Important Ssc Gk Questions set -12

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The best milch breed in the world is:

A) Sindhi

B) Chittagong

C) Deoni

D) Holstein - Friesian

d

Best way to conserve our water resources:

A) Rain water harvesting

B) Sustainable water utilization

C) Encouragement of natural regeneration of vegetation

D) All above

d

Constitutional Monarchy means:

A) The king is elected by the people

B) The king exercises his power as granted by the constitution

C) The king intreprets the constitution

D) The king writes the constitution

b

An enzyme produced by HIV that allows the integration of HIV DNA into the host cell's DNA is:

A) Integrase

B) Ligase

C) Helicase

D) DNA gyrase

a

Granite, quartzite areas have upstanding look because:

A) mechanically weathered faster

B) these rocks are not easily eroded

C) these rocks are resistant to all kinds of erosion

D) not easily worn down

b

Who was the first Indian women president of the United Nations General Assembly?

A) Margaret Thatcher

B) Sarojini Naidu

C) Golda Mayer

D) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

d

 SIDBI stands for:

A) Small Industries Development Bank of India

B) Small Industries Developmental Banker Institute

C) Small Innovations Development Banker's Institution

D) Small Industries Designed Bank of India

a

First Nobel Prize to India was given for:

A) Chemistry

B) Physics

C) Literature

D) Medicine

c

Muddy water is treated with alum in purification process, it is termed as:

A) absorption

B) adsorption

C) coagulation

D) emulsification

c

Who was the first speaker of the Lok Sabha?

A) Dr S P Mukherjee

B) B R Ambedkar

C) G V Mavalankar

D) N Sanjeev Reddy

c

Reserve Bank of India was nationalised in:

A) 1949

B) 1947

C) 1935

D) 1951

a

Which among the following is the sweetest sugar?

A) fructose

B) lactose

C) maltose

D) glucose

a.

fructose sweetest  lactose least sweet

Who intiated the movement to form the Indian National Congress?

A) Gandhiji

B) A O Hume

C) W C Banerjee

D) Annie Besant

b

Day and night are equal at the:

A) Antartic

B) Equator

C) Poles

D) Prime Meridian

b

Burns caused by steam are much more severe than those caused by boiling water because:

A) Steam has latent heat

B) Steam pierces through the pores of body quickly

C) Temperature of steam is higher

D) Steam is gas and engulfs the body quickly

a

The metal ion present in vitamin B12 is:

A) iron

B) nickel

C) cobalt

D) zinc

c

 Choose the correct option which represents the arrangement of atmospheric layers.

A) Exosphere, Troposphere, Ionosphere, Mesophere, Stratosphere

B) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesophere, Ionosphere, Exosphere

C) Mesophere, Ionosphere, Exosphere, Troposphere, Stratosphere

D) Ionosphere, Exosphere, Mesophere, Stratosphere, Troposphere

b

तुम से मिलने थी आई!!!

T S M The I E (Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Ionosphere Exosphere)

OR

Our Inner-consciousness says…

TruSt Me In The Exam

 Tr – Troposphere

 St – Stratosphere

 Me – Mesosphere

 In – Ionosphere

 The -Thermosphere

 Ex -Exosphere

Ultra purification of a metal is done by:

A) slagging

B) smelting

C) leaching

D) zone melting

d

 In which year the Indian National Congress formed?

A) 1875

B) 1835

C) 1885

D) 1901

c

. Which one among the following industries is the maximum consumer of water in India?

A) Thermal power

B) Engineering

C) Paper and pulp

D) Textile

a

Surplus budget is recommended during:

A) Depression

B) War

C) Famines

D) Boom

d

 Which of the following is called the Light House of the Mediterranean?

A) Paracutin of Mexico

B) Vesuvius of Italy

C) Stramboliy of Sicily

D) Mount Pelee of West Indies

c

 The layer of atmosphere close to the earth's surface is called:

A) Troposphere

B) Exosphere

C) Ionosphere

D) Stratosphere

a

A computer executes programs in the sequence of:

A) Store, Fetch, Execute

B) Decode, Fetch, Execute

C) Execute, Fetch, Decode

D) Fetch, Decode, Execute

d

 Microbial degradation of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen is known as:

A) Putrefaction

B) Nitrification

C) Denitrification

D) Ammonification

c

Radioactivity was discovered by:

A) Soddy

B) Curie

C) BecQueral

D) Rutherford

c

Gandhiji's famous Quit India Movement call to the British was given in:

A) 1943

B) 1940

C) 1942

D) 1941

c

 NABARD stands for:

A) National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development

B) National Business for Accounting and Reviewing

C) National Bureau for Air and Road Transport

D) National Bank for Aeronautics and Radar Development

a

 The One Rupee Note bears the signature of:

A) Secretary, Ministry of Finance

B) Governor, Reserve Bank of India

C) Finance Minister

D) None of these

a

The two specific heats of gases are related by:

A) Cp - Cv = RJ

B) Cp + Cv = RJ

C) Cp - Cv = R/J

D) Cp/Cv = R

a

What is plural voting system?

