SSC-CGL 2021 General Awareness

Practice subject-wise previous year questions

Question 51

______ is the ability of a single cell to produce a fertile, adult individual.

Cloning

Pluripotency

Totipotency

Mutation

Question 52

Which of the following is one of the three 'Domestic Systemically Important Banks' in India?

RBL Bank

Federal Bank

Axis Bank

State Bank of India (SBI)

Question 53

What is represented by the product of force with displacement in the direction of force?

Work

Momentum

Impulse

Power

Question 54

In which of the following years was the Indian Association established?

1903

1881

1876

1856

Question 55

In October 2020, the world's longest highway tunnel was inaugurated in the state of ______.

Himachal Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Question 56

Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India adopted Hindi in Devanagari script as the oﬃcial language of the Union?

Article 343 (1)

Article 123

Article 231

Article 108

Question 57

Which of the following countries will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup?

Russia

Qatar

The US

Brazil

Question 58

Who among the following persons was announced as the head of the Committee to protect language, culture and land in Ladakh by the Central Government in January 2021?

Arjun Munda

Piyush Goyal

G Kishan Reddy

Raj Kumar Singh

Question 59

Who among the following wrote the basic text of Vaisheshika philosophy?

Jaimini

Kanada

Patanjali

Shankaracharya

Question 60

Whose administration became a model that was followed by Akbar when he consolidated the Mughal Empire?

Ghiyas ud din Balban

Bahlul Lodi

Iltutmish

Sher Shah Suri

Question 61

Which two great footballers, who were members of the gold medal winning team of 1962 Asian Games, passed away in 2020?

Ram Bahadur and Jarnail Singh

Yousuf Khan and TA Rahaman

Krishanu Dey and C Prasad

Chuni Goswami and PK Banerjee

Question 62

How is Dhanpat Rai Srivastava better known as?

Premchand

Dinkar

Nirala

Agyeya

Question 63

In January 2021, who among the following was appointed as the President of the Asian Cricket Council?

Sourav Ganguly

Anil Kumble

Rahul Dravid

Jay Shah

Question 64

Who wrote the book 'The Quest for Equity in Development'?

Raghuram Rajan

Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Amartya Sen

Manmohan Singh

Question 65

In which of the following states is the Bhitarkanika National Park situated?

Meghalaya

Kerala

Odisha

Goa

Question 66

Which of the following elements’ salts are most soluble?

Potassium

Rubidium

Sodium

Lithium

Question 67

Which of the following is NOT a greenhouse gas?

Nitrous oxide

Water vapour

Surface level ozone

Helium

Question 68

The Vedic view of an individual and his relation to society is determined by four objectives of life. Which of the following is NOT one of these objectives?

Dharma

Moksha

Siddhi

Artha

Question 69

What do you call the amount of monetary or other returns, either earned or unearned, accruing over a period of time?

Income

Services

Price

Value

Question 70

In which year did Atal Bihari Vajpayee undertake a bus journey to Lahore to sign a Peace Declaration?

1999

1997

1991

1994

Question 71

Pushyabhuti, who ruled from Thaneswar, was the founder of ______ dynasty.

Chera

Pandya

Vardhana

Chalukya

Question 72

All matches of the 2020-21 edition of Hero Indian Super League are being played in which of the following states?

West Bengal

Goa

Karnataka

Kerala

Question 73

Which of the following is another name for 'white ant'?

Houseﬂy

Mosquito

Wasp

Termite

Question 74

Till 20 January 1972, which present-day Indian state was known as the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA)?

Sikkim

Arunachal Pradesh

Nagaland

Assam

Question 75

Almost 98% of Earth's crust is made up of eight elements. Which of the following does NOT ﬁgure among these elements?

Carbon

Silicon

Calcium

Oxygen

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