General Awareness Questions for SSC CGL – Quiz 03

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Total Questions: 10

Subject: General Awareness

Time Allotted: 4:10 minutes

Total Marks: 10

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Q1.Dr.P.Rama Rao Committee is related to which of the following?

1. Taxes
2. Defence
3. Industry
4. Agriculture

Ans – 2 Explanation: The independent review Committee headed by Dr.P. Rama Rao was set up to review the functioning of Defence Research and Development organisation ( DRDO). The following recommendations of the Committee were accepted by the government:(i) nomination of nodal officers for structured interaction between DRDO and Service; (ii) Integrated Financial Advice Scheme for financial Advice Scheme for financial decentralization; etc.

Q2.Which one of the following Committees Report recommended the establishment of the Institutions of Lokpal and Lokayukta?

1. First Administrative Reform Committee
2. Gorwala Report
3. Ashok Mehta Committee
4. The Appleby Report

Ans: (1)
Explanation: The Ist Administrative Reforms Commission of India (1966 – 1970), headed by Morarji Desai, recommended the setting up of ‘ Lokpal’ and ‘ Lokayukta’ for the redressal of citizens grievances. These institutions were to be set up on the pattern of the institution of Ombudsman in Scandinavian countries and the parliamentary commissioner for investigation in the New Zealand.

Q3.The substrate of Photorespiration is :

1. Fructose
2. Pyruvic acid
3.  Glycolate
4. Glucose

Ans: 3

Explanations: Glycolate is the major substrate for Photorespiration, The enzymes of Glycolate oxidase and catalase, are present in substantial quantities in leaf extracts from both high and low capacity plants. Glycolate has been detected in leaves of both types of plants.

Q4.The first law officer of the Government of India is-

1. The Law Minister
2. The Attorney – General of India.
3. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
4. None of these

Ans 2

Explanations: The Attorney General is the first Law Officer of India. He is the Chief Legal Advisor to the Central Government and also acts as a lawyer in the Supreme Court on behalf of it.

Q5.The headquarters of the Survey of India Department is located at :

1. Jaipur
2.  Dehradun
3. Hyderabad
4. New Delhi

Ans 2

Explanations: The Survey of India is head quartered at Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand. It is Indian’s central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying. Set up in 1767 to help consolidate the territories of the British East India Company. It is one of the oldest Engineering Departments of the Government of India.

Q6.The group of bacteria which reduced the soil fertility is

1. detoxifying
2. nitrifying
3. denitrifying
4. ammonifying

Ans 3

Explanations: Denitrifying bacteria are microorganism whose action results in the conversation of nitrates in soil to free atmospheric nitrogen, thus depleting soil fertility and reducing agricultural productivity. Thiobacillus denitrificans, Micrococcus denitrificans, and some species of Serratia, Pseudomonas, and Achromobacter are implicated as denitrifiers.

Q7.Which of atmospheric layers prevent penetration of great amounts of ultraviolet radiation?

1. Troposphere
2.  Ionosphere
3. Ozonosphere
4. Stratosphere

Ans: 3

Explanations: The Ozone layer (ozonosphere) refers to a region of Earth’s stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation. It contains high concentrations of ozone (O3) relative to other parts of the atmosphere

Q8. The non- Cooperation movement was called off due to

1.  Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy
2. Chauri Chaura Incident
3. Poona pact
4. Gandhi – Irwin pact

Ans – 2

Explanations: The non –  cooperation movement was withdrawn because of the Chauri Chaura incident that occurred at Chauri Chaura the Gorakhpur district of the United Province on 5 February 1922. The incident involved killing of 23 policemen as retaliation to police fire: a development that was against the philosophy of non -violence.

Q9. Which among the following standard protocols is the most widely used by the Internet?

1.  HTTP
2. TCP/IP
3. SMTP
4. SLIP

Ans 2

Explanations: The Internet protocol suite is the set of communication protocols used for the Internet and similar networks, and generally the most popular protocol stack for wide area networks. It is commonly known as TCP/IP, because of its most important protocols : Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), which were the first networking protocols defined in this standard.

Q10. Reservation for the schedule castes and Scheduled Tribes in the services has been provided in the Indian Constitution under

1. Article 375
2.  Article 315
3. Article 335
4.  Article 365

Ans 3

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