1. What is the name of the era on which the National Calendar of India is based?
Question Asked : SSC Combined Matric Level (Pre) Exam 1999
(A) Vikrama era
(B) Kali era
(C) Saka era
(D) None of above
2. The methods of democratic socialism are
Question Asked : FCI Assistant Grade-II Exam 2012 (Paper-I)
(A) Revolution
(B) General strike
(C) Sabotage
(D) Persuasion and propaganda
3. Who gave the concept of ‘Total Revolution’?
Question Asked : SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam 2008
(A) Jayaprakash Narayan
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Lenin
4. First Indian Commander-in-Chief was
Question Asked : SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam 2008
(A) Gen. K. S. Thimayya
(B) Gen. K.M. Kariappa
(C) S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
(D) None of the above
5. The first woman to become a Chief Minister of any State in India was
Question Asked : SSC Tax Assistant (Income Tax & Central Excise) Exam 2007
(A) Nandini Satpathy
(B) Dr. J. Jayalalitha
(C) Sucheta Kripalani
(D) Ms. Mayawati
6. The first Defence Minister of India was
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(A) K. M. Cariappa
(B) Gopalaswami Aiyangar
(C) Baldev Singh
(D) Sardar Patel
7. When is Pakistan Independence Day celebrated?
Question Asked : SSC Tax Assistant (Income Tax & Central Excise) Exam 2005
(A) 15 August
(B) 4 July
(C) 16 August
(D) 14 August
8. The film Mangal Pandey released in August 2005 deals with
Question Asked : SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam 2005
(A) Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
(B) Netaji Subash Bose’s fight against British occupation of India
(C) The first war of Indian Independence in 1857
(D) The partition of India and Pakistan
9. Who was the town-planner of Chandigarh?
Question Asked : SSC Statistical Investigators Grade-IV Exam 2005
(A) Edward Lutyens
(B) Charles Correa
(C) Le Corbusier
(D) Christopher Wren
10. Where was “tanchoi brocade” developed?
Question Asked : SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam 2005
(A) Varanasi
(B) Dhaka
(C) Surat
(D) Tanjavur
