AASHIRWAD CLASSES

G.A.T
SSC CGL - GENERAL AWARENESS

Time Allowed : 30 mins Maximum Marks : 40

Section A d) Only quantity axis

1) With which of the following was Satyajit Ray associated? 11) A sinkhole is a phenomenon of topography.
a) Classical music b) Journalism a) Desert b) Karst
c) Classical dance d) Direction of films c) Plain d) Tundra

2) Who amongst the following is a famous Sarod player? 12) What percentage of the world’s freshwater is stored as glacial
ice?
a) Amjad Ali Khan a) 70% b) 1O%
b) Zakir Hussain c) 50% d) 30%
c) Ram Narain
13) The Constitution of India bears the influence of the Constitu-
d) Hari Prasad Chourasia
tions of several countries. Which country exerts the greatest
3) The period of the Second Generation Computers was influence in the framing of the ’Directive Principles of State
a) 1940 - 1960 b) 1946 - 1958 Policy’ in our Contitution ?
c) 1965 - 1975 d) 1959 - 1964 a) France b) Japan
c) Ireland d) USSR
4) Kala Ghoda festival, India’s largest multi - cultural street
festival begins in which place? 14) In a solar or lunar eclipse, the region of earth’s shadow is
a) Panaji b) Mumbai divided into
c) Thiruvananthapuram d) Kolkata a) Four parts b) Five parts
c) Two parts d) Three parts
5) Excel displays the current cell address in the
a) Formula bar b) Status Bar 15) The largest irrigation canal in India is called the:
c) Title Bar d) Name Box a) Yamuna Canal b) Indira Gandhi Canal
c) Upper Bari Doab d) Sirhind Canal
6) The fourteen major banks in India were nationalised in the
a) 1967 b) 1971 16) The first phase of the Congress Party (1885 - 1905) was
c) 1968 d) 1969 characterized by its efforts to secure

7) Bank Rate refers to the interest rate at which a) Limited independence

b) Indianization of services
a) Commercial banks receive deposits from the public c) Complete freedom
b) Central bank gives loans to Commercial banks d) Constitutional reforms
c) Commercial banks grant loans to their customers
d) Government loans are floated 17) The infamous act of the partition of Bengal was proposed to
be done during the viceroyalty of:
8) Payment of water charges by the farmers to the government a) Lord Minto II b) Lord Curzon
represents c) Lord Elgin d) Lord Irwin
a) Final consumption 18) Who spoke : ”At the stroke of midnight. when the world
b) Fixed investment sleeps. India awakes to life and freedom”?
c) Intermediate consumption
d) Inventory investment a) C. Rajagopalachari
b) Mahatma Gandhi
9) ”World Development Report” is an annual publication of c) Jawaharlal Nehru
a) International Monetary Fund d) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
b) World Trade Organisation 19) Who was the Guru of Shivaji?
c) United Nations Development Programme a) Eknath b) Ramdas
d) International Bank of Reconstruction and Development c) Namdev d) Tukaram
10) A unit price elastic demand curve will touch 20) The practice of ’Jharokha darshan’ to the public was stopped
by:
a) Neither price axis, nor quantity axis
a) Shahjahan b) Jehangir
b) Only price axis
c) Aurangzeb d) None of these
c) Both price and quantity axis