This GK General Knowledge quiz covers SSC question answer like: Which among the following is not a hot wind? In which of the following did Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel play a leading role? Name one leader of the Home Rule Movement____The first Tirthankara, according to Jaina tradition, was The founder of Satya Shodhak Samaj was ___? Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet ‘Lok- Manya’ duringThe number of which among the following would be maximum in a Food Chain? Rabindra Nath Tagore renounced his knighthood for which reason.Which rock edict describes Asoka’s first Dhamma Yatra to Bodhgaya and Bodhi Tree? Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of ‘Lokmanya’ during— GK quiz set 227 – gk MCQ for UPSC to save your money and help you get better marks in compeptitive exam. Static general knowledge question answers for SSC, UPSC, IAS, IBPS, SBI and other exams.

Which among the following is not a hot wind?

  1. Sirocco
  2. Chinook
  3. Mistral
  4. Loo

Correct answer is option C i.e. Mistral
Explanation:

Mistral refers to the northerly or north-westerly (i.e. coming from north) cold wind experienced on the shores of the north-west Mediterranean, mainly around the Rhone-delta. It is more intense during the winter, when pressure is relatively high over the European continent and low over the western Mediterranean; it reaches great force in the rear of a deep depression situated over the gulf of lions that is moving away eastwards or south-eastwards.

Sirocco is a warm, dry and dusty laden local wind which blows in northerly direction from Sahara desert over North Africa as a dry wind and picks up moisture as it crosses the Mediterranean. Since they carry red dust over Sahara, the rainfall which they cause is called blood rain sometimes.

In which of the following did Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel play a leading role?
  1. Bijolia Movement
  2. Dandi March
  3. Bardoli Satyagraha
  4. Textile Mill Workers strike at Ahmedabad

Correct answer is option C
Name one leader of the Home Rule Movement____
  1. Annie Besant
  2. Surendra Nath Bannerjee
  3. Aurobindo Ghosh
  4. Bipin Chandra Pal

Correct answer is option A
The first Tirthankara, according to Jaina tradition, was
  1. Hemchandra
  2. Rishabha
  3. Sthulabahu
  4. Augisara

Correct answer is option B

The founder of Satya Shodhak Samaj was ___?

  1. Atmaram Pandurang
  2. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
  3. M. G. Ranade
  4. Jyotiba Phule

Correct answer is option D i.e. Jyotiba Phule
Explanation:

Jyotiba Phule was an activist, thinker, social reformer, writer, philosopher, theologist, scholar, editor and revolutionary from Maharashtra founded the Satya Shodhak Samaj in 1873 in Maharshtra.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet ‘Lok- Manya’ during
  1. Swadeshi Movement
  2. Revolutionary Movement
  3. Home Rule Movement
  4. Quit India Movement

Correct answer is option C

The number of which among the following would be maximum in a Food Chain?

  1. Producers
  2. Primary Consumers
  3. Secondary Consumers
  4. Decomposers

Correct answer is option D i.e. Decomposers
Explanation:

Transfer of food from the plants (producers) through a series of organisms with repeated eating and being eaten is called a food chain. A food chain consists of

  1. Producers or Autotrophs
  2. Primary consumers or Herbivores
  3. Secondary consumers or Carnivores
  4. Decomposers

Decomposers make up the final trophic level in a food chain. Decomposers are the organisms that feed on dead organic matter called detritus of all the trophic levels and help in recycling the nutrients. Examples of decomposers are bacteria, fungi, mites, millipedes, earthworms, nematodes, slugs, crabs and molluscs.

Rabindra Nath Tagore renounced his knighthood for which reason.
  1. Jallianwalla Bagh Tragedy
  2. Cruel suppression of Civil Disobedience Movement
  3. Bhagat Singh was hanged
  4. Chauri-Chaura incident

Correct answer is option A
Which rock edict describes Asoka’s first Dhamma Yatra to Bodhgaya and Bodhi Tree?
  1. Major Rock Edict V
  2. Major Rock Edict VI
  3. Major Rock Edict VII
  4. Major Rock Edict VIII

Correct answer is option D i.e. Major Rock Edict VIII
Explanation:
The Major Rock Edict VIII describes Asoka’s first Dhamma Yatra to Bodhgaya and Bodhi Tree.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of ‘Lokmanya’ during—
  1. Home Rule Movement
  2. Surat Split
  3. Swadeshi Movement
  4. His imprisonment in 1908

Correct answer is option A