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SSC CHSL (Tier - 1) Online Exam Paper - 2019 "held on 16 October 2020"

Evening-Shift (General Awareness)

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Q.1 India’s ‘National Sports Day’ coincides with the birthday of which sportsperson?

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Option:

1. Syed Abdul Rahim

2. Kapil Dev

3. Milkha Singh

4. Dhyan Chand

Q.2 Which of the following plates has the slowest rate of movement at less than 2.5 cm/year?

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Option:

1. Mid-Atlantic Ridge

2. Arctic Ridge

3. North American Plate

4. East Pacific Rise

Q.3 Who was India’s first Chief of Defence Staff?

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Option:

1. General Arjan Singh

2. General Vijay Kumar Singh

3. General Bipin Rawat

4. General Manoj Mukund Naravane

Q.4 Which application was launched by Reserve Bank of India in January 2020 to help visually
challenged people identify new currency notes?

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Option:

1. OLTAS

2. NEFT

3. MANI

4. DRI

Q.5 Through which of the following states does the Tropic of Cancer run?

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Option:

1. Manipur

2. Nagaland

3. Assam

4. Mizoram

Q.6 Who was the youngest Member of Parliament to be elected in 2019?

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Option:

1. Nusrat Jahan

2. Mimi Chakraborty

3. Chandrani Murmu

4. Tejasvi Surya

Q.7 Which of the following is a popular dance form of Lakshadweep island?

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Option:

1. Kolkali

2. Koli

3. Kathak

4. Kuchipudi

Q.8 A piece of land that is almost entirely surrounded by water but connected to the main land
on one side is called ______.

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Option:

1. Island

2. Strait

3. Peninsula

4. Isthmus

Q.9 A/an ______ is a central server on a computer network that enables connected clients to
access the server’s storage capacities.

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Option:

1. file server

2. print server

3. web server

4. application server

Q.10 Which of the following is NOT a central economic problem, solved by the Production
Possibility Curve (PPC)?

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Option:

1. Full utilisation of resources

2. Economic efficiency

3. Sustainable consumption

4. Economic growth

Q.11 The fifth incarnation of Vishnu is known as:

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Option:

1. Vamana

2. Narasimha

3. Krishna

4. Varaha

Q.12 Which stadium was renamed as Arun Jaitley Stadium in 2019?

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Option:

1. Green Park

2. Eden Gardens

3. Wankhede Stadium

4. Feroz Shah Kotla Ground

Q.13 The capital of which empire was NOT in south India?

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Option:

1. Chola

2. Pallava

3. Pala

4. Chera

Q.14 'Leukopenia' is an abnormal ______.

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Option:

1. increase in white blood cells

2. decrease in red blood cells

3. increase in red blood cells

4. decrease in white blood cells

Q.15 'Piklihal' and 'Utnur' are important ______ sites.

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Option:

1. Neolithic

2. Megalithic

3. Monolithic

4. Paleolithic

Q.16 Pineapple is a ______ plant.

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Option:

1. Hygrophyte

2. Mesophyte

3. Hydrophyte

4. Xerophyte

Q.17 As per the eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, how many languages are referred to
as scheduled languages?

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Option:

1. 22

2. 14

3. 18

4. 20

Q.18 India got its first 3D Smart Traffic Signal System in August 2019. This system was designed
by students of______.

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Option:

1. Chitkara University

2. IISC-Bangalore

3. I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University

4. IIT-Mumbai

Q.19 Who among the following was dropped from the All India Council of Sports (AICS) in
January 2020 for not being “active” enough?

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Option:

1. K Srikkanth

2. Pullela Gopichand

3. Viswananthan Anand

4. Harbajan Singh

Q.20 Who is the author of the book ‘Reset: Regaining India's Economic Legacy’?

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Option:

1. Abhijeet Banerjee

2. Raghuram Rajan

3. Suketu Mehta

4. Subramanian Swamy

Q.21 Which of the following statements is NOT correct about Rajya Sabha?

Option:

1. It can amend a money bill.

2. Twelve of its members are nominated by the President.

3. It has powers that protect the rights of states against the union.

4. It is the upper house of the Parliament of India.

Q.22 Who among the following won the ‘JCB Prize for Literature 2019’?

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Option:

1. Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

2. Madhuri Vijay

3. Shanta Gokhale

4. Manu S Pillai

Q.23 Third generation computers used:

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Option:

1. Transistors

2. integrated circuits

3. vacuum tubes

4. VLSI technique

Q.24 1° latitude is equal to approximately ______ km.

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Option:

1. 122

2. 145

3. 111

4. 133

Q.25 Carbon and energy requirements of autotrophic organisms are fulfilled by the process of:

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Option:

1. Biosynthesis

2. Photosynthesis

3. Photoautotrophs

4. Hibernation