General Awareness Quiz For SSC and CHSL

01. The cyclone that brought devastation in Bangladesh was named as 

(1) Shary    

(2) Sidr 

(3) Wendy   

(4) Erin 

02. Which is the longest mountain chain on Earth? 

(1) Andes mountains  

(2) Mid-Atlantic ridge 

(3) Western Cordillera  

(4) Himalayan range 

03. Which one of the following countries has no mineral deposits? 

(1) Switzerland   

(2) Austria 

(3) Norway   

(4) Sri Lanka 

04. Translocation of water is 

(1) Apoplastic   

(2) Symplastic 

(3) Both (1) and (2)  

(4) None of the above 

05. Bacteriophage was discovered by 

(1) Felix d'Herelle and Frederick Twort 

(2) Kluyver and Niel  

(3) Paul Ehrlich 

(4) Burrill and Smith

06. Genes are not found in pairs 

(1) in body cells   

(2) in ovary after fertilization 

(3) in gametes   

(4) in zygotes 

07. The histogen, from which epidermis is formed, is 

(1) Dermatogen   

(2) Periblem 

(3) Plerome   

(4) Calyptrogen 

08. Blood groups were discovered by 

(1) Landsteiner   

(2) William Harvey 

(3) Weismann   

(4) Morgan 

09. The work done by the string of a simple pendulum during one complete oscillation is equal to 

(1) Total energy of the pendulum 

(2) Kinetic energy of the pendulum 

(3) Potential energy of the pendulum 

(4) Zero 

10. The minimum number of forces to keep a particle in equilibrium is 

(1) 1    

(2) 2 

(3) 3   

(4) 4 

Answers ..
01. 2
02. 1
03. 1
04. 3
05. 1
06. 3
07. 1
08. 1
09. 4
10. 2