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

Morning-Shift (General Awareness)

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Q.1 Which of the following state's legislative assembly adopted a redesigned logo consisting of
the National Emblem and the State flower - the Foxtail Orchid (Rhynchostylis Retusa) on 9
January 2020?

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Option:

1. Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly

2. Jharkhand Legislative Assembly

3. Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly

4. Kerala Legislative Assembly

Q.2 Which river originates from Tibet and enters India through Arunachal Pradesh?

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Option:

1. Chambal River

2. Godavari River

3. Kaveri River

4. Brahmaputra River

Q.3 Who won the ‘Most Valuable Player of the Series’ award in IPL 2019?

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Option:

1. David Warner

2. KL Rahul

3. Andre Russell 

4. Shubman Gill

Q.4 The novel 'Quichotte' was shortlisted for the ‘2019 Booker Prize’. Who is the author of this book?

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Option:

1. Vikram Seth

2. Salman Rushdie

3. Amitav Ghosh

4. Arundhati Roy

Q.5 How many districts of Uttar Pradesh started the second phase of Mission Indradhanush 2.0
at the block level on 7 January 2020?

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Option:

1. 25

2. 35

3. 30

4. 40

Q.6 In which battle did Ahmad Shah Abdali defeat the Marathas?

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Option:

1. Third battle of Panipat

2. Battle of Buxar

3. Battle of Khanwa

4. First battle of Tarain

Q.7 Which law states that the volume of an ideal gas at constant pressure is directly
proportional to the absolute temperature?

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Option:

1. Joule's law

2. Charles's law

3. Avogadro's law

4. Boyle's law

Q.8 What is the full form of PROM?

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Option:

1. Programmable read-only memory

2. Program read-output memory

3. Program read-only memory

4. Primary read-only memory

Q.9 On August 2019, Rambir Singh Khokhar won the ‘Dronacharya award’ in the lifetime
category for his contribution in ______.

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Option:

1. Kabaddi

2. Hockey

3. Football

4. Boxing

Q.10 Who threw a bomb in the central legislative assembly along with Bhagat Singh to protest
against the Public Safety Bill in 1929?

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Option:

1. Subhash Chandra Bose

2. Chandra Shekhar Azad

3. Rajguru 

4. Batukeshwar Dutt

Q.11 ‘Mayurbhanj Chhau’ is a folk dance form of which state?

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Option:

1. Maharashtra

2. Karnataka

3. Odisha

4. Rajasthan

Q.12 With reference to metals and their ores, which of the following pairs is INCORRECT?

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Option:

1. Aluminium (Al) – Cryolite

2. Mercury (Hg) – Greenockite

3. Cobalt (Co) – Smelite

4. Gold (Au) – Calaverite

Q.13 Who was the first Asian player to win the Junior Wimbledon's Boys singles title?

Option:

1. Vijay Amritraj 

2. Sumit Nagal

3. Mahesh Bhupathi

4. Ramanathan Krishnan

Q.14 Which of the following eye disorders is known as ‘lazy eye’?

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Option:

1. Hypermetropia

2. Myopia

3. Presbyopia

4. Amblyopia 

Q.15 Which company was ranked as the largest profit making PSU in India for the fiscal year
2018-2019?

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Option:

1. Power Finance Corporation

2. Indian Oil

3. Power Grid Corporation

4. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation

Q.16 Who is known as the ‘Father of Public Sector Undertakings’ in India?

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Option:

1. Ashok Desai

2. V Krishnamurthy

3. Sashi Sivramkrishna

4. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Q.17 The December 1929 session of Congress, in which the resolution for 'Poorna Swaraj' was
passed, was presided over by: 

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Option:

1. Jawaharlal Nehru 

2. CR Das 

3. Vallabhbhai Patel 

4. Subhash Chandra Bose 

Q.18 Who described the preamble of Indian Constitution as the 'Political horoscope of the Indian
Constitution'?

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Option:

1. Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi

2. NA Palkhiwala

3. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

4. Thakurdas Bhargav

Q.19 Which Indian social activist and politician led the Self-Respect Movement or Dravidian
Movement against Brahminism?

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Option:

1. C Rajagopalachari

2. C Annadurai

3. P Theagaraya Chetty

4. Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy

Q.20 Garo-Khasi range is located in which Indian state?

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Option:

1. Meghalaya

2. Mizoram

3. Odisha

4. Sikkim

Q.21 Which is the tallest waterfall of India with a height of 1,493 ft?

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Option:

1. Thalaiyar Falls, Tamil Nadu

2. Meenmutty Falls, Kerala

3. Barkana Falls, Karnataka

4. Kunchikal Falls, Karnataka

Q.22 On 30 October 2019, CBSE and NCERT, New Delhi developed an Aptitude Test for Senior
School Students. What is the name of that test?

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Option:

1. Udaan

2. Lakshya

3. Akanksha

4. Tamanna

Q.23 In which year did UNESCO include Yoga in its Intangible Cultural Heritage list?

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Option:

1. 2014

2. 2015

3. 2016

4. 2018

Q.24 Who is the only Indian to have won the United Nations Award in the field of human rights?

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Option:

1. Ela Bhatt

2. Baba Amte

3. Verghese Kurien

4. Kanshi Ram

Q.25 Which sanctuary is famous for endangered Estuarine Crocodiles conservation in India?

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Option:

1. Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha

2. Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary

3. Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka

4. Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala