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 Pinnacle  Static GK 
 Sol.1054.(a)  Golf.  Some  Terms  used  in 
 Golf  -  par,  bogey,  double  bogey,  triple 
 bogey,  ace,  handicap,  etc.  terms  used  in 
 Baseball-  strikeout,  base,  walk,  home  run 
 hit, bat, batter, etc. 
 Q.1055.  With  which  sport  are  Vijay 
 Amritraj and Anand Amritraj associated? 
 SSC CHSL 12/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Table tennis  (b) Cricket 
 (c) Lawn tennis  (d) Football 
 Sol.1055.(c) Lawn tennis. 
 Q.1056.  Which  of  the  following  animals 
 is  made  to  race  in  the  traditional  sport 
 called 'Kambala' in Karnataka? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Horse  (b) Dog  (c) Buffalo  (d) Goat 
 Sol.1056.(c  )  Kambala  is  an  annual 
 buffalo  race  held  in  the  southwestern 
 Indian  state of Karnataka. 
 Q.1057.  In  which  of  the  following  cities  is 
 the  headquarters  of  the  All  India  Chess 
 Federation situated? 
 SSC  CHSL 13/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) New Delhi  (b) Bengaluru 
 (c) Hyderabad  (d) Mumbai 
 Sol.1057.(a)  New  Delhi.  AICF  is  the 
 central administrative body for the game 
 of  chess  in  India,  founded  in  1951  which 
 is  a?liated  with  Fédération  Internationale 
 des  Échecs  (FIDE),  the  world  body  for 
 chess.  The  organisation  is  also  in  charge 
 of managing women's chess in India. 
 Q.1058.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  ?rst  para-athlete  to  receive  the  Rajiv 
 Gandhi Khel Ratna? 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Mariyappan Thangavelu 
 (b) Devendra Jhajharia 
 (c) Varun Singh Bhati 
 (d) Naresh Kumar Sharma 
 Sol.1058.(b)  Devendra  Jhajharia  is  the 
 ?rst  para-athlete  to  be  honoured  with  the 
 Rajiv  Gandhi  Khel  Ratna  -  the  highest 
 sports  award  in  the  country.  He  is  an 
 Indian  Paralympic  javelin  thrower 
 competing in F46 events. 
 Q.1059.  ______  was  the  ?rst  Test  cricket 
 captain of an independent Indian team. 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Vijay Hazare  (b) Hemu Adhikari 
 (c) Bishan Singh Bedi   (d) Lala Amarnath 
 Sol.1059.(d)  Lala  Amarnath  Bharadwaj, 
 known  as  the  father  ?gure  of  Indian 
 Cricket,  captained  India  in  the  ?rst  Test 
 series  and  won  against  Pakistan  in  1952. 
 He  was  the  ?rst  batsman  to  score  a 
 century for India in Test cricket. 
 Q.1060.  Which  two  Indians  became  the 
 ?rst  pair  to  reach  the  ?nals  of  all  Grand 
 Slams  in  a  year  in  the  Open  era,  winning 
 the  French  Open  and  Wimbledon  as  top 
 seeds? 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi  
 (b) Yuki Bhambri and Leander Paes 
 (c) Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh 
 Bhupathi 
 (d) Rohan Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri 
 Sol.1060.(a)  Leander  Paes  and  Mahesh 
 Bhupathi.  In  1999,  the  duo  reached  the 
 ?nals  of  all  four  Grand  Slams,  winning 
 Wimbledon  and  the  French,  thus 
 becoming  the  ?rst  Indians  to  win  a 
 doubles event at a Grand Slam. 
 Q.1061.  At  the  1992  Summer  Olympics, 
 ______  became  the ?rst woman  to  carry 
 the ?ag of India at  the  opening  ceremony 
 of any Olympics. 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Karnam Malleswari 
 (b) Shiny Abraham Wilson 
 (c) PT Usha 
 (d) Nilima Ghose 
 Sol.1061.(b) Shiny Abraham Wilson.  She 
 is  an  Asian  Games  gold  medal  winner 
 and  the  ?rst  Indian  woman  to  reach  the 
 semi-?nals of an Olympic event. 
 Q.1062.  Who among the following was a 
 World  War  II  veteran,  also  associated 
 with cricket? 
 SSC CHSL 5/8/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Brad Friedel  (b) Alan Burgess 
 (c) Ivan Cordoba   (d) Erik Karlsson 
 Sol.1062.(b) Alan Burgess  , New Zealand 
 ?rst-class  cricketer,  and  World  War  II 
 veteran.  He  was  a  tank  driver  in  World 
 War  II.  In  June  2020,  Burgess  became 
 the  world’s  oldest  living  ?rst-class 
 cricketer. 
 Q.1063.  With  which  of  the  following 
 sports  is  Indian  sportsperson  Bhavani 
 Devi associated? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Wrestling  (b) Boxing 
 (c) Fencing  (d) Rowing 
 Sol.1063.(c)  Bhavani  Devi  competes  in 
 the  sport  of  Fencing  .  She  is  the  ?rst 
 Indian  fencer  to  ever  qualify  for  the 
 olympics  after  qualifying  for  the  2020 
 Summer Olympics. 
 Q.1064.  In  which  Olympic  Games  did 
 Shabana  Akhtar,  the  ?rst  female  athlete 
 to represent Pakistan, participate? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Beijing Olympics 
 (b) Atlanta Olympics 
 (c) Sydney Olympics 
 (d) Barcelona Olympics 
 Sol.1064.(b)  Shabana  Akhtar  was 
 Pakistan's  ?rst  woman  to  compete  at  the 
 Olympics  when  she  took  part  in  the 
 women's  long  jump  at  the  1996  Summer 
 Olympics in Atlanta  , United States. 
 Q.1065.  Who  among  the  following  won  a 
 bronze  medal  at  the  World  Athletics 
 Championship in Paris in 2003? 
 SSC CHSL 10/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Krishna Poonia  (b) Seema Punia 
 (c) PT Usha              (d) Anju Bobby George 
 Sol.1065.(d)  Anju  Bobby  George  is  a 
 retired  Indian  athlete.  She  made  history 
 when  she  won  the  bronze  medal  in  the 
 long  jump  at  the  2003  World 
 Championships  in  Athletics  in  Paris  and 
 became  the  ?rst  Indian  athlete  ever  to 
 win a medal in a World Championships in 
 Athletics jumping 6.70 m. 
 Q.1066.  Which  player  from  Pakistan  is 
 credited  with  10  British  Open  titles  and 
 six  World  Championship  crowns in 
 professional squash? 
 SSC CHSL 11/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Jahangir Khan  (b) Azam Khan 
 (c) Hashim Khan  (d) Farhan Zaman 
 Sol.1066.(a)  Jahangir  Khan  is  a  former 
 World  No.  1  professional  Pakistani 
 squash  player.  He  won  the  World  Open 
 six  times,  and  the  British  Open  ten 
 consecutive times. 
 Q.1067.  Which  of  the  following  schools 
 in  Shillong  is  the  ?rst  Khelo  India  Sports 
 school in North East India? 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Mawroh Government LP School 
 (b) Assam Ri?es Public School 
 (c) Army Public School 
 (d) Government Boys Higher Secondary 
 School 
 Sol.1067.(b  )  Assam  Ri?es  Public 
 School. 
 Q.1068.  ______  was  the  ?rst  athlete  to 
 win an Olympic medal for Sri lanka. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Parami Wasanthi Maristela 
 (b) Duncan White 
 (c) Greshan Dananjaya 
 (d) Susanthika Jayasinghe 
 Sol.1068.(b) Duncan White  . 
 Q.1069.  Annu Rani is the ?rst Indian 
 woman  to  cross  a  distance  of  60  m  in 
 ______ throw. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) javelin  (b) discus 
 (c) Shot put  (d) hammer 
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 Pinnacle  Static GK 
 Sol.1054.(a)  Golf.  Some  Terms  used  in 
 Golf  -  par,  bogey,  double  bogey,  triple 
 bogey,  ace,  handicap,  etc.  terms  used  in 
 Baseball-  strikeout,  base,  walk,  home  run 
 hit, bat, batter, etc. 
 Q.1055.  With  which  sport  are  Vijay 
 Amritraj and Anand Amritraj associated? 
 SSC CHSL 12/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Table tennis  (b) Cricket 
 (c) Lawn tennis  (d) Football 
 Sol.1055.(c) Lawn tennis. 
 Q.1056.  Which  of  the  following  animals 
 is  made  to  race  in  the  traditional  sport 
 called 'Kambala' in Karnataka? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Horse  (b) Dog  (c) Buffalo  (d) Goat 
 Sol.1056.(c  )  Kambala  is  an  annual 
 buffalo  race  held  in  the  southwestern 
 Indian  state of Karnataka. 
 Q.1057.  In  which  of  the  following  cities  is 
 the  headquarters  of  the  All  India  Chess 
 Federation situated? 
 SSC  CHSL 13/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) New Delhi  (b) Bengaluru 
 (c) Hyderabad  (d) Mumbai 
 Sol.1057.(a)  New  Delhi.  AICF  is  the 
 central administrative body for the game 
 of  chess  in  India,  founded  in  1951  which 
 is  a?liated  with  Fédération  Internationale 
 des  Échecs  (FIDE),  the  world  body  for 
 chess.  The  organisation  is  also  in  charge 
 of managing women's chess in India. 
 Q.1058.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  ?rst  para-athlete  to  receive  the  Rajiv 
 Gandhi Khel Ratna? 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Mariyappan Thangavelu 
 (b) Devendra Jhajharia 
 (c) Varun Singh Bhati 
 (d) Naresh Kumar Sharma 
 Sol.1058.(b)  Devendra  Jhajharia  is  the 
 ?rst  para-athlete  to  be  honoured  with  the 
 Rajiv  Gandhi  Khel  Ratna  -  the  highest 
 sports  award  in  the  country.  He  is  an 
 Indian  Paralympic  javelin  thrower 
 competing in F46 events. 
 Q.1059.  ______  was  the  ?rst  Test  cricket 
 captain of an independent Indian team. 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Vijay Hazare  (b) Hemu Adhikari 
 (c) Bishan Singh Bedi   (d) Lala Amarnath 
 Sol.1059.(d)  Lala  Amarnath  Bharadwaj, 
 known  as  the  father  ?gure  of  Indian 
 Cricket,  captained  India  in  the  ?rst  Test 
 series  and  won  against  Pakistan  in  1952. 
 He  was  the  ?rst  batsman  to  score  a 
 century for India in Test cricket. 
 Q.1060.  Which  two  Indians  became  the 
 ?rst  pair  to  reach  the  ?nals  of  all  Grand 
 Slams  in  a  year  in  the  Open  era,  winning 
 the  French  Open  and  Wimbledon  as  top 
 seeds? 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi  
 (b) Yuki Bhambri and Leander Paes 
 (c) Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh 
 Bhupathi 
 (d) Rohan Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri 
 Sol.1060.(a)  Leander  Paes  and  Mahesh 
 Bhupathi.  In  1999,  the  duo  reached  the 
 ?nals  of  all  four  Grand  Slams,  winning 
 Wimbledon  and  the  French,  thus 
 becoming  the  ?rst  Indians  to  win  a 
 doubles event at a Grand Slam. 
 Q.1061.  At  the  1992  Summer  Olympics, 
 ______  became  the ?rst woman  to  carry 
 the ?ag of India at  the  opening  ceremony 
 of any Olympics. 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Karnam Malleswari 
 (b) Shiny Abraham Wilson 
 (c) PT Usha 
 (d) Nilima Ghose 
 Sol.1061.(b) Shiny Abraham Wilson.  She 
 is  an  Asian  Games  gold  medal  winner 
 and  the  ?rst  Indian  woman  to  reach  the 
 semi-?nals of an Olympic event. 
 Q.1062.  Who among the following was a 
 World  War  II  veteran,  also  associated 
 with cricket? 
 SSC CHSL 5/8/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Brad Friedel  (b) Alan Burgess 
 (c) Ivan Cordoba   (d) Erik Karlsson 
 Sol.1062.(b) Alan Burgess  , New Zealand 
 ?rst-class  cricketer,  and  World  War  II 
 veteran.  He  was  a  tank  driver  in  World 
 War  II.  In  June  2020,  Burgess  became 
 the  world’s  oldest  living  ?rst-class 
 cricketer. 
 Q.1063.  With  which  of  the  following 
 sports  is  Indian  sportsperson  Bhavani 
 Devi associated? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Wrestling  (b) Boxing 
 (c) Fencing  (d) Rowing 
 Sol.1063.(c)  Bhavani  Devi  competes  in 
 the  sport  of  Fencing  .  She  is  the  ?rst 
 Indian  fencer  to  ever  qualify  for  the 
 olympics  after  qualifying  for  the  2020 
 Summer Olympics. 
 Q.1064.  In  which  Olympic  Games  did 
 Shabana  Akhtar,  the  ?rst  female  athlete 
 to represent Pakistan, participate? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Beijing Olympics 
 (b) Atlanta Olympics 
 (c) Sydney Olympics 
 (d) Barcelona Olympics 
 Sol.1064.(b)  Shabana  Akhtar  was 
 Pakistan's  ?rst  woman  to  compete  at  the 
 Olympics  when  she  took  part  in  the 
 women's  long  jump  at  the  1996  Summer 
 Olympics in Atlanta  , United States. 
 Q.1065.  Who  among  the  following  won  a 
 bronze  medal  at  the  World  Athletics 
 Championship in Paris in 2003? 
 SSC CHSL 10/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Krishna Poonia  (b) Seema Punia 
 (c) PT Usha              (d) Anju Bobby George 
 Sol.1065.(d)  Anju  Bobby  George  is  a 
 retired  Indian  athlete.  She  made  history 
 when  she  won  the  bronze  medal  in  the 
 long  jump  at  the  2003  World 
 Championships  in  Athletics  in  Paris  and 
 became  the  ?rst  Indian  athlete  ever  to 
 win a medal in a World Championships in 
 Athletics jumping 6.70 m. 
 Q.1066.  Which  player  from  Pakistan  is 
 credited  with  10  British  Open  titles  and 
 six  World  Championship  crowns in 
 professional squash? 
 SSC CHSL 11/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Jahangir Khan  (b) Azam Khan 
 (c) Hashim Khan  (d) Farhan Zaman 
 Sol.1066.(a)  Jahangir  Khan  is  a  former 
 World  No.  1  professional  Pakistani 
 squash  player.  He  won  the  World  Open 
 six  times,  and  the  British  Open  ten 
 consecutive times. 
 Q.1067.  Which  of  the  following  schools 
 in  Shillong  is  the  ?rst  Khelo  India  Sports 
 school in North East India? 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Mawroh Government LP School 
 (b) Assam Ri?es Public School 
 (c) Army Public School 
 (d) Government Boys Higher Secondary 
 School 
 Sol.1067.(b  )  Assam  Ri?es  Public 
 School. 
 Q.1068.  ______  was  the  ?rst  athlete  to 
 win an Olympic medal for Sri lanka. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Parami Wasanthi Maristela 
 (b) Duncan White 
 (c) Greshan Dananjaya 
 (d) Susanthika Jayasinghe 
 Sol.1068.(b) Duncan White  . 
