SSC CHSL Tier-1 General Awareness Question Paper Held on 16 October 2020 (Morning Shift)

General Awareness Question Papers
16th October 2020 (Morning Shift)
CHSL (Tier-1) 2019


 

Q.1 When was the Indian national song ‘Vande Mataram’ sung for the first time on a political occasion?
Option:
1. 1896 INC session
2. 1903 INC session
3. 1911 INC session
4. 1900 INC session

Q.2 The last Mauryan ruler to be killed by Pushyamitra Shunga was:
Option:
1. Brihadratha
2. Devavarman
3. Bindusara
4. Dasharatha

Q.3 ______ is a diagrammatic representation of a program logic.
Option:
1. Legend
2. Process
3. Data
4. Flowchart

Q.4 ‘Dhimsa’ is a tribal dance form of which Indian state?
Option:
1. Arunachal Pradesh
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Andhra Pradesh
4. Himachal Pradesh

Q.5 Who is the 47th Chief Justice of India?
Option:
1. Sharad Arvind Bobde
2. Dipak Misra
3. Ranjan Gogoi
4. NV Ramana

Q.6 In which part of a plant are mesophyll cells found?
Option:
1. Root
2. Leaf
3. Stem
4. Seed

Q.7 Who is the author of the book ‘The Blue Umbrella’?
Option:
1. Ruskin Bond
2. Vikram Seth
3. Suketu Mehta
4. Vikram Chandra

Q.8 The GST council is headed by the:
Option:
1. Prime minister
2. Union finance minister
3. SEBI chairman
4. RBI governor

Q.9 ‘Disha Act’ was passed by which of the following state in December 2019?
Option:
1. Tamil Nadu
2. Andhra Pradesh
3. Telangana
4. Karnataka

Q.10 A force due to which moving objects (wind and water current) tend to deflect to the right in Northern hemisphere and left in Southern hemisphere is known as:
Option:
1. Applied force
2. Magnetic force
3. Endogenic force
4. Coriolis force

Q.11 The ______ is responsible for Earth’s magnetic field.
Option:
1. mantle
2. crust
3. inner core
4. outer core

Q.12 A higher ______ index represents inequality in income distribution.
Option:
1. NDP
2. GDP
3. CPI
4. Gini

Q.13 The Constitution under Article ______ mandates the Election Commission, to conduct elections to the Parliament and the State Legislatures.
Option:
1. 298
2. 324
3. 330
4. 312

Q.14 Which is the second most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere?
Option:
1. Oxygen
2. Hydrogen
3. Nitrogen
4. Carbon di oxide

Q.15 With which of the following sports is Manika Batra associated?
Option:
1. Badminton
2. Table Tennis
3. Gymnastics
4. Cricket

Q.16 Batholith is a type of:
Option:
1. ocean current
2. secondary pollutant
3. igneous rock
4. valley

Q.17 How many gold medals did India win at the ‘1986 Asian Games’ held in Seoul, South Korea?
Option:
1. 5
2. 9
3. 6
4. 8

Q.18 Which of the following is NOT an e-commerce website?
Option:
1. Swiggy
2. Flipkart
3. Google Maps
4. Uber

Q.19 Which river is also called ‘Dihang’ in India?
Option:
1. Indus
2. Ganges
3. Tapti
4. Brahmaputra

Q.20 International Astronomical Union (IAU) named minor planet 2006 VP32 (number -300128) in September 2019 after a famous Indian. Who is this Indian?
Option:
1. Pandit Jasraj
2. APJ Abdul Kalam
3. Viswanathan Anand
4. Hamsa Padmanabhan

Q.21 Birthplace of Guru Nanak known as Nankana Sahib today, was earlier called.
Option:
1. Umarkot
2. Rai Bhoi di Talvandi
3. Luni
4. Roda

Q.22 In which year was a separate Andhra state formed after the linguistic reorganisation of the then Madras province?
Option:
1. 1947
2. 1950
3. 1952
4. 1956

Q.23 Rambir Singh Khokar received the ‘Dronacharya award’ for:
Option:
1. Kabaddi
2. Wrestling
3. Football
4. Athletics

Q.24 In which year was the Bharat Ratna award instituted?
Option:
1. 1950
2. 1953
3. 1954
4. 1956

Q.25 In which medium does sound travel faster?
Option:
1. Gas
2. Vacuum
3. Solid
4. Liquid