SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: General Knowledge - 11 - SSC CGL MCQ

"MahaulTheekHai" (1999), a Punjabi comedy film was the first film of Jaspal Bhatti. The English subtitled version is called, The Atmosphere Is Right.

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first person who got Bharat Ratna Award posthumously in 1966. He was the second Prime Minister of India. He gave the slogan " Jai Jawan Jai Kisan.

Saras Crane is the State bird of Uttar Pradesh.

Daocheng Yading Air port is an airport serving Daocheng County in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province in China.

Martyrs day in India is celebrated every year throughout the country on 30th of January, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

All the three are International Airports.

Second Africa-India Forum Summit 2011 was held in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia.

Minorities Rights Day is observed in India on 18th December. The day is celebrated to protect rights of the minorities communities as well as bringing the better understanding among religious minorities in India.

Central Drug Research Institute is wrongly matched with Kanpur. The Central Drug Research Institute is a multidisciplinary research laboratory in Lucknow, India, employing scientific personnel from various areas of biomedical sciences.

Trafalgar Square is associated with London, St.Peter's Square is associated with Vatican City, Red Square is associated with Moscow and Times Square is associated with New York.

Margaret Court has won the Grand Slams title for the maximum number of times. She has won 24 Grand Slams title in singles category. She is a retired World No. 1 professional tennis player and Christian minister from Australia.

Pran acted as a character artist in the film Zanjeer. It made him stand up in defiance as Sher Khan in Zanjeer (1973) against the six-feet tall, long-legged Amitabh Bachchan.Pran had a successful career spanning over six decades, and his contribution to Hindi cinema extends beyond his role as an actor.

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first posthumous recipient of Bharat Ratna in 1966. Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress. Shastri joined the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.

Australia won the ICC Women's World Cup held in February 2013. The 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup was the tenth Women's Cricket World Cup, which was hosted by India for the third time. India previously hosted the World Cup in 1978 and 1997. Australia won the tournament for the sixth time, beating West Indies by 114 runs in the final.

Bhutan's currency is known as Ngultrum. In 1974, the ngultrum was introduced, replacing the rupee at par.
The ngultrum is equal in value to the Indian rupee and it does not exchange independently with other nations' currencies but is interchangeable with the Indian rupee.

"Sattriya Nritya" is a classical dance form of India and has originated in Assam. Sattriya or Sattriya Nritya , is one among the eight principal classical Indian dance traditions. In the year 2000, the Sattriya dances of Assam received recognition as one of the eight classical dance forms of India.

Amartya Kumar Sen, (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and a Nobel laureate. He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.

The Great Depression was a sever e worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century.

The Indian Foreign Service is the foreign service under Group A and Group B of the Central Civil Services of the executive branch of the Government of India. It is the body of career diplomats of India.

Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project  is a proposed project that would link Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka by creating a shipping channel through the shallow sea called Sethusamudram and through a chain of islands collectively called Adam's Bridge, Ramar Palam , Ram Sethu and similar names. This would provide a continuously navigable sea route in and around the Indian Peninsula.

A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or metro, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, cities, exurbs, countries, and even states.

The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty that sets binding obligations on industrialised countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The UNFCCC is an environmental treaty with the goal of preventing "dangerous" anthropogenic (i.e., human-induced) interference of the climate system.

Sanjukta Panigrahi (24 August 1944 - 24 June 1997) was a dancer of India, who was the foremost exponent of Indian classical dance Odissi. Sanjukta was the first Oriya girl to embrace this ancient classical dance at an early age and ensure its grand revival.

The father of the Wh ite Revolution in India was Verghese Kurien. The white mentioned is milk production.

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.

Azadirachta indica, also known as Neem, is the state tree of Andhra Pradesh. Products made from Neem trees have been used in India for over two millennia for their medicinal properties: Neem products are believed to be anthelminthic, antifungal, antidiabetic, antibacterial, antiviral, contraceptive and sedative.

The book "Globalisation , Democr atization and Distributive Justice" has been authored by Prof. Mool Chand Sharma.

Cochin (Kochi) International airport became the first airport in the world that fully operates on solar power.

Bangladesh has become the first country in the world to receive funds from United Nations for its fast growing Solar Home Systems. In this regard, UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) has issued carbon credits (CC) worth 3.56 million US dollars to two Bangladeshi organizations, Grameen Shakti and Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL).

Anoop Singh (Wrestling) was awarded with Dronacharya Award in 2015.