5. SSC CGL 2023 

Exam Date 14/07/2023 

Exam Time 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM 

General Awareness

Q.1 Who among the following was the first person to discuss poverty line in pre independent India? 

1. Dr. BR Ambedkar 

2. Dadabhai Naoroji 

3. Mahalanobis 

4. RK Shanmukham Chetty 

Q.2 Which of the following dances is performed by the Santhal tribe of Jharkhand? 

1. Koli 

2. Jhika Dasain 

3. Kolkali 

4. Ghumar 

Q.3 Shri Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar was in news for being conferred with Arjuna Award 2022 for his outstanding contribution in which of the following sports? 

1. Chess 

2. Kabbadi 

3. Mallakhamb 

4. Judo 

Q.4 Which of the following Acts was introduced to regulate Foreign Exchange in India in 1973? 

1. SARFESI 

2. FEMA 

3. FRBM 

4. FERA 

Q.5 On International Women’s Day 2022, the Ministry of MSME launched an entrepreneurship drive for women by which of the following names? 

1. SWADHAR 

2. SAMARTH 

3. UJJAWALA 

4. NIRBHAYA 

Q.6 What are the main energy sources for earth’s internal heat engine? 

1. Heat from volcanoes and solar heat 

2. Radiogenic heat and oceanic tide heat 

3. Radiogenic heat and primordial heat 

4. Solar heat and oceanic tide heat

Q.7 How many nominated members are there in the Legislative Assembly of Telangana? 

1. Two 

2. Four 

3. Three 

4. One 

Q.8 Thomas Cup is a/an______. 

1. annual event 

2. biennial event 

3. quarterly event 

4. triennial event 

Q.9 Identify the group of states that are covered in the Sardar Sarovar Project. 

1. Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan 

2. Gujarat, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Telangana 

3. Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan 

4. Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand 

Q.10 'Penalty Corner' is related to which of the following sports? 

1. Tennis 

2. Badminton 

3. Hockey 

4. Chess

Q.11 _________ became the first swimmer from India to breach the Olympic Qualification Time (A cut) in swimming as he capped the qualification period with an outstanding performance in the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy in June 2021. 

1. Srihari Nataraj 

2. Sajan Prakash 

3. Anand Anilkumar Shylaja 

4. Virdhawal Khade 

Q.12 Select the correct statement about the achievements of Sruti Bandopadhay, an eminent Manipuri dancer. 

1. She received Kalidas Samman for the year 2020. 

2. She received Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for the year 2020. 

3. She received Padma Shri for the year 2020. 

4. She received Padma Vibhushan for the year 2020. 

Q.13 Which is the only living representative of Sphenopsida that has an underground, creeping and perennial rhizome that gives off aerial as well as underground branches? 

1. Equisetum 

2. Dryopteris 

3. Adiantum 

4. Selaginella 

Q.14 Which of the following cell organelles is made up of ribosomal RNA and protein? 

1. Lysosome 

2. Nucleus 

3. Ribosome 

4. Golgi body 

Q.15 Match the columns. 

States Hills 

1. Kerala a. Anaimalai Hills 

2. Meghalaya b. Garo Hills 

3. Mizoram c. Lushai Hills 

1. 1-b, 2-c, 3-a 

2. 1-a, 2-b, 3-c 

3. 1-c, 2-b, 3-a 

4. 1-b, 2-a, 3-c 

Q.16 Who among the following is the author of the book ‘The Buddha and his Dhamma’, which appeared in 1957 after the death of its author? 

1. Motilal Nehru 

2. Mahatma Gandhi 

3. Subhas Chandra Bose 

4. BR Ambedkar 

Q.17 Which German chemist and physicist proposed that an aromatic compound must have an odd number of pairs of electrons, Which can mathematically be written as 4n+2 (n = 0,1,2,3, etc.) in 1931? 

1. Friedrich Kekule 

2. Rosalind Franklin 

3. Antoine Lavoisier 

4. Erich Huckel 

Q.18 Trichloromethane is better known as: 

1. butanes 

2. chloroform 

3. LPG 

4. laughing gas 

Q.19 Which Constitutional Amendment added Fundamental Duties in the Constitution? 

1. Forty-Second Amendment Act, 1976 

2. Forty-Fourth Amendment Act 1978 

3. Fifty-Second Amendment, 1985 

4. Forty-Seventh Amendment, 1984 

Q.20 Which of the given personalities is NOT associated with Carnatic Music? 

1. Kalyani Varadarajan 

2. Subramania Bharathiyar 

3. MS Subbulakshmi 

4. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande 

Q.21 Who is the regulator of Micro Finance Institutions in India? 

1. RBI 

2. SBI 

3. NABARD 

4. SEBI 

Q.22 Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadeva Raya founded a suburban township near Vijayanagara called Nagalapuram after his ________. 

1. sister 

2. teacher 

3. mother 

4. Father 

Q.23 Nag Panchami is celebrated in which month of Hindu Calendar? 

1. Shravan 

2. Sharad 

3. Asadh 

4. Kartik 

Q.24 Under whom was CP Ilbert a law member of the council? 

1. Lord Curzon 

2. Lord Cornwallis 

3. Lord Lytton 

4. Lord Ripon 

Q.25 Which Chinese traveller visited India during the reign of Harshavardhana? 

1. Faxian 

2. Hsuan Tsang 

3. Ibn Battuta 

4. Etsing