SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: General Knowledge - 7 - SSC CGL MCQ

Dipa Karmakar performed great feat in the Vaults final at the Gymnastics event of Rio-2016 Olympics, although she finished the event at fourth rank.

Orology is the study of mountains.An example of orology is research on how a particular mountain came to be formed.

It was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century.

The new Symbol of Indian currency is designed by D. Udaya Kumar, it was presented to the public by the Government of India on 15 July 2010, following its selection through an "open" competition among Indian residents.

Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Bank (or MUDRA Bank) is a public sector financial institution in India.

The Associated Press of India was the first national news agency of free India.

Problems of Human Geography was written by Famous Professor of social geography Albert Demangeon.

Among the given choices it is the silk industries that lead in Philadelphia.

Silent Spring is a 1962 environmental science book authored by Rachel Carson. The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment, particularly on birds and of the indiscriminate use of pesticides.

Green-peace is the international organization to save the world by involving itself with environmental problems.

Endymion is a poem,written by John Keats. It begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy forever". The poem tells about how nature and its wonder mesmerize us and take away all the sorrow that surrounds us from time to time.

'Bandodkar Gold Trophy' is associated with the sports of Football.  The Bandodkar Gold Cup was made of pure gold weighing several kilos. The trophy was instituted in 1970, by then Chief Minister, the late Dayanand Bandodkar.

The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports.

"Place of the Thunderbolt" is as sociated with Darjeeling (West Bengal). The word Darjeeling is a combination of two words 'dorje,' which means 'thunderbolt' and 'ling', which means 'place'.  Hence the word Darjeeling means 'the Land of Thunderbolt'.

The Ship building yard Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) is located in Mumbai(Maharashtra).It is India's prime shipyard. It manufactures warships and submarines for the Indian Navy and offshore platforms and associated support vessels for offshore oil drilling.

Aga Khan Cup is related to Football. When Prince Aga Khan IV of Iran visited Dhaka 1958, he expressed his interest to start a major international football club tournament in the region. The football authorities of East Pakistan in collaboration with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) decided to start this event.

The first summit was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 7-8 December 1985 and was attended by president of
Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the kings of Bhutan and Nepal, and the prime minister of India.

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian ever to receive a Nobel Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of poems, in 1913.

Vijaya Lakshmi  Pandit became the first woman to be elected president of the UN General Assembly in 1953.
She was an Indian diplomat, politician, and sister of India's first prime-minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She was active in the Indian freedom movement and held high national and international positions.

The currency of Saudi Arabia is Saudi Riyal.

After independence, the government passed Reserve Bank (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948 and took over RBI from private shareholders after paying appropriate compensation. Thus, nationalisation of RBI took place in 1949 and from January 1, 1949, RBI started working as a government owned central bank of India.

Garba is also a folk dance of state of Gujarat.

Antoine-Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) is known for his discovery of radioactivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with Marie Curie) and Pierre in 1903 and the contributions he made to that field. Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity, and Mari Curie coined the term.

Sitara Devi was an eminent Indian dancer of th e classical Kathak style of dancing. Rabindranath Tagore described her as Nritya Samragni, meaning the empress of dance, after watching her performance when she was just 16 years old.

Ryder Cup is a bien n ial men ’s gold competition between teams from Europe and the United States.

Kanha Tiger Reserve, also called “Kanha National Park” is one of the tiger reserve of India and the largest national Park of Madhya Pradesh.

The Discovery of India was written by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisoment in 1942-46 at Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra.

Kiran Bedi was the first woman IPS officer in India. Bedi joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972.

ILO stands for International Labour Organisation which is a United Nations agency dealing with Labour issues.

The Times of London in 2010 Published its 70,000th issue.