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Tuesday, 21 February 2023

SSC CGL Exam 2022 General Awareness 18/04/2022 Shift III

1) The 40th Amendment Act of 1976 was applied to which Article of the Constitution of India? 

1. 297 

2. 248 

3. 245 

4. 226

2) What is the study of the production and propagation of sound waves called? 

1. Optics 

2. Photonics 

3. Astrophysics 

4. Acoustics 

3) Who among the following science fiction/ popular science writers wrote ‘2001 : A Space Odyssey’ and held the position of a Professor at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad? 

1. Isaac Asimov 

2. Arthur C Clarke 

3. Jules Verne 

4. HG Wells

4) India lost a large proportion of ______ growing area to Pakistan during partition. 

1. sunflower 

2. jute 

3. soyabean 

4. cotton

5) The First Amendment Act of the Constitution of India came up in ______. 

1. 1954 

2. 1951 

3. 1952 

4. 1953 

6) ‘Ashtadhyayi’, written by Sanskrit scholar Panini, is a book on ______.

1. medicine 

2. law 

3. economy 

4. grammar 

7) As per Economic Survey of India 2020-21, India is expected to have a Current Account Surplus of ______ of GDP in FY21. 

1. 1% 

2. 3% 

3. 2% 

4. 4% 

8) Which of the following is a dance form that originated in Assam?

1. Sattriya 

2. Lavani 

3. Gotipua 

4. Chhau

9) Who among the following table tennis players won nine Senior National  Championships as of April 2021? 

1. Soumyajit Ghosh 

2. Sujay Ghorpade 

3. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran 

4. A Sharath Kamal

10) Which of the following is the study of insects and their relationship to humans, the environment, and other organisms? 

1. Ornithology 

2. Entomology 

3. Ethology 

4. Mycology 

11) As per the press release dated September 2020 of the Government of India, what is the payment made by the Government of India at Minimum Support Price (MSP) rates in the last 6 years? 

1. 9 lakh crore 

2. 7 lakh crore 

3. 5 lakh crore 

4. 3 lakh crore

12) Which of the following belongs to the family of ‘Hominidae’? 

1. Mango 

2. Housefly 

3. Wheat 

4. Man 

13) What is the atomic mass of oxygen (expressed in ‘u’)? 

1. 24 

2. 8 

3. 16 

4. 32

14) In the year ______, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, issued special stamps titled ‘Wheat Revolution’ to usher in the Green Revolution. 

1. 1987 

2. 1975 

3. 1943 

4. 1968 

15) In October 2020, the Haryana Government launched a ______ under the Jal Jeevan Mission scheme. 

1. mobile app to test pH level in water 

2. mobile water testing laboratory 

3. training programme to test water salinity 

4. household water testing kit

16) Who among the following was the founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science? 

1. Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay 

2. Mahendra Lal Sircar 

3. Prafulla Chandra Roy 

4. Jagadish Chandra Bose 

17) Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Mrs Funnybones’? 

1. Rekha 

2. Juhi Chawla 

3. Twinkle Khanna 

4. Sonali Bendre 

18) According to the 2011 Census of India, which of the following states has a population density of 17 persons per sq km? 

1. Assam 

2. Nagaland 

3. Arunachal Pradesh 

4. Sikkim 

19) How many protons are there in a lithium nucleus? 

1. 2 

2. 4 

3. 5 

4. 3 

20) With reference to the administration of Delhi Sultanate, which of the following was the department of State Correspondence?

1. Diwan-i-arz 

2. Diwan-i-khairat 

3. Diwan-i-risalt 

4. Diwan-i-insha

21) Chandannagar was established as a French colony in 1673, obtaining permission from______ the then Nawab of Bengal, to establish a trading post on the right bank of the river Hooghly. 

1. Mansur Ali Khan  

2. Murshid Quli Khan 

3. Ibrahim Khan 

4. Mir Zafar

22) Which Article of the Constitution of India prohibits anyone from employing children below the age of fourteen in factories, mines, etc? 

1. 23 

2. 26 

3. 24 

4. 25

23) The Open Hand Monument in Chandigarh was designed by ______. 

1. Matthew Nowicki 

2. Maxwell Fry 

3. Le Corbusier 

4. Albert Mayer

24) Who among the following became the first Indian woman to score 10,000 runs in international cricket across all formats in March 2021?

1. Mithali Raj 

2. Jhulan Goswami 

3. Priya Punia 

4. Taniya Bhatia 

25) Which of the following does NOT come under the category of Public Goods? 

1. Government administration 

2. Food items 

3. National defence 

4. Roads 

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