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Re: SSC CGL important questions

As you want to get the previous year question papers of exam of Staff Selection Commission of Combined Graduate Level so here is the information of the same for you:

1. he famous economist Thomas Robert Malthus, in his views regarding population, is
(a) optimistic
(b) partly optimistic and partly pessimistic
(c) pessimistic
(d) None of the above

2. Non-insurable or uncertainty risk is
(a) change in fashion
(b) fire
(c) flood
(d) change in the price of that COMMODITY

3. GOLD Bullion Standard’ refers to
(a) gold coin as an unlimited legal tender
(b) gold as the measure of value
(c) free coinage of gold
(d) no restriction on import and export of gold

4. Laws made by the executive are called
(a) Delegated Legislation
(b) Preferred Legislation
(c) Rule of Law
(d) Administrative Law

5. The word ‘Oikonomia’ means
(a) Household Management
(b) Individual Management
(c) Political Management
(d) Fiscal Management

6. The word ‘Economics’ is taken from which language?
(a) French
(b) Greek
(c) German
(d) English

7. Which of the following is a merit of the presidential form of government?
(a) The fixed tenure of the executive gives it a great sense of stability
(b) It ensures speedy execution of policies
(c) It safeguards the liberty of the people
(d) All of the above

8. The two chambers of the Swiss Federal Assembly are called
(a) National Council and Council of States
(b) House of Lords and House of Commons
(c) Senate and House of Representatives
(d) None of the above

9. Name the Italian traveller who visited the Vijayanagar empire in 1420 AD
(a) Domingos Paes
(b) Edoardo Barbosa
(c) Nicolo de Conti
(d) Abdur Razzag

10. Which one of the following dynasties established an independent rule in Bijapur?
(a) Imad Shahi
(b) Nizam Shahi
(c) Qutb Shahi
(d) Adil Shahi

11. Who regarded the second chamber as needless, useless and worse?
(a) Laski
(b) Maclver
(c) Bentham
(d) Seeley

12. The tenure of the Swiss President is
(a) 3 yr
(b) 2 yr
(c) 4 yr
(d) 1 yr

13. Haemolymph is observed in
(a) Arthropods
(b) Echinoderms
(c) Ascaris
(d) Annelids

14. The virus without capsid but only with nucleic acids is called
(a) Capsomere
(b) Nucleoid
(c) Prion
(d) Virion

15. The immunity caused by the B-lymphocytes is called
(a) Sterile immunity
(b) Acquired Immunity
(c) Cellular Immunity
(d) Humoral Immunity

16. Who among the following enjoyed the patronage of Sultans from Balban to Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq?
(a) Ibn Batutah
(b) Badauni
(c) Zia-ud-din Barani
(d) Amir Khusrow

17. The Sufi movement originally started from
(a) Persia
(b) Delhi
(c) Lahore
(d) Kabul

18. Humayun was driven out of Hindustan in 1540 AD after the battle of
(a) Chausa
(b) Dourah
(c) Surajgarh
(d) Kannauj

19. Poly metallic nodules (also called manganese nodules) are found in concentrations
(a) on continental shelves
(b) in deep ocean beds
(c) on lake beds
(d) in beach sands

20. Spot the odd item in the following
(a) Meander
(b) Delta
(c) Bolson
(d) Ox-bow lake

21. Kandla port is located at
(a) Gulf of Khambat
(b) Kori Creek
(c) Gulf of Kutch
(d) None of these

22. Which of the following forests grows in waterlogged areas?
(a) Mangrove
(b) Evergreen
(c) Deciduous
(d) Coniferous

23. Nag Tiba and Mahabharat ranges are included in
(a) Sub-Himalayas
(b) Trans-Himalayas
(c) Greater Himalayas
(d) Lesser Himalayas

24. Pink mould is the common name for
(a) Aspergillus
(b) Rhizopus
(c) Neurospora
(d) Mucor

25. The sleeping sickness is caused by
(a) Escherichia
(b) Neisseria
(c) Entamoeba
(d) Trypanosoma

26. Combustion is a
(a) physicai and chemical process
(b) biological process
(c) physical process
(d) chemical process

27. Which of the following is not a form of carbon?
(a) Soot
(b) Hematite
(c) Graphite
(d) Charcoal

28. What is Dry Ice?
(a) Solid carbon dioxide
(b) Liquid nitrogen
(c) ice cubes and saw dust
(d) Ice cubes and salt

29. The gas commonly used in advertisement sign-boards and decorative lights is
(a) nitrogen
(b) chlorine
(c) hydrogen
(d) neon