 Q.1069.  Annu Rani is the ?rst Indian 
 woman  to  cross  a  distance  of  60  m  in 
 ______ throw. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) javelin  (b) discus 
 (c) Shot put  (d) hammer 
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 Sol.1069.(a)  Javelin.  Annu  Rani  is  an 
 Indian  javelin  thrower  from  Bahadurpur, 
 Meerut,  Uttar  Pradesh.  She  was  the  1st 
 Indian  to  reach  the  ?nals  of  the  women's 
 javelin throw event in the World Athletics 
 Championships,  Doha, 2019. 
 Q.1070.  Who  is  the  second  Indian 
 footballer  to  play  100  international 
 games? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Bhaichung Bhutia 
 (b) Sunil Chhetri 
 (c) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 
 (d) Udanta Singh 
 Sol.1070.(b)  Sunil  Chhetri  .  First  Indian 
 Footballer - Bhaichung Bhutia. 
 Q.1071.  Who  among  the  following  won 
 the  2002  International  Shooting  Sport 
 Federation  (ISSF)  Champion  of 
 Champions  combined-air-ri?e  event  to 
 become  the  ?rst  Indian  to  win  that 
 competition? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Anjali Bhagwat   (b) Manu Bhaker 
 (c) Rahi Sarnobat     (d) Anisa Sayyed 
 Sol.1071.(a)  Anjali  Bhagwat  is  a 
 professional  Indian  shooter.  She  became 
 the  World  Number  One  in  the  10m  Air 
 Ri?e in 2002. 
 Q.1072.  Who  among  the  following  has 
 been  a  goalkeeper  of  the  Indian  national 
 football team in the 1980s? 
 SSC CPO 23/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Atanu Bhattacharya  (b) Inder Singh 
 (c) Gautam Sarkar           (d) IM Vijayan 
 Sol.1072.(a)  Atanu  Bhattacharya  is 
 former  Indian  football  Goalkeeper  Coach 
 at  King?sher  East  Bengal  FC  in  the 
 I-League. 
 Q.1073.  Sagol  kangjei,  an  indigenous 
 game  of  manipur  is  similar  to  the  modern 
 day sports of : 
 SSC CPO 24/11/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) cricket (b) polo (c) hockey (d) boxing 
 Sol.1073.(b)  Polo  is  known  by  its  other 
 name  in  Manipur  sagol  Kangjei.  Sagol 
 means  horse  and  kang  means  ball.  The 
 game  is  played  by  the  upper  class  people 
 of  the  society  but  in  Manipur  almost 
 every person plays this game. 
 Q.1074.  How  many  medals  in  total  did 
 India win at the Summer Olympic Games, 
 2012 ? 
 SSC CPO 25/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 6  (b) 4  (c) 2  (d) 3 
 Sol.1074.(a)  6.  India  won  6  medals  at 
 the  summer  Olympic  games  held  in 
 London.  It  was  a  successful  tournament 
 for  India.  India  bagged  2  silver  and  4 
 bronze Medals at the Olympics. 
 Q.1075.  Sachin  Tendulkar  scored  his  ?rst 
 ODI century in his ____ match. 
 SSC CHSL 17/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 76th  (b) 79th  (c) 78th  (d) 77th 
 Sol.1075.(b) 79th  . 
 Q.1076.  Where  was  the  Pullela 
 Gopichand  Badminton  Academy  founded 
 in 2008? 
 SSC  CHSL 17/03/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) New Delhi  (b) Bangalore 
 (c) Hyderabad  (d) Mumbai 
 Sol.1076.(c) Hyderabad. 
 Q.1077.  How  many  Grand  Slam 
 tournaments  are  played  in  a  year  in 
 tennis? 
 SSC  CHSL 19/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 3  (b) 6  (c) 4  (d) 5 
 Sol.1077.(c)  There  are  4  Grand  Slam 
 tournaments  in  tennis  -  the 
 championships  of  Australia,  France, 
 Britain  (Wimbledon)  and  the  United 
 States. 
 Q.1078.  Where  were  the  ?rst  Winter 
 Paralympics Games held? 
 SSC  CHSL 19/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Italy  (b) Korea  (c) Russia (d) Sweden 
 Sol.1078.(d)  In  1976,  the  ?rst  Winter 
 Games  in  Paralympics  history  were  held 
 in  Sweden  . 
 Q.1079.  Which  of  the  following  nations 
 won  the  FIFA  World  Cup  the  most 
 number of times? 
 SSC CHSL 15/10/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Germany  (b) Argentina 
 (c) France  (d) Brazil 
 Sol.1079.(d)  Brazil  . 
 Q.1080.  How  many  gold  medals  did  India 
 win  at  the  ‘1986  Asian  Games’  held  in 
 Seoul, South Korea? 
 SSC CHSL 16/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 9  (b) 5        (c) 6         (d) 8 
 Sol.1080.(b) 5. 
 Q.1081  .  Who  had  proposed  the  motto  of 
 Olympics? 
 SSC  CHSL 20/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Didon  (b) Pierre de Coubertin 
 (c) Hirohito  (d) Moon Jae-in 
 Sol.1081.(b)  Pierre  de  Coubertin.  The 
 Olympic  motto  is  made  up  of  three  Latin 
 words:  CITIUS,  AL TIUS,  FORTIUS  - 
 COMMUNITER  (FASTER,  HIGHER, 
 STRONGER - TOGETHER). 
 Q.1082.  The  Maharaja  of  ______  was  the 
 ?rst Indian cricketer to serve as 
 President of the Board 
 of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). 
 SSC  CHSL  20/10/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Rewa  (b) Vizianagaram 
 (c) Baroda  (d) Mysore 
 Sol.1082.(b) Vizianagaram  . 
 Q.1083.  ______  is  the  oldest  hockey 
 tournament in India. 
 SSC CHSL 26/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Beighton Cup 
 (b) Bombay Gold Cup 
 (c) Obaidullah Khan Gold Cup 
 (d) MCC Murugappa Gold Cup 
 Sol.1083.(a)  Beighton  Cup  is  the  oldest 
 hockey  tournament  in  India  which  was 
 instituted in 1895. 
 Q.1084.  ‘Tenpins’  refers  to  the  game  of 
 ______. 
 SSC CHSL 26/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) baseball  (b) basketball 
 (c) billiards  (d) bowling 
 Sol.1084.(d)  bowling  . 
 Q.1085.  Who  was  the  ?rst  Indian  to 
 receive  the  International  Shooting 
 Federation (ISSF) Blue Cross? 
 SSC CGL 03/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Ronjan Sodhi  (b) Vijay Kumar 
 (c) Abhinav Bindra    (d) Gagan Narang 
 Sol.1085.(c)  Abhinav  Bindra.  On  30 
 November  2018,  Bindra  became  the  ?rst 
 Indian  to  receive  the  prestigious  Blue 
 Cross, the ISSF's highest honour. 
 Q.1086.  The  major  component  of 
 modern Olympic gold medals is ______. 
 SSC CGL 04/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Bronze  (b) Gold  (c) Silver  (d) Copper 
 Sol.1086.(c)  Silver.  Olympic  Gold  medals 
 are  required  to  be  made  from  pure  silver, 
 and  must  contain  a  minimum  of  6  grams 
 of  gold.  All  olympics  medals  must  be  at 
 least  60  mm  in  diameter  and  3  mm  thick. 
 It  is  the  responsibility  of  the  Olympic  host 
 to mint the medal proper. 
 Q.1087.  To  which  of  the  following  Indian 
 states  does  Mardani  Khel,  one  of  the 
 famous  martial  art  forms  in  India 
 belong? 
 SSC CGL 06/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Maharashtra  (b) Uttar Pradesh 
 (c) Rajasthan  (d) Madhya Pradesh 
 Sol.1087.(a)  Maharashtra  .  It  is 
 particularly  known  for  its  use  of  the 
 uniquely  Indian  patta  (sword)  and  vita 
 (corded lance). 
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 Pinnacle  Static GK 
 Sol.1054.(a)  Golf.  Some  Terms  used  in 
 Golf  -  par,  bogey,  double  bogey,  triple 
 bogey,  ace,  handicap,  etc.  terms  used  in 
 Baseball-  strikeout,  base,  walk,  home  run 
 hit, bat, batter, etc. 
 Q.1055.  With  which  sport  are  Vijay 
 Amritraj and Anand Amritraj associated? 
 SSC CHSL 12/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Table tennis  (b) Cricket 
 (c) Lawn tennis  (d) Football 
 Sol.1055.(c) Lawn tennis. 
 Q.1056.  Which  of  the  following  animals 
 is  made  to  race  in  the  traditional  sport 
 called 'Kambala' in Karnataka? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Horse  (b) Dog  (c) Buffalo  (d) Goat 
 Sol.1056.(c  )  Kambala  is  an  annual 
 buffalo  race  held  in  the  southwestern 
 Indian  state of Karnataka. 
 Q.1057.  In  which  of  the  following  cities  is 
 the  headquarters  of  the  All  India  Chess 
 Federation situated? 
 SSC  CHSL 13/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) New Delhi  (b) Bengaluru 
 (c) Hyderabad  (d) Mumbai 
 Sol.1057.(a)  New  Delhi.  AICF  is  the 
 central administrative body for the game 
 of  chess  in  India,  founded  in  1951  which 
 is  a?liated  with  Fédération  Internationale 
 des  Échecs  (FIDE),  the  world  body  for 
 chess.  The  organisation  is  also  in  charge 
 of managing women's chess in India. 
 Q.1058.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  ?rst  para-athlete  to  receive  the  Rajiv 
 Gandhi Khel Ratna? 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Mariyappan Thangavelu 
 (b) Devendra Jhajharia 
 (c) Varun Singh Bhati 
 (d) Naresh Kumar Sharma 
 Sol.1058.(b)  Devendra  Jhajharia  is  the 
 ?rst  para-athlete  to  be  honoured  with  the 
 Rajiv  Gandhi  Khel  Ratna  -  the  highest 
 sports  award  in  the  country.  He  is  an 
 Indian  Paralympic  javelin  thrower 
 competing in F46 events. 
 Q.1059.  ______  was  the  ?rst  Test  cricket 
 captain of an independent Indian team. 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Vijay Hazare  (b) Hemu Adhikari 
 (c) Bishan Singh Bedi   (d) Lala Amarnath 
 Sol.1059.(d)  Lala  Amarnath  Bharadwaj, 
 known  as  the  father  ?gure  of  Indian 
 Cricket,  captained  India  in  the  ?rst  Test 
 series  and  won  against  Pakistan  in  1952. 
 He  was  the  ?rst  batsman  to  score  a 
 century for India in Test cricket. 
 Q.1060.  Which  two  Indians  became  the 
 ?rst  pair  to  reach  the  ?nals  of  all  Grand 
 Slams  in  a  year  in  the  Open  era,  winning 
 the  French  Open  and  Wimbledon  as  top 
 seeds? 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi  
 (b) Yuki Bhambri and Leander Paes 
 (c) Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh 
 Bhupathi 
 (d) Rohan Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri 
 Sol.1060.(a)  Leander  Paes  and  Mahesh 
 Bhupathi.  In  1999,  the  duo  reached  the 
 ?nals  of  all  four  Grand  Slams,  winning 
 Wimbledon  and  the  French,  thus 
 becoming  the  ?rst  Indians  to  win  a 
 doubles event at a Grand Slam. 
 Q.1061.  At  the  1992  Summer  Olympics, 
 ______  became  the ?rst woman  to  carry 
 the ?ag of India at  the  opening  ceremony 
 of any Olympics. 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Karnam Malleswari 
 (b) Shiny Abraham Wilson 
 (c) PT Usha 
 (d) Nilima Ghose 
 Sol.1061.(b) Shiny Abraham Wilson.  She 
 is  an  Asian  Games  gold  medal  winner 
 and  the  ?rst  Indian  woman  to  reach  the 
 semi-?nals of an Olympic event. 
 Q.1062.  Who among the following was a 
 World  War  II  veteran,  also  associated 
 with cricket? 
 SSC CHSL 5/8/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Brad Friedel  (b) Alan Burgess 
 (c) Ivan Cordoba   (d) Erik Karlsson 
 Sol.1062.(b) Alan Burgess  , New Zealand 
 ?rst-class  cricketer,  and  World  War  II 
 veteran.  He  was  a  tank  driver  in  World 
 War  II.  In  June  2020,  Burgess  became 
 the  world’s  oldest  living  ?rst-class 
 cricketer. 
 Q.1063.  With  which  of  the  following 
 sports  is  Indian  sportsperson  Bhavani 
 Devi associated? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Wrestling  (b) Boxing 
 (c) Fencing  (d) Rowing 
 Sol.1063.(c)  Bhavani  Devi  competes  in 
 the  sport  of  Fencing  .  She  is  the  ?rst 
 Indian  fencer  to  ever  qualify  for  the 
 olympics  after  qualifying  for  the  2020 
 Summer Olympics. 
 Q.1064.  In  which  Olympic  Games  did 
 Shabana  Akhtar,  the  ?rst  female  athlete 
 to represent Pakistan, participate? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Beijing Olympics 
 (b) Atlanta Olympics 
 (c) Sydney Olympics 
 (d) Barcelona Olympics 
 Sol.1064.(b)  Shabana  Akhtar  was 
 Pakistan's  ?rst  woman  to  compete  at  the 
 Olympics  when  she  took  part  in  the 
 women's  long  jump  at  the  1996  Summer 
 Olympics in Atlanta  , United States. 
 Q.1065.  Who  among  the  following  won  a 
 bronze  medal  at  the  World  Athletics 
 Championship in Paris in 2003? 
 SSC CHSL 10/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Krishna Poonia  (b) Seema Punia 
 (c) PT Usha              (d) Anju Bobby George 
 Sol.1065.(d)  Anju  Bobby  George  is  a 
 retired  Indian  athlete.  She  made  history 
 when  she  won  the  bronze  medal  in  the 
 long  jump  at  the  2003  World 
 Championships  in  Athletics  in  Paris  and 
 became  the  ?rst  Indian  athlete  ever  to 
 win a medal in a World Championships in 
 Athletics jumping 6.70 m. 
 Q.1066.  Which  player  from  Pakistan  is 
 credited  with  10  British  Open  titles  and 
 six  World  Championship  crowns in 
 professional squash? 
 SSC CHSL 11/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Jahangir Khan  (b) Azam Khan 
 (c) Hashim Khan  (d) Farhan Zaman 
 Sol.1066.(a)  Jahangir  Khan  is  a  former 
 World  No.  1  professional  Pakistani 
 squash  player.  He  won  the  World  Open 
 six  times,  and  the  British  Open  ten 
 consecutive times. 
 Q.1067.  Which  of  the  following  schools 
 in  Shillong  is  the  ?rst  Khelo  India  Sports 
 school in North East India? 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Mawroh Government LP School 
 (b) Assam Ri?es Public School 
 (c) Army Public School 
 (d) Government Boys Higher Secondary 
 School 
 Sol.1067.(b  )  Assam  Ri?es  Public 
 School. 
