OBJECTIVE-TYPE QUESTIONS

General Awareness
Staff Selection Commission Combined Preliminary (Graduate Level) Exam
held on the 27th February, 2000
1. Which two iron and steel plants have been setup in (a) Dick Francis
collaboration with former Soviet Union? (b) Vikram Seth
(a) Jamshedpur and Rourkela (c) Salman Rushdie
(b) Durgapur and Bokaro (e) Anurag Mathur
(c) Bhilai and Durgapur 10. Of the political parties supporting the NDAs
(d) Bokaro and Bhilai government at the Centre, after BJP, which political party has
2. Command Area Development Programme was the largest number of MPs in the Lok Sabha?
launched to: (a) DMK
(a) ensure that land is given to the tillers (b) JD(U)
(b) ensure better utilisation of irrigation potential (c) TDP
(c) development of land under Armys Command (d) Shiv Sena
(d) poverty alleviation in selected areas 11. Ashokas Dhamma can be best described as:
3. Which is the river across which Almatti dam is being (a) Modified form of Brahmanism
built? (b) A socio-ethical code of conduct
(a) Tungabhadra (c) Propagation of Bhakti
(b) Godavari (d) Modified form of Dharmasastra
(c) Krishna 12. Who was the founder of the City of Agra?
(d) Sharvathi (a) Mohammad Tughlaq
4. Who got a gold medal in every event he/she (b) Alauddin Khilji
participated at the SAF games held at Kathmandu in 1999? (c) Sikandar Lodhi
(a) Jaspal Rana (d) Ibrahim Lodhi
(b) Damayanti Darsha 13. After the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Peace Treaty
(c) Susanthika Jayasinghe was signed at:
(d) Nisha Millet (a) Versailles
5. Who holds the record for the highest number of runs (b) Berlin
in Test Cricket? (c) Vienna
(a) Sunil M. Gavaskar (d) Paris
(b) Geoffrey Boycott 14. Which of the following States was NOT annexed
(c) Allan Border under the Doctrine of Lapse?
(d) Gary Sobers (a) Satara
6. Who invented the Microprocessor? (b) Jhansi
(a) Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore (c) Awadh
(b) Georges Claude (d) Nagpur
(c) Gregory Pincus 15. Which of the following Indian States is broadly as
(d) Michael de Bakey large as the European nationGreece?
7. Who amongst the following is renowned in the field (a) Tamil Nadu
of instrumental musicShehnai? (b) Orissa
(a) Ustad Alla Rakha (c) Bihar
(b) Ustad Bismillah Khan (d) Assam
(c) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan 16. Water from an artesian well flows up automatically
(d) Pt Vishwamohan Bhat due to:
8. Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999? (a) heavy rainfall in region
(a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b) volcanic activity
(b) Guenter Grass (c) hydrostatic pressure
(c) Dario Fo (d) geothermal energy
(d) Tony Morrison 17. A coal mining area of the Damodar Valley is:
9. Who is the author of An Equal Music? (a) Korba

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(b) Sambhalpur (d) The Parliament

