SSC CGL Exams Previous Paper – General Awareness on 12/04/2022 Shift II

01) In December 2020, _______ became the first country in the world to approve sale of lab-grown chicken products.

          a) Singapore

          b) Taiwan

          c) Vietnam

          d) Japan

02) Which of the following Amendments of the Constitution of India gave the status of state to Goa?

          a) 52^nd Amendment

          b) 56^th Amendment

          c) 59^th Amendment

          d) 48^th Amendment

03) Who among the following female wrestlers won the Ukraine Wrestling Tournament in February 2021?

          a) Kavita Devi

          b) Sakshi Malik

          c) Babita Kumari

          d) Vinesh Phogat

04) What is the emigration of a significant proportion of a country’s highly skilled, highly educated professional population to other countries offering better economic and social opportunities called?

          a) Carrying capacity

          b) Brain drain

          c) Demographic transition

          d) Closed population

05) Which of the following laws deduces the expression for the force between two stationary point charges in vacuum or free space?

          a) Lenz’s Law

          b) Coulomb’s Law

          c) Gauss’ Law

          d) Ohm’s Law

06) What is the repo rate given by the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) as on 7 April 2021?

          a) 2%

          b) 4%

          c) 3%

          d) 5%

07) From which of the following English words is the name ‘Bhangra’ derived in the contest of Bhangra Dance?

          a) Hemp

          b) Rhythm

          c) Style

          d) Movement

08) Which of the following dwarf planets lies in the main asteroid belt?

          a) Eris

          b) Makemake

          c) Ceres

          d) Haumea

09) _______ is concerned with constructing records of past climates and climatic events by analysis of tree growth characteristics, especially growth rings.

          a) Bioclimatology

          b) Historical-climatology

          c) Geo climatology

          d) Dendroclimatology

10) Which of the following revolutionaries was arrested by the British as an accused in the Alipore Bomb Conspiracy Case?

          a) Kanailal Dutta

          b) Rajendra Lahiri

          c) Roshan Singh

          d) Ashfaq Ullah Khan

11) What was the first name of the Mughal Emperor Babur?

          a) Hasanuddin

          b) Giasuddin

          c) Zahiruddin

          d) Qaseemuddin

12) As of April 2021, who among the following is the only Indian long jumper to have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics 2021?

          a) Virsa Singh

          b) TC Yohannan

          c) Sreeshankar Murali

          d) Sanjay Kumar Rai

13) In which year had India’s ratio of public debt to GDP gone up to a record 84.2%?

          a) 1991

          b) 1999

          c) 2003

          d) 2001

14) Who among the following is the author of the novel ‘Q and A’?

          a) Muchkund Dubey

          b) MK Rasgotra

          c) JN Dixit

          d) Vikas Swarup

15) Who among the following became the first Indian to win the Miss Deaf World title?

          a) Raghavi Shankar

          b) Vidisha Baliyan

          c) Arunima Sinha

          d) Preethi Srinivasan

16) An amendment to the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 was passed in the year _______.

          a) 2012

          b) 2005

          c) 2010

          d) 2008

17) Which of the following elements is NOT suitable for the fabrication of a light emitting diode structure?

          a) Gallium phosphide

          b) Indium gallium nitride

          c) Germanium

          d) Gallium arsenide

18) As per the Economic Survey, 2022, how many banks of India are there in the list of the top global 100?

          a) None

          b) One

          c) Three

          d) Two

19) What was the age in years of the revolutionary Bhagat Singh when he was hanged till death?

          a) 20

          b) 23

          c) 30

          d) 26

20) Which of the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) seeks to ‘Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss’?

          a) SDG 12

          b) SDG 7

          c) SDG 17

          d) SDG 15

21) Which of the following is a characteristic of permanent tissue?

          a) Cells divide repeatedly

          b) Inorganic inclusions are absent

          c) Intercellular spaces are present

          d) Vacuoles are absent

22) In which of the following years was an Act to provide for the reorganization of the states of India and for matters connected therewith enacted?

          a) 1947

          b) 1956

          c) 1959

          d) 1962

23) Which of the following statements is/ are correct?

          I- Karnataka is the largest producer of coffee in India.

          II- Arabica is a variety of coffee

          III- The Arabica variety initially brought from Mexico is produced in India.

          a) I, II, and III

          b) Only II and III

          c) Only III

          d) Only I and II

24) In which city of Gujarat will you find the Uparkot Buddhist Caves?

          a) Bhavnagar

          b) Vadodara

          c) Junagadh

          d) Anand

25) Camellia sinensis is a plant that produces _______.

          a) Tea

          b) Coffee

          c) Jute

          d) Sugarcane