Top 20 Toughest General Awareness Questions of RPF SI

The RPF SI Exam 2024 has already been conducted, and the General Awareness section was notably challenging for many candidates. To help you better understand the exam’s pattern and difficulty level, we have compiled the Top 20 Toughest General Awareness Questions of RPF SI that were asked during the exam. These questions are crucial for analyzing the syllabus and preparing effectively for future exams.

Top 20 Toughest General Awareness Questions of RPF SI

The General Awareness section of the RPF SI exam included some of the most challenging questions, covering a wide range of important topics. These topics included Indian History, Geography, Polity, and Economics, along with Current Affairs and General Science. Questions related to Static GK and recent national and international events further added to the difficulty level.

1. The Central Goods and Services Tax (Second Amendment) Bill, 2023 increased the age limit for the president of the Tribunal from ______.
   A) 65 to 67 years
   B) 67 to 70 years
   C) 60 to 65 years
   D) 65 to 70 years

2. Who among the following is the chairperson of the Parliamentary Affairs’ Committee in India?
   A) The Union Home Minister
   B) The Union Finance Minister
   C) The Prime Minister
   D) The Union Defence Minister

3. Which of the following is the Keynesian approach to the degree of wage and price flexibility in the labour market?
   A) Wages are flexible but prices are sticky.
   B) Wages and prices are fully flexible.
   C) Wages and prices are sticky.
   D) Wages are sticky but prices are flexible.

4. Who among the following announced the establishment of two National Centres of Excellence (NCOE) exclusively for women on the occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2024?
   A) President of India, Droupadi Murmu
   B) Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi
   C) Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Annpurna Devi
   D) Sports Minister of India, Anurag Thakur

5. Who among the following has assumed the charge of Chief of Army Training Command, Shimla in 2022?
   A) Lt Gen SS Mahal
   B) Lt Gen J S Nain
   C) Lt Gen C P Mohanty
   D) Lt Gen Raj Shukla

6. Which of the following species of catfish was first discovered in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in March 2023?
   A) Exostoma sentiyonoae
   B) Amblyceps laticeps
   C) Exostoma dhritiae
   D) Glyptothorax punyabratai

7. The UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Government of Barbados organised the first Global Supply Chain Forum in Barbados in which month in 2024?
   A) March
   B) September
   C) August
   D) May

8. When did HH Dixon give the first detailed description of the cohesion-tension theory explaining the water transport in xylem?
   A) 1937
   B) 1914
   C) 1982
   D) 1890

9. The KAZA 2024, Heads of State inaugural Summit by Members of the five-nation Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA-TFCA) was held in which month at Livingstone, Zambia?
   A) July 2024
   B) April 2024
   C) May 2024
   D) August 2024

10. The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) is foundational to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). To test the validity of the EMH, one can examine whether historical data contradicts CAPM. If historical data were to contradict CAPM, which of the following would this imply about the efficient market hypothesis?
    A) It would imply that the market is always efficient.
    B) It would imply that the market is inefficient.
    C) It would imply that the historical data is irrelevant to market efficiency.
    D) It would imply that CAPM is infallible.

11. Name the scientist who developed the process of deciphering the genetic code in the living cells in the 1960s.
    A) Archibald Garrod
    B) Wilhelm Johannsen
    C) Erich von Tschermak
    D) Marshall Nirenberg

12. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT with respect to the India’s Tax Reforms Committee (TRC), 1991?
    A) The TRC suggested a moderate flat tax rate on long term capital gains after due indexation for inflation.
    B) The TRC suggested aggregation of minor’s income, other than wage income, with the income of the parents.
    C) The committee recommended the abolition of tax concessions, rebates and allowances, under various incentives for saving schemes.
    D) The committee suggested a phased reduction of the corporate tax to 10% and continuation of surcharge on corporate tax.

13. Who is author of the book ‘Rays and Ways of Indian Culture’?
    A) Romila Thapar
    B) Jhumpa Lahiri
    C) DP Dubey
    D) Gayatri Sinha

14. Which of the following is NOT a symptom of Salmonella infection?
    A) Vomiting
    B) Fever
    C) Diarrhoea
    D) Abdominal cramps

15. Who wrote the book ‘Reenchantment – Masterworks of Sculpture in Village Temples of Bihar and Orissa’?
    A) Hermann Hesse
    B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
    C) Robert N. Linrothe
    D) Henry David Thoreau

16. Where did the Judo Federation of India conduct the Senior National Judo Championships 2023-24 in the month of October 2023?
    A) New Delhi
    B) Jaipur
    C) Patna
    D) Bhopal

17. Who among the following reinterpreted verses from the Koran to argue for women’s education?
    A) Begum Anis Kidwai
    B) Mumtaz Ali
    C) Baji Jamalunnisa
    D) Bibi Amtus Salam

18. Which sensitive dye turns yellow in the presence of acid with pH between 6.0 – 7.6?
    A) Bromothymol blue
    B) Thymolphthalein
    C) Alizarin yellow R
    D) Methyl orange
19. Who among the following former RAW Chiefs has written the book titled ‘A Life in the Shadows: A Memoir’?
    A) Alok Joshi
    B) Arvind Dave
    C) AS Dulat
    D) JS Bedi
20. In December 2023, scientists from the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad, developed an ecofriendly solar cell material by replacing lead in perovskite with which of the following metals?
    A) Magnesium
    B) Lithium
    C) Cerium
    D) Gallium