(c) Singareni 27. Panchayati Raj is organised at the:
(d) Raniganj (a) Village level
18. Which racial group does the tribals of Andaman (b) Village and block level
Islands resemble? (c) Village, block and district level
(a) Negrito (d) Village, block, district and State level
(b) Mongoloid 28. Which right in India is a constitutional right, but not
(c) Alpinoid a fundamental right?
(d) Nordic (a) Right to freedom of religion
19. If a country devalued its currency, it would be having (b) Cultural and Educational Rights
(a) floating exchange rate system (c) Right against exploitation
(b) fixed exchange rate system (d) Right to property
(c) exports would fall 29. Who certifies a bill to be a money bill in Indian States?
(d) dirty float (a) State Assembly Speaker
20. The crucial determinant of the size of the market is: (d) State Finance Minister
(a) Monetary expansion (c) Governor of the State
(b) Inducement for investment (d) Chief Justice of the High Court
(c) Productivity 30. The right to freedom from illegal detention is secured
(d) Savings through the writ of:
21. Which one of the following is not an example of direct (a) Mandamus
tax? (b) Prohibition
(a) Income Tax (c) Quo-warranto
(b) Wealth Tax (d) Habeas Corpus
(c) Gift Tax 31. Name the chemical used for removing air bubbles
(d) Sales Tax from glass during its manufacture.
22. According to the quantity theory, the quantity of money (a) Soda-ash
determines the: (b) Feldspar
(a) interest rate (c) Potassium Carbonate
(b) level of real output (d) Arsenious Oxide
(c) price level 32. Which form of Iron has got the highest carbon
(d) level of employment content?
23. A company is said to be sick when the accumulated (a) Mild Steel
loss at the end of any financial year leads to erosion of.... per (b) Stainless Steel
cent of its net worth. (c) Wrought Iron
(a) 100% (d) Cast Iron
(b) 75% 33. The information retrieval in a magnetic tape is
(c) 50% always:
(d) 25% (a) Random
24. Who is legally competent to declare war or conclude (b) Sequential
peace treaty? (c) Indexed Sequential
(a) The Prime Minister (d) Random Sequential
(b) The Council of Ministers 34. A green leaf placed in a dark room is illuminated by
(c) The President red light. The leaf will appear:
(d) The Parliament (a) green
25. Who decides the disputes regarding the election of (b) red
the Vice-President? (c) yellow
(a) The President (d) black
(b) The Parliament 35. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to
(c) The Supreme Court immunise against:
(d) The Election Commission (a) Whooping cough, tetanus and measles
26. Who decides the disputes regarding election of the (b) Whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria
President? (c) Tetanus, measles and rubella
(a) The Supreme Court (d) Tetanus, diphtheria and small pox
(b) The Supreme Court and the High Courts 36. This is mainly a water borne disease:
(c) The Election Commission (a) Malaria
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(b) Cold (b) a general change in the climate of this region

(c) Cholera (c) with expansion of irrigation it is more profitable to
(d) Mumps go for sugarcane cultivation
37. Rows of trees grown along the coastal areas to reduce (d) the increasing demand for sugar and the rising price
the impact of cyclones are known as: of sugar in the country
(a) Wind breaks
(b) Protection forests
(c) Mangroves ANSWERS
(d) Shelter belts 1. (d) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (d) 5. (a)
38. The most effective pesticide for general use against 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (b) 10. (c)
most garden pests is: 11. (b) 12. (c) 13. (a) 14. (d) 15. (b)
(a) Bordeaux mixture 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (b) 19. (b) 20. (b)
(b) Carbo furan 21. (d) 22. (c) 23. (c) 24. (c) 25. (c)
(c) Malathion 26. (a) 27. (c) 28. (d) 29. (a) 30. (d)
(d) Phosphamidon 31. (a) 32. (b) 33. (b) 34. (c) 35. (b)
39. Dialysis is the treatment given to a patient suffering 36. (c) 37. (c) 38. (c) 39. (c) 40. (c)
from: 41. (d) 42. (c) 43. (c) 44. (c)
(a) Lung problem
(b) Heart problem ADVERTORIAL
(c) Kidney problem

(d) Liver problem
40. Modern Forensic scientists are using a most recently
developed tool namely:
(a) NMR imaging
(b) Enzymology
(c) DNA Finger Printing
(d) Ultra Sound
41. The Government of India Act, 1935 provided for a
federation with the provinces and the princely States as its
units. Why did this part of the Act not come into force? Because:
(a) The Congress did not accept it
(b) The Muslim League did not accept it
(c) Some of the provinces did not accept it
(d) The rulers of the princely States did not consent to
join
42. What was the Hunter Commission appointed by the
British Government expected to look into?
(a) Bardoli Satyagraha
(b) Khilafat agitation
(c) Jallianwala Bagh massacre
(d) Chauri-Chaura incident
43. Why did Indians decide to boycott the Simon
Commission appointed to look into the working of the reforms
introduced under the Act of 1919? Because:
(a) it intended to provide Communal representation to
the untouchables
(b) it denied the Congress the right to nominate a Muslim
as a representative on the Commission
(c) it did not include any Indian as its member
(d) it accorded greater representation to the Muslims
than their numerical strength based on their strength
in Muslim minority areas
44. Cotton is facing competition from sugarcane in the
black soil areas of Maharashtra. This is due to:
(a) the declining yield of cotton in this region
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