SSC MTS 2021 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

A plantation crop is a single cash crop grown on a large estate with heavy capital, hired labour and processing of the produce on or near the estate, and coffee, grown in the hills of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, is a classic example along with tea, rubber and sugarcane.

The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 created a three-tier machinery and fixed a money limit for each tier: the district forum could hear a complaint where the value of the goods or services and the compensation claimed did not exceed twenty lakh rupees, the state commission took claims above that limit…

An artificial or man-made ecosystem is one that people create and keep going by their own effort, deciding which species live in it and supplying water, nutrients and protection.

Indian forces entered Goa in December 1961 in Operation Vijay, ending four and a half centuries of Portuguese rule. The Portuguese had held Goa since 1510, when Afonso de Albuquerque took it, and they refused to leave after 1947 even though the French had handed over their settlements.

Silica, or silicon dioxide, is one of the chief mineral constituents of the continental crust of the earth. The continental crust is made largely of granitic rock, which geologists call sial because silica and alumina dominate it.

Gandhi started Indian Opinion at Durban in 1903 to put the case of Indians settled in South Africa before the public.

Gautamiputra Satakarni was the greatest ruler of the Satavahana dynasty, which held the Deccan in the 2nd century CE. He ruled roughly from 106 to 130 CE, with Pratishthana (modern Paithan on the Godavari) as his capital.

Gandhi gave the famous call of Do or Die on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay, the day the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India resolution.

Curium is a radioactive man-made element with the symbol Cm and atomic number 96.

France has twelve time zones, more than any other country, because its overseas departments and territories are scattered across the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean.

The Home Rule Movement began in 1916, when two leagues were set up to demand self-government for India within the British Empire.

The Second Backward Classes Commission, headed by B. P. Mandal, recommended 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in central government services and public undertakings.

An ordinary incandescent bulb is filled with an unreactive gas, nitrogen usually mixed with argon, so that the white-hot tungsten filament does not burn away.

Vikramaditya VI ruled the Western Chalukya kingdom of Kalyani, and his court poet Bilhana wrote the Vikramankadevacharita on his life.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919 in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles and formally ended the First World War between Germany and the Allied powers.

Dadabhai Naoroji set up the East India Association in London in 1866 to place Indian questions before the British public and members of Parliament, and branches of it were soon opened in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.

The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes began work as a separate body in 2004.

Kandla, now named Deendayal Port, stands on the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat and is a tidal port, which means ships use the rise of the tide in its creek to come in and go out.

Vatapi is today's Badami in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, and it was the capital of the Chalukyas of Badami, founded by Pulakeshin the First in the sixth century.

The post of National Security Adviser was created in November 1998, when the Vajpayee government set up the National Security Council.