SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: General Knowledge - 14 - SSC CGL MCQ

Thora is associated with Uttar Pradesh.

Atiq Rahimi is a French-Afghan writer and filmmaker who wrote The Patience Stone,A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, Earth and Ashes and, A Curse on Dostoevsky along with other famous books.

Uday Prakash is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award-2010 in Hindi Literature.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the Siachen

Kishwar Desai is an Indian author and columnist. Who authored the famous books Witness the Night, Origins of Love, The Sea of Innocence and Darlingji: The True Love Story Of Nargis and Sunil Dutt.

Yakshagana is associated with Karnataka.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.
The IAEA was established as an autonomous organization on 29 July 1957 with its headquarter at Vienna, Austria

Vasundhara Summit/ Earth Summit also known as The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.

MESSENGER spacecraft was launched in 2004 by NASA to study Mercury. It orbited Mercury for more than four years. The mission determined Mercury's surface composition, revealed its geological history, verified its polar deposits are dominantly water-ice etc.
The mission ended in 2015 when it slammed into Mercury's surface.

The Indian War of Independence-1857 is a book describing the 1857-uprising of India against the British empire, authored by  Vinayak  Damodar Savarkar.

World champion Pankaj Advani defeated Geet Sethi in the final to claim his third consecutive national title.

It was the Mongolian ship, MV Black Rose, which had sunk off the Paradip Coast on 9^th September, 2009.

The Dadasaheb Phalke award, which is given annually at the National Film Awards in honor for the outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian Cinema. The Award for 2007 was given to Manna Dey.

Mitchell Johnson (Australia) bagged, the ICC Cricket of the Year Award for 2009 and it is Ravichandran Ashwin (India) who won this award for the year, 2016.

National Immunization Schedule (NIS) is a schedule wise India expanded its immunization programme introduced by Indian government to ensure complete vaccination in the country.

Joseph Aspdin was an English cement manufacturer who obtained the patent for Portland cement on 21 October 1824.