SSC JE (Mechanical) – General Awareness Previous Question Paper 22/03/2021 Shift I

01) The Jim Corbett National Park is situated in which state of India?

          a) Karnataka

          b) Bihar

          c) Uttarakhand

          d) Rajasthan

02) Who among the following was an eminent physician?

          a) Morarji Desai

          b) Bidhan Chandra Roy

          c) Jyoti Basu

          d) Aruna Asaf Ali

03) Zika virus first discovered in 1947 and is named after the Zika _______ in Uganda.

          a) Desert

          b) River

          c) Hill

          d) Forest

04) Article 300A of the Constitution of India deals with:

          a) Financial emergency

          b) All – India services

          c) Right to education

          d) Right to property

05) The food Corporation of India was set up in _______ under the Food Corporations Act, 1964 with the primary objective of purchasing, storing, moving/ transporting, distributing and selling foodgrains and other foodstuffs.

          a) 1972

          b) 1969

          c) 1965

          d) 1970

06) The Radcliffe Line demarcates India’s border with which of the following countries?

          a) Bangladesh

          b) Nepal

          c) Pakistan

          d) China

07) A safety seat belt in a car exerts a force on our body to:

          a) Facilitate some kind of backward motion

          b) Make our forward motion faster

          c) Rule out any kind of backward motion

          d) Make our forward motion slower

08) Ostriches were found in India during the Palaeolithic period. Large quantities of ostrich egg. Shells were found at _______.

          a) Inamgaon

          b) Patne

          c) Patna

          d) Chirand

09) Which of the following Committees is associated with the ‘Ecology of Western Ghats’?

          a) Gadgil Committee

          b) Sarkaria Committee

          c) Khan Committee

          d) Mishra Committee

10) During which of the following sessions of Indian National Congress did Subhash Chandra Bose resign from the Presidentship of INC?

          a) Tripuri

          b) Calcutta

          c) Jaipur

          d) Haripura

11) The East India Company acquired a charter from the ruler of England, Queen Elizabeth I, granting it the sole right to trade with the East in the year:

          a) 1600

          b) 1800

          c) 1401

          d) 1500

12) Chemical disinfection of drinking water can be done using:

          a) Bromine

          b) Fluorine

          c) Chlorine

          d) Iodine

13) Who is the Visitor of the Pondicherry University?

          a) Lt. Governor of Puducherry

          b) Vice President of India

          c) President of India

          d) Prime Minister of India

14) In 2020, Scientists from Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, discovered two new species of a plant group known as pipeworts, from the:

          a) Thar Desert

          b) Himalayas

          c) Western Ghats

          d) Eastern Ghats

15) As per the Indian Minerals Yearbook 2015, which state is the largest producer of mica in India?

          a) Odisha

          b) Uttar Pradesh

          c) Telangana

          d) Andhra Pradesh

16) The Consumer Price Index or CPI is an index used to calculate the _______ of a country.

          a) Forex

          b) GDP growth

          c) Income tax

          d) Retail Inflation

17) Which of the following is a cause of pollution of water resources?

          a) Dead aquatic plants

          b) Deforestation

          c) Dead aquatic animals

          d) Radioactive substances

18) In December 2020, which of the following states launched a campaign called ‘Varasat’ to curb property and land-related disputes in rural areas?

          a) Uttar Pradesh

          b) Bihar

          c) Odisha

          d) Rajasthan

19) In 2020, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and KPIT Technologies successfully ran trials of India’s first Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) prototype car running on an indigenously developed fuel cell stack at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, _______.

          a) Delhi

          b) Chandigarh

          c) Pune

          d) Hyderabad

20) With which of the following states does Tripura share a common border?

          a) Arunachal Pradesh

          b) West Bengal

          c) Assam

          d) Nagaland

21) Gandhiji started his famous Dandi March from:

          a) Sevagram Ashram

          b) Sabarmati Ashram

          c) Porbandar House

          d) Agra Fort

22) Who among the following won the ‘ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade’ in December 2020?

          a) Sachin Tendulkar

          b) Kumar Sangakkara

          c) Jacques Kallis

          d) MS Dhoni

23) On which day does India observe National Consumer Day?

          a) 23^rd August

          b) 24^th December

          c) 1^st January

          d) 5^th January

24) The _______ receives blood from the right atrium and pumps it to the lungs, where it is loaded with oxygen.

