General Awareness Questions for SSC & Railway Exam 2018: 18th September

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Q1. Carica papaya is the scientiﬁc name of ___________. कारिका पपाया -------------- का वैज्ञानिक नाम है.

Peepal/ पीपल

Papaya/ पपीता

Tamarind/ इमली

Drumstick/ ड्रमस्टिक

Solution:

The papaya, papaw, or pawpaw is the plant Carica papaya, one of the 22 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae.

Q2. The Chemical formula of Ammonium nitrate is ___________. अमोनियम नाइट्रेट का रासायनिक सूत्र -------- है.

(NH₂)₂NO₃

NH₄NO₃

NH₄(NO₃)₂

NH₂NO₃

Solution:

Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound, the nitrate salt of the ammonium cation. It has the chemical formula NH4NO3.

Q3. Choose odd one out विषम विकल्प चुनिए

Cyberspace/ साइबरस्पेस

Internet/ इन्टरनेट

HTML/ एचटीएमएल

WWW/ डब्लू डब्लू डब्लू

Solution:

Hypertext Markup Language is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.

Q4. Aurangzeb, the Mughal Emperor died in? मुग़ल सम्राट ओरंगजेब की मृत्यु कब हुई?

1507

1607

1707

1807

Solution:

Aurangzeb (4 November 1618 – 3 March 1707) was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire.

Q5. Who Invented Induction Coil? इंडक्शन कोइल का आविष्कार किसने किया?

Edwin Howard Armstrong/ एडविन हॉवर्ड आर्मस्ट्रांग

John Barber/ जॉन बार्बर

Edwin Beard Budding/ एडविन बीयर्ड बडिंग

Nicholas Callan/ निकोलस कैलन

Solution:

Father Nicholas Joseph Callan was an Irish priest and scientist from Darver, County Louth, Ireland. He was Professor of Natural Philosophy in Maynooth College in County Kildare from 1834, and is best known for his work on the induction coil.

Q6. What is the unit of the physical quantity "Inductance"? भौतिक मात्रा “प्रेरकत्व” का एसआई मात्रक क्या है?

weber/ वेबर

farad/ फैराड

henry/ हेनरी

tesla/ टेस्ला

Solution:

The henry (symbolized H) is the Standard International ( SI ) unit of inductance . Reduced to base SI units, one henry is the equivalent of one kilogram meter squared per second squared per ampere squared.

Q7. Who was the ﬁrst temporary chairman of the Constituent Assembly? संविधान सभा के पहले अस्थायी अध्यक्ष कौन थे?

B R Ambedkar/ बी. आर. अम्बेडकर

Jawahar Lal Nehru/ जवाहर लाल नेहरू

Rajendra Prasad/ राजेंद्र प्रसाद

Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha/ डॉ. सच्चिदानंद सिन्हा

Solution:

Dr. Sachidanand Sinha was the first president of the Constituent Assembly. Later, Dr.Rajendra Prasad was elected president of the Constituent Assembly while B.R. Ambedkar was appointed the Chairman of the Drafting Committee.

Q8. Who won the ﬁrst T-20 Cricket World Cup? पहला T-20 क्रिकेट विश्व कप किसने जीता था?

West Indies/ वेस्ट इन्डीज

India/ भारत

Australia/ ऑस्ट्रेलिया

New Zealand/ न्यूज़ीलैंड

Solution:

The inaugral T20 WC was hosted in South Africa in 2007 and it was Team INDIA who won the FIRST T20 WORLD CUP by defeating Pakistan in the final.

Q9. Betla National Park is situated in which of the following Indian state? बेतला राष्ट्रीय उद्यान निम्नलिखित में से किस राज्य में स्थित है?

Madhya Pradesh/ मध्य प्रदेश

Assam/ असम

Gujarat/ गुजरात

Jharkhand/ झारखंड

Solution:

Betla National Park is a national park located in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of the Palamu district of the Indian state of Jharkhand, in India.

Q10. Rihand dam is in which of the following state? रिहंद बाँध निम्न में से किस राज्य में है?

Karnataka/ कर्नाटक

West Bengal/ पश्चिम बंगाल

Uttar Pradesh/ उत्तर प्रदेश

Maharashtra/ महाराष्ट्र

Solution:

Rihand Dam is a concrete gravity dam located at Pipri in Sonbhadra District in Uttar Pradesh, India. Its reservoir area is on the border of Madhya pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This reservoir is known as Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar. It is on the Rihand River which is the tributary of the Son River.

Q11. Who is the governor of Uttarakhand? उत्तराखंड का राज्यपाल कौन है?

E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan (Add. Charge)/ ई.एस. लक्ष्मी नरसिम्हन (अतिरिक्त प्रभार)

Baby Rani Maurya/ बेबी रानी मौर्य

Ram Naik/ राम नायक

Krishan Kant Paul/ कृष्ण कांत पॉल

Solution:

Uttarakhand Governor Smt Baby Rani Maurya has had a long and rich experience in administration and politics as well as in public life.

Q12. Capital of Botswana is? बोत्सवाना की राजधानी है?

Tehran/ तेहरान

Niamey/ नियामे

Bujumbura/ बुजंबुरा

Gaborone/ गैबोरोन

Solution:

Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa, has a landscape defined by the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango Delta, which becomes a lush animal habitat during the seasonal floods. Gaborone is the capital and largest city of Botswana. Gaborone is situated between Kgale and Oodi Hills, on the Notwane River in the south-eastern corner of Botswana, and 15 kilometres from the South African border.

Q13. World Environment Day is observed on which of the following date? विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस किस दिन मनाया जाता है?

June 10/ 10 जून

June 22/ 22 जून

June 18/ 18 जून

June 5/ 5 जून

Solution:

World Environment Day (WED) is observed every year on 5 June to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Q14. In which form of government priests rule in the name of God? किस प्रकार की सरकार में पादरी भगवान के नाम पर शासन करते हैं?

Fascism/ फासीवाद

Monarchy/ राजशाही

Theocracy/ धर्मतंत्र

Oligarchy/ कुलीन तंत्र

Solution:

Theocracy is a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities. a system of government by priests claiming a divine commission.

Q15. Who is the author of "Chokher Bali"? “चोखेर बाली” के लेखक कौन हैं?

Rabindranath Tagore/ रवींद्रनाथ टैगोर

Jhumpa Lahiri/ झुम्पा लाहिरी

Amish Tripathi/ अमिश त्रिपाठी

Chetan Bhagat/ चेतन भगत

Solution:

Chokher Bali is a 1903 Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that depicts the life of the central character, Binodini, and her relationships with three individuals.

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