Staff Selection Commission (SSC) MULTI-TASKING STAFF (MTS) Recruitment Exam 2020 Solved Paper (Exam Held on 05-10-2021)

                         General Knowledge & General Awareness

1. Who was made the Nawab of Bengal following the Battle of Plassey?
(A) Mir Jafar ✔
(B) Alivardi Khan
(C) Sirajuddaulah
(D) Mir Qasim

2. The Kodava community of Coorg worships weapons during the..........festival.
(A) Madai
(B) Kailpodh ✔
(C) Thaipusam
(D) Bhagoriya

3. How many colours does sunlight consist of?
(A) Three
(B) Two
(C) Seven ✔
(D) Five

4. The Kamakhya Temple is located in
(A) Guwahati ✔
(B) Kohima
(C) Imphal
(D) Agartala

5. The monthly maintenance amount of ........... payable by children to parents, set by the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, 2007, was removed by the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
(A) 10000 ✔
(B) 5000
(C) 12000
(D) 8000

6. Which of the following concepts implies that sustainable development should take a holistic approach towards notions of progress and give equal importance to non-economic aspects of wellbeing?
(A) Gross Domestic Product
(B) Gross National Product
(C) Gross National Happiness ✔
(D) Net National Product

7. Which of the following books is written by Rajendra Prasad?
(A) India Divided ✔
(B) An Autobiography: Towards Freedom
(C) The Discovery of India
(D) Glimpses of World History

8. Which of the following books was written by James Mill, a Scottish economist, in 1817?
(A) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
(B) A Passage to India
(C) The History of British in India ✔
(D) The Great Mutiny

9. What was India's rank in the Human Development Index-2019 released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)?
(A) 141
(B) 132
(C) 112
(D) 129 ✔

10. Moved by the Swadeshi Movement, .......... painted his famous image of Bharat Mata portraying her as an ascetic figure
(A) Satyendranath Tagore
(B) Abanindranath Tagore ✔
(C) Jyotirindranath Tagore
(D) Dwijendranath Tagore

11. Hafiz (Hafez) was a .......... century poet whose collection of poems is known as 'Diwan' or 'Diwan-e-Hafiz'.
(A) 14th ✔
(B) 15th
(C) 16th
(D) 17th

12. Which of the following diseases is not caused by ingesting polluted water?
(A) Typhoid
(B) Cholera
(C) Rabies ✔
(D) Meningitis

13. Who is the first Indian cricketer to have twin centuries in his maiden appearance as a Test opener?
(A) Shikhar Dhawan
(B) MS Dhoni
(C) Virat Kohli
(D) Rohit Sharma ✔

14. Zinc + Sulphuric acid → Zinc sulphate +............
(A) Hydrogen ✔
(B) Nitrogen
(C) Carbon
(D) Chlorine

15. Who among the following is a professional football player?
(A) Boris Gelfand
(B) Sadio Mane ✔
(C) Peter Svidler
(D) Magnus Carlsen

16. Which of the following is not a natural acid-base indicator?
(A) Geranium flowers
(B) Red cabbage leaves
(C) Petunia flowers
(D) Thyme leaves ✔

17. The Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal is threatened by the ongoing
(A) dolomite mining ✔
(B) copper mining
(C) magnetite mining
(D) hematite mining

18. Which of the following princely states was annexed by the British under the pretext of 'misgovernment of the Nawab'?
(A) Udaipur
(B) Awadh ✔
(C) Nagpur
(D) Satara

19. Which of the following statements about the Reserve Bank of India is Incorrect?
(A) In 1931, the Indian Central Banking Enquiry Committee revived the issue of the establishment of the Reserve Bank of India as the Central Bank for India.
(B) The Reserve Bank of India commenced operations in 1935.
(C) In 1929, the Hilton Young Commission recommended the establishment of a central bank to be called the ‘Reserve Bank of India'. ✔
(D) The Reserve Bank of India Act was enacted in 1934.

20. As per the Companies Act, 2013, dividend declared by a company but not paid or claimed within ............. days from the date of declaration is to be transferred to the Unpaid Dividend Account
(A) 120
(B) 60
(C) 30 ✔
(D) 90

21. Which of the following is a snow-fed river?
(A) Yamuna ✔
(B) Godavari
(C) Kaveri
(D) Narmada

22. Where was the first Jute mill set-up at Kolkata in 1859?
(A) Sreerampur
(B) Mesra
(C) Howrah
(D) Rishra ✔

23. Which of the following Acts was enacted in British India in the year 1878?
(A) Indian Contract Act
(B) Transfer of Property Act
(C) Vernacular Press Act ✔
(D) East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act

24. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
(A) Pure metals have a shining surface.
(B) Metals are good conductors of heat.
(C) Metals have high melting points.
(D) Lead and mercury are best conductors of heat. ✔

25. ................, a festival of the Galo tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, is celebrated in April every year.
(A) Doljatra
(B) Ali Ai Ligang
(C) Mopin ✔
(D) Me Dam Me Phi