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SSC CHSL (Tier - 1) Online Exam Paper - 2020 "held on 05 August 2021"

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Q.1 Where was the Khelo India Ice Hockey Tournament held in January 2021?

1. Drass

2. Lungnak

3. Chiktan

4. Shargole

Q.2 Which maharaja of Manipur signed the Instrument of Accession with the Government of India?

1. Nara Singh

2. Gambhir Singh

3. Bodhchandra Singh

4. Kulachandra Singh

Q.3 ‘Purusha Sukta’ is a hymn from which Veda?

1. Samaveda

2. Yajurveda

3. Rigveda

4. Atharvaveda

Q.4 Which was the first empire in ancient India to use elephants in its war on a large scale?

1. Shunga

2. Magadha

3. Chola

4. Kushans

Q.5 Who discovered blood circulation?

1. Charles Darwin

2. Rosalind Franklin

3. David Baltimore

4. William Harvey

Q.6 Which of the following was the country in focus at the 51st International Film Festival of India held in Goa in January 2021?

1. Bangladesh

2. Myanmar

3. Nepal

4. Bhutan

Q.7 How many terabytes make one petabyte?

1. 1024

2. 1042

3. 1048

4. 1084

Q.8 The inertia of an object is measured by its ______.

1. area

2. volume

3. mass

4. speed

Q.9 As per Union Budget 2021, 9% of the government revenue will be spent on ______.

1. interest payments

2. defence

3. centrally sponsored schemes

4. pensions

Q.10 Which of the following is a single user operating system?

1. Windows NT

2. Linux

3. MS-DOS

4. Windows 7

Q.11 Which web portal and mobile application did the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, launch in December 2020?

1. e-Rozgar

2. e-Sampada

3. e-Dharti

4. e-Uparjan

Q.12 In January 2021, the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) developed India's first indigenous machine pistol called ‘Asmi’ in collaboration with ______.

1. Central Ordnance Depot, Jabalpur

2. College of Military Engineering, Pune

3. Infantry School, Mhow

4. Army War College, Mhow

Q.13 The world's only floating national park, Keibul Lamjao National Park, is located in ______.

1. Assam

2. Manipur

3. Tripura

4. Nagaland

Q.14 Which of the following is a Kharif crop in North India and a Rabi crop in South India?

1. Finger millet

2. Wheat

3. Barley

4. Sesamum

Q.15 Which of the following diseases is caused by Leishmania, a protozoan organism?

1. Sleeping sickness

2. Kala-azar

3. Malaria

4. Acne

Q.16 Who among the following was a World War II veteran, also associated with cricket?

1. Alan Burgess

2. Erik Karlsson

3. Brad Friedel

4. Ivan Cordoba

Q.17 The Sufi shrine Charar-e-Sharief (or Sharif) is located near ______ city.

1. Srinagar

2. Lucknow

3. Mumbai

4. Hyderabad

Q.18 Which of the following is a main species of moist deciduous forests?

1. Amaltas

2. Khejri

3. Sandalwood

4. Neem

Q.19 Which of the following beaches was NOT awarded the international ‘Blue Flag’ certification by Foundation of Environment Education, Denmark as of October 2020?

1. Ghoghla

2. Kappad

3. Rushikonda

4. Talasari

Q.20 Which of the following watershed development projects is sponsored by the Central Government aims at enabling the rural population to conserve water?

1. Haryali

2. Neeru-Meeru

3. Arvary Pani Sansad

4. Jal Kranti Abhiyan

Q.21 Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India deals with the organisation of agriculture and animal husbandry?

1. Article 92

2. Article 29

3. Article 84

4. Article 48

Q.22 Public Sector Banks account for about ______ of market share in Indian banking as per the Economic Survey 2019-20.

1. 80%

2. 50%

3. 40%

4. 70%

Q.23 Who among the following did the Sports Authority of India appoint as the middle-andlong distance coach of the Indian athletics team in January 2021?

1. Adille Sumariwalla

2. Radhakrishnan Nair

3. Avinash Sable

4. Nikolai Snesarev

Q.24 A Shadava Raga has only ______ notes in its scale.

1. eight

2. five

3. six

4. seven

Q.25 Who among the following politicians was the Home Minister of India in Rajiv Gandhi's cabinet from 1986 to 1989?

1. Madhavrao Scindia

2. Ajit Kumar Panja

3. Buta Singh

4. Ashoke Kumar Sen

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