30. Flow of blood in dorsal blood vessel of earthworm is
(a) sideward
(b) downward
(c) backward
(d) forward

31. Which of the following is biodegradable?
(a) Leather belts
(b) Silver foil
(c) Iron nails
(d) Plastic mugs

32. Fungi that grow on bark are said to be
(a) Xyiophilous
(b) Saxicolous
(c) Coprophilous
(d) Corticolous

33. To an astronaut in space the sky will appear to be
(a) violet
(b) red
(c) blue
(d) black

34. On a rainy day, small oily films on water show brilliant colours. This is due to
(a) scattering
(b) dispersion
(c) refraction
(d) polarisation

35. Natural radioactivity was discovered by
(a) Rutherford
(b) Marie Curie
(c) Henri Becquerel
(d) Enrico Fermi

36. Rainbow formation is due to
(a) absorption of sunlight by water droplets
(b) diffusion of sunlight through water droplets
(c) ionisation of water droplets
(d) refraction and reflection of sunlight by water droplets

37. CAD stands for
(a) Computer Automatic Design
(b) Computer Aided Decode
(c) Computer Automatic Decode
(d) Computer Aided Design

38. Unix operating system is generally known as
(a) Multi User Operating System
(b) General Application
(c) Single User Operating System
(d) Single User Application Program

39. Who holds the world record as the youngest person to climb Mount Everest?
(a) Santosh Yadav
(b) Phu Dorjee
(c) Bachendri Pal
(d) Dicky Dolma

40. Hyperplasia means
(a) abnormal increase in number of cells
(b) an increase in size of a cell
(c) excessive motility of muscle
(d) voracious eating

41. The part of root involved in water absorption is
(a) zone of elongation
(b) zone of root cap
(c) zone of cell division
(d) zone of root hairs

42. Who is the Prime Minister of Australia?
(a) Tony Abbott
(b) Kevin Rudd
(c) Julia Gillard
(d) None of these

43. Which of the parent country of mobile giant ‘Nokia’?
(a) Finland
(b) Sweden
(c) Spain
(d) Germany

44. Where was the Joint G-20 Finance and Labour Ministers Meeting held on July 19, 2013?
(a) New York
(b) Paris
(c) Moscow
(d) London

45. Which is the largest man-made lake?
(a) Baikal
(b) Wullar
(c) Govind Sagar
(d) Rana Pratap Sagar

46. Who took oath as the President of Iran on August 4, 2013?
(a) Hassan Rouhani
(b) Mohammad Bashir Ahmad
(c) Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
(d) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

47. Who was sworn-in as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations by Joe Biden on August 1, 2013?
(a) Rosemary DiCarlo
(b) Samantha Power
(c) Zalmay Khalizad
(d) Susan Rice

48. Who won the ROGERS Cup women’s singles in lawn tennis in 2013?
(a) Victoria Azarenka
(b) Agnieszka Radwanska
(c) Maria Sharapova
(d) Serena Williams

49. Who was appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama on August 19, 2013?
(a) Adly Mansour
(b) Sasikumar Venkat
(c) Amal Allana
(d) Ratan Thiyam

50. To which channel did the International Olympic Committee sell the broadcasting rights for 2014 and 2016 Olympics?
(a) Set Max
(b) Zee sports
(c) STAR India
(d) Doordarshanz

Answer Key

1.c 6.b 11.c 16.c 21.c 26.d 31.a 36.d 41.d 46.a
2.c 7.a 12.d 17.a 22.a 27.b 32.d 37.d 42.a 47.b
3.b 8.a 13.a 18.d 23.d 28.a 33.d 38.a 43.a 48.d
4.a 9.c 14.b 19.b 24.b 29.d 34.b 39.d 44.c 49.d
5.a 10.d 15.d 20.c 25.d 30.d 35.c 40.a 45.c 50.c

