachi

(C) Rawalpindi            

(D) Islamabad

39.      Which of the following is correctly matched?

Research Institutes     Headquarters

(A)   Leather Research    –   Lucknow Institute

(B)   Rice Research               –   Cuttack Institute

(C)   Silk Research                –   Bangalore Institute

(D)   Sugar Research        –   Chennai Institute

40.      Who was affectionately known as the 'Grand Old Man of India'?

(A)  Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(B)  Mahatma Gandhi

(C)  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(D)  Dadabhai Naoroji

43.      The Pulitzer Prize is associated with which of the following?

(A)   Environment Protection

(B)   Civil Aviation

(C)   Journalism

(D)   Olympic Games

44.      The heat treatment applied to milk before distribution to stablize it and make it free from bacteried is called

(A) Homogenisation

(B) Pasteurisation

(C) Fermentation   

 (D) Coagulation

45.      The two metal ions that cause hardness to water are:

(A)  Sodium, Magnesium

(B)  Calcium, Magnesium

(C)  Sodium, Calcium

(D) Sodium, Potassium

46.      Barack Hussain Obama belongs to which of the following political parties?

(A)  Labour

(B)  Democratic

(C)  Republican

(D)   American National Conference

47.      Which of the following states issued the first UID card.

(A) Gujarat                 

(B) Assam

(C) Maharastra           

(D) West Bengal

48.      According to the 2001 Census urban – rural population ratio in India is about

(A) 25 : 75                  

(B) 35 : 65

(C) 32 : 68                  

(D) 28 : 72

49.      In World Cup Cricket 2011, Sri Lanka defeated which team in the semi-final?
(A) Netherlands       

            (B) India

(C) South Africa     

 (D) New Zealand

50.      Recently Indian Navy punished Somalian sea pirated in

(A)  Near Suez Canal

(B)  Bay of Bengal

(C)  Gulf of Aden

(D)  Near Red Sea