 Q.1068.  ______  was  the  ?rst  athlete  to 
 win an Olympic medal for Sri lanka. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Parami Wasanthi Maristela 
 (b) Duncan White 
 (c) Greshan Dananjaya 
 (d) Susanthika Jayasinghe 
 Sol.1068.(b) Duncan White  . 
 Q.1069.  Annu Rani is the ?rst Indian 
 woman  to  cross  a  distance  of  60  m  in 
 ______ throw. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) javelin  (b) discus 
 (c) Shot put  (d) hammer 
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 Sol.1069.(a)  Javelin.  Annu  Rani  is  an 
 Indian  javelin  thrower  from  Bahadurpur, 
 Meerut,  Uttar  Pradesh.  She  was  the  1st 
 Indian  to  reach  the  ?nals  of  the  women's 
 javelin throw event in the World Athletics 
 Championships,  Doha, 2019. 
 Q.1070.  Who  is  the  second  Indian 
 footballer  to  play  100  international 
 games? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Bhaichung Bhutia 
 (b) Sunil Chhetri 
 (c) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 
 (d) Udanta Singh 
 Sol.1070.(b)  Sunil  Chhetri  .  First  Indian 
 Footballer - Bhaichung Bhutia. 
 Q.1071.  Who  among  the  following  won 
 the  2002  International  Shooting  Sport 
 Federation  (ISSF)  Champion  of 
 Champions  combined-air-ri?e  event  to 
 become  the  ?rst  Indian  to  win  that 
 competition? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Anjali Bhagwat   (b) Manu Bhaker 
 (c) Rahi Sarnobat     (d) Anisa Sayyed 
 Sol.1071.(a)  Anjali  Bhagwat  is  a 
 professional  Indian  shooter.  She  became 
 the  World  Number  One  in  the  10m  Air 
 Ri?e in 2002. 
 Q.1072.  Who  among  the  following  has 
 been  a  goalkeeper  of  the  Indian  national 
 football team in the 1980s? 
 SSC CPO 23/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Atanu Bhattacharya  (b) Inder Singh 
 (c) Gautam Sarkar           (d) IM Vijayan 
 Sol.1072.(a)  Atanu  Bhattacharya  is 
 former  Indian  football  Goalkeeper  Coach 
 at  King?sher  East  Bengal  FC  in  the 
 I-League. 
 Q.1073.  Sagol  kangjei,  an  indigenous 
 game  of  manipur  is  similar  to  the  modern 
 day sports of : 
 SSC CPO 24/11/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) cricket (b) polo (c) hockey (d) boxing 
 Sol.1073.(b)  Polo  is  known  by  its  other 
 name  in  Manipur  sagol  Kangjei.  Sagol 
 means  horse  and  kang  means  ball.  The 
 game  is  played  by  the  upper  class  people 
 of  the  society  but  in  Manipur  almost 
 every person plays this game. 
 Q.1074.  How  many  medals  in  total  did 
 India win at the Summer Olympic Games, 
 2012 ? 
 SSC CPO 25/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 6  (b) 4  (c) 2  (d) 3 
 Sol.1074.(a)  6.  India  won  6  medals  at 
 the  summer  Olympic  games  held  in 
 London.  It  was  a  successful  tournament 
 for  India.  India  bagged  2  silver  and  4 
 bronze Medals at the Olympics. 
 Q.1075.  Sachin  Tendulkar  scored  his  ?rst 
 ODI century in his ____ match. 
 SSC CHSL 17/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 76th  (b) 79th  (c) 78th  (d) 77th 
 Sol.1075.(b) 79th  . 
 Q.1076.  Where  was  the  Pullela 
 Gopichand  Badminton  Academy  founded 
 in 2008? 
 SSC  CHSL 17/03/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) New Delhi  (b) Bangalore 
 (c) Hyderabad  (d) Mumbai 
 Sol.1076.(c) Hyderabad. 
 Q.1077.  How  many  Grand  Slam 
 tournaments  are  played  in  a  year  in 
 tennis? 
 SSC  CHSL 19/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 3  (b) 6  (c) 4  (d) 5 
 Sol.1077.(c)  There  are  4  Grand  Slam 
 tournaments  in  tennis  -  the 
 championships  of  Australia,  France, 
 Britain  (Wimbledon)  and  the  United 
 States. 
 Q.1078.  Where  were  the  ?rst  Winter 
 Paralympics Games held? 
 SSC  CHSL 19/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Italy  (b) Korea  (c) Russia (d) Sweden 
 Sol.1078.(d)  In  1976,  the  ?rst  Winter 
 Games  in  Paralympics  history  were  held 
 in  Sweden  . 
 Q.1079.  Which  of  the  following  nations 
 won  the  FIFA  World  Cup  the  most 
 number of times? 
 SSC CHSL 15/10/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Germany  (b) Argentina 
 (c) France  (d) Brazil 
 Sol.1079.(d)  Brazil  . 
 Q.1080.  How  many  gold  medals  did  India 
 win  at  the  ‘1986  Asian  Games’  held  in 
 Seoul, South Korea? 
 SSC CHSL 16/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 9  (b) 5        (c) 6         (d) 8 
 Sol.1080.(b) 5. 
 Q.1081  .  Who  had  proposed  the  motto  of 
 Olympics? 
 SSC  CHSL 20/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Didon  (b) Pierre de Coubertin 
 (c) Hirohito  (d) Moon Jae-in 
 Sol.1081.(b)  Pierre  de  Coubertin.  The 
 Olympic  motto  is  made  up  of  three  Latin 
 words:  CITIUS,  AL TIUS,  FORTIUS  - 
 COMMUNITER  (FASTER,  HIGHER, 
 STRONGER - TOGETHER). 
 Q.1082.  The  Maharaja  of  ______  was  the 
 ?rst Indian cricketer to serve as 
 President of the Board 
 of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). 
 SSC  CHSL  20/10/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Rewa  (b) Vizianagaram 
 (c) Baroda  (d) Mysore 
 Sol.1082.(b) Vizianagaram  . 
 Q.1083.  ______  is  the  oldest  hockey 
 tournament in India. 
 SSC CHSL 26/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Beighton Cup 
 (b) Bombay Gold Cup 
 (c) Obaidullah Khan Gold Cup 
 (d) MCC Murugappa Gold Cup 
 Sol.1083.(a)  Beighton  Cup  is  the  oldest 
 hockey  tournament  in  India  which  was 
 instituted in 1895. 
 Q.1084.  ‘Tenpins’  refers  to  the  game  of 
 ______. 
 SSC CHSL 26/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) baseball  (b) basketball 
 (c) billiards  (d) bowling 
 Sol.1084.(d)  bowling  . 
 Q.1085.  Who  was  the  ?rst  Indian  to 
 receive  the  International  Shooting 
 Federation (ISSF) Blue Cross? 
 SSC CGL 03/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Ronjan Sodhi  (b) Vijay Kumar 
 (c) Abhinav Bindra    (d) Gagan Narang 
 Sol.1085.(c)  Abhinav  Bindra.  On  30 
 November  2018,  Bindra  became  the  ?rst 
 Indian  to  receive  the  prestigious  Blue 
 Cross, the ISSF's highest honour. 
 Q.1086.  The  major  component  of 
 modern Olympic gold medals is ______. 
 SSC CGL 04/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Bronze  (b) Gold  (c) Silver  (d) Copper 
 Sol.1086.(c)  Silver.  Olympic  Gold  medals 
 are  required  to  be  made  from  pure  silver, 
 and  must  contain  a  minimum  of  6  grams 
 of  gold.  All  olympics  medals  must  be  at 
 least  60  mm  in  diameter  and  3  mm  thick. 
 It  is  the  responsibility  of  the  Olympic  host 
 to mint the medal proper. 
 Q.1087.  To  which  of  the  following  Indian 
 states  does  Mardani  Khel,  one  of  the 
 famous  martial  art  forms  in  India 
 belong? 
 SSC CGL 06/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Maharashtra  (b) Uttar Pradesh 
 (c) Rajasthan  (d) Madhya Pradesh 
 Sol.1087.(a)  Maharashtra  .  It  is 
 particularly  known  for  its  use  of  the 
 uniquely  Indian  patta  (sword)  and  vita 
 (corded lance). 
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 Books And Authors 
 Q.1088.  ‘Goal’  is  the  autobiography  of 
 _______. 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Cristiano Ronaldo         (b) Mary Kom 
 (c) Major Dhyan Chand      (d) Mike Tyson 
 Sol.1088.(c)  Major  Dhyanchand. 
 Autobiographies  of  Famous  Sports 
 Persons:  “The  Biography''  (Cristiano 
 Ronaldo),  “Unbreakable”  (Mary  Kom), 
 “Undisputed  Truth:  My  Autobiography” 
 (Mike  Tyson),  “Playing  it  My  Way”  (Sachin 
 Tendulkar),  “Sunny  Days”  (Sunil 
 Gavaskar),  “A  century  is  not  Enough” 
 (Sourav Ganguly). 
 Q.1089.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel ‘Tamas’? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Harishankar Parsai (b) Mohan Rakesh 
 (c) Rahi Masoom Raza (d) Bhisham Sahni 
 Sol.1089.(d)  Bhisham  Sahni.  Other 
 books:  “Balraj:  My  Brother”,  “Madhavi”, 
 “Bhatakti  Raakh”,  “Pahala  Path”, 
 “Patriyan”,  “Today's  Pasts:  A  Memoir”. 
 Authors  and  their  books:  Rahi  Masoom 
 Raza  -  “A  Village  Divided”,  “Neem  Ka 
 Ped”.  Mohan  Rakesh  -  “Another  Life: 
 Thirteen  Stories  and  a  Play”.  Harishankar 
 Parsai  -  “Hum  Ek  Umra  Se  Waqif  Hain”, 
 “Rani Nagfani ki Kahani”. 
 Q.1090.  Who  wrote  the  book  ‘If  God  Was 
 A Banker’? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Ravi Subramanian (b) Amitav Ghosh 
 (c) Jhumpa Lahiri  (d) Ashwin Sanghi 
 Sol.1090.(a)  Ravi  Subramanian.  His 
 books:  “The  Incredible  Banker”,  “In  the 
 Name  of  God”,  “God  Is  A  Gamer”,  “I 
 Bought  the  Monk’s  Ferrari”,  “Don't  Tell 
 The Governor”. 
 Q.1091.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel 'Maila Anchal' ? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Kamleshwar 
 (b) Phanishwar Nath 'Renu’ 
 (c) Harishankar Parsai 
 (d) Kashinath Singh 
 Sol.1091.(b)  Phanishwar  Nath  'Renu’. 
 Other  Novels  -  ‘’’Parti  Parikatha’’,  ‘’Kitne 
 Chaurahe’’,  ‘’Paltu  Babu  Road’’.  Authors 
 and  their  books:  Kamleshwar  -  ‘’Aagami 
 Atit’’,  ‘’Partitions’’,  ‘’Murdon  Ki  Duniya’’. 
 Harishankar  Parsai  -  ‘’Viklang  Shraddha 
 Ka  Daur’’,  ‘’Ghaayal  Basant’’,  ‘’Badchalan’’, 
 ‘’Apni  Apni  Bimari’’,  ‘’Tulsidas  Chandan 
 Ghise'’.  Kashinath  Singh  -  ‘’Rehan  Par 
 Ragghu’’, ‘’Kashi Ka Assi’’. 
 Q.1092.  'The  Last  Song  of  Dusk’  is  the 
 debut novel of: 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Ravinder Singh 
 (b) Ira Trivedi 
 (c) Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi 
 (d) Nikita Singh 
 Sol.1092.(c)  Siddharth  Dhanvant 
 Shanghvi.  Other  Books:-  “  AIDS  Sutra: 
 Untold  Stories  From  India”,  “The  Lost 
 Flamingoes  of  Bombay”.  Other  novel 
 writers:-  Ira  Trivedi  -  “What  Would  You  Do 
 To  Save  the  World”,  “Om  the  Yoga  Dog”. 
 Nikita  Singh  -  “Love  @  Facebook”,  “What 
 Do  You  See  When  You  Look  In  The 
 Mirror?”. 
 Q.1093.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 writer of ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ ? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Alfred Lansing  (b) Elie Wiesel 
 (c) Viktor E Frankl  (d) Edith Eger 
 Sol.1093.(c)  Viktor  E  Frankl.  His  other 
 books:-  “The  Doctor  and  the  Soul”,  “On 
 the  Theory  and  Therapy  of  Mental 
 Disorders”,  “Psychotherapy  and 
 Existentialism”,  “The  Will  to  Meaning”, 
 “The  Unheard  Cry  for  Meaning”,  “Man's 
 Search for Ultimate Meaning”. 
 Q.1094.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘India  After  Gandhi: 
 The  History  of  the  World's  Largest 
 Democracy’ ? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Ramchandra Guha (b) Anuja Chauhan 
 (c) Ravinder Singh      (d) Sandhya Menon 
 Sol.1094.(a)  Ramchandra  Guha.  Authors 
 and  their  books:  Ramchandra  Guha  - 
 Gandhi  Before  India,  Environmentalism: 
 A  Global  History,  Rebels  Against  the  Raj, 
 Makers  of  Modern  India,  This  ?ssured 
 land,  The  Unquiet  Woods,  Democrats  and 
 Dissenters  .  Sandhya  Menon  -  “When 
 Dimple  Met  Rishi”,  “There's  Something 
 about Sweetie”. 
 Q.1095.  The  novel  ‘The  Mountain  of 
 Light’ is written by _____________. 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Anukrti Upadhyay 
 (b) Meena Kandasamy 
 (c) Indu Sundaresan 
 (d) Zarreen Khan 
 Sol.1095.(c)  Indu  Sundaresan:  Her  other 
 books  -  “The  twentieth  wife”,  “The  feast 
 of  roses”.  Books  and  authors:  Anukrti 
 Upadhyay  -  “Bhaunri”,  “Kintsugi”,  “Daura”, 
 “The  Blue  Woman”.  Meena  Kandasamy  - 
 “Ms.Militancy”,  “When  I  Hit  You”,  “The 
 Gypsy  Goddess”.  Zarreen  Khan  -  “Koi 
 Good News?”, “I Quit! Now What?”. 
 Q.1096.  ‘I  Know  Why  the  Caged  Bird 
 Sings’ is an autobiography of ________. 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Dolly Alderton 
 (b) Michelle Obama 
 (c) Patricia Lockwood 
 (d) Maya Angelou 
 Sol.1096.(d)  Maya  Angelou. 
 Autobiographies  of  famous  personalities: 
 Dolly  Alderton  -  “Everything  I  Know  About 
 Love”  (memoir),  Barack  Obama  - 
 “Dreams  from  my  father:  A  story  of  Race 
 and  Inheritance”,  Michele  Obama  - 
 “Becoming”,  Anne  Frank  -  “The  Diary  of  a 
 young girl”. 
 Q.1097.  Who  is  the  author  of  ‘Harry 
 Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Stephen King  (b) George Eliot 
 (c) J K Rowling  (d) Salman Rushdie 
 Sol.1097.(c)  J.  K.  Rowling.  Other  books  - 
 “The  Casual  Vacancy”  and  “the  Cormoran 
 Strike  series”,  “The  Running  Grave”,  “The 
 Ink Black Heart”, “The Cuckoo's Calling”. 
