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

Morning-Shift (General Awareness)

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Q.1 When was the Indian national song ‘Vande Mataram’ sung for the first time on a
political occasion?

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Option:

1. 1896 INC session

2. 1903 INC session

3. 1911 INC session

4. 1900 INC session

Q.2 The last Mauryan ruler to be killed by Pushyamitra Shunga was:

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Option:

1. Brihadratha

2. Devavarman

3. Bindusara

4. Dasharatha

Q.3 ______ is a diagrammatic representation of a program logic.

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Option:

1. Legend

2. Process

3. Data

4. Flowchart

Q.4 'Dhimsa' is a tribal dance form of which Indian state?

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Option:

1. Arunachal Pradesh

2. Madhya Pradesh

3. Andhra Pradesh

4. Himachal Pradesh

Q.5 Who is the 47th Chief Justice of India?

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Option:

1. Sharad Arvind Bobde

2. Dipak Misra

3. Ranjan Gogoi

4. NV Ramana

Q.6 In which part of a plant are mesophyll cells found?

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Option:

1. Root

2. Leaf

3. Stem

4. Seed

Q.7 Who is the author of the book 'The Blue Umbrella'?

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Option:

1. Ruskin Bond

2. Vikram Seth

3. Suketu Mehta

4. Vikram Chandra

Q.8 The GST council is headed by the:

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Option:

1. Prime minister

2. Union finance minister

3. SEBI chairman

4. RBI governor

Q.9 'Disha Act' was passed by which of the following state in December 2019?

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Option:

1. Tamil Nadu

2. Andhra Pradesh

3. Telangana

4. Karnataka

Q.10 A force due to which moving objects (wind and water current) tend to deflect to the
right in Northern hemisphere and left in Southern hemisphere is known as:

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Option:

1. Applied force

2. Magnetic force

3. Endogenic force

4. Coriolis force

Q.11 The ______ is responsible for Earth's magnetic field.

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Option:

1. mantle

2. crust

3. inner core

4. outer core

Q.12 A higher ______ index represents inequality in income distribution.

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Option:

1. NDP

2. GDP

3. CPI

4. Gini

Q.13 The Constitution under Article ______ mandates the Election Commission, to conduct
elections to the Parliament and the State Legislatures.

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Option:

1. 298

2. 324

3. 330

4. 312

Q.14 Which is the second most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere?

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Option:

1. Oxygen

2. Hydrogen

3. Nitrogen

4. Carbon di oxide

Q.15 With which of the following sports is Manika Batra associated?

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Option:

1. Badminton

2. Table Tennis

3. Gymnastics

4. Cricket

Q.16 Batholith is a type of:

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Option:

1. ocean current

2. secondary pollutant

3. igneous rock

4. valley

Q.17 How many gold medals did India win at the ‘1986 Asian Games’ held in Seoul, South Korea?

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Option:

1. 5

2. 9

3. 6

4. 8

Q.18 Which of the following is NOT an e-commerce website?

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Option:

1. Swiggy

2. Flipkart

3. Google Maps

4. Uber

Q.19 Which river is also called 'Dihang' in India?

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Option:

1. Indus

2. Ganges

3. Tapti

4. Brahmaputra

Q.20 International Astronomical Union (IAU) named minor planet 2006 VP32 (number
-300128) in September 2019 after a famous Indian. Who is this Indian?

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Option:

1. Pandit Jasraj

2. APJ Abdul Kalam

3. Viswanathan Anand

4. Hamsa Padmanabhan

Q.21 Birthplace of Guru Nanak known as Nankana Sahib today, was earlier called.

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Option:

1. Umarkot

2. Rai Bhoi di Talvandi

3. Luni

4. Roda

Q.22 In which year was a separate Andhra state formed after the linguistic reorganisation of
the then Madras province? 

Option:

1. 1947 

2. 1950 

3. 1952 

4. 1956 

Q.23 Rambir Singh Khokar received the ‘Dronacharya award’ for:

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Option:

1. Kabaddi

2. Wrestling

3. Football

4. Athletics

Q.24 In which year was the Bharat Ratna award instituted?

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Option:

1. 1950

2. 1953

3. 1954

4. 1956

Q.25 In which medium does sound travel faster?

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Option:

1. Gas

2. Vacuum

3. Solid

4. Liquid