Practice Test: General Awareness - 8 - SSC CGL MCQ

Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CH₄. It is a group 14 alkane, and is the main constituent of natural gas.

The Central Statistics Organisation (CSO) of India is responsible for co - ordination of statistical activities in India, and evolving and maintaining statistical standards. It has a well - equipped Graphical Unit. The CSO is located in Delhi.

The original jurisdiction of a court is the power to hear a case for the first time (when the court is hearing case for the first time), as opposed to appellate jurisdiction when a higher court has the power to review a lower court's decision.

Satyameva Jayate is a mantra from the ancient Indian scripture Mundaka Upanishad. Upon independence, it was adopted as the national motto of India.

Gneiss is a metamorphic rock with a banded or foliated structure, typically coarse - grained and consisting mainly of feldspar, quartz, and mica

Natural gas is a flammable gas, consisting largely of methane and other hydrocarbons, occurring naturally underground and used as fuel.

In economics, a backward-bending supply curve of labour is a graphical device showing a situation in which, as real wages increase beyond a certain level, people will substitute leisure for paid work time and so higher wages lead to a decrease in the labour supply.

Content - addressable memory (CAM) is a special type of computer memory used in certain very - high - speed searching applications. It is also known as associative memory, associative storage, or associative array, although the last term is more often used for a programming data structure.

Doping is the process of adding impurities to intrinsic semiconductors to alter their properties.

The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Ebrahim Alkazi is one of the most influential Indian theatre directors and drama teachers in 20th - century Indian theatre.

Skoda is a Czech automobile manufacturer founded in 1895 as Laurin & Klement. It is headquartered in Czech Republic.

Sattriya Nritya, is a major Indian classical dance. It is a dance - drama performance art with origins in the Krishna - centered Vaishnavism monasteries of Assam, and attributed to the 15th century Bhakti movement scholar and saint named Srimanta Sankardev.

Olympic bronze-medallist M C Mary Kom has become the first Indian to be picked as International Boxing Association’s representative for IOC Athletes’ Forum. She has been invited to attend the 8th International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Forum in Lausanne from November 11 to 13. Mary Kom is an Asian Games gold-medallist besides being a multiple-time Asian champion.

If a budget is defeated in the legislature of a state then, Council of ministers along with the Chief Minister has to resign.

The Indian Opinion was a newspaper established by Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi. The publication was an important tool for the political movement led by Gandhi and the National Indian Congress to fight racial discrimination and win civil rights for the Indian immigrant community in South Africa.

The United Nations General Assembly designated May 24 as the International Day of the Markhor, following a resolution sponsored by Pakistan and eight other countries. This day aims to raise awareness and promote the conservation of the Markhor, an iconic and ecologically significant species native to the mountainous regions of Central and South Asia.

Meibomian glands are a special kind of gland at the rim of the eyelids inside which are responsible for the supply of meibum, an oily substance that prevents evaporation of the eye's tear film.

Country’s first post office savings bank ATM is located at the Head Post Office in Thyagaraya Nagar, Chennai. The ATM was part of an Information Technology (IT) modernisation project of the Department of Posts.

Arsenic problem in India is primarily due to overexploitation of groundwater in the affected areas.

Thiruvananthapuram International Airport is the first in India to achieve the Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) accolade from the Confederation of Indian Industry. The airport diverted 99.50% of waste from landfills, including 100% of plastic and municipal solid waste. This success was achieved through a robust value chain and the 5R principles: Reduce, Reuse, Reprocess, Recycle, and Recover, demonstrating exceptional waste management practices.

Vit. B and Vit. C are water soluble vitamins.

A trade is potential Pareto superior if at the final allocation, one person gains more than the other person loses.

Greenhouse effect refers to the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.

Udham Singh was an Indian revolutionary best known for assassinating Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in British India, on 13 March 1940.