SSC Multi Tasking Staff Recruitment 2011 Solved GK Paper held on 27th Feb. 2011 1.

The indian monument recently inscribed in the UNESCOs World Heritage List is a) Jantar Mantar of Ujjain b) Jantar Mantar of Varanasi c) Jantar Mantar of Delhi d) Jantar Mantar of Jaipur 2. Yen is the currency of a) Yugoslavia b) Mexico c) Japan d) Thailand 3. Nasik is situated on the bank of the river a) Mahanadi b) Tapti c) Krishna d) Godavari 4. Which one of the following is a "Surface to Air missile"? a) Trishul b) K-15 Sagarika c) Brahmos d) Agni 5. Nehru Trophy is associated with a) Hockey b) Football c) Kabaddi d) Table Tennis(Women) 6. Odissi classical dance originated in a) Orissa (Now its Odisha) b) Andhra Pradesh c) Rajasthan d) Gujarat 7. Who discovered America? a) Vasco-Da-Gamma b) Columbus c) Captain Cook d) Amundsen 8. The famous painting "Monalisa" was the creation of

a) Michael-Angelo b) Leonardo-Da-Vinci c) Piccasso d) Van-Gogh 9. The first woman to swim across the seven important seas is a) Chandini b) Bula Choudhary c) Mridula Rajiv d) Priya Shanbhag 10. Insulin was discovered by a) F. Banting (Frederick Banting) b) Edward Jenner d) Ronald Ross e) S. A. Wakesman 11. The radioactive Strontium-90 causes a) Brain cancer b) Skin cancer c) Lung cancer d) Bone cancer 12. Shivpuri National Park of Madhya Pradesh is important for a) Tiger and Elephant b) Wild Buffalo c) Birds d) Leopard and Chital 13.Decible is a term connected with a) Air b) Water c) Sound d) Soil 14. "Van Mahotsav" is associated with a) Cutting trees b) Planting trees c) Increase in crops d) Protection of plants 15. The Accounting Year of Reserve Bank of India is runs from a) April to March b) July to June (July 1 to June 30) c) January to December d) August to July

16. Agricultural Commodities are graded with a) ISI b) Eco products c) AGMARK d) Green Product 17.The food stocks that are built up during the years of bumper harvest are called a) Capital Stock b) Buffer Stock c) Production Stock d) Grain Stock 18. The Minimum Wages Act was first passed in India in the year a) 1947 b) 1948 c) 1950 d) 1951 19. Human Development Index was developed by a) Amartya Sen c) Friedman d) Mahbub-ul-Haq e) Montek Singh 20. Crop sown soon after the onset of South-West monsoon in India is called a) Rabi b) Kharif b) Rainfed d) Dry farming 21. In which state is "Silent Valley" located? a) Tamilnadu b) Kerala c) Assam d) Arunachal Pradesh 22. Which is the International Date Line? a) Equator b) 0o Longitude c) 90o East Longitude d) 180o Longitude 23. The main cause of Tasunami is a) Volcanoes b) Cyclones c) Earthquake on sea floor d) Moons attraction

24. The Central Drug Research Institute of India is located at a) Delhi b) Banglore c) Chennai d) Lucknow 25. Nomination of Rajya Sabha Members by the President was taken from the Constitution of a) USA b) Ireland c) South Africa d) France 26. The concept of sovereign parliament originated in a) England b) India c) France d) Japan 27. National Institute of Rural Development is located at a) New Delhi b) Mumbai c) Hyderabad d) Kanpur 28. Who is considered the Architect of the Indian Constitution? a) Mahatma Gandhi b) B. R. Ambedkar c) Jawharlal Nehru d) B.N. Rao 29. Who said that "Indias soul lives in villages"? a) Vinoba Bhave b) Jayaprakash Narayan c) Nehru d) Gandhiji 30. What was the name of the Newspaper edited by Mahatma Gandhi till 1933 a) Sarvodaya b) Arya c) Times of India d) Young India 31. Who started the "Servants of India Society"? a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale c) Surendranath Bannerjee

d) Dadabhai Naoroji 32. Which among the following revolutionaries executed by British? a) Jatin Das b) Chandershekhar Azad c) Rajguru d) Kalpana Dutt Rajguru, Sukhdev also hanged with Bhagat Singh on 23rd March 1931 by British Government 33. In which of the following towns is "Moti Masjid" situated? a) Agra b) Jaipur c) Lahore d) Ahmedabad 34. Which of the following are beliefs of Buddhism? a) The world is full of sorrows b) People suffers on account of desires c) If desires are conquered, nirvana will be attained d) The existence of God and Soul must be recognised A) (a), (b), (c) and (d) B) (b) and (c) C) (a), (b) and (c) D) (b), (c) and (d) 35. Which of the following is a good source of Vitamin E? a) Meat b) Ghee c) Yellow yolks d) Fresh vegetables 36. Penicillin is isolated from a) Fungi b) Algae c) Virus d) Bacteria 37. The total number of bones in the human body is a) 206 b) 260 c) 306 d) 360 The human body consists 206 bones for adults, but for infants there are 270. At the time of birth, an infant may have 300-350 bones 38. Bile is secreted by a) Gall Bladder b) Liver c) Bile duct

d) Pancreas I niInitially Bile is synthesized and secreted by the liver and stored in Gall bladder through the Bile duct. When there is stimulation by fatty food, it is secreted by Gall Bladder. 39. Name the vitamin not found in any animal food. a) Vitamin B12 b) Vitamin C c) Vitamin D d) Vitamin K 40. The largest organ of human body is a) Heart b) Brain c) Liver d) Kidney Skin is the first largest organ of human body. Liver is second largest organ 41. Which type of mirror is used in the headlights of vehicles? a) Plane mirror b) Concave mirror c) Convex mirror d) Parabolic mirror 42. The height of a geo-stationary satellite from the Earths surface is approximately a) 36,000 Km b) 40,000 Km c) 30,000 Km d) None of these 43. An electric iron has a heating element made up of a) Copper b) Tungston c) Nichrome d) Zinc 44. The planet nearest to Sun is a) Earth b) Mercury c) Mars d) Venus 45. The process of covering water pipes made of Iron with Zinc layer to prevent corrosion is called a) Zinc plating b) Alloy formation c) Vulcanization d) Galvanization 46. The particle required to continue chain process of Uranium fission a) Electron b) Proton c) Neutron

d) Positron 47. Which of the following is used to increase the anti-knocking property of petrol? a) Tetramethyl Lead b) Tetraethyl Lead c) Trimethyl Lead d) Triethyl Lead 48. The chief source for the production of nitrogenous fertilizers is a) Ammonia b) Nitric Acid c) Nitrogen d) Nitrogen Dioxide 49. Fifth generation computers do not have a) Speech recoginition b) Artificial intelligence c) Very large scale integration d) Vacuum tubes 50. Where does a computer add, compare and shuffle data? a) Memory chip b) CPU chip c) Floppy disk d) Hard disk