SSC CHSL MCQ 2021| General Awareness Section | 25 May 2021 | Third Shift | CHSL Question Answer

Combined Higher Secondary Level Examination 2021 Tier I
Section : General Awareness
25/05/2022 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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1. Due to the service done by the poet ___________, the Kathakali dance form received a new impetus and today, many innovations are also being made to suit the needs of a changing society.

Purandara Dasa

Vallathol Narayana Menon

Satchidanandan

Gopal Bhatta1

2. How do the red algae reproduce vegetatively?

Fission

Spore formation

Cutting

Fragmentation

3. How many players were honoured with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2021?

14

18

16

12

4. Which of the following is a type of large, brown seaweed that grows in shallow, nutrient-rich salt water near coastal fronts around the world?

Alpina

Kelp

Seagrass

Corals

5. Pritam Rani Siwach who received the prestigious 2021 Dronacharya Award contributed to the field of:

para shooting

athletics

hockey

boxing

6. Padma Shri awardee Guru Gangadhar Pradhan is an accomplished dancer of which of the following dance forms?

Manipuri

Kathakali

Odissi

Kathak

7. Who among the following is a famous violinist?

Sajjad Hussain

Anoushka Shankar

Krishna R Chaudhary

Nagai R Muralidharan

8. When the government resorts to borrowing only to clear the backlog if interest payments, it is referred to as ______________.

zero revenue deficit

zero primary deficit

zero fiscal deficit

excess budget deficit

9. The term 'header' is associated to which of the following sports?

Football

Cricket

Hockey

Basketball

10. Identify the wrong pair with respect to different motions and their examples.

Periodic motion - Earth rotating on its axis

Rectilinear motion - A stone thrown up in the air at an angle

Rotational motion - Blades of a windmill

Oscillatory motion - A boat tossing up and down a river

11. ‘The Great Indian Novel’, a satirical novel that recreates the Hindu epic Mahabharata within the context of the Indian National Movement, is written by which of the following writers who is a member of the Indian Parliament?

Shashi Tharoor

Arun Shourie

Abhijeet Banerjee

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

12. Identify the group of the periodic table to which cobalt belongs.

Group 6

Group 9

Group 5

Group 7

13. Which of the following mountains is formed as a result of the compression of tectonic plates, leading to the formation of large fold-like structures on the Earth's crust?

Ural mountain in Russia

Vosges mountain in Europe

Mt.Kilimanjaro in Africa

Harz mountains in Germany

14. B Herambanathan who was awarded with the ‘Sangeet Natak Akademi Award’ in 2013 is a _________ dancer.

Odissi

Kuchipudi

Bharatanatyam

Kathak

15. Which Article of the Indian Constitution states that “Supreme Court to be a court of record”?

Article 135

Article 126

Article 129

Article 131

16. Hariprasad Chaurasia is associated with which of the following instruments?

Shehnai

Bansuri

Sarod

Tabla

17. In July 2021, Kiren Rijiju was made the Cabinet Minister and given the charge of which of the following ministries?

Ministry of Communication and Electronics and Information Technology

Ministry of Civil Aviation

Ministry of Ports and Shipping

Ministry of Law and Justice

18. How is tuberculosis spread in humans?

Inoculation into skin

Droplet infection

Direct touching

Contact with soil

19. ‘Moon Walk’ is an autobiography of ___.

Oscar Wilde

Marlon Brando

Michael Jackson

Anne Frank

20. Who among the following personalities is associated with the Mohiniattam dance?

Yamini Krishnamurthy

Jayaprabha Menon

Prerana Shrimali

Vyjayanthi Kashi

21. What is the name of the autobiography written by Mr Abhinav Bindra, the Olympic medallist from India?

An Autobiography

A shot at History

Courage and Conviction

All from Memory

22. WINTER Olympics 2026 will be hosted by which of the following countries?

Spain

Brazil

The US

Italy

23. In which year did Hindustani Classical vocalist Rashid Khan receive the Padma Bhushan award?

2019

2020

2021

2022

24. Who among the following founded Odissi dance school ‘SRJAN’ in 1993?

Kumkum Mohanty

Ratikant Mohapatra

Madhavi Mudgal

Kelucharan Mohapatra

25. The Ganga plain extend between which two rivers?

Yamuna and Teesta

Ghaggar and Teesta

Ghaggar and Bhagirathi

Ganga and Teesta

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