SSC CGL 2023 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Hsuan Tsang, also written Hiuen Tsang or Xuanzang, reached India in the seventh century and spent years in the empire of Harshavardhana of Kannauj, who received him with honour; he studied at the monastery of Nalanda under Shilabhadra, attended the great religious assemblies at Kannauj and at Prayag, and recorded…

This is one of the striking facts of Mughal cultural history: the emperor who withdrew court patronage from musical performance presided over a reign in which the largest number of Persian treatises on Indian classical music was written, as scholars turned from the court to the book.

This is the statement that is not correct, because water has a much higher surface tension than ethyl alcohol.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India heads the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the organisation through which the audit of Union and State accounts is actually carried out.

Five writs can be issued: habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto. Habeas corpus asks that a detained person be produced before the court.

Article 148 of the Constitution creates the office of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, who audits all receipts and expenditure of the Union and the States and of bodies largely financed from public funds.

IISCO has its works at Burnpur, near Asansol in West Bengal, on the Kolkata-Asansol railway line, and it became a subsidiary of the Steel Authority of India and was later merged into it, the plant now being run as the IISCO Steel Plant.

The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in 1761 between Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan and the Marathas, who were defeated.

It gives the Supreme Court the power to review any judgment it has pronounced or any order it has made, subject to the provisions of any law made by Parliament and the rules made by the Court under Article 145.

The 1915 session of the Indian National Congress, held at Bombay, was presided over by Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, later Lord Sinha of Raipur.

Debendranath Tagore founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha in Calcutta in 1839 to study the Upanishads and Vedanta and to spread the rational religion that Rammohun Roy had preached.

Sodium benzoate is the sodium salt of benzoic acid and is the preservative most often added to sauces, salad dressings, jams, pickles and soft drinks.

The Moplahs, or Mappilas, were Muslim cultivators of the Malabar region of northern Kerala, and their long struggle against the jenmi landlords grew into the Malabar or Moplah rebellion of 1921.

Statement A is correct: Article 280 provides that the Commission shall consist of a Chairman and four other members appointed by the President.

The Estimates Committee of independent India was first constituted in 1950, on the recommendation of John Mathai, the Finance Minister.

He was a Jaina in his early life and served as a minister in a Chalukya court in the twelfth century.

The Imad Shahi dynasty founded the Sultanate of Berar in 1490. As the Bahmani kingdom of the Deccan broke up in the late fifteenth century, five successor sultanates appeared.

The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878, when Lord Lytton was Viceroy of India. The Act was aimed at Indian-language newspapers, which had grown sharply critical of British rule after the famine of 1876-78.

The Fundamental Duties were added on the recommendation of this committee, set up in 1976. The Swaran Singh Committee suggested that the Constitution should spell out the duties of citizens alongside their rights.

Article 167 lists the duties of the Chief Minister towards the Governor.