CLAT 2022 Sample Paper General Awareness

Sample Paper

Clat (GK & Current Affairs)

Q.No. 1 Which one of the following States lifted the Santosh Trophy Football title 2018?

(A) Kerala

(B) Punjab

(C) Karnataka

(D) Uttar Pradesh

Q.No. 2 In which case did the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on July 14, 2010 commute the death
sentence of six accused to rigorous life imprisonment?

(A) Khairlanji case

(B) Bhopal Gas Leak case

(C) Bhagalpur case

(D) Nithari Case

Q.No. 3 China objected to the Dalai Lama's recent visit to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. What was he
visiting in Tawang?

(A) A Buddhist monastery

(B) A memorial to Tibetans massacred by the Chinese army

(C) The residence of Panchen Lama

(D) None of the above

Q.No. 4 In February 2011, Gopa Sabharwal was appointed as the first Vice Chancellor of which University
of international stature?

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru University

(B) Azim Premji University

(C) Visva-Bharati University

(D) Nalanda International University

Q.No. 5 Who wrote the memoir book “My Brief History”?

(A) Dr G. Madhavan Nair

(B) Stephen Hawking

(C) Angeline Merkel

(D) Rosalind Franklin

Q.No. 6 Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt (Cricket players of Pakistan) have been
banned for being found guilty of spot fixing. To which of the following institutions have they appealed?

(A) Pakistan Cricket Board

(B) Anti-Corruption Tribunal of the Asian Cricket Council

(C) Court of Arbitration for Sport

(D) Anti-Corruption Tribunal of the International Cricket Council

Q.No. 7 Baglihar dam has been a matter of dispute between which nations?

(A) Bangladesh and Myanmar

(B) Myanmar and China

(C) India and China

(D) India and Pakistan

Q.No. 8 The scarcity definition of economics is credited to

(A) Alfred Marshall

(B) Lionel Robbins

(C) Adam Smith

(D) Dennis Robertson

Q.No. 9 The Right of Children to Full and Compulsory Education Act 2009 requires private schools to
ensure that - percent of their students come from weaker sections and disadvanliaged groups?

(A) 2

(B) 15

(C) 25

(D) 40

Q.No. 10 The world’s first fully Solar-powered Airport is

(A) Cochin International Airport

(B) Shanghai Pudong International Airport

(C) Dubai International Airport

(D) Singapore Changi Airport

Q.No. 11 The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France for a third time. How many years before
that, did the city host the Summer Olympics for the second time?

(A) 100 years

(B) 96 years

(C) 92 years

(D) 88 years

Q.No. 12 On 25th January 2011, BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley were prevented from entering
Srinagar and unfurl the national flag. What was that Rath Yatra called?

(A) Swabhimaan Yatra

(B) Ekta Yatra

(C) Mukti Yatra

(D) Swaraj Yatra

Q.No. 13 What is the significance of May 13, 1952 with regard to Indian polity?

(A) First sitting of the Lok Sabha

(B) First sitting of the Rajya Sabha

(C) First sitting of the Supreme Court of India

(D) Formation of the Election Commission of India

Q.No. 14 Who replaced Lalit Modi as the IPL Chairman and Commissioner from this year's edition of the
IPL?

(A) Chirayu Amin

(B) Rajiv Shukla

(C) Ratnakar Shetty

(D) Shashank Manohar

Q.No. 15 Who is chairing the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the 2G Spectrum allocation issue?

(A) Murli Manohar Joshi

(B) A Raja

(C) M. Thambi Durai

(D) P.C. Chacko

Q.No. 16 Which one of the following films was officially selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard (A
Certain Glance) category at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival?

(A) Udaan

(B) My Name is Khan

(C) Wednesday

(D) Dhobi Ghat

Q.No. 17 Who wrote the book Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats / The Origin
of the Family, Private Property, and the State?

(A) Friedrich Engels

(B) Lewis H. Morgan

(C) Karl Marx

(D) Friedrich Carl von Savigny

Q.No. 18 The recent Tunisian revolution is known as:

(A) Orange Revolution

(B) Jasmine Revolution

(C) Purple Revolution

(D) Crescent Revolution

Q.No. 19 14th March 2011 was the 80th Anniversary of the first Indian sound Film (talkie). Which Movie
was it?

(A) Jahan Ara

(B) Alam Ara

(C) Noorjehan

(D) None of the above

Q.No. 20 Who is the first woman Defence Minister of Independent India:

(A) Nirmala Sitharaman

(B) Indira Gandhi

(C) Sushma Swaraj

(D) Sheela Dixit

Q.No. 21 Who is the author of ‘The Coalition Years 1996-2012’?

(A) Manmohan Singh

(B) Pratibha Patil

(C) Sharad Pawar

(D) Pranab Mukherjee

Q.No. 22 Recently a star, Icarus was seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope What was the approximate
time taken by Icarus’ light to reach the Earth?

(A) Nine billion years

(B) Ten million years

(C) Seven trillion years

(D) One hundred years

Q.No. 23 War on Terrorism or American Strategy for Global Dominance" is authored by which of the
following authors?

(A) Noam Chomsky

(B) Demetrios Caraley

(C) Lea Brilmayer

(D) Manzoor Alam

Q.No. 24 Why was Arundhati Roy investigated for sedition?

(A) For committing contempt of court

(B) For saying that Kashmir is not an integral part of India

(C) For sympathising with the Maoists

(D) For condemning nuclear tests conducted by India

Q.No. 25 What is the Motto of the Commonwealth Games 2018?

(A) People, Place, Passion

(B) Share the Dream

(C) Come out and play

(D) United by the moment

Q.No. 26 The World’s first ‘negative emissions’ power plant has been built in

(A) Iceland

(B) Poland

(C) Finland

(D) China

Q.No. 27 Who became the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of India on 14 August, 1947?

(A) Maurice Gwyer

(B) Patanjali Shastri

(C) H.J. Kania

(D) Srinivas Varadachariar

Q.No. 28 The prize established, based on a donation from the Sveriges Riksbankin memory of Alfred Nobel,
is the

(A) Prize in Medicine

(B) Prize in Economic Sciences

(C) Peace Prize

(D) Prize in Literature

Q.No. 29 In which country outside India has the Energy Efficiency Services Limited, under the Ministry of
Power, Government of India, launched the UJALA scheme in 2017?

(A) Malaysia

(B) Srilanka

(C) Indonesia

(D) Maldives

Q.No. 30 Who has been appointed in 2018 as the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India?

(A) S.N. Joshi

(B) Rakesh Aggarwal

(C) K Vijay Raghavan

(D) Vinod Kumar

Answer Sheet
Q.No Answer
Q.No. 1 (A)
Q.No. 2 (A)
Q.No. 3 (C)
Q.No. 4 (D)
Q.No. 5 (B)
Q.No. 6 (C)
Q.No. 7 (D)
Q.No. 8 (B)
Q.No. 9 (C)
Q.No. 10 (A)
Q.No. 11 (A)
Q.No. 12 (B)
Q.No. 13 (C)
Q.No. 14 (A)
Q.No. 15 (D)
Q.No. 16 (A)
Q.No. 17 (A)
Q.No. 18 (B)
Q.No. 19 (B)
Q.No. 20 (B)
Q.No. 21 (D)
Q.No. 22 (A)
Q.No. 23 (D)
Q.No. 24 (B)

Q.No. 25 (B)
Q.No. 26 (A)
Q.No. 27 (C)
Q.No. 28 (B)
Q.No. 29 (A)
Q.No. 30 (C)