SSC-CHSL 2021 General Awareness

Practice subject-wise previous year questions

Question 201
GK

Which Indian woman hockey player was made the brand ambassador of the Centre's 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' scheme for Haridwar district in August 2021?

A
Vandana Katariya
B
Manpreet Kaur
C
Rashmita Minz
D
Rajani Etimarpu 
Question 202
GK

What is the distance of the Marathon race?

A
42.195 km
B
46.195 km
C
43.195 km
D
44.195 km
Question 203
GK

Which Indian musician won a Grammy twice for Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire in 2010?

A
AR Rahman
B
Vishal Bharadwaj
C
Bappi Lahiri 
D
Pritam Chakraborty
Question 204
GK

Who among the following is associated with the Tabla?

A
Hariprasad Chaurasia 
B
Sultan Khan
C
Zakir Hussain
D
Amjad Ali Khan
Question 205
GK

Which element replaced eka aluminium according to the Mendeleev’s periodic table?

A
Boron 
B
Germanium
C
Gallium
D
Sodium
Question 206
GK

In which year was the POSHAN Abhiyaan launched to emphasise the nutritional status of adolescent girls, pregnant women, lactating mothers, and children in the age group of 0-6 years?

A
2016
B
2019 
C
2017
D
2018 
Question 207
GK

Who among the following versatile musicians of India won the Best Music Director National Award for the Hindi movie ‘Rudaali’ and was also known as the ‘Bard of Brahmaputra’?

A
Bhupen Hazarika
B
Manas Robin
C
Joi Barua
D
Jayanta Hazarika
Question 208
GK

Ashish Sankrityayan is an exponent of _________ music.

A
Odissi
B
Dhrupad
C
Thumri 
D
Kajari
Question 209
GK

Who among the following writers has written the famous Hindi novel ‘Godan’?

A
Mahadevi Verma
B
Jai Shankar Prasad 
C
Amrita Pritam
D
Munshi Premchand
Question 210
GK

Who among the following personalities is a Padma Vibhushan, legendary Indian Classical Dancer behind reviving the classical dance form of Odissi in the 20th century?

A
Surendra Nath Jena
B
Gangadhar Pradhan 
C
Hare Krishna Behera
D
Kelucharan Mohapatra
Question 211
GK

Identify the chemical name for Ge.

A
Gallium 
B
Gold
C
Germanium 
D
Gadolinium 
Question 212
GK

What percentage of the rural population uses safe and functional toilets as per the 2019-20 National Sample Survey report?

A
83%
B
95%
C
82%
D
88%
Question 213
GK

The nineteenth century saw the golden age of Kathak under the patronage of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of __________.

A
Hyderabad
B
Rampur 
C
Awadh
D
Jaunpur
Question 214
GK

The rate at which RBI lends to commercial banks for the short term is called ________.

A
repo rate 
B
reverse repo rate
C
bank rate
D
cash reserve rate
Question 215
GK

Who among the following won Arjuna Award 2021 in Para Archery discipline?

A
Abhishek Verma
B
Harvinder Singh
C
Rishabh Yadav
D
Aman Saini
Question 216
GK

How many types of writs can be issued by the Supreme Court of India for the protection of Fundamental Rights?

A
5
B
4
C
7
D
6
Question 217
GK

Vannadil Pudiyaveettil Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan, popularly known as the Dhananjayans were awarded with Rashtriya Kalidas Samman for the year __________.

A
2018-19
B
2019-20
C
2020-21 
D
2017-18
Question 218
GK

Which Manipuri Classical Dancer opened the ‘Govindji Nartanalaya’ dance school for women in Imphal?

A
Chandrakanta Singh 
B
Bipin Singh
C
Senarik Rajkumar
D
Nileshwar Mukherjee
Question 219
GK

Which of the following was the venue of the first ICC Test Championship final between India and New Zealand?

A
South Africa
B
England
C
New Zealand 
D
India
Question 220
GK

In January 2021, which state/Union Territory issued its ‘School Bag Policy 2020’, according to which the weight of the school bag should be at a maximum of 3.5 kgs to 5 kgs?

A
Telangana
B
Maharashtra
C
West Bengal
D
Delhi 
Question 221
GK

Which of the following groups consists of elements that are non-reactive, monoatomic elements with extremely low boiling points?

A
Group 18 
B
Group 16
C
Group 15
D
Group 13
Question 222
GK

Which of the following books is an autobiography of the Indian constitutional jurist Fali S Nariman?

A
Courage and Commitment 
B
Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography 
C
Wandering in Many Worlds
D
All From Memory: An Autobiography
Question 223
GK

Which of the following is a mountain pass in the Pir Panjal range at a maximum altitude of 2832 metres that connects the Kashmir Valley in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir with the Outer Himalayas and the plains in the south?

A
Mana Pass
B
Banihal Pass 
C
Bara-Lacha Pass
D
Zoji La
Question 224
GK

‘I, Me, Mine’ is the autobiography of which international musician?

A
George Harrison
B
Justin Bieber
C
AR Rahman
D
Elton John
Question 225
GK

Identify the cell that is amoeboid in shape.

A
Nerve cell
B
Columnar epithelial cell 
C
Red blood cell
D
White blood cell