General Awareness for SSC exams Set 4

General Awareness Questions for SSC CGL, CHSL, SO, MTS exams

1. Which Veda provides information about the Early Vedic Age?
2. What are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism?
3. What was the social System of Harappans?
4. Which area of India was known as Avantika in ancient times?
5. What are the four great powers indicated in Buddhist literature?
6. Ujjain is an ancient city of Malwa region in Central India, on the eastern side of which river?
7. Where was the home of Gargi, Maitrey & Kapila?
   
8. What is any of the various Hindu calendars called?
9. Who was the first Tirthankara of the Jains?
10. Which dynasty was established by the first Tirthankara?

Answers

1. Rigveda
2. Vedas
3. Fairly egalitarian
4. Malwa
5. Ujjaini, Vatsa, Kosala, Maghada
6. Kshipra river
7. Mithila
8. Samvat
9. Rishaba
10. Ikshavaku dynasty

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General Awareness for SSC exams Set 3

General Awareness for SSC CGL and SSC CHSL Exams

1. In which sites the evidence of cultivation of rice was found?
2. Who were the first to produce cotton in the world?
3. From where did the Indus people imported Sapphire?
4. From where did the Indus people imported Jade?
5. Which metal was not known to Indus people?
6. What are the Indus sites found in Afghanistan?
7. Who is the chief male deity of Indus people?
   
8. What is the type of writing of Indus people, as found from the post herds from Kalibanga?
9. What is mainly used in the manufacture of seal?
10. Who said these words - 'Indra is accused of causing the decline of Indus Civilization'?

Answers

1. Lothal and Rangpur
2. Indus people
3. Badak-Shan, Afghanistant
4. Central Asia
5. Iron
6. Shatughai and Mundigaq
7. Pasupati Mahadeva
8. Boustrophedon
9. Steatite
10. M. Wheeler

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General Awareness for SSC exams Set 2

General Awareness Questions

1. What is the first site discovered?
2. Who is the first scholar to use the term Indus civilization?
3. To which age does Indus civilization belongs?
4. What are the port cities of Indus Valley?
5. On which river was the site Mohenjodaro found?
6. Who excavated the Lothal site?
7. Which site is a city without a citadel?
   
8. Which is the largest site of the Indus civilization?
9. Which is the largest Indian site of the Indus civilization?
10. Which is the only Indian site where the remains of the horse has been found?

Answers

1. Harappa
2. John Marshall
3. Chalcolithic age
4. Lothal, Sutkagendor, Allahindo, Balakot, Kuntasi
5. River Indus
6. S R Rao
7. Chanhudaro
8. Mohenjodaro
9. Dholavira
10. Surkotada

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General Awareness for SSC exams Set 1

General Awareness Questions

1. Who was the Chairman’ of the Union Constitution Committee of the Constituent Assembly?
2. Which Philosophy holds that the world is created and maintained by Universal Law?
3. When had India a plan holiday?
4. Which element that does not occur in nature but can be produced artificially?
5. Krishnadeva Raya wrote a famous work, namely Amuktamalyada, in which language?
6. What type of Party system has been evolved in India?
7. Alberuni lived during the period of which king?
8. Where is the greatest average annual precipitation?
9. Which ore contains both calcium and magnesium?
10. Which industry in India was worst affected because of the partition?
11. How is Gully produced?
12. To which age the Painted Grey Ware (PGW) belongs?
13. What will be the shortest day in Australia?
14. With reference to Indian defence what is, the ‘Lakshya’?
15. What is a mixture of potassium nitrate, powdered charcoal and sulphur called?

Answers

1. Jawaharlal Nehru
   
2. Jain philosophy
3. After the drought of 1966
4. Plutonium
5. Telugu
6. Multi-Party
7. Mahmud Ghaznavi
8. In Philippines
9. Dolomite
10. Jute and Cotton
11. By Rain water action
12. The Vedic age
13. June 21
14. Pilot-less training aircraft
15. Gun powder

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