SSCE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Booster 20-20 (31.03.2020)

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Q.1 The first Earth Summit was held in:

(A) Buenos Aires

(B) Rio-de-Janerio

(C) Dar-es-Salaam

(D) None of these

Ans:- (B)

Q.2 CTBT stands for:

(A) Continued Test Ban Treaty

(B) Continued Test Based Treatments

(C) Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

(D) Commercial Test Based Tariff

Ans:- (C)

Q.3 Which one of the following is a responsible for blue baby syndrome?

(A) Fluoride

(B) Nitrate

(C) Arsenic

(D) Lead

Ans:- (B)

Q.4 Who has written the book “Two Lives”?

(A) Salman Rushdie

(B) Shiv Khera

(C) Vikram Seth

(D) Arundhati Roy

Ans:- (C)

Q.5 Who was the first woman to win Jnanpith Award?

(A) Mahadevi Verma           

(B) Amrita Pritam

(C) Mahashweta Devi

(D) Ashapoorna Devi

Ans:- (D)

Q.6 Who was the first Indian to qualify for Olympics? 

(A) Shiny Abraham 

(B) PT Usha 

(C) Karman Malleshwari

(D) Jyotirmony Sikdar

Ans:- (B)

Q.7 The term ‘Double fault’ is associated with:

(A) Baseball

(B) Golf

(C) Tennis

(D) Bridge

Ans:- (C)

Q.8 Which of the following is NOT an example of Indirect tax?

(A) Sales tax

(B) Excise duty

(C) Custom duty

(D) Expenditure tax

Ans:- (D)

Q.9 Who is the author of “Chokher Bali”?

(A) Chetan Bhagat

(B) Rabindranath Tagore

(C) Jhumpa Lahiri

(D) Amish Tripathi

Ans:- (B)

Q.10 In which parts of eyes lies the pigment, that decides the colour of the eyes of a person? 

(A) Cornea

(B) Choroid

(C) Iris

(D) Vitreous body

Ans:- (C)

Q.11 The Red Triangle symbol denotes

(A) Air India

(B) Family planning

(C) Culture and Civilization

(D) None of the above

Ans:- (B)

Q.12 The Radcliffe line is a boundary between

(A) India and Pakistan

(B) India and China

(C) India and Myanmar

(D) India and Afghanistan

Ans:- (A)

Q.13 The name of Ronaldinho is associated with the game of

(A) Football

(B) Hockey

(C) Gymnastics

(D) Badminton

Ans:- (A)

Q.14 The unit of energy in MKS system is

(A) Volt

(B) Erg

(C) Ohm

(D) Joule

Ans:- (D)

Q.15 Movements due to light are shown by

(A) Flowering plants

(B) Lower plants

(C) All land plants

(D) All the plants

Ans:- (A)

Q.16 The Palaeozoic era starts at ____ million years ago and ends at ____ million years ago.

(A) 500, 100

(B) 570, 225

(C) 470, 150

(D) 470, 225

Ans:- (B)

Q.17 The earliest and greatest Tamil epic "Silappatikaram" was written by:

(A) Tiruvalluvara

(B) Sattanar

(C) Kapilar

(D) Ilango Adigal

Ans:- (D)

Q.18 Squadron leader Rakesh Sharma was Indias first man to go into space. He was ____ cosmonaut to be in space in the world.

(A) 12th

(B) 107th

(C) 139th

(D) 151st

Ans:- (C)

Q.19 The headquarter of OAU (Organization of African Unity) are at

(A) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

(B) Washington DC

(C) Paris

(D) Jakarta, Indonesia

Ans:- (A)

Q.20 National Water Academy, a centre of excellence in training and capacity building in water resource, is located at -

(A)  New Delhi

(B) Kolkata

(C) Pune

(D) Chennai

Ans:-(C)