GATEWAY TO CGL MAINS 2015: General Awareness Questions based on Previous Paper of SSC

1. Who was the first Indian woman to scale the Mount Everest ?

(A) Bachhendri Pal

(B) Phew Dorajee

(C) Onn Saang Su Kayi

(D) Yoko Ono

2. Epicentre is concerned with—

(A) Earthquake

(B) Volcano

(C) Cyclone

(D) Land-sliding

3. Name of S. Chandrashekhar is associated with which of the following subjects ?

(A) Cosmology

(B) Chemistry

(C) Fluid Mechanics

(D) Astrophysics

4. Which scale is used to measure the intensity of earthquake ?

(A) Richter

(B) Metric

(C) Centigrade

(D) Newton

5. Who was the only Indian woman to be elected as the President of U.N. General Assembly ?

(A) Vijayalakshmi Pandit

(B) V. K. Krishna Menon

(C) Jawaharlal Nehru

(D) Rajeshwar Dayal

6. Sea-coast of which of the following states is the longest ?

(A) Andhra Pradesh

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Gujrat

(D) Tamil Nadu

7. ‘RAF’ is the abbreviated form of which of the following ?

(A) Ready Action Force

(B) Rapid Action Force

(C) Reverse Action Force

(D) Repeat Action Force

8. Good Conductor of electricity is?
(A) Dry air
(B) Paper
(C) Kerosene
(D) Graphite

9. Longitudinal waves cannot travel through ?
(A) Vacuum
(B) Solid
(C) Liquid
(D) Gas

10. Which of the following is incorrect ?

(A) AIDS is a retroviral disease

(B) AIDS disease spreads due to homosexual and bisexual relations

(C) AIDS was first diagnosed in 1981 in USA

(D) Due to AIDS, ano-genetal warts are formed

ANSWERS KEY:
1- (A)
2- (A)
3- (D)
4- (A)
5- (A)
6- (C)
7- (B)
8- (D) 
9- (A)
10-(C)