SSC CHSL - 13 October 2020 - Shift 03 ||
General Awareness || Option wise English Notes ||
Q.01 Who was sworn in as the 11th Chief Minister of Jharkhand on 29 December 2019?
Option:
1. Shibu Soren
2. Alamgir Alam
3. Hemant Soren
4. Raghubar Das
Answer :- Hemant Soren
Q.02 Which planet is made up of thick white and yellowish clouds of sulfuric acid?
Option:
1. Uranus
2. Mars
3. Venus
4. Neptune
Answer :- Venus
Q.03 Which of the following temples has Panchayatana Style of architecture?
Option:
1. Kashi Vishwanath temple
2. Sun Temple
3. Brihadeeswara Temple
4. Dashavatara Temple
Answer :- Dashavatara Temple
Q.04 On which date did Indian National Congress pass the Resolution of 'Poorna Swaraj' (total independence) at the Lahore Session?
Option:
1. 15 December 1929
2. 19 December 1929
3. 26 December 1929
4. 21 December 1929
Answer :- 19 December 1929
Q.05 In DASD, what is the full form of ‘A’?
Option:
1. Arithmetic
2. Around
3. Access
4. Accessible
Answer :-Access
Q.06 Which scientist arranged the Periodic Table of Elements in the order of increasing
atomic masses?
Option:
1. Robert Boyle
2. Henry Moseley
3. Dmitri Mendeleev
4. William Ramsay
Answer :-Dmitri Mendeleev
Q.07 Which Indian mountain looks like a giant pyramid and has a flat summit area and two peaks?
Option:
1. Mamostang Kangri
2. Nanda Devi
3. Saltoro Kangri
4. Kamet
Answer:-Kamet
Q.08 Which of the following monuments has NOT been notified as a National Geo-heritage Monument by the Geological Survey of India (GSI)?
Option:
1. Gingee Fort Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu
2. Peninsular Gneiss Lalbagh, Karnataka
3. Pillow Lava in lron Ore belt at Nomira, Odisha
4. Nagahill Ophiolite site near Pungro, Nagaland
Answer :-Gingee Fort Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu
Q.09 What is the chemical name of ‘oil of vitriol’?
Option:
1. Methyl alcohol
2. Sodium chloride
3. Calcium hydroxide
4. Sulfuric acid
Answer :- Sulfuric acid
Q.10 Which player became the first Indian brand ambassador of La Liga (the top tier of Spanish club football) in December 2019?
Option:
1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
3. Rohit Sharma
4. Virat Kohli
Answer :- Rohit Sharma
Q.11 Which child activist became the first Indian to be awarded the ‘Changemaker Award 2019’ (given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) for her work towards abolition
of child marriage in Rajasthan?
Option:
1. Kanchan Upadhaya
2. Ridhima Pandey
3. Payal Jangid
4. Ayushi Dholakia
Answer :-Payal Jangid
Q.12 When was the ‘Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award’ instituted?
Option:
1. 2002-03
2. 1991–92
3. 1985-86
4. 1993-94
Answer :-1991–92
Q.13 Which instrument records the waves reaching the surface during an earthquake?
Option:
1. Seismograph
2. Manometer
3. Barograph
4. Chronometer
Answer :-Seismograph
Q.14 Which of the following pairs is INCORRECTLY matched?
Option:
1. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited – Navratna
2. Airport Authority of India – Navratna
3. Indian Oil Corporation Limited – Maharatna
4. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited – Miniratna
Answer :- Airport Authority of India – Navratna
Q.15 Which Indian economist was appointed as the Chief Economist of the World Bank
from 2012 to 2016?
Option:
1. Jagdish Bhagwati
2. Raghuram Rajan
3. Kaushik Basu
4. Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel
Answer :- Kaushik Basu
Q.16 What was India’s rank in the world in terms of military power as per the ‘Global Firepower Nations Index 2019’?
Option:
1. 5th
2. 4th
3. 9th
4. 3rd
Q.17 Which of the following prominent leaders wrote the book ‘Citizen Delhi: My Life, My Times’?
Option:
1. Arun Jaitley
2. Sheila Dikshit
3. Harsh Vardhan
4. Arvind Kejriwal
Answer :- Sheila Dikshit
Q.18 On December 2019, the Prime Minister of ______ announced the commencement of the ‘Gandhi Citizenship Education Award’ to be given every year.
Option:
1. France
2. Portugal
3. Bhutan
4. Japan
Answer :- Portugal
Q.19 In which language were the Mughal court chronicles written?
Option:
1. Hindi
2. Urdu
3. Sanskrit
4. Persian
Answer :- Persian
Q.20 In which year did Motilal Nehru (Chairman) and eight other Congress leaders draft a constitution for India?
Option:
1. 1930
2. 1928
3. 1925
4. 1950
Answer :- 1928
Q.21 Which former badminton player of India was awarded the ‘Sportstar Lifetime Achievement Award’ in February 2019?
Option:
1. Pullela Gopichand
2. Prakash Padukone
3. Sanave Thomas
4. Chetan Anand
Answer :- Prakash Padukone
Q.22 Who designed the first analog computer in India?
Option:
1. Samarendra Kumar Mitra
2. Bimal Kumar Bhattacharyya
3. Deb Kumar Bose
4. Subodh Chandra Das Gupta
Answer :-Samarendra Kumar Mitra
Q.23 What is the provision of Article 49 of the Constitution of India?
Option:
1. Provision for free and compulsory education for children
2. Protection of monuments and places and objects of natural importance
3. Prohibition of employment of children (Under the age of 14) in factories and mines
4. Promotion of international peace and security
Answer :-Protection of monuments and places and objects of natural importance
Q.24 As per state census 2011, which of the following is the least populous state of India?
Option:
1. Kerala
2. Odisha
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Sikkim
Answer :- Sikkim
Q.25 Which festival marks the beginning of the Tibetan New Year?
Option:
1. Losar festival
2. Saga Dawa Festival
3. Ongkor Festival
4. Shoton Festival
Answer :-Losar festival