A) Candidates themselves caste more than one vote.

B) Eligible voter exercises one vote and some voters with specific qualifications cast more than one vote.

C) All the citizens cast three votes each

D) Only the higher officials cast more than one vote.

a

Plural voting is the practice whereby one person might be able to vote multiple times in an election. It is not to be confused with a plurality voting system which does not necessarily involve plural voting. Weighted voting is a generalisation of plural voting.

Evergreen type forests are found in:

A) Mediterranean region

B) Equatorial region

C) Monsoon climatic area

D) Desert region

b

Pulses are obtained from the family:

A) Leguminosae

B) Fungi

C) Liliaceae

D) Cycadaceae

a

 What is the currency of Saudi Arabia?

A) Lira

B) Pound

C) Dinar

D) Riyal

d

 Bangladesh was created in:

A) 1973

B) 1970

C) 1971

D) 1972

c

 Which of the following particles has the dual nature of particle-wave?

A) Electron

B) Proton

C) Meson

D) Neutron

a given  

 What is popular sovereignty?

A) sovereignty of the legal head

B) sovereignty of the head of state

C) sovereignty of the people

D) sovereignty of people's representative

c

Who of the following has given the term rhizosphere?

A) Hiltner

B) Garret

C) Alexopolus

D) None of the above

a

What is 'Reformation'?

A) Rise of absolute monarchy

B) Change in attitude of man

C) Revival of classical learning

D) The revolt against authority of pope

d

Which of the following options correctly explains the term 'heat budget'?

A) It is the balance between incoming and outgoing radiation.

B) It is the amount of heat which the surface of earth receives from the sun.

C) It is the radiation from the earth in the form of long waves.

D) It is a mode of transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity.

a

A heat budget is the perfect balance between incoming heat absorbed by earth and outgoing heat escaping it in the form of radiation. If the balance is disturbed, then earth would get progressively warmer or cooler with each passing year

The ash-grey soils of high altitude coniferous forests are known as:

A) Podsols

B) Grey-Brown soils

C) Red and Yellow soils

D) Tundra soils

a

a..an infertile acidic soil having an ash-like subsurface layer (from which minerals have been leached) and a lower dark stratum, occurring typically under temperate coniferous woodland.

The gene which exhibits multiple effects is known as:

A) Polygene

B) Complementary

C) Pseudogene

D) Pleiotropic

d

Pleiotropy occurs when one gene influences two or more seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits. Consequently, a mutation in a pleiotropic gene may have an effect on some or all traits simultaneously. An example is phenylketonuria, a human disease that affects multiple systems but is caused by one gene defect.

Economic profit or normal profit is the same as:

A) maximum profit

B) net profit

C) accounting profit

D) optimum profit

b

 Reverse transcription was discovered by:

A) Har Govind Khurana

B) Beadle and Tatum

C) Watson and Crick

D) Temin and Baltimore

d

Which of the following is in the ascending order of Data hierarchy?

A) bit-byte-Field-record-File-Database

B) bit-byte-record-Field-Database-File

C) byte-bit-File-record--Database-Field

D) Field-byte-bit-record-File-Database

a

Which of the following plant shows chloroplast dimorphism?

A) Sugar beet

B) Wheat

C) Rice

D) Sugarcane

d

Which among the following is a folk dance of India?

A) Mohiniattam

B) Manipuri

C) Garba

D) Kathakali

c

Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it. This was advocated by:

A) Sardar Patel

B) Lala Lajpat Rai

C) Lokmanya Tilak

D) Mahatma Gandhi

c

Raja Rammohan Roy was the founder of:

A) Prarthna Samaj

B) Arya Samaj

C) Brahmo Samaj

D) Ram Krishna Mission

c

Voting is:

A) Universal adult franchise.

B) The process by which voters exercise their right to vote.

C) The process of selecting representatives.

D) The unit of area who constitute a unit for electing representative.

b