SSC CHSL 2023 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The Census of 2011 found that 31.16 per cent of Indians lived in urban areas and the remaining 68.84 per cent in villages.

The Tropic of Cancer lies at 23 degrees 30 minutes north and crosses eight Indian states: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.

Carbon-14 is the radioactive isotope of carbon used for radiocarbon dating, and its half-life is close to 5,700 years, which is the figure quoted in the question.

This Act abolished dyarchy in the provinces and made them autonomous units, with ministries responsible to elected provincial legislatures; the first elections under it were held in 1937 and Congress ministries took office in most provinces.

Both statements state the same rule from opposite sides: national income is the value of final goods and services, and the value of intermediate goods is excluded so that the same output is not counted at every stage of production.

Asia supplies more than half of the world's tin, because the great tin belt of South East Asia runs through Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and China is the largest single producer.

Tropical deciduous forests are India's monsoon forests, and their trees shed their leaves for about six to eight weeks in the dry summer to save water.

Leh, in the cold desert of Ladakh, lies above 3,500 metres in the Himalayas, and its winter temperature falls far below freezing, lower than anywhere else in the list.

Earthquake waves fall into body waves, which travel through the interior of the Earth, and surface waves, which move along the surface, and the surface waves are called L waves, or long waves.

A demand curve is the picture of the demand function, which links the quantity a consumer buys to the price of the good, so statement I is correct.

The law of demand says that, other things remaining the same, a consumer buys more of a good when its price falls and less when the price rises, so price and quantity demanded move in opposite directions.

The Earth turns through 360 degrees in 24 hours, so it covers 15 degrees of longitude in one hour, and each standard time zone is drawn one hour, that is 15 degrees, wide.

Gandhi led the Kheda satyagraha in 1918, asking the government to remit land revenue after the crops failed in that district of Gujarat.

Dal Lake in Srinagar is called the jewel of Srinagar, because the houseboats, floating gardens and shikaras of the city sit on it.

The IBM System/360, announced in 1964, was built around integrated circuits, and the integrated circuit is exactly what defines the third generation of computers; the series is also remembered for introducing a single compatible family of machines of different sizes.

It places on the State the duty to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and to improve public health, and a health assurance scheme such as Ayushman Bharat, which gives a cover of five lakh rupees a family a year for hospital treatment…

The iron pillar that now stands in the Qutb complex at Mehrauli in Delhi carries a Sanskrit inscription in Brahmi script praising a king called Chandra, taken to be Chandragupta II of the Gupta dynasty, and it was raised in the fourth or early fifth century as a standard of…

Pune stands on the Deccan plateau in Maharashtra, where the Mula and the Mutha meet, and it is called the Queen of the Deccan for its pleasant climate, its setting at the edge of the Sahyadri hills and its long standing as the seat of the Peshwas.

The law of demand says that, other things remaining equal, a rise in the price of a good reduces the quantity demanded and a fall in price raises it, so the two move in opposite directions.

The Second Anglo-Mysore War ran from 1780 to 1784. Haidar Ali fought the English East India Company with the Marathas and the Nizam on his side, and after his death in December 1782 his son Tipu Sultan carried the war on and signed the Treaty of Mangalore in March 1784.