SSC-CGL 2021 General Awareness

Practice subject-wise previous year questions

Question 1

Which of the following statements about Swami Dayanand Saraswati is INCORRECT?

His birthplace was Gujarat.

He authored the book 'Satyarth Prakash'.

He was the founder of Brahmo Samaj.

He was the founder of Arya Samaj.

Question 2

Who among the following is a Padma Vibhushan awardee of 2021?

Tarlochan Singh

Mouma Das

Sudarshan Sahoo

Sumitra Mahajan

Question 3

Who among the following was one of the founders of the Hindustan Republic Association?

Ram Prasad Bismil

Lala Lajpat Rai

Jatindranath Mukherjee

Surya Sen

Question 4

In which of the following years was the Second Round Table Conference in London held?

1925

1939

1931

1941

Question 5

In which of the following years was the Planning Commission of India set up?

1962

1950

1958

1945

Question 6

As per the Union Budget of 2021-22, how many regional national institutes of virology will be set up?

Four

Two

Three

Six

Question 7

Electron-volt is a unit of ______.

energy

power

current

potential difference

Question 8

Who among the following was elected as the President of Veterinary Council of India in January 2021?

KK Verma

Dipankar Seth

Umesh Sharma

Rajeev Arora

Question 9

Which of the following places is famous for a copper mine?

Gaya

Keonjhar

Khetri

Satna

Question 10

______ is the structural and functional unit of kidney.

Medulla

Ureter

Cortex

Nephron

Question 11

Unique Transaction Reference number is a ______ character code used to uniquely identify a transaction in the RTGS system.

Question 12

Gurdwara Patalpuri Sahib is located on the bank of river ______.

Ganga

Beas

Yamuna

Sutlej

Question 13

Who among the following won the ‘3rd Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize’ for his novel ‘The City and The Sea’ in December 2020?

Shekhar Gupta

Rajdeep Sardesai

Siddhartha Sarma

Raj Kamal Jha

Question 14

Which of the following has the same dimension as that of linear momentum?

Work

Energy

Impulse

Stress

Question 15

In December 2020, the Ministry of Home Affairs declared the entire State of ______ as a ‘disturbed area’ for six more months under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA).

Punjab

Jharkhand

Nagaland

West Bengal

Question 16

For which of the following franchise teams did AB de Villiers play in IPL 2020?

Delhi Capitals

Kolkata Knight Riders

Mumbai Indians

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Question 17

In Leh, the first ever ice climbing festival was celebrated in ______ valley in January 2021.

Ans 1. Dras

Ripchar

Markha

Nubra

Question 18

Which of the following is a process in which hot, less dense materials rise upward and are replaced by colder, more dense materials?

Conduction

Radiation

Condensation

Convection

Question 19

Baghmara Pitcher Plant Sanctuary is located in which of the following states?

Assam

Goa

Karnataka

Meghalaya

Question 20

Who among the following replaced Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister of India in 1979?

Chandrasekhar

Jagjivan Ram

Charan Singh

Devi Lal

Question 21

Which of the following schemes is aimed at helping accelerate the uptake of broadband internet services?

PM-INTERNET

PM-WANI

PM-DHWANI

PM-VAARTA

Question 22

Which of the following is the application of sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and engineering to matters of law and to the identification of various facts of civilian investigation?

Kalology

Morphology

Forensic science

Psychology

Question 23

Who won the Toyota Thailand Open Women’s Singles Title in Bangkok in January 2021?

Tai Tzu-ying

Ashwini Ponnappa

Carolina Marin

PV Sindhu

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT a town/city on the west coast of India?

Karwar

Gopalpur

Mangalore

Surat

Question 25

Who among the following had written Kitab-ul-Hind that gave an incisive description of early 11th Century India?

Al-Khwarizmi

Al-Biruni

Al-Kindi

Al-Bukhari

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