 Q.1098.  Which  of  the  following  is  NOT  an 
 autobiography of a sportsperson ? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) The Race of My Life 
 (b) Courage and Conviction 
 (c) Straight from the Heart 
 (d) Playing It My Way 
 Sol.1098.(b)  Courage  and  Conviction  - 
 An  autobiographical  book  by  Indian 
 General  Vijay  Kumar  Singh  written  with 
 Shiv  Kunal  Verma.  Books  by  V  K  Singh: 
 India’s  External  Intelligence,  Leadership 
 in  the  Indian  Army,  Achieving 
 Sustainable, Fidel Kastro. 
 Q.1099.  Which  of  the  following  books  is 
 an  autobiography  of  the  former  American 
 president Bill Clinton? 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Long Walk to Freedom 
 (b) My Country My Life 
 (c) My Life 
 (d) Becoming 
 Sol.1099.(c)  My  Life.  Books  by  him:  The 
 President  is  Missing,  The  President’s 
 Daughter, Back to Work, Gone. 
 Q.1100.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  novel 
 ‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’? 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) V.S. Naipaul  (b) John Keay 
 (c) Kiran Doshi  (d) Salman Rushdie 
 Sol.1100.(d)  Salman  Rushdie:  Other 
 Novels  -  “The  Satanic  Verses”, 
 “Midnight's  Children”,  “Quichotte”, 
 “Shame”,  “Luka  and  the  Fire  of  Life”,  “The 
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 Sol.1054.(a)  Golf.  Some  Terms  used  in 
 Golf  -  par,  bogey,  double  bogey,  triple 
 bogey,  ace,  handicap,  etc.  terms  used  in 
 Baseball-  strikeout,  base,  walk,  home  run 
 hit, bat, batter, etc. 
 Q.1055.  With  which  sport  are  Vijay 
 Amritraj and Anand Amritraj associated? 
 SSC CHSL 12/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Table tennis  (b) Cricket 
 (c) Lawn tennis  (d) Football 
 Sol.1055.(c) Lawn tennis. 
 Q.1056.  Which  of  the  following  animals 
 is  made  to  race  in  the  traditional  sport 
 called 'Kambala' in Karnataka? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Horse  (b) Dog  (c) Buffalo  (d) Goat 
 Sol.1056.(c  )  Kambala  is  an  annual 
 buffalo  race  held  in  the  southwestern 
 Indian  state of Karnataka. 
 Q.1057.  In  which  of  the  following  cities  is 
 the  headquarters  of  the  All  India  Chess 
 Federation situated? 
 SSC  CHSL 13/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) New Delhi  (b) Bengaluru 
 (c) Hyderabad  (d) Mumbai 
 Sol.1057.(a)  New  Delhi.  AICF  is  the 
 central administrative body for the game 
 of  chess  in  India,  founded  in  1951  which 
 is  a?liated  with  Fédération  Internationale 
 des  Échecs  (FIDE),  the  world  body  for 
 chess.  The  organisation  is  also  in  charge 
 of managing women's chess in India. 
 Q.1058.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  ?rst  para-athlete  to  receive  the  Rajiv 
 Gandhi Khel Ratna? 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Mariyappan Thangavelu 
 (b) Devendra Jhajharia 
 (c) Varun Singh Bhati 
 (d) Naresh Kumar Sharma 
 Sol.1058.(b)  Devendra  Jhajharia  is  the 
 ?rst  para-athlete  to  be  honoured  with  the 
 Rajiv  Gandhi  Khel  Ratna  -  the  highest 
 sports  award  in  the  country.  He  is  an 
 Indian  Paralympic  javelin  thrower 
 competing in F46 events. 
 Q.1059.  ______  was  the  ?rst  Test  cricket 
 captain of an independent Indian team. 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Vijay Hazare  (b) Hemu Adhikari 
 (c) Bishan Singh Bedi   (d) Lala Amarnath 
 Sol.1059.(d)  Lala  Amarnath  Bharadwaj, 
 known  as  the  father  ?gure  of  Indian 
 Cricket,  captained  India  in  the  ?rst  Test 
 series  and  won  against  Pakistan  in  1952. 
 He  was  the  ?rst  batsman  to  score  a 
 century for India in Test cricket. 
 Q.1060.  Which  two  Indians  became  the 
 ?rst  pair  to  reach  the  ?nals  of  all  Grand 
 Slams  in  a  year  in  the  Open  era,  winning 
 the  French  Open  and  Wimbledon  as  top 
 seeds? 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi  
 (b) Yuki Bhambri and Leander Paes 
 (c) Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh 
 Bhupathi 
 (d) Rohan Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri 
 Sol.1060.(a)  Leander  Paes  and  Mahesh 
 Bhupathi.  In  1999,  the  duo  reached  the 
 ?nals  of  all  four  Grand  Slams,  winning 
 Wimbledon  and  the  French,  thus 
 becoming  the  ?rst  Indians  to  win  a 
 doubles event at a Grand Slam. 
 Q.1061.  At  the  1992  Summer  Olympics, 
 ______  became  the ?rst woman  to  carry 
 the ?ag of India at  the  opening  ceremony 
 of any Olympics. 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Karnam Malleswari 
 (b) Shiny Abraham Wilson 
 (c) PT Usha 
 (d) Nilima Ghose 
 Sol.1061.(b) Shiny Abraham Wilson.  She 
 is  an  Asian  Games  gold  medal  winner 
 and  the  ?rst  Indian  woman  to  reach  the 
 semi-?nals of an Olympic event. 
 Q.1062.  Who among the following was a 
 World  War  II  veteran,  also  associated 
 with cricket? 
 SSC CHSL 5/8/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Brad Friedel  (b) Alan Burgess 
 (c) Ivan Cordoba   (d) Erik Karlsson 
 Sol.1062.(b) Alan Burgess  , New Zealand 
 ?rst-class  cricketer,  and  World  War  II 
 veteran.  He  was  a  tank  driver  in  World 
 War  II.  In  June  2020,  Burgess  became 
 the  world’s  oldest  living  ?rst-class 
 cricketer. 
 Q.1063.  With  which  of  the  following 
 sports  is  Indian  sportsperson  Bhavani 
 Devi associated? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Wrestling  (b) Boxing 
 (c) Fencing  (d) Rowing 
 Sol.1063.(c)  Bhavani  Devi  competes  in 
 the  sport  of  Fencing  .  She  is  the  ?rst 
 Indian  fencer  to  ever  qualify  for  the 
 olympics  after  qualifying  for  the  2020 
 Summer Olympics. 
 Q.1064.  In  which  Olympic  Games  did 
 Shabana  Akhtar,  the  ?rst  female  athlete 
 to represent Pakistan, participate? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Beijing Olympics 
 (b) Atlanta Olympics 
 (c) Sydney Olympics 
 (d) Barcelona Olympics 
 Sol.1064.(b)  Shabana  Akhtar  was 
 Pakistan's  ?rst  woman  to  compete  at  the 
 Olympics  when  she  took  part  in  the 
 women's  long  jump  at  the  1996  Summer 
 Olympics in Atlanta  , United States. 
 Q.1065.  Who  among  the  following  won  a 
 bronze  medal  at  the  World  Athletics 
 Championship in Paris in 2003? 
 SSC CHSL 10/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Krishna Poonia  (b) Seema Punia 
 (c) PT Usha              (d) Anju Bobby George 
 Sol.1065.(d)  Anju  Bobby  George  is  a 
 retired  Indian  athlete.  She  made  history 
 when  she  won  the  bronze  medal  in  the 
 long  jump  at  the  2003  World 
 Championships  in  Athletics  in  Paris  and 
 became  the  ?rst  Indian  athlete  ever  to 
 win a medal in a World Championships in 
 Athletics jumping 6.70 m. 
 Q.1066.  Which  player  from  Pakistan  is 
 credited  with  10  British  Open  titles  and 
 six  World  Championship  crowns in 
 professional squash? 
 SSC CHSL 11/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Jahangir Khan  (b) Azam Khan 
 (c) Hashim Khan  (d) Farhan Zaman 
 Sol.1066.(a)  Jahangir  Khan  is  a  former 
 World  No.  1  professional  Pakistani 
 squash  player.  He  won  the  World  Open 
 six  times,  and  the  British  Open  ten 
 consecutive times. 
 Q.1067.  Which  of  the  following  schools 
 in  Shillong  is  the  ?rst  Khelo  India  Sports 
 school in North East India? 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Mawroh Government LP School 
 (b) Assam Ri?es Public School 
 (c) Army Public School 
 (d) Government Boys Higher Secondary 
 School 
 Sol.1067.(b  )  Assam  Ri?es  Public 
 School. 
 Q.1068.  ______  was  the  ?rst  athlete  to 
 win an Olympic medal for Sri lanka. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Parami Wasanthi Maristela 
 (b) Duncan White 
 (c) Greshan Dananjaya 
 (d) Susanthika Jayasinghe 
 Sol.1068.(b) Duncan White  . 
 Q.1069.  Annu Rani is the ?rst Indian 
 woman  to  cross  a  distance  of  60  m  in 
 ______ throw. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) javelin  (b) discus 
 (c) Shot put  (d) hammer 
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 Sol.1069.(a)  Javelin.  Annu  Rani  is  an 
 Indian  javelin  thrower  from  Bahadurpur, 
 Meerut,  Uttar  Pradesh.  She  was  the  1st 
 Indian  to  reach  the  ?nals  of  the  women's 
 javelin throw event in the World Athletics 
 Championships,  Doha, 2019. 
 Q.1070.  Who  is  the  second  Indian 
 footballer  to  play  100  international 
 games? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Bhaichung Bhutia 
 (b) Sunil Chhetri 
 (c) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 
 (d) Udanta Singh 
 Sol.1070.(b)  Sunil  Chhetri  .  First  Indian 
 Footballer - Bhaichung Bhutia. 
 Q.1071.  Who  among  the  following  won 
 the  2002  International  Shooting  Sport 
 Federation  (ISSF)  Champion  of 
 Champions  combined-air-ri?e  event  to 
 become  the  ?rst  Indian  to  win  that 
 competition? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Anjali Bhagwat   (b) Manu Bhaker 
 (c) Rahi Sarnobat     (d) Anisa Sayyed 
 Sol.1071.(a)  Anjali  Bhagwat  is  a 
 professional  Indian  shooter.  She  became 
 the  World  Number  One  in  the  10m  Air 
 Ri?e in 2002. 
 Q.1072.  Who  among  the  following  has 
 been  a  goalkeeper  of  the  Indian  national 
 football team in the 1980s? 
 SSC CPO 23/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Atanu Bhattacharya  (b) Inder Singh 
 (c) Gautam Sarkar           (d) IM Vijayan 
 Sol.1072.(a)  Atanu  Bhattacharya  is 
 former  Indian  football  Goalkeeper  Coach 
 at  King?sher  East  Bengal  FC  in  the 
 I-League. 
 Q.1073.  Sagol  kangjei,  an  indigenous 
 game  of  manipur  is  similar  to  the  modern 
 day sports of : 
 SSC CPO 24/11/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) cricket (b) polo (c) hockey (d) boxing 
 Sol.1073.(b)  Polo  is  known  by  its  other 
 name  in  Manipur  sagol  Kangjei.  Sagol 
 means  horse  and  kang  means  ball.  The 
 game  is  played  by  the  upper  class  people 
 of  the  society  but  in  Manipur  almost 
 every person plays this game. 
 Q.1074.  How  many  medals  in  total  did 
 India win at the Summer Olympic Games, 
 2012 ? 
 SSC CPO 25/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 6  (b) 4  (c) 2  (d) 3 
 Sol.1074.(a)  6.  India  won  6  medals  at 
 the  summer  Olympic  games  held  in 
 London.  It  was  a  successful  tournament 
 for  India.  India  bagged  2  silver  and  4 
 bronze Medals at the Olympics. 
 Q.1075.  Sachin  Tendulkar  scored  his  ?rst 
 ODI century in his ____ match. 
 SSC CHSL 17/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 76th  (b) 79th  (c) 78th  (d) 77th 
 Sol.1075.(b) 79th  . 
 Q.1076.  Where  was  the  Pullela 
 Gopichand  Badminton  Academy  founded 
 in 2008? 
 SSC  CHSL 17/03/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) New Delhi  (b) Bangalore 
 (c) Hyderabad  (d) Mumbai 
 Sol.1076.(c) Hyderabad. 
 Q.1077.  How  many  Grand  Slam 
 tournaments  are  played  in  a  year  in 
 tennis? 
 SSC  CHSL 19/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 3  (b) 6  (c) 4  (d) 5 
 Sol.1077.(c)  There  are  4  Grand  Slam 
 tournaments  in  tennis  -  the 
 championships  of  Australia,  France, 
 Britain  (Wimbledon)  and  the  United 
 States. 
 Q.1078.  Where  were  the  ?rst  Winter 
 Paralympics Games held? 
 SSC  CHSL 19/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Italy  (b) Korea  (c) Russia (d) Sweden 
 Sol.1078.(d)  In  1976,  the  ?rst  Winter 
 Games  in  Paralympics  history  were  held 
 in  Sweden  . 
 Q.1079.  Which  of  the  following  nations 
 won  the  FIFA  World  Cup  the  most 
 number of times? 
 SSC CHSL 15/10/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Germany  (b) Argentina 
 (c) France  (d) Brazil 
 Sol.1079.(d)  Brazil  . 
 Q.1080.  How  many  gold  medals  did  India 
 win  at  the  ‘1986  Asian  Games’  held  in 
 Seoul, South Korea? 
 SSC CHSL 16/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 9  (b) 5        (c) 6         (d) 8 
 Sol.1080.(b) 5. 
 Q.1081  .  Who  had  proposed  the  motto  of 
 Olympics? 
 SSC  CHSL 20/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Didon  (b) Pierre de Coubertin 
 (c) Hirohito  (d) Moon Jae-in 
 Sol.1081.(b)  Pierre  de  Coubertin.  The 
 Olympic  motto  is  made  up  of  three  Latin 
 words:  CITIUS,  AL TIUS,  FORTIUS  - 
 COMMUNITER  (FASTER,  HIGHER, 
 STRONGER - TOGETHER). 
 Q.1082.  The  Maharaja  of  ______  was  the 
 ?rst Indian cricketer to serve as 
 President of the Board 
 of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). 
 SSC  CHSL  20/10/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Rewa  (b) Vizianagaram 
 (c) Baroda  (d) Mysore 
 Sol.1082.(b) Vizianagaram  . 
 Q.1083.  ______  is  the  oldest  hockey 
 tournament in India. 
 SSC CHSL 26/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Beighton Cup 
 (b) Bombay Gold Cup 
 (c) Obaidullah Khan Gold Cup 
 (d) MCC Murugappa Gold Cup 
 Sol.1083.(a)  Beighton  Cup  is  the  oldest 
 hockey  tournament  in  India  which  was 
 instituted in 1895. 
 Q.1084.  ‘Tenpins’  refers  to  the  game  of 
 ______. 
 SSC CHSL 26/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) baseball  (b) basketball 
 (c) billiards  (d) bowling 
 Sol.1084.(d)  bowling  . 