1. Social accounting system in India classified into is
(a) enterprise, households and government
(b) assets, liabilities and debt position
(c) public sector, private sector and joint sector
(d) income, product and expenditure

2. Forced savings refer to
(a) taxes on individual income and wealth
(b) compulsory deposits imposed on income tax payers
(c) provident FUND contribution of private sector employees
(d) reduction of consumption consequent to a rise in prices

3. The demand for labour is called
(a) direct demand
(b) derived demand
(c) factory demand
(d) MARKET demand

4. Which of the following is not an INVESTMENT expenditure in goods and services?
(a) Purchase of a house
(b) Purchase of a machinery
(c) An increase in business inventories
(d) Expansion of the main plant of a company

5. Which one of the following represents the savings of the private corporate sector?
(a) Total profits of a company
(b) Undistributed profits
(c) Excess of income over expenditure
(d) Dividends paid to share holders

6. Who presides over the joint session of Indian Parliament?
(a) President of India
(b) Chairperson of Rajya Sabha
(c) Senior most Member of Parliament
(d) Speaker of Lok Sabha

7. Division of powers and independent Judiciary are the two important features of
(a) unitary form of Government
(b) democratic form of Government
(c) federal form of Government
(d) socialist form of Government

8. Which article of the Indian Constitution did Dr BR Ambedkar term as the ‘Heart and Soul of the Indian Constitution’?
(a) Article 19
(b) Article 356
(c) Article 32
(d) Article 14

9. Who was the first to use the term ‘State’?
(a) Plato
(b) Aristotle
(c) Machiavelli
(d) Hobbes

10. Under which article of the Constitution of India, can the fundamental rights of the members of the Armed Forces be specifically restricted?
(a) Article 19
(b) Article 21
(c) Article 25
(d) Article 33

11. Pulakesin II was the greatest ruler of the
(a) Chalukyas of Badami
(b) Chalukyas of Kalyani
(c) Pallavas of Kanchi
(d) Cholas of Tamil Nadu

12. The Uttaramerur inscription provides information on the administration of the
(a) Satavahanas
(b) Pallavas
(c) Cholas
(d) Chalukyas

13. Pitts India Act of 1784 was a/an
(a) regulating act
(b) ordinance
(c) resolution
(d) white paper

14. Which one of the following statements is not true in respect of AO Hume?
(a) He was a member of the Indian Civil Service
(b) He founded the Indian National Congress
(c) He presided over the Congress Annual Sessions twice
(d) He was an ornithologist

15. Which of the following movements saw the biggest peasant guerilla war on the eve of independence?
(a) Tebhaga Movement
(b) Punnapra Vayalar Movement
(c) Telangana Movement
(d) Noakhali Movement

16. Maps on large scale, representing both natural and man-made features are called
(a) Topographic maps
(b) Thematic maps
(c) Atlas maps
(d) Wall maps

17. Which river in India flows in a rift-valley?
(a) Tapti
(b) Narmada
(c) Krishna
(d) Cauvery

18. A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land masses is called
(a) peninsula
(b) cape
(c) isthmus
(d) strait

19. Tiny marine animals which constitute limestone skeletons are called
(a) foraminifera
(b) coral reefs
(c) diatoms
(d) clamitomonous

20. Apatanis are the major tribal group of
(a) Nagaland
(b) Sikkim
(c) Arunachal Pradesh
(d) Jharkhand

21. Which of the following plant pigments absorbs in red and far-red region of light?
(a) Chlorophyll
(b) Phytochrome
(c) Cryptochrome
(d) Carotenoids

22. The process through which excess of light energy is dissipated in photosynthesis is known as
(a) scavenging
(b) photolysis
(c) photophosphorylation
(d) quenching

23. AIDS virus destroys
(a) rnonocytes
(b) neutrophils
(c) basophils
(d) lymphocytes

24. Teeth and Bones acquire strength and rigidity from
(a) fluorine
(b) chlorine
(c) sodium
(d) calcium

25. The type of tail found in Shark is
(a) homocercal
(b) heterocercal
(c) diphycercal
(d) protocercal

26. The Sigmoid Colon is part of
(a) anal canal
(b) large Intestine
(c) ileum
(d) small Intestine

27. A good conductor while carrying current is
(a) negatively charged
(b) positively charged
(c) electrically neutral
(d) alternately charged positive and negative

