SSC CHSL 2018 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Skill is built on schooling and training, so a workforce in which a large share of workers is illiterate or barely schooled cannot absorb technical instruction the way a fully literate one can.

Tanjore, or Thanjavur, was the capital of the Cholas and not of the Chalukyas, so this pair is wrongly matched.

Inertia is the tendency of a body to stay at rest or keep moving in a straight line, and the measure of that tendency is mass.

Maharishi Gautama, also called Akshapada Gautama, founded the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy and wrote its basic text, the Nyaya Sutra.

Use the third equation of motion, which links velocity and distance without needing time: v squared equals u squared plus 2as.

Power is the rate of doing work, so power equals work divided by time. Here the work is 120 J and the time is 3 seconds, which gives 120 divided by 3, that is 40 watts.

The 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 inserted a new Part IX-A titled The Municipalities into the Constitution, and it came into force on 1 June 1993.

Excavations at Lothal found graves in which a man and a woman were buried together in one pit, a custom archaeologists call couple or double burial.

Ahimsa, or non-violence, is the first and greatest vow of Jainism, and every other rule of Jain life follows from it, down to the mask and the soft broom a Jain monk carries to avoid harming the smallest creature.

Under Article 60, the President takes the oath or affirmation before the Chief Justice of India, or, in the Chief Justice's absence, before the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court.

Argon is a noble gas whose outer shell already holds eight electrons, so it has no room to take another one easily; adding an electron would mean starting a new shell, and energy has to be supplied rather than released.

The provision for suspending Fundamental Rights during an Emergency was taken from the Weimar Constitution of Germany. It is the only feature of the Indian Constitution usually traced to that source.