 Q.1085.  Who  was  the  ?rst  Indian  to 
 receive  the  International  Shooting 
 Federation (ISSF) Blue Cross? 
 SSC CGL 03/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Ronjan Sodhi  (b) Vijay Kumar 
 (c) Abhinav Bindra    (d) Gagan Narang 
 Sol.1085.(c)  Abhinav  Bindra.  On  30 
 November  2018,  Bindra  became  the  ?rst 
 Indian  to  receive  the  prestigious  Blue 
 Cross, the ISSF's highest honour. 
 Q.1086.  The  major  component  of 
 modern Olympic gold medals is ______. 
 SSC CGL 04/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Bronze  (b) Gold  (c) Silver  (d) Copper 
 Sol.1086.(c)  Silver.  Olympic  Gold  medals 
 are  required  to  be  made  from  pure  silver, 
 and  must  contain  a  minimum  of  6  grams 
 of  gold.  All  olympics  medals  must  be  at 
 least  60  mm  in  diameter  and  3  mm  thick. 
 It  is  the  responsibility  of  the  Olympic  host 
 to mint the medal proper. 
 Q.1087.  To  which  of  the  following  Indian 
 states  does  Mardani  Khel,  one  of  the 
 famous  martial  art  forms  in  India 
 belong? 
 SSC CGL 06/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Maharashtra  (b) Uttar Pradesh 
 (c) Rajasthan  (d) Madhya Pradesh 
 Sol.1087.(a)  Maharashtra  .  It  is 
 particularly  known  for  its  use  of  the 
 uniquely  Indian  patta  (sword)  and  vita 
 (corded lance). 
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 Books And Authors 
 Q.1088.  ‘Goal’  is  the  autobiography  of 
 _______. 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Cristiano Ronaldo         (b) Mary Kom 
 (c) Major Dhyan Chand      (d) Mike Tyson 
 Sol.1088.(c)  Major  Dhyanchand. 
 Autobiographies  of  Famous  Sports 
 Persons:  “The  Biography''  (Cristiano 
 Ronaldo),  “Unbreakable”  (Mary  Kom), 
 “Undisputed  Truth:  My  Autobiography” 
 (Mike  Tyson),  “Playing  it  My  Way”  (Sachin 
 Tendulkar),  “Sunny  Days”  (Sunil 
 Gavaskar),  “A  century  is  not  Enough” 
 (Sourav Ganguly). 
 Q.1089.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel ‘Tamas’? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Harishankar Parsai (b) Mohan Rakesh 
 (c) Rahi Masoom Raza (d) Bhisham Sahni 
 Sol.1089.(d)  Bhisham  Sahni.  Other 
 books:  “Balraj:  My  Brother”,  “Madhavi”, 
 “Bhatakti  Raakh”,  “Pahala  Path”, 
 “Patriyan”,  “Today's  Pasts:  A  Memoir”. 
 Authors  and  their  books:  Rahi  Masoom 
 Raza  -  “A  Village  Divided”,  “Neem  Ka 
 Ped”.  Mohan  Rakesh  -  “Another  Life: 
 Thirteen  Stories  and  a  Play”.  Harishankar 
 Parsai  -  “Hum  Ek  Umra  Se  Waqif  Hain”, 
 “Rani Nagfani ki Kahani”. 
 Q.1090.  Who  wrote  the  book  ‘If  God  Was 
 A Banker’? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Ravi Subramanian (b) Amitav Ghosh 
 (c) Jhumpa Lahiri  (d) Ashwin Sanghi 
 Sol.1090.(a)  Ravi  Subramanian.  His 
 books:  “The  Incredible  Banker”,  “In  the 
 Name  of  God”,  “God  Is  A  Gamer”,  “I 
 Bought  the  Monk’s  Ferrari”,  “Don't  Tell 
 The Governor”. 
 Q.1091.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel 'Maila Anchal' ? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Kamleshwar 
 (b) Phanishwar Nath 'Renu’ 
 (c) Harishankar Parsai 
 (d) Kashinath Singh 
 Sol.1091.(b)  Phanishwar  Nath  'Renu’. 
 Other  Novels  -  ‘’’Parti  Parikatha’’,  ‘’Kitne 
 Chaurahe’’,  ‘’Paltu  Babu  Road’’.  Authors 
 and  their  books:  Kamleshwar  -  ‘’Aagami 
 Atit’’,  ‘’Partitions’’,  ‘’Murdon  Ki  Duniya’’. 
 Harishankar  Parsai  -  ‘’Viklang  Shraddha 
 Ka  Daur’’,  ‘’Ghaayal  Basant’’,  ‘’Badchalan’’, 
 ‘’Apni  Apni  Bimari’’,  ‘’Tulsidas  Chandan 
 Ghise'’.  Kashinath  Singh  -  ‘’Rehan  Par 
 Ragghu’’, ‘’Kashi Ka Assi’’. 
 Q.1092.  'The  Last  Song  of  Dusk’  is  the 
 debut novel of: 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Ravinder Singh 
 (b) Ira Trivedi 
 (c) Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi 
 (d) Nikita Singh 
 Sol.1092.(c)  Siddharth  Dhanvant 
 Shanghvi.  Other  Books:-  “  AIDS  Sutra: 
 Untold  Stories  From  India”,  “The  Lost 
 Flamingoes  of  Bombay”.  Other  novel 
 writers:-  Ira  Trivedi  -  “What  Would  You  Do 
 To  Save  the  World”,  “Om  the  Yoga  Dog”. 
 Nikita  Singh  -  “Love  @  Facebook”,  “What 
 Do  You  See  When  You  Look  In  The 
 Mirror?”. 
 Q.1093.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 writer of ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ ? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Alfred Lansing  (b) Elie Wiesel 
 (c) Viktor E Frankl  (d) Edith Eger 
 Sol.1093.(c)  Viktor  E  Frankl.  His  other 
 books:-  “The  Doctor  and  the  Soul”,  “On 
 the  Theory  and  Therapy  of  Mental 
 Disorders”,  “Psychotherapy  and 
 Existentialism”,  “The  Will  to  Meaning”, 
 “The  Unheard  Cry  for  Meaning”,  “Man's 
 Search for Ultimate Meaning”. 
 Q.1094.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘India  After  Gandhi: 
 The  History  of  the  World's  Largest 
 Democracy’ ? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Ramchandra Guha (b) Anuja Chauhan 
 (c) Ravinder Singh      (d) Sandhya Menon 
 Sol.1094.(a)  Ramchandra  Guha.  Authors 
 and  their  books:  Ramchandra  Guha  - 
 Gandhi  Before  India,  Environmentalism: 
 A  Global  History,  Rebels  Against  the  Raj, 
 Makers  of  Modern  India,  This  ?ssured 
 land,  The  Unquiet  Woods,  Democrats  and 
 Dissenters  .  Sandhya  Menon  -  “When 
 Dimple  Met  Rishi”,  “There's  Something 
 about Sweetie”. 
 Q.1095.  The  novel  ‘The  Mountain  of 
 Light’ is written by _____________. 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Anukrti Upadhyay 
 (b) Meena Kandasamy 
 (c) Indu Sundaresan 
 (d) Zarreen Khan 
 Sol.1095.(c)  Indu  Sundaresan:  Her  other 
 books  -  “The  twentieth  wife”,  “The  feast 
 of  roses”.  Books  and  authors:  Anukrti 
 Upadhyay  -  “Bhaunri”,  “Kintsugi”,  “Daura”, 
 “The  Blue  Woman”.  Meena  Kandasamy  - 
 “Ms.Militancy”,  “When  I  Hit  You”,  “The 
 Gypsy  Goddess”.  Zarreen  Khan  -  “Koi 
 Good News?”, “I Quit! Now What?”. 
 Q.1096.  ‘I  Know  Why  the  Caged  Bird 
 Sings’ is an autobiography of ________. 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Dolly Alderton 
 (b) Michelle Obama 
 (c) Patricia Lockwood 
 (d) Maya Angelou 
 Sol.1096.(d)  Maya  Angelou. 
 Autobiographies  of  famous  personalities: 
 Dolly  Alderton  -  “Everything  I  Know  About 
 Love”  (memoir),  Barack  Obama  - 
 “Dreams  from  my  father:  A  story  of  Race 
 and  Inheritance”,  Michele  Obama  - 
 “Becoming”,  Anne  Frank  -  “The  Diary  of  a 
 young girl”. 
 Q.1097.  Who  is  the  author  of  ‘Harry 
 Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Stephen King  (b) George Eliot 
 (c) J K Rowling  (d) Salman Rushdie 
 Sol.1097.(c)  J.  K.  Rowling.  Other  books  - 
 “The  Casual  Vacancy”  and  “the  Cormoran 
 Strike  series”,  “The  Running  Grave”,  “The 
 Ink Black Heart”, “The Cuckoo's Calling”. 
 Q.1098.  Which  of  the  following  is  NOT  an 
 autobiography of a sportsperson ? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) The Race of My Life 
 (b) Courage and Conviction 
 (c) Straight from the Heart 
 (d) Playing It My Way 
 Sol.1098.(b)  Courage  and  Conviction  - 
 An  autobiographical  book  by  Indian 
 General  Vijay  Kumar  Singh  written  with 
 Shiv  Kunal  Verma.  Books  by  V  K  Singh: 
 India’s  External  Intelligence,  Leadership 
 in  the  Indian  Army,  Achieving 
 Sustainable, Fidel Kastro. 
 Q.1099.  Which  of  the  following  books  is 
 an  autobiography  of  the  former  American 
 president Bill Clinton? 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Long Walk to Freedom 
 (b) My Country My Life 
 (c) My Life 
 (d) Becoming 
 Sol.1099.(c)  My  Life.  Books  by  him:  The 
 President  is  Missing,  The  President’s 
 Daughter, Back to Work, Gone. 
 Q.1100.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  novel 
 ‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’? 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) V.S. Naipaul  (b) John Keay 
 (c) Kiran Doshi  (d) Salman Rushdie 
 Sol.1100.(d)  Salman  Rushdie:  Other 
 Novels  -  “The  Satanic  Verses”, 
 “Midnight's  Children”,  “Quichotte”, 
 “Shame”,  “Luka  and  the  Fire  of  Life”,  “The 
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 Golden  House”.  Famous  V.S.  Naipaul  - 
 “A  House  for  Mr.  Biswas”,  “A  Bend  in  the 
 River”, “In a Free State”. 
 Q.1101.  'The  Great  Indian  Novel'  is 
 written  by  _____  in  which  he  based  "The 
 Mahabharata'  as  a  framework  for  his 
 satirical novel. 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Shashi Tharoor  (b) Sarojini Naidu 
 (c) Kuldip Nayyar     (d) Khushwant Singh 
 Sol.1101.(a)  Shashi  Tharoor.  His  Other 
 books:  “India:  From  Midnight  to  the 
 Millennium  and  Beyond”,  “Nehru:  The 
 Invention  of  India”,  “The  Paradoxical 
 Prime  Minister”,  “Why  I  Am  a  Hindu”. 
 Sarojini  Naidu  -  “The  Broken  Wing”,  “The 
 Golden  Threshold”.  Kuldip  Nayar  - 
 ‘‘Scoop!’’,  "Beyond  the  Lines  :  An 
 Autobiography”,  ‘‘India  after  Nehru’’, 
 ‘Without  Fear’,  ‘India  House’,  ‘Tales  of  two 
 cities’, ‘Emergency Retold’, ‘In Jail’. 
 Q.1102.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  novel 
 'Before We Visit the Goddess'? 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 
 (b) Jhumpa Lahiri 
 (c) Arundhati Roy 
 (d) Kiran Doshi 
 Sol.1102.(a)  Chitra  Banerjee  Divakaruni. 
 Her  Other  books:  “The  Palace  of 
 Illusions”,  “The  Forest  of  Enchantments”, 
 “Mistress  of  Spices”,  “The  Last  Queen” 
 and “Queen of dreams”. 
 Q.1103.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  'On  Writing:  A  Memoir 
 of the Craft' ? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) F Scott Fitzgerald 
 (b) Clive Staples Lewis 
 (c) Ernest Hemingway 
 (d) Stephen King 
 Sol.1103.(d)  Stephen  King  (American). 
 His  Other  Books  -  “Fairy  Tale”,  “Billy 
 Summers”,  “It”,  “The  Shining”,  “Carrie”. 
 Other  Authors:  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald  -  “The 
 Beautiful  and  Damned”,  “The  Great 
 Gatsby”.  Clive  Staples  Lewis  -  “The 
 Chronicles  of  Narnia”,  “Mere  Christianity”. 
 Ernest  Hemingway  -  “The  Sun  Also 
 Rises”, “A Farewell to Arms”. 
 Q.1104.  'A  Grain  Of  Sand  In  The 
 Hourglass  of  Time'  is  an  autobiography 
 of which Indian politician ? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) IK Gujral            (b) Manmohan Singh 
 (c) Arjun Singh  (d) LK Advani 
 Sol.1104.(c) Arjun Singh. 
 Q.1105.  Which of the following is the 
 autobiography  of  the  ?rst  Indian 
 President Dr. Rajendra Prasad ? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) A Shot at History 
 (b) My Country My Life 
 (c) Atmakatha 
 (d) Atma Britanta 
 Sol.1105.(c)  Atmakatha.  Dr.  Rajendra 
 Prasad:  Books  -  ‘’Satyagraha  in 
 Champaran’’,  ‘’India  Divided’’,  “Enslaved  in 
 Paradise”,  “  Champaran  mein  Mahatma 
 Gandhi”. 
 Q.1106.  Which  of  the  following  books 
 has  been  written  by  the  Booker  Prize 
 winner Kiran Desai? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Shantaram 
 (b) A Fine Balance 
 (c) The Year of Runaways 
 (d) The Inheritance of Loss 
 Sol.1106.(d)  The  Inheritance  of  Loss 
 (2006)  .  Kiran  Desai’s  other  books  - 
 “Hullabaloo  in  the  Guava  Orchard”, 
 “Emblems  of  Transformation”,  “A 
 Heranca  do  Vazio”.  Books  and  their 
 writers  -  “Shantaram”  (Gregory  David 
 Roberts),  “A  Fine  Balance”  (Rohinton 
 Mistry),  “The  Year  of  Runaways”  (Sunjeev 
 Sahota). 
 Q.1107.  Which  of  the  following  is  an 
 autobiography  of  the  international  tennis 
 player Andre Agassi ? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Me 
 (b) Becoming 
 (c) Too Many Reasons to Live 
 (d) Open: An Autobiography 
 Sol.1107.(d)  Open:  An  Autobiography 
 Another  book  by  him:  The  Whirl.  He  is  an 
 American tennis player. 
 Q.1108.  In  which  of  the  following 
 languages  is  'Childhood  Days  -  A  Memoir' 
 by Satyajit Ray written? 
 SSC CPO 05/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Telugu  (b) Hindi 
 (c) Bengali  (d) Kannada 
 Sol.1108.(c)  Bengali.  Satyajit  Ray  was  an 
 Indian  Bengali  ?lmmaker.  His  ?rst  ?lm 
 was  Pather  Panchali  (1955),  which  won 
 eleven  international  prizes.  Books:  “  The 
 Incredible  Adventure  of  Professor 
 Shonku”  (Bengali),  “Sonar  Kella” 
 (Bengali),  “Jakhan  Choto  Chilam” 
 (Bangali). 
