SSC CHSL 2020 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Only vitamin C and the eight vitamins of the B complex dissolve in water; the rest dissolve in fat.

Gopala founded the Pala dynasty in Bengal in the middle of the eighth century, and the Khalimpur copper plate records that he was raised to the throne by the chiefs to end a long spell of disorder known as matsyanyaya, the rule of the fish.

The B complex is a group of eight water soluble vitamins that work mainly as helpers in the reactions that release energy from food.

Cinnabar is mercuric sulphide, HgS, and the formula itself gives the answer away because Hg is the symbol of mercury.

Hiuen Tsang, the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, travelled in India in the seventh century, when Harshavardhana of the Pushyabhuti dynasty ruled from Kannauj.

The White Revolution is the name given to the sharp rise in milk production in India, so the colour white here stands for milk.

Ibrahim Lodi came to the throne of Delhi in 1517 after the death of his father Sikandar Lodi. He was the third and last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, which was the final dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development began work in 1982, set up on the recommendation of the Sivaraman Committee, and it is the apex development bank for agriculture and the rural economy, refinancing and supervising both Regional Rural Banks and cooperative banks.

She was a daughter of Babur and a sister of Humayun, and she wrote her account of the family at the request of her nephew Akbar, who wanted material for the Akbarnama.

A clinical thermometer is marked from 35 to 42 degrees Celsius, which on the Fahrenheit scale is 94 to 108 degrees.

Piklihal and Utnur are South Indian Neolithic settlements, famous for the ash mounds their cattle-keeping people left behind.

Roentgen, a German physicist, noticed in 1895 that a screen in his darkened laboratory glowed while a covered discharge tube was running, and he named the unknown radiation X-rays.

It allows the President to proclaim a Financial Emergency if satisfied that the financial stability or credit of India, or of any part of its territory, is threatened.

The Government of India Act of 1858, passed after the revolt of 1857, ended the rule of the East India Company and placed India directly under the British Crown.

WORM describes a storage medium on which data can be written a single time and after that only read, never altered or erased.

Kolkali is a popular folk dance of Lakshadweep, and it is also seen in the Malabar region of Kerala, with which the islands share much of their language and custom.

Vande Mataram was first sung on a political occasion at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress in 1896, and it was Rabindranath Tagore who set the tune and sang it there.

The intensity of an earthquake is measured on the Modified Mercalli scale, whose grades run from I to XII.

He took the title Gangaikonda Chola, the one who won the Ganga, after his army marched north about 1022 CE, defeated the Pala ruler Mahipala and carried Ganga water back to the Tamil country.

The Palas ruled eastern India, that is Bengal and Bihar, so their capital was never in the south. The line was founded by Gopala around 750 CE, who was chosen by the chiefs of Bengal to end a long spell of disorder.