General Awareness Quiz for SSC CHSL 2016-17 (Previous year Questions)

1. Deficiency of Vitamin B6 results in which of the following diseases?

(a) Pellagra
(b) Scurvy 
(c) Beri-beri 
(d) Anaemia


2. __________is the lowermost layer of atmosphere.

(a) Troposphere
(b) Exosphere
(c) Ionosphere
(d) Stratosphere

3. Which of the following metals is present in vitamin B12?

(a) Iron 
(b) Magnesium 
(c) Zinc 
(d) Cobalt

4. Which of the following vitamins is removed as a result of washing peeled
vegetables?

(a) A 
(b) C
(c) D 
(d) E

5. A person suffering from colour blindness sees red as

(a) Yellow 
(b) Blue 
(c) Green 
(d) Black

6. The duration of Day and Night are equal at

(a) Equator 
(b) South Pole 
(c) Prime Meridian
(d) North Pole

7. Which of the following is the correct shape of earth?

(a) Spherical 
(b) Elliptical 
(c) Oblate Spheroid 
(d) Prolate Spheroid

8. Which among the following articles of the Indian constitution empowers the
President of India to impose emergency in a state?

(a) Article 256 
(b) Article 356 
(c) Article 370 
(d) Article 373

9. Who was the head of the drafting committee of the Indian Constitution?

(a) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
(b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(c) C. Rajagopalachari 
(d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

10. ___________was the first non-Indian to be awarded with Bharat Ratna?

(a) Martin Luther King 
(b) Zubin Mehta 
(c) Mother Teresa
(d) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

11. With which among the following is Sarkaria Commission related?

(a) Legislative Reforms 
(b) Electoral Reforms 
(c) Judicial Reforms
(d) Centre-State relations

12. Who among the following founded the Lodi dynasty?

(a) Ibrahim Lodi 
(b) Sikandar Lodi 
(c) Bahlol Lodi
(d) Khizr Khan

13. Who wrote the book ‘India Divided'?

(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad 
(b) Liaquat Ali
(c) Sir Mohammad Iqbal 
(d) Jinnah

14. Who among the following founded the religion ‘Din-E-Elahi’?

(a) Jahangir 
(b) ShahJahan 
(c) Akbar 
(d) Aurangazeb

15. The interval between two sessions of parliament can’t be more than

(a) 3 months 
(b) 6 months 
(c) 9 months 
(d) 12 months

Answers :

1-d
2-a
3-d
4-b
5-c
6-a
7-c
8-b
9-a
10-d
11-d
12-c
13-a
14-c
15-b

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General Awareness Quiz for SSC CHSL 2016-17

 1.  In a Parliamentary form of Government ___________

(a) The Legislature is responsible to the Judiciary
(b) The Executive is responsible to the Legislature.
(c) The Legislature is responsible to the Executive
(d) The Judiciary is responsible to the Legislatu


2.  Which of the following statements is correct about the President of India?

(a) Addresses first session of Parliament after each General Election.
(b) Addresses first session of Parliament at the beginning of each year
(c) Addresses every session of Parliament
(d) Never addresses Parliament

3  .Which of the following periodicals is not correctly matched with its editor?

(a) Bande Mataram:Aurobindo Ghosh
(b) New India:Bipin Chandra Pal
(c) Yugantar:Bhupendranath Dutta
(d) Sandhya:Barindra Ghosh


4.  Which one of the following is also called as World Bank?

(a) IMF
(b) IBRD
(c) WTO
(d) IDA

5. _____changes each time it is installed to avoid detection by antivirus software.

(a) Polymorphic virus
(b) worm
(c) logic bomb
(d) trojan horse

6.  Why Stars twinkle but planets do not twinkle?

(a) planets emit light of a constant intensity
(b) planets distance from the earth does not change with time
(c) planets are very far away from the earth resulting in decrease in intensity of light
(d) planets are nearer to the earth and hence we receive a greater amount of light and therefore minor variations in intensity are not noticeabl.  

7. Which of the following is not guaranteed by Indian Constitution?

(a) Right to Equality
(b) Right of religious freedom
(c) Right to Constitutional remedies
(d) Right to free education for all

8.  Who among the following Indians has been honoured by a special Oscar?

(a) Mahesh Bhatt
(b) Satyajit Ray
(c) Mira Nair
(d) G.P.Sippy

9.  What situation would result if Government expenditure exceeds the Government revenue on Current Account?

(a) Deficit budgeting
(b) Zerobased
(c) Performancebased budgeting
(d) Surplus budgeting

10.  Which of the following Institutions and Apollo Medskills has launched a certificate programme in general management for healthcare professionals?

(a) IIM, Bengaluru
(b) IIT, Delhi
(c) IIM, Ahmedabad
(d) BHU, Varanasi

11.  Hon’ble Minister of Communications Sh. Manoj Sinha has launched __________________ for addressing the complaints and concerns of common man and other stake-holders in the telecom and postal sectors.

(a) Facebook Sewa
(b) Twitter Sewa
(c) Public Sewa
(d) Linkedin Sew

12.  Which state government has launched ‘Pashudhan Bima Yojana’ recently?

(a) Bihar
(b) Chhattisgarh
(c) Odisha
(d) Haryana

13.   Name the Mobile payments company, which has announced the partnership with IRCTC's app for power e-cash payments on IRCTC's e-catering app, Food on Track.

(a) Paytm
(b) ITZ Cash Card  
(c) MobiKwik
(d) iKaaz

14. The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is set to launch the facility of travel insurance for passengers who book tickets on its website. The service, scheduled to come into effect from September, can be availed at a premium of Re ...........?

