SSC CHSL Previous Year Gk Questions

1. Who wrote the autobiography entitled ‘I am No Messiah’?

‘आई एम नो मसीहा’ शीर्षक से आत्मकथा किसने लिखी है?

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Sonu Sood
3. Paramahansa Yogananda
4. APJ Abdul Kalam

Option “2” is correct.
Sonu Sood wrote the autobiography entitled ‘I am No Messiah’.
 Sonu Sood is an Indian actor, film producer, model, humanitarian, and philanthropist who works predominantly in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada films.
 In June 2022, he launched his social media app called Explurger.
2. Who wrote the famous novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’?

प्रसिद्ध उपन्यास ‘द इनहेरिटेंस ऑफ लॉस’ किसने लिखा है?

1. Arundhati Roy
2. Kiran Desai
3. RK Narayan
4. Vikram Seth

Option “2” is correct.
Kiran Desai, an Indian Author, wrote the famous novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’.
 Her novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’ won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.
3. India’s men’s hockey team beat Pakistan to win a bronze medal in December 2021 at the:

भारत की पुरुष हॉकी टीम ने दिसंबर 2021 में किसमें पाकिस्तान को हराकर कांस्य पदक जीता:

1. Asian Champions Trophy
2. Moinuddowla Gold Cup
3. ICC Champions Trophy
4. Ghulam Ahmed Trophy

Option “1” is correct.
India’s men’s hockey team beat Pakistan to win a bronze medal in December 2021 at the Asian Champions Trophy Hockey 2021 in Dhaka.
 The 2021 Men’s Asian Champions Trophy was the sixth edition of the Men’s Asian Champions Trophy.
 South Korea won the Trophy for the first time by defeating Japan in the finals.
4. ______________is the money which is accepted as a medium of exchange because of the trust between the payer and the payee.

__________ वह धन है जिसे भुगतानकर्ता और प्राप्तकर्ता के बीच विश्वास के कारण विनिमय के माध्यम के रूप में स्वीकार किया जाता है।

1. Credit money
2. Fiduciary money
3. Fiat money
4. Full bodied money

Option “2” is correct.
Fiduciary money is money that is accepted as a medium of exchange because of the
trust between the payer and the payee.
 The value of fiduciary money is determined by the expectation that it will be widely accepted as a medium of exchange. It is not declared legal tender by the government, unlike fiat money, which means that people are not required by law to accept it as a form of payment.
5. In which sport are arrows used?

किस खेल में तीरों का प्रयोग किया जाता है?

1. Fencing
2. Shooting
3. Boxing
4. Archery

Option “4” is correct.
In the Game of Archery, arrows are used. Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.
 Indian Archers: Dola Banerjee, Atanu Das, Abhishek Verma, Bombayla Devi, Laishram, Jayanta Talukdar, Limba Ram, and Deepika Kumari.
6. Rajeev Janardan is an Indian classical __________ player of the Imdadkhani gharana.

राजीव जनार्दन इमदादखानी घराने के एक भारतीय शास्त्रीय __________ वादक हैं।

1. tabla
2. flute
3. harmonium
4. sitar

Option “4” is correct.
Rajeev Janardan is an Indian classical sitar player of the Imdadkhani gharana.
 Imdadkhani Gharana has been named after Imdad Khan, the founder of this Gharana.
 This Gharana is also known as Etawah Gharana.The Etawah Gharana is a North Indian school of sitar and surbahar music named after a small town close to Agra where Imdad Khan lived.
7. Tulsidas Borkar, who was awarded with the Padma Shri in 2016, was a _________ player.

तुलसीदास बोरकर, जिन्हें 2016 में पद्म श्री से सम्मानित किया गया था, एक _________ वादक थे।

1. nadhaswaram
2. shehnai
3. bansuri
4. Harmonium

Option “4” is correct.
Tulsidas Borkar was an Indian composer and harmonium player. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2016.
 He died at the age of 83 on 29 September 2018.
8. Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan was given the additional charge of ________ and was sworn in as the Lt. Governor of this Union Territory in February 2021, apart from being the Governor of Telangana.

डॉ. तमिलिसाई सौन्दरराजन को ________ का अतिरिक्त प्रभार दिया गया था और उन्हें तेलंगाना के राज्यपाल होने के अलावा फरवरी 2021 में इस केंद्र शासित प्रदेश के उपराज्यपाल के रूप में शपथ दिलाई गई थी।

1. Delhi
2. Puducherry
3. Lakshadweep
4. Chandigarh

Option “2” is correct.
Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan was given the additional charge of Puducherry and was sworn
in as the Lt. Governor of this Union Territory in February 2021, apart from being the
Governor of Telangana.
 Tamilisai Soundararajan is an Indian politician serving as the 2nd and current Governor of Telangana and is the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry (Additional charge) since 18 February 2021.
9. Aqua regia is an acidic, corrosive and oxidative mixture consisting of ________ volume/volumes of concentrated hydrochloric acid and one volume of concentrated nitric acid, often used to dissolve gold and platinum.

एक्वा रेजिया एक अम्लीय, संक्षारक और ऑक्सीडेटिव मिश्रण है जिसमें ________ मात्रा में सांद्रित हाइड्रोक्लोरिक अम्ल और एक मात्रा में सांद्रित नाइट्रिक अम्ल होता है, जिसका उपयोग अक्सर सोने और प्लैटिनम को भंग करने के लिए किया जाता है।

1. Two
2. Three
3. one
4. Four

Option “2” is correct.
Aqua regia is an acidic, corrosive, and oxidative mixture consisting of three volumes of concentrated hydrochloric acid and one volume of concentrated nitric acid often used to dissolve gold and platinum.
 Aqua regia is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, optimally in a molar ratio of 1:3.
 It was named by alchemists because it can dissolve the noble metals gold and platinum, though not all metals.
10. Maithili Thakur and Lydian Nadhaswaram were bestowed with Sur Jyotsna National Music Awards _____________.

मैथिली ठाकुर और लिडियन नादस्वरम को सुर ज्योत्सना राष्ट्रीय संगीत पुरस्कार _____________ से सम्मानित किया गया।

1. 2021
2. 2020
3. 2019
4. 2018

Option “1” is correct.
Maithili Thakur and Lydian Nadhaswaram were bestowed with Sur Jyotsna National
Music Awards 2021.
 The Sur Jyotsna National Music Awards are aimed at singers and instrumentalists between the ages of 12 and 25 years.
 The Awards for 2021 were selected by the very talented jury members Roopkumar Rathod, Sunali Rathod, and Shashi Vyas.
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