28. The angle between the magnetic meridian and the geographical meridian at a place is
(a) dip
(b) declination
(c) latitude
(d) azimuth

29. The device used for measuring the wavelength of X-rays is
(a) cyclotron
(b) bragg spectrometer
(c) mass spectrometer
(d) GM counter

30. Alpha particle is the nucleus of an atom of
(a) hydrogen
(b) helium
(c) oxygen
(d) lthium

31. Who is the founder of ‘Facebook’ which is currently the No.1 social networking website in India?
(a) Martin Cooper
(b) Orkut Buyukkokten
(c) Mark Zuckerberg
(d) Bill Gates

32. In programming, repeating some statements is usually called
(a) structure
(b) looping
(c) control structure
(d) compiling

33. Silicon is a polymer of
(a) Silicon tetrachloride
(b) Dialkyl dichloro silane
(c) Silane
(d) Tetraalkyl silane

34. Which is a natural colloid?
(a) Urea
(b) Cane-sugar
(c) Blood
(d) Sodium chloride

35. Which one of the following does not contain silver?
(a) Lunar caustic
(b) German silver
(c) Horn silver
(d) Ruby silver

36. The presence of cobalt in vitamin B12 was established for the first time by
(a) spectroscopy
(b) borax-Bead test
(c) sodium nitroprusside test
(d) hydrolysis test

37. Which bacterial strain developed from natural isolates by genetic manipulations can be used for treating oil spills?
(a) Agrobacterium
(b) Clostridum
(c) Nitrosomonas
(d) Pseudomonas

38. Coating of solid waste with impervious material is known as
(a) Chemical fixation
(b) landfill
(c) capping
(d) encapsulation

39. Ultraviolet rays can used in water treatment as
(a) precipitator
(b) hydrolyser
(c) disinfectant
(d) flocculator

40. Thiamidine dimer formation in DNA is caused by
(a) X-rays
(b) b and g -rays
(c) UV-rays
(d) IR-rays

41. Winner of the Australian Open Men’s Singles Title in 2013 is
(a) Andy Murray
(b) Rogaer Federer
(c) Novak Djokovic
(d) David Ferrer

42. Who among the following Presidents of MCC was a non-professional cricketer?
(a) Colin Cowdrey
(b) Peter May
(c) Christopher Martin Jenkin
(d) Ted Dexter

43. Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2012?
(a) UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(b) International Atomic Energy Agency
(c) Liu Xiaobo
(d) European Union

44. Who won the Jnanpith Award for 2011?
(a) Sitakant Mahapatra
(b) Sachidananda Routray
(c) Pratibha Ray
(d) Gopinath Mohanty

45. Who is the author of the book “No Full Stops in India”?
(a) Ved Mehta
(b) Nirad C Choudhuri
(c) Mark Tully
(d) RK Narayan

46. Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched?
(a) Red Square - Moscow
(b) Tiananmen Square – Beijing
(c) Tahrir Square - Abu Dhabi
(d) Trafalgar Square - London

47. The term of a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council is
(a) 6 months
(b) 1 yr
(c) 2 yr
(d) 3 yr

48. Who is the Chairman of the 20th Law Commission?
(a) Justice JS Verma
(b) Justice KG Balakrishnan
(c) Justice DK Jain
(d) Justice Usha Mehra

49. Julia Gillard is the Prime Minister of
(a) Belgium
(b) Canada
(c) Australia
(d) New Zealand

50. Which is the first state in India to pass the Food Security Law?
(a) Kerala
(b) Chhattisgarh
(c) Gujarat
(d) Punjab

Answer Key
1.c 6.d 11.a 16.a 21.a 26.b 31.c 36.b 41.c 46.c
2.d 7.c 12.c 17.b 22.b 27.a 32.a 37.a 42.c 47.c
3.c 8.c 13.b 18.d 23.d 28.c 33.a 38.b 43.d 48.c
4.c 9.c 14.c 19.b 24.d 29.b 34.b 39.c 44.c 49.c
5.a 10.d 15.a 20.c 25.b 30.b 35.b 40.c 45.c 50.b


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