(a) Re 5
(b) Re 10
(c) Re 1
(d) Re 3

15.   Which state government has decided to recruit members of transgender community persons as warders in jails of the State as per the directive of the Supreme Court recently?

(a) Kerala
(b) Gujarat
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Odisha

16.   Which of the following states has become the first state to ratify the GST bill passed by the Parliament?

(a) Bihar
(b) Assam
(c) Uttarakhand
(d) Goa

17.  Name the bollywood stars, who bagged the best actress and best actor awards at the Indian Film Festival (IFF) of Melbourne 2016.

(a) Deepika Padukone (actress) and Amitabh Bachchan (actor)
(b) Priyanka Chopra (actress) and Hrithik Roshan (actor)
(c) Anushka Sharma (actress) and Ranveer Singh (actor)
(d) Sonam Kapoor (actress) and Nawazuddin Siddiqui (actor)

18.   Mobile Standards Alliance of India (MSAI) and the Nirbhaya Jyoti Trust launched a mobile app aimed at ensuring personal safety during times of distress. The app is called as .................?

(a) I feel safe
(b) I feel fresh
(c) I feel well
(d) I feel better

19.   The Rajya Sabha has overwhelmingly passed the ______________ Constitution Amendment Bill, 2014 to facilitate rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the country.

(a) 142nd
(b) 162nd
(c) 122nd
(d) 152nd

20.  Which among the following team has won the Durand Cup Football Title? 

(a) Mohun Bagan 
(b) Neroca FC 
(c) Army Green 
(d) Andhra Pradesh Police


Answers :

  1. (b)  2. (a)  3. (d) 4.  (b) 5. (a)  6  (d)  7. (d)  8. (b) 9. (a) 10 (a)

  11. (b)  12. (d)  13. (c)  14. (c) 15 (d)  16 (b)  17. (d)  18. (a) 19. (c) 20. (c)

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General Awareness Quiz for SSC CHSL 2016-17

1.  Which amongst the following is a book written by Dr. Harivansh Rai Bhachchan?

(a) Chidambara
(b) Kapala Kundala
(c) Kamayani
(d) Prateeksha 

 2. Who is the author of the book “War and Diplomacy in Kashmir”?

(a) G. Parthasarathy
(b) Sir Owen Dixon
(c) C. Dasgupta
(d) Kuldeep Nayar

3. Who is the author of the book ‘Conquest of Happiness’?

(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Aldous Huxley
(c) Bertrand Russell
(d) George Bernard Shaw

4. Whose autobiography is “My Life”?

(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Bill Clinton
(c) Margaret Thatcher
(d) J. M. Lyngdoh

5. Who is the author of book “Is New York Burning”?

(a) John Gresham
(b)  Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
(c) Christopher Paolini Knaul
(d) Michael Moor

6. Who is the author of book “Stupid White Men”?

(a) John Gresham
(b)  Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
(c) Christopher Paolini Knaul
(d) Michael Moor

7.  Who is the author of the book Long Walk to Freedom?

(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Louis Fischer
(c) Aung Sang Su Kyi
(d) Mao Tse Tung

8. Who is the author of the book “The Three Mistakes in My Life”? 

(a) Ruskin Bond
(b) Chetan Bhagat
(c) Amrita Pritam
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri 

9. Indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile was successfully test-fired from a test range at Chandipur in Odisha. Which type of missile is Prithvi-II?

(a) Air-to-Air
(b) surface-to-surface 
(c) surface-to-Air
(d) Missile destroyers 

10. Name the Indian-American student who has won the prestigious Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award?

(a) Alok Chaturvedi
(b) Thakur Anoop Singh
(c) Syamantak Payra
(d) Shyam Singh

11. Which of the following state government has decided to launch Green Passage scheme for orphan students to ensure that they get free of cost higher education in the state?

(a) Haryana
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Gujarat
(d) Odisha

12. Himachal Pradesh Government has launched ‘PEHAL’, a vision document of the Shimla District administration for raising education standards. Who is the present Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh?

(a) Nitish Kumar
(b) Harish Rawat
(c) Virbhadra Singh
(d) Vasundhara Raje

13. Which of the following country has successfully launched its maiden indigenous winged Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV)?

(a) India
(b) China
(c) Japan
(d) USA

14. Who is the author of the book ‘Courts And Their Judgements’?

(a) Justice Mr. V. R. Krishna Iyer
(b) Arun Shourie
(c) F. S. Nariman
(d) Ram Jethmalani

15. Who is the author of the book “Life of Pi”?

(a) Yan Martel
(b) Rohinton Mistry
(c) Ken Follet
(d) M. J. Akbar

16.   Which among the following is not a work of Rabindranath Tagore?

(a) Chitra
(b) Kapala Kundala
(c) The Court Dancer
(d) Chithrangada

17.   The book “My Presidential Years” was written by

(a) Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma
(b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
(c) R. Venkataraman
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

18.   Life Divine is a book written by 

(a) Gandhi
(b) Tagore
(c) Radhakrishnan
(d) Sri Aurobindo

19.   The Book “Shadow of a Princess” is a first-hand account of Princess Diana’s life. It is written by

(a) Patric Jephson
(b) Byron Lord
(c) James Jeans
(d) Clive Ponting

20.  ‘Freedom From Fear’ is book written by  

(a) Benazir Bhutto 
(b) Corazon Aquino 
(c) Aung San Suu Kyi 
(d) Nayantara Sehgal 



Answers:-

1. (d)  2.  (c)  3. (c)  4. (b)  5.  (b)  6.  (d)  7. (a)  8. (b)  9.  (b)  10.  (c)  11. (d)  12. (c)  13. (a) 14. (b)  15. (a)  16. (b)  17. (c)  18. (d)  19. (a) 20. (c)

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