 Q.1109.  Who  among  the  following  had 
 written  the  novel  Coolie,  that 
 concentrated on social misery caused by 
 inhumanity ? 
 SSC CPO 05/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) RK Narayan  (b) Mulk Raj Anand 
 (c) VS Naipaul  (d) Vijay Tendulkar 
 Sol.1109.(b)  Mulk  Raj  Anand:  His  other 
 works  -  ‘Untouchable’,  ‘Across  the  Black 
 Waters’,  ‘Two  Leaves  and  a  Bud’,  ‘The 
 Village’,  ‘The  Sword  and  the  Sickle’,  ‘The 
 Private  Life  of  an  Indian  Prince’,  ‘The  Big 
 Heart’,  ‘The  Morning  Face’,  ‘Lost  Child 
 And Other Stories’ etc. 
 Q.1110.  Who  among  the  following  had 
 written  ‘The  Dark  Room'  that  presents  an 
 Indian  woman  in  stiff  opposition  to  male 
 domination? 
 SSC CPO 05/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) RK Narayan  (b) Mulk Raj Anand 
 (c) Kazi Nazrul Islam  (d) Kuldip Nayyar 
 Sol.1110.(a)  RK  Narayan.  Authors  and 
 their  books:  RK  Narayan  -  “The  Guide”, 
 “The  Bachelor  of  Arts”,  Swami  and 
 Friends”,  The  Financial  Experts”.  Mulk 
 Raj  Anand  -  “Untouchable”,  “Coolie”,  “The 
 Village”.  Kazi  Nazrul  Islam  -  “Sanchita”, 
 “Bandhan Hara”, “Chakrabak”. 
 Q.1111.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 ‘The  Soul  of  a  Butter?y:  Re?ections  on 
 Life’s Journey’ ? 
 SSC CPO 05/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Muhammad Ali   (b) Jake LaMotta 
 (c) Roberto Duran     (d) Eugene J Bullard 
 Sol.1111.(a)  Muhammad  Ali.  His  Other 
 Book - “The Greatest: My Own Story”. 
 Q.1112.  Who  among  the  following  is  one 
 of  the  co-authors  of  the  book,  'Cracking 
 The Code : My Journey in Bollywood' ? 
 SSC MTS 01/09/2023 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Harshvardhan Kapoor 
 (b) Nawazuddin Siddique 
 (c) Ayushmann Khurrana 
 (d) Rajkumar Rao 
 Sol.1112.(c) Ayushmann Khurrana  . 
 Tahira  Kashyap  books  :  “I  Promise”, 
 “Cracking  the  Code  :  My  journey  in 
 Bollywood”.  Other  Indian  Actors  and  their 
 books  :  Anupam  Kher  -  “Aap  khud  hi  best 
 hai”  ,  Emraan  Hashmi  :  “The  Kiss  of  Life”, 
 Nawajuddin  Siddiqui  -  “An  Ordinary  Life: 
 A  memoir”,  Karan  Johar  -  “An  Unsuitable 
 Boy”, Sonu Sood - “I Am No Messiah”. 
 Q.1113.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘Red  Earth  and 
 Pouring Rain : A Novel’ ? 
 SSC MTS 01/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Vikram Chandra      (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) Ashwin Sanghi        (d) Ruskin Bond 
 Sol.1113.(a) Vikram Chandra. His other 
 books: “  Sacred Games” (novel), “Love 
 and Longing in Bombay”, “The Srinagar 
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 Sol.1054.(a)  Golf.  Some  Terms  used  in 
 Golf  -  par,  bogey,  double  bogey,  triple 
 bogey,  ace,  handicap,  etc.  terms  used  in 
 Baseball-  strikeout,  base,  walk,  home  run 
 hit, bat, batter, etc. 
 Q.1055.  With  which  sport  are  Vijay 
 Amritraj and Anand Amritraj associated? 
 SSC CHSL 12/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Table tennis  (b) Cricket 
 (c) Lawn tennis  (d) Football 
 Sol.1055.(c) Lawn tennis. 
 Q.1056.  Which  of  the  following  animals 
 is  made  to  race  in  the  traditional  sport 
 called 'Kambala' in Karnataka? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Horse  (b) Dog  (c) Buffalo  (d) Goat 
 Sol.1056.(c  )  Kambala  is  an  annual 
 buffalo  race  held  in  the  southwestern 
 Indian  state of Karnataka. 
 Q.1057.  In  which  of  the  following  cities  is 
 the  headquarters  of  the  All  India  Chess 
 Federation situated? 
 SSC  CHSL 13/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) New Delhi  (b) Bengaluru 
 (c) Hyderabad  (d) Mumbai 
 Sol.1057.(a)  New  Delhi.  AICF  is  the 
 central administrative body for the game 
 of  chess  in  India,  founded  in  1951  which 
 is  a?liated  with  Fédération  Internationale 
 des  Échecs  (FIDE),  the  world  body  for 
 chess.  The  organisation  is  also  in  charge 
 of managing women's chess in India. 
 Q.1058.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  ?rst  para-athlete  to  receive  the  Rajiv 
 Gandhi Khel Ratna? 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Mariyappan Thangavelu 
 (b) Devendra Jhajharia 
 (c) Varun Singh Bhati 
 (d) Naresh Kumar Sharma 
 Sol.1058.(b)  Devendra  Jhajharia  is  the 
 ?rst  para-athlete  to  be  honoured  with  the 
 Rajiv  Gandhi  Khel  Ratna  -  the  highest 
 sports  award  in  the  country.  He  is  an 
 Indian  Paralympic  javelin  thrower 
 competing in F46 events. 
 Q.1059.  ______  was  the  ?rst  Test  cricket 
 captain of an independent Indian team. 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Vijay Hazare  (b) Hemu Adhikari 
 (c) Bishan Singh Bedi   (d) Lala Amarnath 
 Sol.1059.(d)  Lala  Amarnath  Bharadwaj, 
 known  as  the  father  ?gure  of  Indian 
 Cricket,  captained  India  in  the  ?rst  Test 
 series  and  won  against  Pakistan  in  1952. 
 He  was  the  ?rst  batsman  to  score  a 
 century for India in Test cricket. 
 Q.1060.  Which  two  Indians  became  the 
 ?rst  pair  to  reach  the  ?nals  of  all  Grand 
 Slams  in  a  year  in  the  Open  era,  winning 
 the  French  Open  and  Wimbledon  as  top 
 seeds? 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi  
 (b) Yuki Bhambri and Leander Paes 
 (c) Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh 
 Bhupathi 
 (d) Rohan Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri 
 Sol.1060.(a)  Leander  Paes  and  Mahesh 
 Bhupathi.  In  1999,  the  duo  reached  the 
 ?nals  of  all  four  Grand  Slams,  winning 
 Wimbledon  and  the  French,  thus 
 becoming  the  ?rst  Indians  to  win  a 
 doubles event at a Grand Slam. 
 Q.1061.  At  the  1992  Summer  Olympics, 
 ______  became  the ?rst woman  to  carry 
 the ?ag of India at  the  opening  ceremony 
 of any Olympics. 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Karnam Malleswari 
 (b) Shiny Abraham Wilson 
 (c) PT Usha 
 (d) Nilima Ghose 
 Sol.1061.(b) Shiny Abraham Wilson.  She 
 is  an  Asian  Games  gold  medal  winner 
 and  the  ?rst  Indian  woman  to  reach  the 
 semi-?nals of an Olympic event. 
 Q.1062.  Who among the following was a 
 World  War  II  veteran,  also  associated 
 with cricket? 
 SSC CHSL 5/8/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Brad Friedel  (b) Alan Burgess 
 (c) Ivan Cordoba   (d) Erik Karlsson 
 Sol.1062.(b) Alan Burgess  , New Zealand 
 ?rst-class  cricketer,  and  World  War  II 
 veteran.  He  was  a  tank  driver  in  World 
 War  II.  In  June  2020,  Burgess  became 
 the  world’s  oldest  living  ?rst-class 
 cricketer. 
 Q.1063.  With  which  of  the  following 
 sports  is  Indian  sportsperson  Bhavani 
 Devi associated? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Wrestling  (b) Boxing 
 (c) Fencing  (d) Rowing 
 Sol.1063.(c)  Bhavani  Devi  competes  in 
 the  sport  of  Fencing  .  She  is  the  ?rst 
 Indian  fencer  to  ever  qualify  for  the 
 olympics  after  qualifying  for  the  2020 
 Summer Olympics. 
 Q.1064.  In  which  Olympic  Games  did 
 Shabana  Akhtar,  the  ?rst  female  athlete 
 to represent Pakistan, participate? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Beijing Olympics 
 (b) Atlanta Olympics 
 (c) Sydney Olympics 
 (d) Barcelona Olympics 
 Sol.1064.(b)  Shabana  Akhtar  was 
 Pakistan's  ?rst  woman  to  compete  at  the 
 Olympics  when  she  took  part  in  the 
 women's  long  jump  at  the  1996  Summer 
 Olympics in Atlanta  , United States. 
 Q.1065.  Who  among  the  following  won  a 
 bronze  medal  at  the  World  Athletics 
 Championship in Paris in 2003? 
 SSC CHSL 10/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Krishna Poonia  (b) Seema Punia 
 (c) PT Usha              (d) Anju Bobby George 
 Sol.1065.(d)  Anju  Bobby  George  is  a 
 retired  Indian  athlete.  She  made  history 
 when  she  won  the  bronze  medal  in  the 
 long  jump  at  the  2003  World 
 Championships  in  Athletics  in  Paris  and 
 became  the  ?rst  Indian  athlete  ever  to 
 win a medal in a World Championships in 
 Athletics jumping 6.70 m. 
 Q.1066.  Which  player  from  Pakistan  is 
 credited  with  10  British  Open  titles  and 
 six  World  Championship  crowns in 
 professional squash? 
 SSC CHSL 11/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Jahangir Khan  (b) Azam Khan 
 (c) Hashim Khan  (d) Farhan Zaman 
 Sol.1066.(a)  Jahangir  Khan  is  a  former 
 World  No.  1  professional  Pakistani 
 squash  player.  He  won  the  World  Open 
 six  times,  and  the  British  Open  ten 
 consecutive times. 
 Q.1067.  Which  of  the  following  schools 
 in  Shillong  is  the  ?rst  Khelo  India  Sports 
 school in North East India? 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Mawroh Government LP School 
 (b) Assam Ri?es Public School 
 (c) Army Public School 
 (d) Government Boys Higher Secondary 
 School 
 Sol.1067.(b  )  Assam  Ri?es  Public 
 School. 
 Q.1068.  ______  was  the  ?rst  athlete  to 
 win an Olympic medal for Sri lanka. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Parami Wasanthi Maristela 
 (b) Duncan White 
 (c) Greshan Dananjaya 
 (d) Susanthika Jayasinghe 
 Sol.1068.(b) Duncan White  . 
 Q.1069.  Annu Rani is the ?rst Indian 
 woman  to  cross  a  distance  of  60  m  in 
 ______ throw. 
 SSC CHSL 11/8/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) javelin  (b) discus 
 (c) Shot put  (d) hammer 
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 Sol.1069.(a)  Javelin.  Annu  Rani  is  an 
 Indian  javelin  thrower  from  Bahadurpur, 
 Meerut,  Uttar  Pradesh.  She  was  the  1st 
 Indian  to  reach  the  ?nals  of  the  women's 
 javelin throw event in the World Athletics 
 Championships,  Doha, 2019. 
 Q.1070.  Who  is  the  second  Indian 
 footballer  to  play  100  international 
 games? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Bhaichung Bhutia 
 (b) Sunil Chhetri 
 (c) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 
 (d) Udanta Singh 
 Sol.1070.(b)  Sunil  Chhetri  .  First  Indian 
 Footballer - Bhaichung Bhutia. 
 Q.1071.  Who  among  the  following  won 
 the  2002  International  Shooting  Sport 
 Federation  (ISSF)  Champion  of 
 Champions  combined-air-ri?e  event  to 
 become  the  ?rst  Indian  to  win  that 
 competition? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Anjali Bhagwat   (b) Manu Bhaker 
 (c) Rahi Sarnobat     (d) Anisa Sayyed 
 Sol.1071.(a)  Anjali  Bhagwat  is  a 
 professional  Indian  shooter.  She  became 
 the  World  Number  One  in  the  10m  Air 
 Ri?e in 2002. 
 Q.1072.  Who  among  the  following  has 
 been  a  goalkeeper  of  the  Indian  national 
 football team in the 1980s? 
 SSC CPO 23/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Atanu Bhattacharya  (b) Inder Singh 
 (c) Gautam Sarkar           (d) IM Vijayan 
 Sol.1072.(a)  Atanu  Bhattacharya  is 
 former  Indian  football  Goalkeeper  Coach 
 at  King?sher  East  Bengal  FC  in  the 
 I-League. 
 Q.1073.  Sagol  kangjei,  an  indigenous 
 game  of  manipur  is  similar  to  the  modern 
 day sports of : 
 SSC CPO 24/11/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) cricket (b) polo (c) hockey (d) boxing 
 Sol.1073.(b)  Polo  is  known  by  its  other 
 name  in  Manipur  sagol  Kangjei.  Sagol 
 means  horse  and  kang  means  ball.  The 
 game  is  played  by  the  upper  class  people 
 of  the  society  but  in  Manipur  almost 
 every person plays this game. 
 Q.1074.  How  many  medals  in  total  did 
 India win at the Summer Olympic Games, 
 2012 ? 
 SSC CPO 25/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 6  (b) 4  (c) 2  (d) 3 
 Sol.1074.(a)  6.  India  won  6  medals  at 
 the  summer  Olympic  games  held  in 
 London.  It  was  a  successful  tournament 
 for  India.  India  bagged  2  silver  and  4 
 bronze Medals at the Olympics. 
 Q.1075.  Sachin  Tendulkar  scored  his  ?rst 
 ODI century in his ____ match. 
 SSC CHSL 17/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 76th  (b) 79th  (c) 78th  (d) 77th 
 Sol.1075.(b) 79th  . 
 Q.1076.  Where  was  the  Pullela 
 Gopichand  Badminton  Academy  founded 
 in 2008? 
 SSC  CHSL 17/03/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) New Delhi  (b) Bangalore 
 (c) Hyderabad  (d) Mumbai 
 Sol.1076.(c) Hyderabad. 
 Q.1077.  How  many  Grand  Slam 
 tournaments  are  played  in  a  year  in 
 tennis? 
 SSC  CHSL 19/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 3  (b) 6  (c) 4  (d) 5 
 Sol.1077.(c)  There  are  4  Grand  Slam 
 tournaments  in  tennis  -  the 
 championships  of  Australia,  France, 
 Britain  (Wimbledon)  and  the  United 
 States. 
 Q.1078.  Where  were  the  ?rst  Winter 
 Paralympics Games held? 
