SSC CPO 2023 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Methyl ethyl ketone has a methyl group on one side of the carbonyl and an ethyl group on the other, which makes four carbons in all with the carbonyl at the second position, so its IUPAC name is butan-2-one or 2-butanone.

A homogeneous mixture has the same composition and properties throughout and no visible boundary between its parts, so a true solution such as salt water qualifies, and so does brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, since alloys are solid solutions.

The standard school classification divides India's natural vegetation into five groups: tropical evergreen rainforests, tropical deciduous or monsoon forests, tropical thorn forests and scrubs, montane forests, and mangrove or tidal forests.

Humayun Shah Bahmani ruled from 1458 to 1461 and the chronicles of the Deccan record his punishments as so savage that he was nicknamed Zalim, the cruel or the tyrant.

Inventory investment, also called change in stock, measures the physical stock of goods a firm holds at the end of the year minus the stock it held at the start.

Rural cooperative credit societies were the microfinance structure already in place when India became independent.

The Constitution does not fix any time limit within which the President must give or withhold assent to an ordinary bill.

Bharatanatyam grew out of Sadir Attam, also called Dasiattam, the temple dance performed by devadasis in Tamil Nadu. In the early 19th century the Tanjore Quartet, four brothers at the Thanjavur court, arranged its items into the order still followed in a recital.

The German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined the word 'Oekologie' in 1866 in his book Generelle Morphologie der Organismen.

It was the first working satellite of the Indian National Satellite (INSAT) system, carried to orbit by the US Space Shuttle Challenger in August 1983.

Kshitish Chandra Neogy chaired the First Finance Commission, set up by the President in November 1951, which gave its report in 1952 for the period 1952 to 1957.

In a progressive tax the rate rises as income rises, so each extra rupee is taxed at a higher rate than the rupees before it.

All three rivers join the Yamuna, the longest tributary of the Ganga, which rises at the Yamunotri glacier in Uttarakhand and meets the Ganga at Prayagraj.

As Governor-General from 1786 to 1793 he turned the Company's corrupt trading staff into a paid, rule-bound civil service. He raised salaries, banned private trade and presents, and set up a graded service promoted by seniority, which is why he is called the father of the civil services in India.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy set up the Atmiya Sabha, the 'Society of Friends', in Calcutta in 1814. It was a small circle for discussion that preached one formless God and attacked idol worship, caste rigidity, sati and child marriage.

Mohenjodaro lies on the right bank of the Indus in Larkana district of Sindh, now in Pakistan. It was excavated in 1922 by R. D. Banerji, and its name means 'mound of the dead'.

Article 361 gives this personal immunity to only two offices, the President of India and the Governor of a State.

Article 64 makes the Vice President of India the ex-officio Chairman of the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha. Because he chairs a House he is not a member of, he has no ordinary vote and casts only a deciding vote when there is a tie.

It orders the person or authority holding someone to produce that person before the court, and if the detention is found unlawful the person is set free.

The Bill of Rights is the name given to the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, adopted in 1791, which protect freedoms such as speech and religion against the government.