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SSC CHSL (Tier - 1) Online Exam Paper - 2019 "held on 12 October 2020"

Evening-Shift (General Awareness)

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Q.1 ‘Bhagta Parab', a tribal festival that is celebrated between the period of spring and summer,
originated in the state of ______.

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Option:

1. Mizoram

2. Jharkhand

3. Madhya Pradesh

4. Maharashtra

Q.2 Which is the correctly matched option of captain of cricket team and year of World Cup
victory?

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Option:

1. Michael Clarke – 2007

2. Imran Khan – 1996

3. Kapil Dev – 1983

4. Ricky Ponting – 2011

Q.3 Which of the following parts of the human body releases carbon dioxide, brought in by the
blood, from the rest of the body?

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Option:

1. Alveoli

2. Larynx

3. Trachea

4. Bronchi

Q.4 Which of the following schemes launched by the present government has been correctly
matched with its purpose?

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Option:

1. AASHA Scheme – Remunerative prices to ward boys for serving patients

2. UJJWALA Scheme – Street lighting

3. SUMAN Scheme – Free medicines to pregnant women

4. SAGARMALA Scheme – To regularise selling of goods at ports

Q.5 National Sports Day of India is celebrated on 29 August every year in honour of which

sportsperson?

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Option:

1. Major Dhyan Chand Singh

2. Milkha Singh

3. Balbir Singh Sr.

4. Leslie Walter Claudius

Q.6 The award given to the best coach among coaches of all the different games is known as
______.

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Option:

1. Phalke Award

2. Ashoka Chakra Award

3. Dronacharya Award

4. Arjuna Award

Q.7 Who was the chairman of the drafting committee of the Constitution of India?

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Option:

1. B.R. Ambedkar

2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

3. Mohammad Saadullah

4. K.M. Munshi

Q.8 As of January 2020, who was the chief of the Indian Army?

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Option:

1. Bipin Rawat

2. Manoj Mukund Naravane

3. Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria

4. Karambir Singh

Q.9 When was the ‘Quit India Movement’ started?

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Option:

1. August 1942

2. April 1919

3. February 1928

4. October 1905

Q.10 ______ is no longer considered as a planet within Earth's Solar system.

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Option:

1. Pluto

2. Uranus

3. Mars

4. Neptune

Q.11 In which year did the convention on wetlands, the 'Ramsar Convention', come into force in India?

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Option:

1. 1984

2. 1978

3. 1982

4. 1991

Q.12 Who among the following is NOT a well known Tabla player in Hindustani classical style of music?

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Option:

1. Zakir Hussain

2. Latif Ahmed

3. Amjad Ali

4. Swapan Chowdhury

Q.13 Who appoints the Chief Justice of India?

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Option:

1. President of India in consultation with senior judges of Supreme Court

2. Judges of Supreme Court and High Court

3. President of India in consultation with senior judges of Supreme Court and High Court

4. President of India

Q.14 Mughal emperor Shah Jahan got the monument Taj Mahal constructed in memory of his wife ______.

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Option:

1. Jahanara

2. Roshnara

3. Noorjahan

4. Mumtaz Mahal

Q.15 Which Rajput ruler of Mewar in 1576 fought the Battle of Haldighati and then fled the field on his horse, Chetak?

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Option:

1. Maharana Pratap

2. Raja Man Singh

3. Rana Amar Singh

4. Maharaja Udai Singh

Q.16 Which are the biodiversity hotspots of India?

(A) Western Ghats
(B) North East India
(C) Sunderland

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Option:

1. Only A

2. A and B

3. A, B and C

4. Only B

Q.17 Who wrote the book ‘My Experiments with Truth’?

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Option:

1. Amitav Ghosh

2. Jawaharlal Nehru

3. M.K. Gandhi

4. Rabindranath Tagore

Q.18 The three-carbon molecules broken down from six-carbon molecules of glucose during the
first step in the process of nutrition in all organisms is called:

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Option:

1. pyruvate

2. methane

3. butane

4. ethane

Q.19 The 'transformation curve' is also known as the:

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Option:

1. demand curve

2. supply curve

3. indifference curve

4. production possibility curve

Q.20 ______ refers to money that has already been spent and which cannot be recovered.

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Option:

1. Replacement cost

2. Opportunity cost

3. Sunk cost

4. Imputed cost

Q.21 Which of the following statements about firewall (in the context of computing) is INCORRECT?

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Option:

1. It is frequently used to protect a computer network from unauthorised access.

2. It is a combination of both, software and hardware devices.

3. It is unable to permit legitimate communication to pass.

4. It permits network transmission based on a set of rules.

Q.22 Which American President won the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Option:

1. Barack Obama

2. George Washington

3. Bill Clinton

4. Abraham Lincoln

Q.23 With which neighboring country does Gujarat share its border?

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Option:

1. Nepal

2. Bangladesh

3. Pakistan

4. Bhutan

Q.24 What is the name of the force with which earth pulls everything towards itself?

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Option:

1. Resistance

2. Gravity

3. Thrust

4. Air pressure

Q.25 ‘Rangoli Bihu’ one of the major festival of Assam is celebrated in the month of______.

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Option:

1. October

2. April

3. March

4. June