Practice Test: General Awareness - 2 - SSC CGL MCQ

To promote action on recycling, recycling associations across the globe are observing the first Global Recycling Day on 18th March. By 2025, India's waste management sector is expected to be worth US$13.62 billion with an annual growth rate of 7.17 percent. Polyethylene Terephthalate is a food grade plastic which is used for food and pharma packaging has the highest rate of recycling.

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format.

1.90Early Chola Kings -Sangam Period.
2.The Chola Kingdom was called as Cholamandalam between Pennar and Vella River.
3.Capital: Uraiyaur
4.Greatest King: Karikala
5.Due to the Sangam Period, they were called greatest of Early Chola Kings.
6. He founded the port city of Puhar 
Note: Chola Empire => Rajaraja and Rajendra I and this is not considered as Early Chola Empire,it comes in Medevial Period so it is later Chola Empire.

Karl Landsteiner found out that the blood of two people under contact agglutinates, and in 1901 he found that this effect was due to contact of blood with blood serum. As a result, he succeeded in identifying the three blood groups A, B and O, which he labelled C, of human blood.
Karl Koller was an Austrian ophthalmologist, Koller introduced cocaine as a local anaesthetic for eye surgery.
Maurice Ralph Hilleman was an American microbiologist who specialised in vaccinology and developed over 40 vaccines, which consists of measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and Haemophilus influenza bacteria. 
Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine.

West Bengal, which has a total mangrove cover of 2097 sq. km., accounts for 44.5 per cent, the highest in the country. It is followed by Gujarat

The distance from Earth to the sun is called an astronomical unit, or AU, which is used to measure distances throughout the solar system.It is equal to 149.6 million kilometres, the mean distance from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun.

Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase, without passing through the intermediate liquid phase.

Charon, also known as Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto. It was discovered in 1978 at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., using photographic plates taken at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station.

Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis. In countries where tuberculosis is common, one dose is recommended

Marie Curie became the first woman to be awarded the nobel prize and the first person to obtain two nobel prizes when she won the prize for the discovery of Polonium and Radium in 1911. Though it was Henri Becquerel that discovered radioactivity, it was Marie Curie who coined the term

The sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) is a species of hummingbird from South. It is noted as the only species of bird to have a bill longer than the rest of its body.

Izalco is a stratovolcano located in western El Salvador. It is situated on the southern flank of the Santa Ana volcano. Izalco erupted almost continuously from 1770 (when it formed) to 1958 earning it the nickname of "Lighthouse of the Pacific”.

Mt. Stromboli is known as the Light House of Mediterranean Sea.

Badshah Khan was the initial name of Abdul Gaffar Khan. He was also called the ‘Frontier Gandhi’.

Red soil is formed as a result of weathering of metamorphic and igneous rocks. The red color of the soil comes from the high percentage of iron content.

1.Muriatic Acid is the best acid for cleaning toilets.
2. Muriatic Acid is a strong, corrosive, inorganic acid (HCl), manufactured by dissolving hydrogen chloride in water.

Tropic of cancer passes through Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhaya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.

Hirakud dam is the longest dam with the length of 25.8  kilometres.Length of the other dams are as follows
Bhakra Nangal Dam - 520 metres
Ranjeet Sagar Dam - 617 metres
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam- 1550metres

A silverfish is a small, wingless insect in the order Thysanura. Its common name derives from the animal's silvery light grey and blue color, combined with the fish-like appearance.

The portion of the small intestine called the duodenum is the chief area where iron absorption takes place.

Hydrogen sulphide is the chemical compound with the formula H₂S. It is a colourless gas with the characteristic foul odour of rotten eggs; it is heavier than air, very poisonous and inflammable.

Ohm is the unit of resistance. Named after German physicist Georg Simon Ohm. Volt is the unit for electric potential. Ampere is the unit for electric current and Joules is the unit for energy.

Mass is a property of a physical body. It is generally the amount of matter of an object. Since it only has magnitude and no direction, it is a scalar quantity.

MaulanaAbulKalam Azad (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian scholar and the senior Muslim leader of the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement. Following India's independence, he became the first Minister of Education in the Indian government.

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers. When the minimum wage forces employers to pay higher wages, they tend to substitute highly skilled and productive workers for lower-skill workers, destroying job opportunities for lower-skilled workers. Researches have proven this fact that higher minimum wages lead businesses to hire skilled workers at the expense of unskilled workers as when the wages to be paid are higher the least skilled and least productive workers are left out of the job market.

Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) launched the first indigenously-built Talwar class frigate, ‘Triput.’ Part of a 2016 India-Russia deal, Triput is among four Admiral Grigorovich class frigates, with two built in India via technology transfer. The Indian Navy already operates six of this class. INS Triput, 124m long and 15.5m wide, is powered by four gas turbines, reaching speeds of 28 knots with a 3200-ton displacement. It features stealth-enhancing hull design, advanced weapons and sensors, an Integrated Platform and Bridge Management System, and a robust air defense system with vertical launch long-range surface-to-air missiles.