35. SSC CGL 2023 

Exam Date 26/07/2023 

Exam Time 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Section : General Awareness 

Q.1 In January 2023, the legislative bill providing ________ reservation to women in state government jobs has been approved by Uttarakhand Governor, Lt Gen (Retd.) Gurmit Singh. 

1. 30% 

2. 35% 

3. 25% 

4. 20% 

Q.2 Magadha Mahajanapada was surrounded by the rivers _______. 

1. Ganga and Son 

2. Ganga and Yamuna 

3. Ganga and Jhelum 

4. Ganga and Ghaghara

Q.3 Indian musician Ravi Shankar won his first Grammy Award in 1968 for best chamber music performance for which of the following works done by him? 

1. The Sounds of India 

2. Full Circle – Carnegie Hall 

3. West Meets East 

4. The Concert for Bangladesh 

Q.4 Identify an organism that exhibits metagenesis. 

1. Spongilla 

2. Euspongia 

3. Sycon 

4. Obelia 

Q.5 The outermost cover of plant cells is/are known as ______. 

1. Cell wall 

2. Golgi apparatus 

3. Cell membrane 

4. Lysosomes 

Q.6 Census in India was first started under ________ in the year 1872. 

1. Lord Mayo 

2. Lord Cornwallis 

3. Lord Canning 

4. Lord Lawrence

Q.7 Which Article of the Indian Constitution empowers the Parliament to establish additional courts for better administration of laws made by it? 

1. Article 253 

2. Article 247 

3. Article 248 

4. Article 246 

Q.8 Butan-2-ol is a: 

1. secondary alcohol 

2. ketone 

3. tertiary alcohol 

4. primary alcohol 

Q.9 Under which Constitutional Amendment, the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children from the age of six to fourteen years?. 

1. 62nd 

2. 42nd 

3. 86th 

4. 73rd 

Q.10 Guruvayur Ekadashi is the cultural festival of which Indian state? 

1. Tamil Nadu 

2. Karnataka 

3. Andhra Pradesh 

4. Kerala 

Q.11 He was a Delhi Sultan who started the practice of Sijada and Paibos in the court. Who was he? 

1. Iltutmish 

2. Ibrahim Lodhi 

3. Firoz Shah Tughlaq 

4. Ghiyasuddin Balban 

Q.12 Which of the following rivers does NOT flow in Kerala State? 

1. Penner 

2. Bharathapuzha 

3. Pamba 

4. Periyar 

Q.13 Who wrote ‘Gift to Monotheists’ in Persian to denounce the belief in many Gods? 

1. Swami Dayanand 

2. Swami Vivekanand 

3. Swami Shraddhanand 

4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy 

Q.14 Which of the following countries won the highest number of golds in Paralympic- 2020? 

1. Great Britain 

2. China 

3. The US 

4. Australia 

Q.15 Who along with Arthur Compton received the Nobel Prize in 1927 for the development of the cloud chamber for the detection of charged particles? 

1. Charles Wilson 

2. Ernest Lawrence 

3. Harold Urey 

4. Frederick Soddy 

Q.16 Primarily under whose persuasion did Mahatma Gandhi visit Champaran to understand the problems of peasants? 

1. Rajkumar Shukla 

2. Jaiprakash Narayan 

3. Vallabhbhai Patel 

4. Maulana Mazharul Haque 

Q.17 The number of flights in a 110 m hurdle race is _______. 

1. 11 

2. 10 

3. 9 

4. 8 

Q.18 Small scale units are differentiated from large scale units on the basis of: 

1. the size of unit area 

2. the amount of investment 

3. the volume of output 

4. the volume of sales 

Q.19 Which of the following is an example of revenue receipt of the government? 

1. Borrowings from public 

2. GST collected by the government 

3. Recovery of lo 

4. Receipts from sale of shares of public sector companies 

Q.20 Who among the following became the first fast bowler to take up captaincy of the Australian men’s Test side full-time in November 2021? 

1. Pat Cummins 

2. Nathan Lyon 

3. Steve Smith 

4. Tim Paine 

Q.21 Where did IISCO (Indian Iron and Steel Company) set up its first factory? 

1. Bhilai 

2. Roorkie 

3. Hirapur 

4. Jamshedpur 

Q.22 The Western cyclonic disturbance originates over ______. 

1. Arabian Sea 

2. Pacific Ocean 

3. Bay of Bengal 

4. The Mediterranean 

Q.23 Celebrated every year, the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award festival is named after the famous classical dancer of which of the following dance forms? 

1. Odissi 

2. Kuchipudi 

3. Kathak 

4. Mohiniyattam 

Q.24 Lai Haraoba is the earliest form of which of the following classical dances of India? 

1. Kathakali 

2. Manipuri 

3. Sattriya 

4. Mohiniyattam 

Q.25 Which State Assembly passed a resolution to create a Legislative Council in 2021? 

1. Maharashtra 

2. Uttar Pradesh 

3. West Bengal 

4. Andhra Pradesh