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Tuesday, 20 December 2022

SSC CHSL Exams Previous Paper – General Awareness on 05/08/2021 Shift II

01) Who among the following politicians was the Home Minister of India in Rajiv Gandhi’s cabinet from 1986 to 1989?

          a) Madhavrao Scindia

          b) Ajit Kumar Panja

          c) Buta Singh

          d) Ashoke Kumar Sen

02) Which maharaja of Manipur signed the Instrument of Accession with the Government of India?

          a) Kulachandra Singh

          b) Bodhchandra Singh

          c) Nara Singh

          d) Gambhir Singh

03) Where was the Khelo India Ice Hockey Tournament held in January 2021?

          a) Lungnak

          b) Shargole

          c) Drass

          d) Chiktan

04) The world’s only floating national park, Keibul Lamjao National Park, is located in _______.

          a) Manipur

          b) Assam

          c) Nagaland

          d) Tripura

05) Which of the following is a Kharif crop in North India and a Rabi crop in South India?

          a) Wheat

          b) Sesamum

          c) Finger millet

          d) Barley

06) Which of the following is a single user operating system?

          a) Windows 7

          b) MS-DOS

          c) Windows NT

          d) Linux

07) In January 2021, the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) developed India’s first indigenous machine pistol called ‘Asmi’ in collaboration with _______.

          a) Army War College, Mhow

          b) Central Ordnance Depot, Jabalpur

          c) Infantry School, Mhow

          d) College of Military Engineering, Pune

08) How many terabytes make one petabyte?

          a) 1048

          b) 1042

          c) 1084

          d) 1024

09) Public Sector Banks account for about _______ of market share I Indian banking as per the Economic Survey 2019-20.

          a) 70%

          b) 50%

          c) 80%

          d) 40%

10) Who among the following did the Sports Authority of India appoint as the middle-and-long distance coach of the Indian athletics team in January 2021?

          a) Avinash Sable

          b) Radhakrishan Nair

          c) Adille Sumariwalla

          d) Nikolai Snesarev

11) The inertia of an object is measured by its _______.

          a) Volume

          b) Speed

          c) Mass

          d) Area

12) Which of the following beaches was NOT awarded the international ‘Blue Flag’ certification by Foundation of Environment Education, Denmark as of October 2020?

          a) Kappad

          b) Ghoghla

          c) Talasari

          d) Rushikonda

13) Which web portal and mobile application did the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, launch in December 2020?

          a) e-Uparjan

          b) e-Rozgar

          c) e-Sampada

          d) e-Dharti

14) Who among the following was a World War II veteran, also associated with cricket?

          a) Brad Friedel

          b) Alan Burgess

          c) Ivan Cordoba

          d) Erik Karlsson

15) Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India deals with the organization of agriculture and animal husbandry?

          a) Article 84

          b) Article 92

          c) Article 29

          d) Article 48

16) The Sufi shrine Charar-e-Sharief (or Sharif) is located near _______ city.

          a) Srinagar

          b) Mumbai

          c) Hyderabad

          d) Lucknow

17) Which of the following watershed development projects is sponsored by the Central Government aims at enabling the rural population to conserve water?

          a) Jal Kranti Abhiyan

          b) Haryali

          c) Neeru-Meeru

          d) Arvary Pani Sansad

18) Which was the first empire in ancient India to use elephants in its war on a large scale?

          a) Shunga

          b) Chola

          c) Kushans

          d) Magadha

19) ‘Purusha Sukta’ is a hymn from which Veda?

          a) Atharvaveda

          b) Yajurveda

          c) Rigveda

          d) Samaveda

20) Which of the following was the country in focus at the 51st International Film Festival of India held in Goa January 2021?

          a) Myanmar

          b) Nepal

          c) Bangladesh

          d) Bhutan

21) Who discovered blood circulation?

          a) Charles Darwin

          b) David Baltimore

          c) William Harvey

          d) Rosalind Franklin

22) Which of the following diseases is caused by Leishmania, a protozoan organism?

          a) Sleeping sickness

          b) Kala-azar

          c) Malaria

          d) Acne

23) Which of the following is a main species of moist deciduous forests?

          a) Sandalwood

          b) Khejri

          c) Amaltas

          d) Neem

24) A shasava Raga only _______ note in its scale.

          a) Seven

          b) Eight

          c) Five

          d) Six

25) As per Union Budget 2021, 9% of the government revenue will be spent on _______.

          a) Defence

          b) Interest payments

          c) Pensions

          d) Centrally sponsored schemes

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