General Awareness Questions for SSC CGL, CHSL, SO, MTS exams
- Which Veda provides information about the Early Vedic Age?
- What are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism?
- What was the social System of Harappans?
- Which area of India was known as Avantika in ancient times?
- What are the four great powers indicated in Buddhist literature?
- Ujjain is an ancient city of Malwa region in Central India, on the eastern side of which river?
- Where was the home of Gargi, Maitrey & Kapila?
- What is any of the various Hindu calendars called?
- Who was the first Tirthankara of the Jains?
- Which dynasty was established by the first Tirthankara?
Answers
- Rigveda
- Vedas
- Fairly egalitarian
- Malwa
- Ujjaini, Vatsa, Kosala, Maghada
- Kshipra river
- Mithila
- Samvat
- Rishaba
- Ikshavaku dynasty
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General Awareness for SSC CGL and SSC CHSL Exams
- In which sites the evidence of cultivation of rice was found?
- Who were the first to produce cotton in the world?
- From where did the Indus people imported Sapphire?
- From where did the Indus people imported Jade?
- Which metal was not known to Indus people?
- What are the Indus sites found in Afghanistan?
- Who is the chief male deity of Indus people?
- What is the type of writing of Indus people, as found from the post herds from Kalibanga?
- What is mainly used in the manufacture of seal?
- Who said these words - 'Indra is accused of causing the decline of Indus Civilization'?
Answers
- Lothal and Rangpur
- Indus people
- Badak-Shan, Afghanistant
- Central Asia
- Iron
- Shatughai and Mundigaq
- Pasupati Mahadeva
- Boustrophedon
- Steatite
- M. Wheeler
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General Awareness Questions
- What is the first site discovered?
- Who is the first scholar to use the term Indus civilization?
- To which age does Indus civilization belongs?
- What are the port cities of Indus Valley?
- On which river was the site Mohenjodaro found?
- Who excavated the Lothal site?
- Which site is a city without a citadel?
- Which is the largest site of the Indus civilization?
- Which is the largest Indian site of the Indus civilization?
- Which is the only Indian site where the remains of the horse has been found?
Answers
- Harappa
- John Marshall
- Chalcolithic age
- Lothal, Sutkagendor, Allahindo, Balakot, Kuntasi
- River Indus
- S R Rao
- Chanhudaro
- Mohenjodaro
- Dholavira
- Surkotada
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General Awareness Questions
- Who was the Chairman’ of the Union Constitution Committee of the Constituent Assembly?
- Which Philosophy holds that the world is created and maintained by Universal Law?
- When had India a plan holiday?
- Which element that does not occur in nature but can be produced artificially?
- Krishnadeva Raya wrote a famous work, namely Amuktamalyada, in which language?
- What type of Party system has been evolved in India?
- Alberuni lived during the period of which king?
- Where is the greatest average annual precipitation?
- Which ore contains both calcium and magnesium?
- Which industry in India was worst affected because of the partition?
- How is Gully produced?
- To which age the Painted Grey Ware (PGW) belongs?
- What will be the shortest day in Australia?
- With reference to Indian defence what is, the ‘Lakshya’?
- What is a mixture of potassium nitrate, powdered charcoal and sulphur called?
Answers
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Jain philosophy
- After the drought of 1966
- Plutonium
- Telugu
- Multi-Party
- Mahmud Ghaznavi
- In Philippines
- Dolomite
- Jute and Cotton
- By Rain water action
- The Vedic age
- June 21
- Pilot-less training aircraft
- Gun powder
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