 SSC  CHSL 19/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Italy  (b) Korea  (c) Russia (d) Sweden 
 Sol.1078.(d)  In  1976,  the  ?rst  Winter 
 Games  in  Paralympics  history  were  held 
 in  Sweden  . 
 Q.1079.  Which  of  the  following  nations 
 won  the  FIFA  World  Cup  the  most 
 number of times? 
 SSC CHSL 15/10/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Germany  (b) Argentina 
 (c) France  (d) Brazil 
 Sol.1079.(d)  Brazil  . 
 Q.1080.  How  many  gold  medals  did  India 
 win  at  the  ‘1986  Asian  Games’  held  in 
 Seoul, South Korea? 
 SSC CHSL 16/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) 9  (b) 5        (c) 6         (d) 8 
 Sol.1080.(b) 5. 
 Q.1081  .  Who  had  proposed  the  motto  of 
 Olympics? 
 SSC  CHSL 20/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Didon  (b) Pierre de Coubertin 
 (c) Hirohito  (d) Moon Jae-in 
 Sol.1081.(b)  Pierre  de  Coubertin.  The 
 Olympic  motto  is  made  up  of  three  Latin 
 words:  CITIUS,  AL TIUS,  FORTIUS  - 
 COMMUNITER  (FASTER,  HIGHER, 
 STRONGER - TOGETHER). 
 Q.1082.  The  Maharaja  of  ______  was  the 
 ?rst Indian cricketer to serve as 
 President of the Board 
 of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). 
 SSC  CHSL  20/10/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Rewa  (b) Vizianagaram 
 (c) Baroda  (d) Mysore 
 Sol.1082.(b) Vizianagaram  . 
 Q.1083.  ______  is  the  oldest  hockey 
 tournament in India. 
 SSC CHSL 26/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Beighton Cup 
 (b) Bombay Gold Cup 
 (c) Obaidullah Khan Gold Cup 
 (d) MCC Murugappa Gold Cup 
 Sol.1083.(a)  Beighton  Cup  is  the  oldest 
 hockey  tournament  in  India  which  was 
 instituted in 1895. 
 Q.1084.  ‘Tenpins’  refers  to  the  game  of 
 ______. 
 SSC CHSL 26/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) baseball  (b) basketball 
 (c) billiards  (d) bowling 
 Sol.1084.(d)  bowling  . 
 Q.1085.  Who  was  the  ?rst  Indian  to 
 receive  the  International  Shooting 
 Federation (ISSF) Blue Cross? 
 SSC CGL 03/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Ronjan Sodhi  (b) Vijay Kumar 
 (c) Abhinav Bindra    (d) Gagan Narang 
 Sol.1085.(c)  Abhinav  Bindra.  On  30 
 November  2018,  Bindra  became  the  ?rst 
 Indian  to  receive  the  prestigious  Blue 
 Cross, the ISSF's highest honour. 
 Q.1086.  The  major  component  of 
 modern Olympic gold medals is ______. 
 SSC CGL 04/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Bronze  (b) Gold  (c) Silver  (d) Copper 
 Sol.1086.(c)  Silver.  Olympic  Gold  medals 
 are  required  to  be  made  from  pure  silver, 
 and  must  contain  a  minimum  of  6  grams 
 of  gold.  All  olympics  medals  must  be  at 
 least  60  mm  in  diameter  and  3  mm  thick. 
 It  is  the  responsibility  of  the  Olympic  host 
 to mint the medal proper. 
 Q.1087.  To  which  of  the  following  Indian 
 states  does  Mardani  Khel,  one  of  the 
 famous  martial  art  forms  in  India 
 belong? 
 SSC CGL 06/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Maharashtra  (b) Uttar Pradesh 
 (c) Rajasthan  (d) Madhya Pradesh 
 Sol.1087.(a)  Maharashtra  .  It  is 
 particularly  known  for  its  use  of  the 
 uniquely  Indian  patta  (sword)  and  vita 
 (corded lance). 
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 Q.1088.  ‘Goal’  is  the  autobiography  of 
 _______. 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Cristiano Ronaldo         (b) Mary Kom 
 (c) Major Dhyan Chand      (d) Mike Tyson 
 Sol.1088.(c)  Major  Dhyanchand. 
 Autobiographies  of  Famous  Sports 
 Persons:  “The  Biography''  (Cristiano 
 Ronaldo),  “Unbreakable”  (Mary  Kom), 
 “Undisputed  Truth:  My  Autobiography” 
 (Mike  Tyson),  “Playing  it  My  Way”  (Sachin 
 Tendulkar),  “Sunny  Days”  (Sunil 
 Gavaskar),  “A  century  is  not  Enough” 
 (Sourav Ganguly). 
 Q.1089.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel ‘Tamas’? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Harishankar Parsai (b) Mohan Rakesh 
 (c) Rahi Masoom Raza (d) Bhisham Sahni 
 Sol.1089.(d)  Bhisham  Sahni.  Other 
 books:  “Balraj:  My  Brother”,  “Madhavi”, 
 “Bhatakti  Raakh”,  “Pahala  Path”, 
 “Patriyan”,  “Today's  Pasts:  A  Memoir”. 
 Authors  and  their  books:  Rahi  Masoom 
 Raza  -  “A  Village  Divided”,  “Neem  Ka 
 Ped”.  Mohan  Rakesh  -  “Another  Life: 
 Thirteen  Stories  and  a  Play”.  Harishankar 
 Parsai  -  “Hum  Ek  Umra  Se  Waqif  Hain”, 
 “Rani Nagfani ki Kahani”. 
 Q.1090.  Who  wrote  the  book  ‘If  God  Was 
 A Banker’? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Ravi Subramanian (b) Amitav Ghosh 
 (c) Jhumpa Lahiri  (d) Ashwin Sanghi 
 Sol.1090.(a)  Ravi  Subramanian.  His 
 books:  “The  Incredible  Banker”,  “In  the 
 Name  of  God”,  “God  Is  A  Gamer”,  “I 
 Bought  the  Monk’s  Ferrari”,  “Don't  Tell 
 The Governor”. 
 Q.1091.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel 'Maila Anchal' ? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Kamleshwar 
 (b) Phanishwar Nath 'Renu’ 
 (c) Harishankar Parsai 
 (d) Kashinath Singh 
 Sol.1091.(b)  Phanishwar  Nath  'Renu’. 
 Other  Novels  -  ‘’’Parti  Parikatha’’,  ‘’Kitne 
 Chaurahe’’,  ‘’Paltu  Babu  Road’’.  Authors 
 and  their  books:  Kamleshwar  -  ‘’Aagami 
 Atit’’,  ‘’Partitions’’,  ‘’Murdon  Ki  Duniya’’. 
 Harishankar  Parsai  -  ‘’Viklang  Shraddha 
 Ka  Daur’’,  ‘’Ghaayal  Basant’’,  ‘’Badchalan’’, 
 ‘’Apni  Apni  Bimari’’,  ‘’Tulsidas  Chandan 
 Ghise'’.  Kashinath  Singh  -  ‘’Rehan  Par 
 Ragghu’’, ‘’Kashi Ka Assi’’. 
 Q.1092.  'The  Last  Song  of  Dusk’  is  the 
 debut novel of: 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Ravinder Singh 
 (b) Ira Trivedi 
 (c) Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi 
 (d) Nikita Singh 
 Sol.1092.(c)  Siddharth  Dhanvant 
 Shanghvi.  Other  Books:-  “  AIDS  Sutra: 
 Untold  Stories  From  India”,  “The  Lost 
 Flamingoes  of  Bombay”.  Other  novel 
 writers:-  Ira  Trivedi  -  “What  Would  You  Do 
 To  Save  the  World”,  “Om  the  Yoga  Dog”. 
 Nikita  Singh  -  “Love  @  Facebook”,  “What 
 Do  You  See  When  You  Look  In  The 
 Mirror?”. 
 Q.1093.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 writer of ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ ? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Alfred Lansing  (b) Elie Wiesel 
 (c) Viktor E Frankl  (d) Edith Eger 
 Sol.1093.(c)  Viktor  E  Frankl.  His  other 
 books:-  “The  Doctor  and  the  Soul”,  “On 
 the  Theory  and  Therapy  of  Mental 
 Disorders”,  “Psychotherapy  and 
 Existentialism”,  “The  Will  to  Meaning”, 
 “The  Unheard  Cry  for  Meaning”,  “Man's 
 Search for Ultimate Meaning”. 
 Q.1094.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘India  After  Gandhi: 
 The  History  of  the  World's  Largest 
 Democracy’ ? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Ramchandra Guha (b) Anuja Chauhan 
 (c) Ravinder Singh      (d) Sandhya Menon 
 Sol.1094.(a)  Ramchandra  Guha.  Authors 
 and  their  books:  Ramchandra  Guha  - 
 Gandhi  Before  India,  Environmentalism: 
 A  Global  History,  Rebels  Against  the  Raj, 
 Makers  of  Modern  India,  This  ?ssured 
 land,  The  Unquiet  Woods,  Democrats  and 
 Dissenters  .  Sandhya  Menon  -  “When 
 Dimple  Met  Rishi”,  “There's  Something 
 about Sweetie”. 
 Q.1095.  The  novel  ‘The  Mountain  of 
 Light’ is written by _____________. 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Anukrti Upadhyay 
 (b) Meena Kandasamy 
 (c) Indu Sundaresan 
 (d) Zarreen Khan 
 Sol.1095.(c)  Indu  Sundaresan:  Her  other 
 books  -  “The  twentieth  wife”,  “The  feast 
 of  roses”.  Books  and  authors:  Anukrti 
 Upadhyay  -  “Bhaunri”,  “Kintsugi”,  “Daura”, 
 “The  Blue  Woman”.  Meena  Kandasamy  - 
 “Ms.Militancy”,  “When  I  Hit  You”,  “The 
 Gypsy  Goddess”.  Zarreen  Khan  -  “Koi 
 Good News?”, “I Quit! Now What?”. 
 Q.1096.  ‘I  Know  Why  the  Caged  Bird 
 Sings’ is an autobiography of ________. 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Dolly Alderton 
 (b) Michelle Obama 
 (c) Patricia Lockwood 
 (d) Maya Angelou 
 Sol.1096.(d)  Maya  Angelou. 
 Autobiographies  of  famous  personalities: 
 Dolly  Alderton  -  “Everything  I  Know  About 
 Love”  (memoir),  Barack  Obama  - 
 “Dreams  from  my  father:  A  story  of  Race 
 and  Inheritance”,  Michele  Obama  - 
 “Becoming”,  Anne  Frank  -  “The  Diary  of  a 
 young girl”. 
 Q.1097.  Who  is  the  author  of  ‘Harry 
 Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Stephen King  (b) George Eliot 
 (c) J K Rowling  (d) Salman Rushdie 
 Sol.1097.(c)  J.  K.  Rowling.  Other  books  - 
 “The  Casual  Vacancy”  and  “the  Cormoran 
 Strike  series”,  “The  Running  Grave”,  “The 
 Ink Black Heart”, “The Cuckoo's Calling”. 
 Q.1098.  Which  of  the  following  is  NOT  an 
 autobiography of a sportsperson ? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) The Race of My Life 
 (b) Courage and Conviction 
 (c) Straight from the Heart 
 (d) Playing It My Way 
 Sol.1098.(b)  Courage  and  Conviction  - 
 An  autobiographical  book  by  Indian 
 General  Vijay  Kumar  Singh  written  with 
 Shiv  Kunal  Verma.  Books  by  V  K  Singh: 
 India’s  External  Intelligence,  Leadership 
 in  the  Indian  Army,  Achieving 
 Sustainable, Fidel Kastro. 
 Q.1099.  Which  of  the  following  books  is 
 an  autobiography  of  the  former  American 
 president Bill Clinton? 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Long Walk to Freedom 
 (b) My Country My Life 
 (c) My Life 
 (d) Becoming 
 Sol.1099.(c)  My  Life.  Books  by  him:  The 
 President  is  Missing,  The  President’s 
 Daughter, Back to Work, Gone. 
 Q.1100.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  novel 
 ‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’? 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) V.S. Naipaul  (b) John Keay 
 (c) Kiran Doshi  (d) Salman Rushdie 
 Sol.1100.(d)  Salman  Rushdie:  Other 
 Novels  -  “The  Satanic  Verses”, 
 “Midnight's  Children”,  “Quichotte”, 
 “Shame”,  “Luka  and  the  Fire  of  Life”,  “The 
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 “A  House  for  Mr.  Biswas”,  “A  Bend  in  the 
 River”, “In a Free State”. 
 Q.1101.  'The  Great  Indian  Novel'  is 
 written  by  _____  in  which  he  based  "The 
 Mahabharata'  as  a  framework  for  his 
 satirical novel. 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Shashi Tharoor  (b) Sarojini Naidu 
 (c) Kuldip Nayyar     (d) Khushwant Singh 
 Sol.1101.(a)  Shashi  Tharoor.  His  Other 
 books:  “India:  From  Midnight  to  the 
 Millennium  and  Beyond”,  “Nehru:  The 
 Invention  of  India”,  “The  Paradoxical 
 Prime  Minister”,  “Why  I  Am  a  Hindu”. 
 Sarojini  Naidu  -  “The  Broken  Wing”,  “The 
 Golden  Threshold”.  Kuldip  Nayar  - 
 ‘‘Scoop!’’,  "Beyond  the  Lines  :  An 
 Autobiography”,  ‘‘India  after  Nehru’’, 
 ‘Without  Fear’,  ‘India  House’,  ‘Tales  of  two 
 cities’, ‘Emergency Retold’, ‘In Jail’. 
 Q.1102.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  novel 
 'Before We Visit the Goddess'? 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 
 (b) Jhumpa Lahiri 
 (c) Arundhati Roy 
 (d) Kiran Doshi 
 Sol.1102.(a)  Chitra  Banerjee  Divakaruni. 
 Her  Other  books:  “The  Palace  of 
 Illusions”,  “The  Forest  of  Enchantments”, 
 “Mistress  of  Spices”,  “The  Last  Queen” 
 and “Queen of dreams”. 
 Q.1103.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  'On  Writing:  A  Memoir 
 of the Craft' ? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) F Scott Fitzgerald 
 (b) Clive Staples Lewis 
 (c) Ernest Hemingway 
 (d) Stephen King 
 Sol.1103.(d)  Stephen  King  (American). 
 His  Other  Books  -  “Fairy  Tale”,  “Billy 
 Summers”,  “It”,  “The  Shining”,  “Carrie”. 
 Other  Authors:  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald  -  “The 
 Beautiful  and  Damned”,  “The  Great 
 Gatsby”.  Clive  Staples  Lewis  -  “The 
 Chronicles  of  Narnia”,  “Mere  Christianity”. 
 Ernest  Hemingway  -  “The  Sun  Also 
 Rises”, “A Farewell to Arms”. 
 Q.1104.  'A  Grain  Of  Sand  In  The 
 Hourglass  of  Time'  is  an  autobiography 
 of which Indian politician ? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) IK Gujral            (b) Manmohan Singh 
 (c) Arjun Singh  (d) LK Advani 
 Sol.1104.(c) Arjun Singh. 