          a) Right ventricle

          b) Left ventricle

          c) Left atrium

          d) Mitral valve

25) Malicious software is any program or file that is harmful to a computer user. Which of the following is malicious software?

          a) Malware

          b) Nero Burning ROM

          c) Bonjour

          d) CCleaner

26) Regur Soil is another name of:

          a) Black Soil

          b) Alluvial Soil

          c) Laterite Soil

          d) Red and Yellow Soil

27) Which state became the first ‘Har Ghar Jal State’ in India with 100% tap water connections in October 2020?

          a) Goa

          b) Gujarat

          c) Haryana

          d) Punjab

28) Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India cites that it is the duty of every citizen of India to develop a scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform?

          a) 73

          b) 65B

          c) 51A

          d)

29) Which of the following micro-states/micro-nations formally joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 16 October 2020 becoming the crisis lender’s 190^th member state?

          a) Sealand

          b) Liechtenstein

          c) Andorra

          d) San Marino

30) Who among the following is NOT included in the ICC Men’s T20 Team of the Decade as per the list released by International Cricket Council (ICC) on 27 December 2020?

          a) Lasith Malinga

          b) Pat Cummins

          c) Jasprit Bumrah

          d) Rashid Khan

31) The Kudankulam Civilian Nuclear Power Plant was built by India in joint collaboration with _______.

          a) France

          b) Russia

          c) Japan

          d) Germany

32) A _______ is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance as circuit element.

          a) Capacitor

          b) Resistor

          c) Diode

          d) Transistor

33) Who among the following discovered vaccination against anthrax?

          a) Maurice Hilleman

          b) Edward Jenner

          c) Robert Koch

          d) Louis Pasteur

34) Ansupa lake is situated in _______.

          a) Odisha

          b) Assam

          c) Uttarakhand

          d) Bihar

35) A simple pendulum consists of a small metallic ball or a piece of stone suspended from a rigid stand by a thread. The metallic ball is called the _______ of the pendulum.

          a) Hinge

          b) Bob

          c) Knob

          d) Head

36) Which of the following is NOT necessarily a part of a school laboratory compound microscope?

          a) Mirror

          b) Objective lens

          c) Eye-piece

          d) Camera

37) With reference to computers and the internet, which of the following appears to be harmless but actually produces harmful results?

          a) Worm

          b) Trojan horse

          c) Patch

          d) Virus hoax

38) As of December 2020, how many RAMSAR sites does India have?

          a) 47

          b) 38

          c) 49

          d) 42

39) As of December 2020, Neiphiu Rio is the Chief Minister of _______.

          a) Sikkim

          b) Nagaland

          c) Arunachal Pradesh

          d) Manipur

40) Which of the following is NOT a type of rock?

          a) Igneous

          b) Metamorphic

          c) Ox-bow

          d) Sedimentary

41) Which of the following is NOT a noble gas?

          a) Argon

          b) Boron

          c) Krypton

          d) Neon

42) The velocity-time graph for uniform motion of a car is:

          a) A straight line with non-zero slope and intercept

          b) A parabola

          c) A straight line passing through the origin

          d) A straight line parallel to the time axis

43) Which of the following Sultanats was ruled by the Nizam Shahi Dynasty?

          a) Golconda

          b) Ahmednagar

          c) Bijapur

          d) Berar

44) Union Budget 2020-21 allocated _______ crore for the overall healthcare sector.

          a) Rs 69,000

          b) Rs 35,000

          c) Rs 75,000

          d) Rs 82,000

45) The National Education Policy 2020 has set the target to increase public investment in the education sector to reach _______ per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the earliest.

          a) 8

          b) 7.5

          c) 6

          d) 7

46) Which of the following sports will make its Olympic Games debut at the 2024 Paris Games (2024 Summer Olympics)?

          a) Cricket

          b) Bowling

          c) Breaking

          d) Kabaddi

47) Who among the following launched E-Sapada, a web portal and mobile app on Good Governance Day in December 2020?

          a) Prakash Javadekar

          b) Narendra Singh Tomar

          c) Mahendra Nath Pandey

          d) Hardeep S Puri

48) Which of the following statement is correct?

          a) 2 members of the Lok Sabha are nominated by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha

          b) 12 members of the Rajya Sabha are nominated by the President

          c) 4 members of the Lok Sabha are nominated by the President.

          d) 2 members of the Rajya Sabha are nominated by the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.