Online General Awareness Test for SSC
1. The term gene was coined by–(A) Griffith (B) Muller
(C) Johannsen (D) Mendel
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2. Human nerve cells originate from the embryonic–
(A) Ectoderm (B) Ectoderm and mesoderm
(C) Endoderm (D) Mesoderm
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3. Which one of the following chemicals is not used as a food preservative?
(A) Benzoic acid (B) Citric acid
(C) Ethylene dichloride (D) Sodium chloride
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4. An irregular flat bone which forms the forehead region is the–
(A) frontal bone (B) parietal bone
(C) occipital bone (D) temporal bone
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5. Which of the following statements are correct about the Milky Way galaxy?
I. It consists of two components, the disc and the spherical.
II. It is roughly 10,000 light years in diameter.
III. At the very centre is a radio source, Sagittarius A.
IV. Many astronomers believe that the central object in the Milky Way is a black hole.
(A) I and III (B) I, II and III
(C) II, III and IV (D) I, III and IV
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6. The atmosphere around Neptune and Uranus appears to be blue-green because of the presence of which gas ?
(A) Methane (B) Carbon-dioxide
(C) Argon (D) Sulphur dioxide
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7. The Shipkila mountain pass is located in the State of –
(A) Arunachal Pradesh (B) Himachal Pradesh
(C) Jammu and Kashmir (D) Sikkim
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8. Temperate cyclones originate due to–
(A) convergence of warm and cold air currents
(B) divergence of air currents from high pressure belts
(C) crowding of different air currents against high pressure belts
(D) crowding of similar air currents against high pressure belts
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9. The Indus valley civilization was confined to–
(A) Punjab and Sindh
(B) Punjab, Sindh and Guajrat
(C) Punjab, Sindh and Rajasthan
(D) Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan, North-Western Frontier Province, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Western U.P.
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10. Shaktism centred on the worship of–
(A) Durga in one of her nine forms (B) Harappan Mother Goddess
(C) The Vedic Parvati (D) The Virgin Goddess, enshrined at Kanyakumari
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11. Who was the first foreign invader who invaded India–
(A) Cyrus (B) Darius-I
(C) Alexander (D) Ambhi
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12. At which of the following places was the headless statue of Kanishka found?
(A) Allahabad (B) Mathura
(C) Sanchi (D) Takshshila
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13. Taxila was the famous site of–
(A) Early Vedic art (B) Gandhara art
(C) Gupta art (D) Mauryan art
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14. The great bath was found in–
(A) Lothal (B) Harappa
(C) Mohenjo-daro (D) Baluchistan
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15. Who was the first Governor of India?
(A) Sinha (B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) Rajendra Prasad (D) Maharaja of Jaipur
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16. Where was the first session of the Indian National Congress held?
(A) Pune (B) Kolkata
(C) Mumbai (D) Madras
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17. Which Indian leader first used the word ‘Swarajya’?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Swami Dayanand (D) Swami Vivekanand
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18. In which year was Gandhiji assassinated?
(A) 1947 A.D. (B) 1948 A.D.
(C) 1949 A.D. (D) 1950 A.D.
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19. The Estimates Committee of Parliament–
(A) Examines the statements of accounts of the government
(B) Considers the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India
(C) Examines if the money is well laid out within policy limits
(D) Examines the budget before its presentation to Lok Sabha
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20. The guardian of the Constitution of India is the–
(A) Indian Parliament (B) Supreme Court of India
(C) Prime Minister of India (D) High Courts of States
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21. Who among the following is the Chairman of the National Integration Council?
(A) The President (B) The Vice-President
(C) The Prime Minister (D) The Chief Justice of India
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22. Which country has voted in a referendum seeking independence?
(A) Bosnia & Herzegovina (B) Slovenia
(C) Macedonia (D) Montenegro
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23. To which of the following patterns of social change, can the process of Sanskritization in India be compared?
(A) Anomie (B) Horizontal mobility
(C) Evolutionary process model (D) Reference group
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24. Public Sector consists of those enterprises in which the State owns–
(A) 50 percent of the capital (B) 66 percent of the capital
(C) 85 percent of the capital (D) 100 percent of the capital
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25. Macro Economics is a–
(A) study of aggregates (B) machine
(C) chemical analysis (D) branch in Engineering
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