 Q.1105.  Which of the following is the 
 autobiography  of  the  ?rst  Indian 
 President Dr. Rajendra Prasad ? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) A Shot at History 
 (b) My Country My Life 
 (c) Atmakatha 
 (d) Atma Britanta 
 Sol.1105.(c)  Atmakatha.  Dr.  Rajendra 
 Prasad:  Books  -  ‘’Satyagraha  in 
 Champaran’’,  ‘’India  Divided’’,  “Enslaved  in 
 Paradise”,  “  Champaran  mein  Mahatma 
 Gandhi”. 
 Q.1106.  Which  of  the  following  books 
 has  been  written  by  the  Booker  Prize 
 winner Kiran Desai? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Shantaram 
 (b) A Fine Balance 
 (c) The Year of Runaways 
 (d) The Inheritance of Loss 
 Sol.1106.(d)  The  Inheritance  of  Loss 
 (2006)  .  Kiran  Desai’s  other  books  - 
 “Hullabaloo  in  the  Guava  Orchard”, 
 “Emblems  of  Transformation”,  “A 
 Heranca  do  Vazio”.  Books  and  their 
 writers  -  “Shantaram”  (Gregory  David 
 Roberts),  “A  Fine  Balance”  (Rohinton 
 Mistry),  “The  Year  of  Runaways”  (Sunjeev 
 Sahota). 
 Q.1107.  Which  of  the  following  is  an 
 autobiography  of  the  international  tennis 
 player Andre Agassi ? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Me 
 (b) Becoming 
 (c) Too Many Reasons to Live 
 (d) Open: An Autobiography 
 Sol.1107.(d)  Open:  An  Autobiography 
 Another  book  by  him:  The  Whirl.  He  is  an 
 American tennis player. 
 Q.1108.  In  which  of  the  following 
 languages  is  'Childhood  Days  -  A  Memoir' 
 by Satyajit Ray written? 
 SSC CPO 05/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Telugu  (b) Hindi 
 (c) Bengali  (d) Kannada 
 Sol.1108.(c)  Bengali.  Satyajit  Ray  was  an 
 Indian  Bengali  ?lmmaker.  His  ?rst  ?lm 
 was  Pather  Panchali  (1955),  which  won 
 eleven  international  prizes.  Books:  “  The 
 Incredible  Adventure  of  Professor 
 Shonku”  (Bengali),  “Sonar  Kella” 
 (Bengali),  “Jakhan  Choto  Chilam” 
 (Bangali). 
 Q.1109.  Who  among  the  following  had 
 written  the  novel  Coolie,  that 
 concentrated on social misery caused by 
 inhumanity ? 
 SSC CPO 05/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) RK Narayan  (b) Mulk Raj Anand 
 (c) VS Naipaul  (d) Vijay Tendulkar 
 Sol.1109.(b)  Mulk  Raj  Anand:  His  other 
 works  -  ‘Untouchable’,  ‘Across  the  Black 
 Waters’,  ‘Two  Leaves  and  a  Bud’,  ‘The 
 Village’,  ‘The  Sword  and  the  Sickle’,  ‘The 
 Private  Life  of  an  Indian  Prince’,  ‘The  Big 
 Heart’,  ‘The  Morning  Face’,  ‘Lost  Child 
 And Other Stories’ etc. 
 Q.1110.  Who  among  the  following  had 
 written  ‘The  Dark  Room'  that  presents  an 
 Indian  woman  in  stiff  opposition  to  male 
 domination? 
 SSC CPO 05/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) RK Narayan  (b) Mulk Raj Anand 
 (c) Kazi Nazrul Islam  (d) Kuldip Nayyar 
 Sol.1110.(a)  RK  Narayan.  Authors  and 
 their  books:  RK  Narayan  -  “The  Guide”, 
 “The  Bachelor  of  Arts”,  Swami  and 
 Friends”,  The  Financial  Experts”.  Mulk 
 Raj  Anand  -  “Untouchable”,  “Coolie”,  “The 
 Village”.  Kazi  Nazrul  Islam  -  “Sanchita”, 
 “Bandhan Hara”, “Chakrabak”. 
 Q.1111.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 ‘The  Soul  of  a  Butter?y:  Re?ections  on 
 Life’s Journey’ ? 
 SSC CPO 05/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Muhammad Ali   (b) Jake LaMotta 
 (c) Roberto Duran     (d) Eugene J Bullard 
 Sol.1111.(a)  Muhammad  Ali.  His  Other 
 Book - “The Greatest: My Own Story”. 
 Q.1112.  Who  among  the  following  is  one 
 of  the  co-authors  of  the  book,  'Cracking 
 The Code : My Journey in Bollywood' ? 
 SSC MTS 01/09/2023 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Harshvardhan Kapoor 
 (b) Nawazuddin Siddique 
 (c) Ayushmann Khurrana 
 (d) Rajkumar Rao 
 Sol.1112.(c) Ayushmann Khurrana  . 
 Tahira  Kashyap  books  :  “I  Promise”, 
 “Cracking  the  Code  :  My  journey  in 
 Bollywood”.  Other  Indian  Actors  and  their 
 books  :  Anupam  Kher  -  “Aap  khud  hi  best 
 hai”  ,  Emraan  Hashmi  :  “The  Kiss  of  Life”, 
 Nawajuddin  Siddiqui  -  “An  Ordinary  Life: 
 A  memoir”,  Karan  Johar  -  “An  Unsuitable 
 Boy”, Sonu Sood - “I Am No Messiah”. 
 Q.1113.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘Red  Earth  and 
 Pouring Rain : A Novel’ ? 
 SSC MTS 01/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Vikram Chandra      (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) Ashwin Sanghi        (d) Ruskin Bond 
 Sol.1113.(a) Vikram Chandra. His other 
 books: “  Sacred Games” (novel), “Love 
 and Longing in Bombay”, “The Srinagar 
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 Q.1114  .  Whose  autobiography  is  titled 
 "Born  Again  on  the  Mountain:  a  story  of 
 losing everything and ?nding it back" ? 
 SSC MTS 04/09/2023 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Bachendri Pal       (b) Dicky Dolma 
 (c) Santosh Yadav     (d) Arunima Sinha 
 Sol.1114.(d)  Arunima  Sinha  -  Indian 
 mountaineer  and  sportswoman.  Dickey 
 Dolma  -  The  youngest  woman  in  the 
 world  to  climb  Mt  Everest  in  1993. 
 Bachendri  Pal:  First  Indian  woman  to 
 reach  the  summit  of  Mount  Everest. 
 Autobiography  -  “Everest:  My  Journey  to 
 the  Top”.  Santosh  Yadav  -  First  lady  in  the 
 world to scale Mt. Everest twice. 
 Q.1115.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  'Sita:  An  Illustrated 
 Retelling of the Ramayana’ ? 
 SSC MTS 04/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Ravinder Singh   (b) Devdutt Pattanaik 
 (c) Amish Tripathi   (d) Durjoy Datta 
 Sol.1115.(b)  Devdutt  Pattanaik.  His 
 Other  Famous  Books:  “Shikhandi:  And 
 Other  Tales  They  Don't  Tell  You”,  “7 
 Secrets  of  the  Goddess”,  “Shiva  to 
 Shankara”,  “Faith:  40  Insights  into 
 Hinduism”.  Famous  Books  by  other 
 Authors  :  Ravinder  Singh  -  “I  Too  Had  a 
 Love  Story”,  “Can  love  happen  twice?”. 
 Amish  Tripathi  -  “The  Immortals  of 
 Meluha”,  “The  Secret  of  the  Nagas”. 
 Durjoy  Datta  -  “Of  Course  I  Love  You”, 
 “The Perfect Us”. 
 Q.1116.  Which  African  leader  wrote  the 
 autobiography ‘Long Walk to Freedom' ? 
 SSC MTS 04/09/2023 (3rd Shift) 
 (a) Robert Mugabe 
 (b) Nelson Mandela 
 (c) Muammar Gadda? 
 (d) Desmond Tutu 
 Sol.1116.(b)  Nelson  Mandela  (South 
 Africa's  ?rst  democratically  elected 
 President  in  1994).  Other  political  leaders 
 and  their  books:  A.P .J.  Abdul  Kalam  - 
 “Wings  of  Fire”,  “Ignited  Minds”  and 
 “Turning  Points”,  Abraham  Lincoln  -  “Of 
 the  People,  By  the  People,  For  the 
 People” and “Last Public Address”. 
 Q.1117.  Which  of  the  following  is  an 
 autobiography  of  the  famous  cricketer 
 Sourav Ganguly? 
 SSC MTS 04/09/2023 (3rd Shift) 
 (a) A Shot at History 
 (b) The Dream of Revolution 
 (c) A Century is not enough 
 (d) Memories of My Life and Times 
 Sol.1117.(c) A Century is not enough. 
 Cricketers  and  their  Autobiographies  : 
 Sachin  Tendulkar  -  “Playing  It  My  Way”, 
 “Chase  Your  Dreams:  My  Autobiography”; 
 Yuvraj  Singh  -  “The  Test  of  My  Life”;  V.  V. 
 S.  Laxman  -  “281  and  Beyond”.  “A  Shot 
 at  History”  -  Autobiography  of  Abhinav 
 Bindra.  “Memories  Of  My  Life  And 
 Times” - Biography of Bipin Chandra Pal. 
 Q.1118.  Autobiography  of  a  Yogi  is  the 
 autobiography of ____________. 
 SSC MTS 05/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) paramhansa Yogananda 
 (c) Ramakrishna Paramhansa 
 (d) Swami Vivekananda 
 Sol.1118.(b)  Paramahansa  Yogananda. 
 He  was  an  Indian  monk,  yogi  and  guru. 
 He  gave  the  teachings  of  meditation  and 
 kriya  through  the  organization  of  Self 
 -Realisation  Fellowship  (SRF)  /  Yogoda 
 Satsanga  Society  (YSS)  of  India.  He  is 
 considered  as  the  father  of  “Yoga  in  the 
 West”.  His  other  books:  “Man’s  Eternal 
 Quest”,  “Metaphysical  Meditations”, 
 “Scienti?c  Healing  A?rmations”, 
 “Journey  to  Self  Realization”,  “Inner 
 Peace: How to be Calmly Active”. 
 Q.1119.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book,  ‘Un?nished;  A 
 Memoir’ ? 
 SSC MTS 05/09/2023 (3rd Shift) 
 (a) Alia Bhatt 
 (b) Priyanka Chopra 
 (c) Deepika Padukone 
 (d) Kareena Kapoor 
 Sol.1119.(b)  Priyanka  Chopra  :  Indian 
 actress  and  producer.  She  was  awarded 
 Padma  Shri  in  2016.  She  won  Miss  World 
 pageant in the year 2000. 
 Q.1120.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book 'Selection Day' ? 
 SSC MTS 06/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Vikram Seth  (b) Aravind Adiga 
 (c) Chetan Bhagat  (d) Amish Tripathi 
 Sol.1120.(b)  Aravind  Adiga.  Other  Books 
 by  Him:-  “The  White  Tiger”,  “Last  Man  in 
 Tower”,  “Between  the  Assassinations”, 
 “Amnesty”.  Vikram  Seth  -  “  A  Suitable 
 Boy”,  “The  Golden  Gate”,  “The  Frog  and 
 the  Nightingale”,  “An  Equal  Music:  A 
 Novel”.  Amish  Tripathi  -  “The  Immortals 
 of  Meluha”,  “Scion  of  Ikshvaku”,  “The 
 Secret of the Nagas”, “The Oath of the 
 Vayuputras”. 
 Q.1121.  Which  of  the  following  novels  is 
 correctly paired with its author? 
 SSC MTS 06/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) The Shadow Lines - RK Narayan 
 (b) Malgudi Days - Vikram Seth 
 (c) The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri 
 (d) Train to Pakistan - Amitav Ghosh 
 Sol.1121.(c)  The  Namesake  -  Jhumpa 
 Lahiri.  Other  books  by  her:  “Interpreter  of 
 Maladies”,  “Whereabouts”,  “The 
 Lowland”,  “Unaccustomed  Earth”  and 
 “Hell-Heaven”.  Books  and  Their  Authors  : 
 “The  Shadow  Lines”  -  Amitav  Ghosh, 
 “Malgudi  Days”  -  R.  K.  Narayan,  “Train  to 
 Pakistan” - Khushwant Singh. 
 Q.1122.  ‘  The  Fall  of  a  Sparrow'  is  an 
 autobiography of ____________. 
 SSC MTS 06/09/2023 (3rd Shift) 
 (a) Salim Ali  (b) Raj Kapoor 
 (c) Kapil Dev  (d) Atal Bihari Vajpayee 
 Sol.1122.(a)  Salim  Ali  (Birdman  of  India). 
 Other  books  by  him  -  “The  books  of 
 Indian  birds”,  “Indian  hill  birds”,  “A 
 pictorial  guide  to  the  birds  of  the  Indian 
 subcontinent”.  Atal  Bihari  Vajpayee  - 
 “Dynamics  of  an  open  society”,  “Twenty 
 one poems”. 
 Q.1123.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book 'The Zoya factor' ? 
 SSC MTS 08/09/2023 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Kiran Desai  (b) Sudha Murty 
 (c) Anuja Chauhan   (d) Nandini Bajpai 
 Sol.1123.(c)  Anuja  Chauhan:  Books  - 
 ‘’Those  Pricey  Thakur  Girls’’,  ‘’Battle  for 
 Bittora’’,  ‘’The  House  That  BJ  Built’’, 
 ‘’Bazz’’.  Books  by  Kiran  Desai:  ‘’The 
 Inheritance  of  Loss’’,  ‘’Hullabaloo  in  the 
 Guava  Orchard’’.  Books  by  Sudha  Murthy: 
 ‘’Grandma's  Bag  Of  Stories’’,  ‘’The  Magic 
 Drum  and  Other  Favourite  Stories’’,  ‘’Wise 
 and  Otherwise’’.  Books  by  Nandini  Bajpai: 
 ‘’Red  Turban  White  Horse’’,  ‘’A  Match 
 Made  in  Mehendi’’,  ‘’Rishi  and  the  Karmic 
 Cat’’. 
 Q.1124.  Whose  autobiography  is  titled 
 ‘Ace against Odds’ ? 
 SSC MTS 08/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Sania Mirza  (b) Saina Nehwal 
 (c) Mirabai Chanu       (d) Mary Kom 
 Sol.1124.(a)  Sania  Mirza.  Famous 
 personalities  and  their  autobiographies  : 
 Saina  Nehwal  -  “Playing  to  Win”,  Mary 
 Kom  -  “Unbreakable”,  Milkha  Singh  -  “The 
 Race  of  My  Life”,  Sachin  Tendulkar  - 
 “Playing  It  My  Way”,  Yuvraj  Singh  -  “The 
 Test  of  My  Life”.  PT  Usha  -  “Golden  Girl”, 
 Dhyan Chand - “Goal”. 
 Q.1125.  Identify  the  correct  pair  of 
 novels and its writer from the following. 
 SSC MTS 11/09/2023 (1st Shift) 
 (a)  Seven Summers - Mulk Raj Anand 
 (b) The White Tiger - Kiran Desai 
 (c) A Suitable Boy- Amitav Ghosh 
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