SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: General Knowledge - 8 - SSC CGL MCQ

Project Tiger was launched in 1973 by the Government of India during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s tenure.

According to the figures compiled by Media Research Users Council (MRUC) in the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2014, the Indian newspaper with the largest readership is the Dainik Jagran.

International Yoga day is celebrated annually on June 21.

World AIDS Day is observed on 1st December, to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection.

Trygve Lie was the first secretary General of UNO.

Earth Day is celebrated on 22nd April all over the world to demostrate support for environmental protection.

In Rugby football each team starts the match with 15 players on the field and seven or eight substitutes.

The first state to be formed on linguistic basis in India was Andhra Pradesh.

The Survey of India Dept. is h eadquar ter ed at Dehradun. It has 18 civil engineering divisions ranging from the prediction of tides to aerial survey.

The Lalit Kala Academi or National Academy of Art is India’s national academy of fine arts. Its headquarters are at Ravindra Bhawan, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi.

The World Wildlife Fund is an intern ational nongovernmental organization founded on 29^th April, 1961.

The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy.

Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve is India’s first and  foremost biosphere reserves with a heritage rich in flora and fauna.

The Kimono is a traditional Japanese garment.

Dr. P. Rama Rao committee is related to defence.

Kathakali is a traditional dance from the south Indian state of Kerala.

Rand is the currency of South Africa. In the given countries, it is used in Namibia as an additional currency with official currency the Namibian Dollar.

Magnetization technique can be used to seperate the iron fillings from the heterogenous mixture assuming the other element of the mixture are non-magnetic.

Kapil Dev's fast pace earned him the nickname, 'Haryana Hurricane'.

The word amphibian means two-lives.  Amphibians spend their lives in the water and on land.

Arya Samaj is an Indian religious reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda on 7th April 1875.

Edward Jenner is often called "the father of immunology".

“Romancing with life” is a memoir written by leading Bollywood star, Dev Anand.

The National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) is an Indian Public health, Biotechnology and Translational research center located in Hyderabad, India. The institute is one of the oldest research centers in India, and the largest center, under the Indian Council of Medical Research, located in the vicinity of Osmania University.

Bullseye, also known as convention al pistol, is a shooting sport in which participants shoot handguns at paper targets at fixed distances and time limits.

Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

A Grammy Award is an accolade by th e Nation al Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry.

Indira Gandhi was the first woman of India who received the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the Republic of India, in 1971.

Das Kapital by Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of political economy, intended to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production.

The Torah is written on scrolls and kept in a special cabinet called the aron hakodish, the holy ark, in synagogues. The Torah is read with a pointer called a yad (hand) to keep it from being spoiled. Each week, one section is read until the entire Torah is completed and the reading begins again.