SSC 2017 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Concrete is the building material made by mixing cement with coarse aggregate such as gravel, fine aggregate such as sand, and water.

Banking produces no goods; it supports the making and selling of goods by taking deposits, lending and moving money, so it belongs to the tertiary or service sector.

The Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987 and came into force in 1989 to phase out the substances that destroy stratospheric ozone, chiefly chlorofluorocarbons, halons and carbon tetrachloride used in refrigeration, foam and fire fighting.

The principle says a body immersed wholly or partly in a fluid is pushed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it pushes aside, and that upward force is called buoyancy or upthrust.

A stalagmite is built up on the floor of a limestone cave by water that seeps in from above, so the agent at work is underground water.

Under the Regional Connectivity Scheme called UDAN, which stands for Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik and was launched in 2016, the fare on a subsidised seat is capped at about 2,500 rupees for an hour of flight on a fixed-wing aircraft, and the difference between that fare and the cost…

The Nyaya Sutra was composed by the sage Gautama, also called Akshapada Gautama, who founded the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy.

The Kyoto Protocol came into force on 16 February 2005. It had been adopted at Kyoto in Japan on 11 December 1997 as the first binding agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992.

The anti-defection law sits in the Tenth Schedule, which sets out when a member of Parliament or of a State legislature loses the seat for defecting.

Mughal painting reached its peak under Jahangir, who ruled from 1605 to 1627.

The Citizenship Act of 1955 lays down five ways of acquiring Indian citizenship: by birth, by descent, by registration, by naturalisation and by incorporation of territory.

The Jama Masjid of Delhi, whose formal name is Masjid-i-Jahan-Numa, was built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656 as the congregational mosque of his new capital Shahjahanabad.

Oliver Twist, published in parts between 1837 and 1839, is his second novel and follows an orphan boy through a workhouse and the streets of London.

The Narmada Bachao Andolan grew up against the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada. The movement began in 1985 under Medha Patkar, with Baba Amte and others joining later.

Article 66(3) of the Constitution says a person must have completed 35 years of age to be eligible for election as Vice-President.

Dairying takes its produce directly from nature, so it belongs to the primary sector. Economic activity is usually grouped in three sectors.

The Rig Veda is the oldest of the four Vedas, so it describes the earliest Vedic culture. It is a collection of 1,028 hymns arranged in ten books called mandalas, composed in the land of the seven rivers in the north-west.

SAARC, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, has eight members — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

A LAN joins computers and devices inside a small area such as one room, one building or a campus.

The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976 inserted a new Part IVA into the Constitution, with a single Article, 51A, that lists the Fundamental Duties of every citizen.