SSC-CPO 2020 General Awareness

Practice subject-wise previous year questions

Question 276

The longest continuous wall in India, the second longest in the world, is at ______ Fort.

Kumbhalgarh

Chittorgarh

Kangra

Mehrangarh

Question 277

The Indian Cabinet Minister – Ministry of Corporate Affairs, as on 30 June 2020 was ______.

Nirmala Sitharaman

Nitin Jairam Gadkari

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Question 278

______ is land which is left fallow (uncultivated) for more than five years and can be brought under cultivation after improving it through reclamation practices.

Permanent pastures

Current fallow

Forest land

Culturable wasteland

Question 279

Tax reforms are concerned with the reforms in the government’s taxation and public expenditure policies, which are collectively known as its ______.

fiscal policy

financial policy

fiscal reforms

financial reforms

Question 280

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returned to India in the year ______ after two decades of residence abroad.

1869

1905

1893

1915

Question 281

Jayprakash Narayan was given the title of ‘______’.

Deenbandhu

Loknayak

Jana Nayak

Deshbandhu

Question 282

Birhor dance is a tribal folk dance from ______.

Karnataka

Punjab

Himachal Pradesh

Jharkhand

Question 283

The British annexed Punjab after defeating the Sikhs in the Anglo-Sikh War in the year ______.

1835

1845

1839

1849

Question 284

The charge has to be passed ______ to obtain maximum work from a galvanic cell.

uniformly

inversely

proportionately

reversibly

Question 285

Viswanathan Anand, Pentala Harikrishna and Vidit Gujrathi are associated with the game of ______.

chess

cricket

kabaddi

football

Question 286

ONGC ______ is a subsidiary of the Indian public sector enterprise, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.

Videsh

Vinesh

Vighnesh

Vishesh

Question 287

The discovery and understanding of electromagnetic induction is based on a long series of experiments carried out by ______.

Rutherford

Einstein

Faraday and Henry

Planck and Fermi

Question 288

Name the high-frequency radiation produced in nuclear reactions and also emitted by radioactive nuclei that are used in medicine to destroy cancer cells.

Gamma rays

Ultraviolet waves

Light waves

X-rays

Question 289

The ______ water utilisation is very high in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu.

rain

ground

river

sea

Question 290

Called the farmer’s ‘friend’, the ______ helps in the breakdown of complex organic matter as well as in loosening of the soil.

earthworm

locust

weed

rat

Question 291

Electrical conductance through metals is called electronic conductance and it ______.

decreases with increase in temperature

increases with increase in temperature

decreases with decrease in temperature

does not depend on temperature

Question 292

Muhammad Ghori was defeated by a ______ ruler in 1191.

Maurya

Chalukya

Chahamana (Chauhan)

Gahadavala

Question 293

Sakewa is a religious festival celebrated by the Kirat Khambu Rai community of ______.

Arunachal Pradesh

Sikkim

Nagaland

Meghalaya

Question 294

Nuclear membrane is absent in organisms that fall under kingdom ______.

Monera

Plantae

Animalia

Fungi

Question 295

Lord Hastings initiated the ______ where the East India Company claimed that its authority was supreme and hence its power was greater than that of Indian states

Government's Stores Policy

Doctrine of Lapse

Imperial Policy

Policy of ‘Paramountcy’

Question 296

The Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat as on 30 June 2020 was ______.

Vijaybhai Rupani

Pramod Sawant

Naveen Patnaik

 Nitish Kumar 

Question 297

Fondly called the ‘Haryana Hurricane’, ______ made his test debut in the year 1978.

Sunil Gavaskar

Kapil Dev

Ravi Shastri 

Dilip Vengsarkar

Question 298

‘The Substance and the Shadow’ is the autobiography of ______.

Dilip Kumar

Dev Anand

Shammi Kapoor

Guru Dutt

Question 299

Languages like Nyishi, Apatani and Bokar are widely spoken in ______.

Mizoram

Nagaland

Assam

Arunachal Pradesh

Question 300

Sagol Kangjei, an indigenous game of Manipur is similar to the modern day sports of: