Solved Question Paper of SSC Cabinet Secretariat RO(ECO), DFO(T) and DFO(GD) TIER-I Exam 2013
General Knowledge
1. The headquarters of RBI is in:
a) Delhi
b) Kanpur
c) Mumbai
d) Nasik
Correct Answer: (c)
2. Which one of the following is not included in the foreign-exchange reserves of India?
a) Foreign-currency assets held by the RBI
b) Gold holding of the RBI
c) Silver holding of the RBI
d) SDRs
Correct Answer: (c)
3. The number of workers who would offer themselves for employment at different wage rates is known as:
a) Labour Market
b) Demand for Labour
c) Supply of Labour
d) Surplus Labourers
Correct Answer: (c)
4. Which one of the following is not a factor of production?
a) Land
b) Organisation
c) Capital
d) Technology
Correct Answer: (b)
5. As income increases the demand for inferior goods:
a) increase
b) remains constant
c) fluctuates
d) decreases
Correct Answer: (d)
6. Quo-warranto means:
a) without authority
b) with what authority
c) a warrant
d) petition
Correct Answer: (b)
7. The Government of India Act of 1935 was the outcome of:
a) First Round Table Conference
b) Second Round Table Conference
c) Third Round Table Conference
d) Communal Award
Correct Answer: (d)
8. The Lokayukta and Upalokayukta Act was first passed in:
a) Maharashtra
b) West Bengal
c) Karnataka
d) Odisha
Correct Answer: (a)
9. Who said, "Socialism is like a hat that has lost its shape because everybody wears it"?
a) C.E.M. Joad
b) Karl Marx
c) V.I. Lenin
d) H.J. Laski
Correct Answer: (a)
10. Who supported the principle of "survival of the fittest"?
a) The Utilitarians
b) The Socialists
c) The Individualists
d) The Fascists
Correct Answer: (d)
11. One of the most controversial projects of Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq was:
a) Market Control
b) Iqta System
c) friendship with the Mongols
d) introduction of token currency
Correct Answer: (d)
12. Nishka, a type of coin was used during _________ period.
a) Guptas
b) Bahmanis
c) Pallavas
d) Vedic
Correct Answer: (a)
13. The King who called himself Devanampriya and Priyadarshi was:
a) Bindusara
b) Bimbisara
c) Ashoka
d) Harshavardhana
Correct Answer: (c)
14. Sher Shah became the Emperor of Delhi after defeating Humayun in the battle of:
a) Kannauj
b) Khanva
c) Goghra
d) Panipat
Correct Answer: (a)
15. Who among the following Bhakti saints has been regarded by his follower as an incarnation of Vishnu?
a) Chaitanya
b) Namdev
c) Ramananda
d) Ramanuja
Correct Answer: (a)
16. Which one of the following is not a Biosphere Reserve?
a) Gulf of Mannar
b) Nilgiris
c) Sunderbans
d) Kaziranga
Correct Answer: (d)
17. Where is the Coral Sea located?
a) Eastern part of Carribean Sea
b) North-Eastern part of Australia
c) Western part of Europe
d) Western part of North America
Correct Answer: (b)
18. The capacity of rock to allow water to pass through is called:
a) Permeability
b) Jointing
c) Hardness
d) Porosity
Correct Answer: (a)
19. Which of the following is called the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes?
a) Finland
b) Minnesota (USA)
c) Canada
d) India
Correct Answer: (b)
20. The region best known for the production of grapes is:
a) Tropical
b) Equatorial
c) Mediterranean
d) Monsoon
Correct Answer: (c)
21. The term 'ecology' was coined by:
a) Haeckel
b) Odum
c) Darwin
d) Linnaeus
Correct Answer: (a)
22. Which one of the virus was crystallized for the first time?
a) Parrot fever virus
b) Smallpox virus
c) TMV
d) HIV
Correct Answer: (c)
23. Tortoise lives usually for:
a) 40 years
b) 100 years
c) 200 years
d) 400 years
Correct Answer: (b)
24. A dead and protective animal structure is:
a) Feathers
b) Nails and claws
c) Skin surface
d) All of the above
Correct Answer: (b)
25. Urobiology deals with:
a) preservation of dead animals
b) urinary system
c) genital system
d) urino-genital system
Correct Answer: (a)
26. Scanning Electron Microscope produces images, which are:
a) big and sharp
b) two-dimensional
c) three dimensional
d) cytological details
Correct Answer: (c)