SSC CPO 2022 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Hydrogen has three isotopes: protium with one proton and no neutron, deuterium with one neutron, which gives heavy water, and tritium with two neutrons, which is radioactive and is used in fusion research and in luminous dials.

The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 placed every industry in one of three schedules.

At Buxar on 22 October 1764 Hector Munro defeated this alliance of the deposed Nawab of Bengal, the reigning Mughal emperor and the Nawab of Awadh, and the Treaty of Allahabad of 1765 followed.

Khatoli, fought in 1517 near Bundi in present-day Rajasthan, was the first clash between Rana Sanga of Mewar and Ibrahim Lodi, who had just succeeded to the throne of Delhi, and the Rajputs won.

The cold snow-forest climate, group D in Koeppen's scheme, lies in the continental interiors of the northern hemisphere between about 40 and 70 degrees north, across northern Europe, Siberia, Canada and Alaska.

Article 76 provides for the Attorney General, the highest law officer of the Union, appointed by the President from among persons qualified to be a judge of the Supreme Court.

Agriculture still employs the largest share of India's workers because industry and services have not created enough jobs to draw them away, so people stay on the farm for want of a better option.

The interior of the country has the sharpest difference between summer and winter because it lies far from the sea, and this effect is called continentality.

An intermediate good is bought by one producer to be used up or built into another good in the same year, while a final good is bought by the last user for consumption or investment.

In Koeppen's scheme the capital letter gives the broad climatic group and the small letters add the rainfall and temperature detail.

Article 75(3) says the Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People, that is the Lok Sabha.

The Anushilan Samiti, founded in 1902, was the largest revolutionary organisation of Bengal, and its Dhaka branch under Pulin Behari Das was the most tightly organised.

Bhikaji Cama unfurled a flag of Indian independence at the International Socialist Congress held at Stuttgart in Germany in 1907, and appealed to the delegates to support the Indian cause.

Rust of wheat is indeed a fungal disease, caused by species of Puccinia, and it is named from the reddish brown spores that appear in streaks on the leaves and stem.

Kavirajamarga, written in the ninth century and attributed to the Rashtrakuta king Amoghavarsha the First, is a treatise on poetics and is the earliest surviving literary work in the Kannada language, which is why it is quoted in every question on the beginnings of regional literature.

The prefix di stands for two and the ending ene for a carbon to carbon double bond, so a diene is a hydrocarbon carrying exactly two such bonds; buta-1,3-diene, the raw material of synthetic rubber, is the standard example.

India's first National Emergency was proclaimed on 26 October 1962, during the war with China, on the ground of external aggression.

Harihara I and Bukka Raya I, the sons of Sangama, founded the city and the empire of Vijayanagara in 1336 on the southern bank of the Tungabhadra, at the site now known as Hampi in Karnataka.

In 1347 the centurion nobles of Daulatabad, the Amiran-i-Sadah, rebelled against the Delhi Sultan and raised one of their own, Hasan Gangu, to the throne of the Deccan.

Self-reliance, the goal set out in India's early plans, means building the capacity to produce at home what the country would otherwise have to buy abroad, so the true indicator is that imports of such goods are avoided.