SSC MTS 2019 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

A hydrogen bomb, also called a thermonuclear bomb, uses a fission explosion only as a trigger; the main energy comes from the fusion of the heavy hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium into helium at temperatures of millions of degrees, which is why the process is described as thermonuclear or thermal…

Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement after a crowd at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district set fire to a police station on 5 February 1922, in which about twenty-two policemen died.

Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE at Babylon, aged about thirty-two, on his way back from the Indian campaign.

Mountains are built by endogenic forces, the forces that act from inside the earth and raise, bend or break the crust.

Bali Trutiya, also written Bali Tritiya, is an Odia festival kept mainly by married women of Odisha in the month of Bhadrab.

Mosses, lichens and low shrubs make up the tundra, the treeless cover of the lands around the Arctic Ocean and of high mountain slopes above the tree line.

Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. At ordinary pressure it does not melt into a liquid at all: it changes straight from solid to gas, a process called sublimation, at about minus 78.5 degrees Celsius.

In the colour coding of India's agricultural revolutions the Silver Fibre Revolution stands for cotton, the fibre crop of the black soil regions of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana.

A National Emergency under Article 352 has been proclaimed three times: in October 1962, when China attacked India; in December 1971, during the war with Pakistan that led to the creation of Bangladesh; and in June 1975, on the ground of "internal disturbance", during Indira Gandhi's government.

Moatsu is a festival of the Ao tribe of Nagaland, kept in the first week of May once the fields have been cleared, the seed sown and the seedlings planted.

A primary pollutant is released directly from a source, while a secondary pollutant is formed in the atmosphere when primary pollutants react.

The left atrium is the chamber that receives oxygen-rich blood coming back from the lungs through the pulmonary veins. From there the blood passes the bicuspid or mitral valve into the left ventricle, which pumps it out through the aorta to the whole body.

The motif of Rani ki Vav appears on the back of the 100 rupee note of the Mahatma Gandhi New Series, which the Reserve Bank of India issued in 2018 in a lavender shade.

A debit card carries a 16-digit card number printed on its front, and this is the number a shop or a website reads to route the payment.

Dendrites and the axon are the two kinds of processes that grow out of a neuron, the nerve cell that carries messages through the body.

The Salem Steel Plant lies in Salem district of Tamil Nadu, so this is the only correctly matched pair. It is a SAIL unit set up in 1981 and is known for stainless steel cold-rolled coils and sheets rather than ordinary construction steel.

The small intestine is the longest part of the human alimentary canal, about 6 to 7 metres in an adult, which is why it is called the longest organ of the digestive system.

The Representation of the People Act was passed in 1951, before the first general election. Parliament made two laws under Articles 327 and 328.

Silk comes from the cocoon spun by the caterpillar of a moth. The common silk moth is Bombyx mori, and rearing it is called sericulture.

CFCs release chlorine in the stratosphere, and that chlorine destroys ozone. CFCs were used as refrigerants, in aerosol sprays and in foam.