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April 13th, 2015, 10:10 AM
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Re: General Awareness Question for SSC

Here I am providing you General Knowledge Questions for preparation of SSC (Staff Selection Commission) Examination.

General Knowledge Questions for SSC Examination:

1. Which of the following cities is known as Electronic City of India ?
Mumbai
Hyderabad
Bangalore
Gurgaon

2. Ms Bachendri Pal had undertaken a unique expedition for focussing attention on which of the following themes ?
National Integration
The Girl Child
Spirit of Adventure
One Nation One Family

3. Where is teh National Remote Sensing Agency situated ?
Bangalore
Dehradun
Shadnagar
Chennai

4. The first underground railway in India was opened in 1984 in
Mumbai
Chennai
Kolkata
Bangalore

5. Ashok Pandit is known for his outstanding performance in which of the following ?
Swimming
Wrestling
Shooting
Kabaddi

6. Who was the first Indian to go into space ?
Satish Dhawan
Ravi Malhotra
Rakesh Sharma
None of these

7. Who wrote Dragons Seed ?
Pearl S. Buck
Shakespeare
Shelley
Keats

8. Bismillah Khan is associated with
Tabla
Sarod
Flute
Shehnai

9. The Paratroopers Training School of the Indian Air Force, is located at
Nasik
Agra
Pune
Dehradun

10. The famous Meenakshi temple is in
Maharashtra
Gujarat
Orissa
Tamil Nadu

11. Which of the following personalities inspiredGreen Revolution in India ?
R.A. Kidwai
N.E. Borlaug
K.M. Panikkar
M.S. Ssaminathan

12. The headquarters of the National Power Training Institute is located in
Lucknow
Faridabad
Bhopal
Hyderabad

13. Which of the following is a violin player ?
V.C. Jog
Mallikarjun Mansur
Hariprasad Chaurasia
None of these

14. Which Iraqi scientist known as Dr. Germ for her role in Iraqs biological weapons programme recently surrendered to coalition forces ?
Maleeha Lodhi
Salma Pervez
Saleema Garib
Rihab Rashid Taha

15. Kishori Amonkar is famous in which of the following fields ?
Dance
Music
Social service
Film acting

16. Guru Gopinath was an exponent of
Kuchipudi
Bharatnatyam
Kathakali
Kathak

17. A. Nageshwara Rao is asociated which of the following fields ?
Sports
Social service
Literature
Motion Picture

18. The world famous ajanta caves are situated in the state of
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Karnataka
Orissa

19. The Indial Institute of Science is located at
New Delhi
Madras
Kharagpur
Bangalore

20. Which among the following ranks in Indian Air Force is the highest ?
Flying Officer
Air Commodore
Wing Commander
Squadron Leader

21) Lumbini where Gautam Buddha was born is in which country?
A) Nepal
B) India
C) Bhutan
D) Myanmar

22) The only cricketer to claim over 500 wickets in both Tests and One Day Internationals is?
A) Shane Warne
B) Anil Kumble
C) Muttiah Muralitharan
D) Wasim Akram

23) Who was the first Indian woman to scale the Mount Everest?
A) Santosh Yadav
B) Bachendri Pal
C) Mary Kom
D) Jwalla Gutta

24) Founder of Hotmail e-mail service is?
A) Sabeer Bhatia
B) Azim Premji
C) Vinod Dham
D) Bill Gates

25) Which of the following is not a part of our Parliament?
A) Lok Sabha
B) Rajya Sabha
C) Supreme Court
D) President

26) Who designed the Chandigarh city?
A) Le Corbusier
B) Edwin Lutyens
C) Kenzo Tange
D) Norman Foster

27) Fear of which is referred as Hydrophobia?
A) Height
B) Fire
C) Darkness
D) Water

28) Who wrote the book Discovery of India?
A) Bal Gangadhr Tilak
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sardar Patel

29) To commemorate the conquest of the Ranthambhor fort in Gujarat, which Mughal ruler built Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri?
A) Akbar
B) Jahangir
C) Babur
D) Aurangzeb

30) Which of the following is the principal ore of Mercury?
A) Bauxite
B) Cinnabar
C) Hematite
D) Galena

31) What is the motto of the National Cadet Corps (NCC)?
A) Bharat Mata Ki Jai
B) Ekta Aur Anushasan
C) Veerta Aur Vivek
D) Vayam Rakshaamah

32) Of the four Hindu Dhams, three are dedicated to lord Vishnu & one to lord Shiva. Which one is dedicated to lord Shiva?
A) Rameshwaram
B) Dwarka
C) Puri
D) Badrinath

33) Nifty is the main share index of which stock exchange?
A) Calcutta Stock Exchange(CSE)
B) Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE)
C) National Stock Exchange(NSE)
D) NASDAQ

34) Which freedom fighter is also known as Lokmanya?
A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B) Lala Lajpat Rai
C) Gopal Krishan Gokhle
D) Sardar Patel

35) Indian Standard Time (IST) is ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) by how many hours?
A) 4:30 hours
B) 5:00 hours
C) 5:30 hours
D) 6:00 hours

36) Which planet is nearest to Sun?
A) Venus
B) Earth
C) Mars
D) Mercury

37) Boundary line demarcating India and Pakistan known is known as?
A) Radcliffe Line
B) Curzon Line
C) McMahon Line
D) Durand Line

38) Crescograph, a device for measuring growth in plants, was invented by which Indian scientist?
A) Jagadish Chandra Bose
B) Meghnad Saha
C) Satyendra Nath Bose
D) M. Swaminathan

39) The name of which Indian classical dance style, originated in north India, literally means 'Story Teller'?
A) Kathak
B) Bhangra
C) Kuchipudi
D) Odissi

40) In which city Indian National Congress passed Quit India Resolution on August 8, 1942?
A) Delhi
B) Mumbai
C) Kolkata
D) Gujarat

41) The largest masjid in India, Jama Masjid, was built by which Mughal emperor?
A) Aurangzeb
B) Shahjahan
C) Akbar
D) Jahangir

42) Where is the Indira Point, the southernmost point of land in the territory of India, situated?
A) Andaman & Nicobar Islands
B) Tamilnadu
C) Lakshadweep
D) Kerala

43) The Althing, the oldest functioning legislative assembly in world, is the parliament of which country?
A) England
B) France
C) Iceland
D) Portugal

44) Line connecting the points on a map that have the same temperature is called?
A) Isobar
B) Isotherm
C) Isohyet
D) Isohels

45) Which scale is used to measure hardness of minerals?
A) Kelvin
B) Mohs
C) Richter
D) Mercalli intensity scale

46) In which river is India's largest riverine island Majuli is situated?
A) Ganga
B) Narmada
C) Tapti
D) Brahmaputra

47) The observation that 'Supply creates its own demand' is popularly called?
A) Say's Law
B) Greham's Law
C) Murphy's Law
D) Newton's Law

48) Rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk is called?
A) Horticulture
B) Sericulture
C) Viticulture
D) Apiculture

49) Who founded Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi in the year 1916?
A) S.Radhakrishnan
B) Dayanand Saraswati
C) Madan Mohan Malaviya
D) Ram Mohan Roy

50) First Jain Tirthankar was?
A) Mahavir
B) Neminath
C) Parshavnath
D) Rishabh


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