SSC CHSL Previous Year Gk Questions

421. Who among the following Indians was selected as a member of International Law Commission for a 5-year term starting January 1, 2023 in the month of November 2021?

निम्नलिखित भारतीयों में से किसे नवंबर 2021 के माह में 1 जनवरी, 2023 से शुरू होने वाले 5 वर्ष के कार्यकाल के लिए अंतर्राष्ट्रीय कानून आयोग के सदस्य के रूप में चुना गया था?

1. Vinod Rai
2. Bimal Jalan
3. Suresh Prabhu
4. Bimal Patel

Option “4” is correct.
Professor Bimal Patel, Vice-Chancellor, Rashtriya Raksha University and Member of National Security Advisory Board of India, has been elected to the International Law Commission for a five-year term starting January 1, 2023 in a hard-fought election at the United Nations.
· Prof. Patel is an esteemed educationalist, jurist, and administrator and during his professional career of over three decades, he has served in various roles such as the Director at the Gujarat National Law University and member of the 21st Law Commission of India.
422. Find the odd one out with respect to animals’ response to abiotic factors.

अजैविक कारकों के प्रति जानवरों की प्रतिक्रिया के संबंध में विषम का चयन कीजिए।

1. Suspend
2.  Migrate
3.  Conform
4.  Reproduce

Option “4” is correct.
There are various ways in which living things or an organism respond to the various abiotic components. Such as – Conform, Migrate, Suspend, Regulate, and Diapause.
· Reproduce is different one from the given options.
423. Which is the major microtubule-organising centre (MTOC) in eukaryotic cells involved in various cellular processes, including sensory reception, locomotion, and embryogenesis?

सेन्सरी रिसेप्शन, लोकोमोशन और एम्ब्रूयोजेनेसिस सहित विभिन्न सेलुलर प्रक्रियाओं में शामिल यूकेरियोटिक कोशिकाओं में प्रमुख माइक्रो-ट्यूब्यूल-ऑर्गेनाईज़िंग सेंटर (एमटीओसी) कौन सा है?

1. Lysosomes
2. Centrosome
3. Plastids
4. Vacuoles

Option “2” is correct.
Centrosome is the major microtubule-organizing Centre (MTOC) in eukaryotic cells involved in various cellular processes, including sensory reception, locomotion, and embryogenesis.
· A centrosome is a cellular structure involved in the process of cell division.
424. The ‘Nijaat’ (riddance) anti-drug campaign launched by a district police of which state has been acknowledged and appreciated by many Bollywood actors in 2021?

2021 में किस राज्य की जिला पुलिस द्वारा शुरू किए गए ‘निजात’ (मुक्ति) नशा-विरोधी अभियान को कई बॉलीवुड अभिनेताओं द्वारा स्वीकार और सराहा गया है?

1. West Bengal
2.  Chhattisgarh
3.  Punjab
4. Maharashtra

Option “2” is correct.
The ‘Nijaat’ (riddance) anti-drug campaign launched by the district police of Chhattisgarh has been acknowledged and appreciated by many Bollywood actors in 2021.
· The ‘Nijaat’ (riddance) campaign launched by the Koriya police has been acknowledged and appreciated by many Bollywood actors.
425. Who is the only Indian female sportsperson to win two consecutive Olympic medals?

लगातार दो ओलंपिक पदक जीतने वाली एकमात्र भारतीय महिला खिलाड़ी कौन हैं?

1. Dutee Chand
2. PV Sindhu
3. Mary Kom
4. Mirabai Chanu

Option “3” is correct.
PV Sindhu is the only Indian female sportsperson to win two consecutive Olympic medals.
· She is the first and only Indian to become the badminton world champion and only the second individual athlete from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games.
426. Which of the following instruments is played by P Mani Iyer?

निम्नलिखित में से कौन सा वाद्य यंत्र पी मणि अय्यर द्वारा बजाया जाता है ?

1. Sarangi
2. Violin
3. Mridangam
4. Mandolin

Option “3” is correct.
Palghat Mani Iyer was one of the leading mridangists in the field of Carnatic music.
 Mani Iyer was the first mridangist to be awarded the Sangeetha Kalanidhi (1966) presented by the Music Academy of Madras, the Padma Bhushan (1971), and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (1956) presented by the Government of India.
427. Who among the following authors won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize in the year 2019?

निम्नलिखित में से किस लेखक ने वर्ष 2019 में कमलादेवी चट्टोपाध्याय एनआईएफ पुस्तक पुरस्कार जीता?

1. Ornit Shani
2. Jairam Ramesh
3. Milan Vaishnav
4. Dinyar Patel

Option “1” is correct.
The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize is awarded annually for non-fiction books on modern or contemporary India that were published in the preceding year.
 The Prize was established in 2018 by the New India Foundation, a charitable trust that also awards research fellowships and book grants to Indian scholars and writers.
 Ornit Shani, an Israeli academic, author, and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa, won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize in 2019 for her book How India Became Democratic .
428. The election of the next Vice-President is to be held within _____ of the expiry of the term of office of the outgoing Vice-President.

अगले उपराष्ट्रपति का चुनाव निवर्तमान उपराष्ट्रपति के कार्यकाल की समाप्ति के _____ के भीतर होना है।

1. 90 days
2. 60 days
3. 120 days
4. 75 days

Option “2” is correct.
The election of the next Vice-President is to be held within 60 days of the expiry of the term of office of the outgoing Vice-President.
 The election is held via proportional representation using single transferable votes by secret ballot.
 Jagdeep Dhankhar of the Bharatiya Janata Party is the current vice president.
429. In the Jayamma vs state of _____________ case, in May 2021, the Supreme Court observed that dying declarations are admissible in evidence on the principle of necessity, as there is little hope of the maker surviving.

जयम्मा बनाम __________ राज्य मामले में, मई 2021 में, सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने पाया कि मरने से पहले की घोषणाएं आवश्यकता के सिद्धांत पर साक्ष्य में स्वीकार्य हैं, क्योंकि निर्माता के जीवित रहने की बहुत कम उम्मीद है।

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Karnataka
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Kerala

Option “2” is correct.
In the Jayamma vs state of Karnataka case, in May 2021, the Supreme Court observed that dying declarations are admissible in evidence on the principle of necessity, as there is little hope of the maker surviving.
430. Which method of calculating the national income is also known as ‘Industrial Origin Method’?

राष्ट्रीय आय की गणना की किस विधि को ‘औद्योगिक मूल विधि’ भी कहा जाता है?

1. Expenditure Method
2. Income Method
3. Value Added Method
4. Monetary Measures Method

Option “3” is correct.
Value Added Method of calculating the national income is also known as the ‘Industrial Origin Method’.
 The value-added method is one of the three methods to determine national income.
 It is also known as the product method or output method, and its primary objective is to calculate the national income by taking the value added to a product during the various stages of production into account.
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