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SSC CHSL (Tier - 1) Online Exam Paper - 2019 "held on 13 October 2020"

Evening-Shift (General Awareness)

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Q.1 Which Indian mountain looks like a giant pyramid and has a flat summit area and two peaks?

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Option:

1. Mamostang Kangri

2. Nanda Devi

3. Saltoro Kangri

4. Kamet

Q.2 Which of the following temples has Panchayatana Style of architecture?

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Option:

1. Kashi Vishwanath temple

2. Sun Temple

3. Brihadeeswara Temple

4. Dashavatara Temple

Q.3 Which player became the first Indian brand ambassador of La Liga (the top tier of
Spanish club football) in December 2019?

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Option:

1. Sachin Tendulkar

2. Mahendra Singh Dhoni

3. Rohit Sharma

4. Virat Kohli

Q.4 On which date did Indian National Congress pass the Resolution of 'Poorna Swaraj'
(total independence) at the Lahore Session?

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Option:

1. 15 December 1929

2. 19 December 1929

3. 26 December 1929

4. 21 December 1929

Q.5 Which scientist arranged the Periodic Table of Elements in the order of increasing
atomic masses?

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Option:

1. Robert Boyle

2. Henry Moseley

3. Dmitri Mendeleev

4. William Ramsay

Q.6 Which of the following monuments has NOT been notified as a National Geo-heritage
Monument by the Geological Survey of India (GSI)?

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Option:

1. Gingee Fort Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu

2. Peninsular Gneiss Lalbagh, Karnataka

3. Pillow Lava in lron Ore belt at Nomira, Odisha

4. Nagahill Ophiolite site near Pungro, Nagaland

Q.7 Who was sworn in as the 11th Chief Minister of Jharkhand on 29 December 2019?

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Option:

1. Shibu Soren

2. Alamgir Alam

3. Hemant Soren 

4. Raghubar Das

Q.8 What is the chemical name of ‘oil of vitriol’?

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Option:

1. Methyl alcohol

2. Sodium chloride

3. Calcium hydroxide

4. Sulfuric acid

Q.9 Which child activist became the first Indian to be awarded the ‘Changemaker Award
2019’ (given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) for her work towards abolition
of child marriage in Rajasthan?

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Option:

1. Kanchan Upadhaya

2. Ridhima Pandey

3. Payal Jangid

4. Ayushi Dholakia

Q.10 In DASD, what is the full form of ‘A’?

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Option:

1. Arithmetic

2. Around

3. Access

4. Accessible

Q.11 Which festival marks the beginning of the Tibetan New Year?

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Option:

1. Losar festival 

2. Saga Dawa Festival

3. Ongkor Festival

4. Shoton Festival

Q.12 When was the ‘Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award’ instituted?

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Option:

1. 2002-03

2. 1991–92

3. 1985-86

4. 1993-94

Q.13 Which instrument records the waves reaching the surface during an earthquake?

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Option:

1. Seismograph

2. Manometer

3. Barograph

4. Chronometer

Q.14 Which Indian economist was appointed as the Chief Economist of the World Bank
from 2012 to 2016?

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Option:

1. Jagdish Bhagwati

2. Raghuram Rajan

3. Kaushik Basu

4. Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel

Q.15 What was India’s rank in the world in terms of military power as per the ‘Global
Firepower Nations Index 2019’?

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Option:

1. 5th

2. 4th

3. 9th

4. 3rd

Q.16 Which former badminton player of India was awarded the ‘Sportstar Lifetime
Achievement Award’ in February 2019?

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Option:

1. Pullela Gopichand

2. Prakash Padukone

3. Sanave Thomas

4. Chetan Anand

Q.17 Which of the following prominent leaders wrote the book ‘Citizen Delhi: My Life, My
Times’?

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Option:

1. Arun Jaitley

2. Sheila Dikshit

3. Harsh Vardhan

4. Arvind Kejriwal

Q.18 As per state census 2011, which of the following is the least populous state of India?

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Option:

1. Kerala 

2. Odisha

3. Tamil Nadu

4. Sikkim 

Q.19 On December 2019, the Prime Minister of ______ announced the commencement of
the ‘Gandhi Citizenship Education Award’ to be given every year.

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Option:

1. France

2. Portugal 

3. Bhutan

4. Japan

Q.20 In which year did Motilal Nehru (Chairman) and eight other Congress leaders draft a
constitution for India?

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Option:

1. 1930

2. 1928

3. 1925

4. 1950

Q.21 Who designed the first analog computer in India?

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Option:

1. Samarendra Kumar Mitra

2. Bimal Kumar Bhattacharyya

3. Deb Kumar Bose

4. Subodh Chandra Das Gupta

Q.22 Which planet is made up of thick white and yellowish clouds of sulfuric acid?

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Option:

1. Uranus

2. Mars

3. Venus

4. Neptune

Q.23 Which of the following pairs is INCORRECTLY matched?

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Option:

1. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited – Navratna

2. Airport Authority of India – Navratna

3. Indian Oil Corporation Limited – Maharatna

4. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited – Miniratna

Q.24 What is the provision of Article 49 of the Constitution of India?

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Option:

1. Provision for free and compulsory education for children

2. Protection of monuments and places and objects of natural importance

3. Prohibition of employment of children (Under the age of 14) in factories and mines

4. Promotion of international peace and security

Q.25 In which language were the Mughal court chronicles written?

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Option:

1. Hindi

2. Urdu

3. Sanskrit

4. Persian