Combined Graduate Level Examination 2024 Tier I
Exam Date: 09/09/2024 Exam
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Section: General Awareness
01) What is the length of Indian Railways network, according to
Railway Yearbook 2019-20?
a) 67,956 km
b) 2,402 km
c) 63,950 km
d) 1,604 km
02) Which of the following is the largest crustal plate on Earth
with an area of over 103,000,000 km2?
a) African plate
b) South American
plate
c) Eurasian plate
d) Pacific plate
03) ‘Nuakhai’ is the state festival of:
a) Odisha
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Meghalaya
d) Bihar
04) Which of the following is a straight-chain alkyl carboxylic
acid with the chemical formula CH3CH2CH2CO2H?
a) Methanoic acid
b) Ethanoic acid
c) Propionic acid
d) Butyric acid
05) Who among the following was the youngest instrumentalist to
be awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award of India in
2002?
a) Ustad Zakir
Hussain
b) Pandit Ravi
Shankar
c) Pandit Bhimsen
Joshi
d) Ustad Bismillah
Khan
06) Which Article of the Indian Constitution prohibits providing
of any religious instruction in the educational institutions maintained by the
State?
a) Article 29
b) Article 28
c) Article 30
d) Article 31
07) Article 77 of the Indian Constitution deals with the
_______.
a) Vice-President
of India
b) oath of office
by the Vice-President
c) conduct of
business of the Government of India
d) term of office
of the Vice-President
08) The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act,
2019 deals with subsistence allowance in which of the following Sections?
a) Section 7
b) Section 5
c) Section 4
d) Section 6
09) Which of the following Illustrations shows the mitochondrion’s structural details?
I)
II)
III)
IV)
a) I
b) II
c) III
d) IV
10) 10 In which year was the 'Naye Bharat Ke Sapne' campaign
launched by Meta and the Ministry of Women?
a) 2022
b) 2021
c) 2023
d) 2020
11) Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
a) Fats and oils
get reduced over time and smell bad.
b) Antioxidants
are added to foods containing fats and oil to prevent oxidation.
c) Chips
manufacturers usually flush bags of chips with Nitrogen to prevent the chips
from getting ranicid.
d) Fats and oils
are oxidised, they become rancid.
12) Under which of the following Acts was the power to rule
India, transferred from the English East India Company to the British Crown?
a) Regulating Act
1773
b) Pitt's India
Act 1784
c) Government of
India Act 1858
d) Charter Act of
1833
13) Which of the following countries won the first men’s Asian
Hockey Championship trophy?
a) Japan
b) China
c) Pakistan
d) India
14) Silappathikaram (the Jewelled Anklet), the earliest epic
poem in Tamil was written in the 5th - 6th Century CE by _______.
a) Tolkappiyar
b) Tirumalisai
Alwar
c) Ilango Adigal
d) Sittalai
Sattanar
15) Which of the following statements is correct?
a) The five-year
plan focuses mostly on private intervention in the economy.
b) The five-year
plan permits long-term intervention by the government in the economy.
c) The five-year
plan always focused on the growth of the tertiary sector.
d) A five-year
plan always stresses market-oriented activities.
16) In Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas yojana, the cost of unit
assistance is shared between Central and State Governments in the ratio
___________ in plain areas.
a) 30 : 70
b) 90 : 10
c) 60 : 40
d) 40 : 60
17) Who was the revenue minister during the reign of Akbar?
a) Todar Mal
b) Abdul Rahim
c) Mulla Do-Piyaza
d) Tansen
18) Hot local wind that flows over north India in summer is
known as:
a) Purga
b) Loo
c) Chinook
d) Mango showers
19) As per the definition of Census of India, a ‘marginal
worker’ is a person who works for:
a) more than 183
days (or six months) in a year
b) less than 183
days (or six months) in a year
c) eight months in
a year
d) 83 days in a
year
20) In which of the following states is the Nrityagram, an
Odissi dance institution, located?
a) Karnataka
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Kerala
d) Maharashtra
21) At which Olympics was Kho-Kho featured in an exhibition in
the main stadium?
a) 2008
b) 2016
c) 1932
d) 1936
22) Which of the following goods needs further transformation in
the economic process?
a) Capital goods
b) Intermediate
goods
c) Finished goods
d) Consumer
durable goods
23) Who among the following devised the system of ‘Subsidiary
Alliance’?
a) Lord William
Bentinck
b) Lord Wellesley
c) Lord Dalhousie
d) Lord Canning
24) Which of the following is an inactivated (killed) polio
vaccine developed in 1952?
a) HDCV vaccine
b) Salk vaccine
c) TAB vaccine
d) Imvanex vaccine
25) Which of the following personalities is a Padma Shri awardee
folk singer from the state of Uttar Pradesh?
a) Ajita
Srivastava
b) Teejan Bai
c) Ila Arun
d) Gurmeet Bawa
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