HSSC CLERK EXAM 22.09.2019 (Shift – I)

Total Questions: 87

21. The set of all integers under the operation * defined by a * b = a + b + 1 is a group, then 3 * 1 is

(1) 4
(2) -3
(3) 5
(4) -5

Correct Answer: (3) 5

Solution:a * b = a + b + 1

∴ 3 * 1 = 3 + 1 + 1 = 5

22. Western Yamuna Canal is derived from Yamuma River at which place?

(1) Tajewala
(2) Salhawas
(3) Bhakra-Nangal
(4) Karnal

Correct Answer: (1) Tajewala

Solution:Tajewala in Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana is the origin of two important canals, the Western and Eastern Ya muna Canals. The modern Hathni Kund Barrage was built in 1999 to handle the problem of silting to replace the older Tajewala Barrage. So, at present, the Western Yanmuna Canal originates from Hathni kund, just 3 kms upstream of Tajewala.

23. The Haryana State Police Headquarters is located in

(1) Panchkula
(2) Rohtak
(3) Ambala
(4) Karnal

Correct Answer: (1) Panchkula

Solution:The Haryana State Police Headquarters is located at Panchkula. The State Police is presently headed by Director General of Police who is an IPS Officer. Haryana Police has a total strength of 63077.

24. In which of the following year, the Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up at Dehradun?

(1) 1906
(2) 1926
(3) 1885
(4) 1895

Correct Answer: (1) 1906

Solution:The Forest Research Institute was founded in 1878 as the British Imperial Forest School by Dietrich Brandis. In 1906. it was reestablished as the Imperial Forest Research Institute, under the British Imperial Forestry Service. Originally located at Chandigarh. it is currently located at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, and is among the oldest institutions of its kind.

25. Which novel of Charles Dickens gives information on the impact of industrialisation on poor?

(1) Pickwic Papers
(2) Germinal
(3) Oliver Twist
(4) Hard Times.

Correct Answer: (3) Oliver Twist

Solution:Charles Dickens in his novel "Hard Times" (1984) focussed on the life of industrial workers and terrible conditions of urban life. It describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purpleand buildings that all looked the same. Here workers are known as 'hands', as if they had no identity other than as operators of machines. In Hard Times, Dickens sharply criticized the poor living conditions of the working class in industrial towns. He criticised not just the greed for profits but also the ideas that reduced human beings into simple instruments of production. Charles Dicken's other novel. Oliver Twist, also described the difficult situations of the Industrial Revolution.

26. A single flppy-disk controller board supports a_______ribbon cable.

(1) 30-wire
(2) 13-wire
(3) 33-wire
(4) 21-wire

Correct Answer: (3) 33-wire

Solution:A floppy disk controller or FDC is coined to be a specially designed chip that is associated with a disk controller circuit. It controls reading and writing operations of a Floppy disk. A single chip can support up to 4 floppy disk drives. It Tam will communicate with CPU through an architecture called ISA bus or with the similar structured bus with 33.33 pin ribbon cable (which is 33 pin ribbon cable).

27. VARCHAR2 can store up to_______bytes of characters.

(1) 6000
(2) 8000
(3) 5000
(4) 4000

Correct Answer: (4) 4000

Solution:To store variable length character strings, we use the Oracle VARCHAR2 data type. A VARCHAR2 column can store a value that ranges from 1 to 4000 bytes. It means that for a single byte character set. we can store up to 4000 characters in a VARCHAR2 column. OLD

28. How many members are sent to Rajay Sabha from Haryana?

(1) 2
(2) 4
(3) 5
(4) 7

Correct Answer: (3) 5

Solution:There are 5 Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana. The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India. the state of Uttar Pradesh sends maximum 30 members to the Rajya Sabha.

29. The High Court at Lahore was established in the year

(1) 1919
(2) 1918
(3) 1915
(4) 1916

Correct Answer: (1) 1919

Solution:The Lahore High Court was established as a high court on 21 March 1919. On 1 April. 1919, the Chief Court of the Punjab was elevated to the status of a High Court, becoming known as Lahore High Court. by Letters Patent granted pursuant to Section 113 of the Government of India Act, 1915. The Letters Patent by King Emperor George V also appointed a Chief Justice and six puisne justices, and declared the Court's jurisdiction over the Punjab and Delhi provinees.

30. State of democracy in the world in 2018 is released by

(1) Economist Intelligence Unit
(2) Amnesty International
(3) UNICEF
(4) None of the above

Correct Answer: (1) Economist Intelligence Unit

Solution:State of Democracy is published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a UK based company. Its intention is to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states. It includes Democracy Index on which countries are assessed and ranked. Norway was the highest ranked country in Democracy Index 2018.

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