SSC 2020 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

On the east, India has a land boundary with Myanmar and Bangladesh. India shares land borders with seven countries.

The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills lie in Meghalaya and together form the Meghalaya plateau. This plateau is a detached block of the peninsular plateau, separated from the main Chota Nagpur plateau by the Malda gap.

Four Indian states touch Bhutan: Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The India-Bhutan boundary is about 699 kilometres long.

The Bankapura Peacock Sanctuary lies within the ruins of Bankapura fort in Haveri district of Karnataka and is one of the very few protected areas in India notified specifically for the Indian peafowl, the national bird.

Elektron is the Greek name for amber, the fossilised tree resin which the ancient Greeks found would attract straw, feathers and bits of dust after being rubbed with fur.

Working independently in the 1830s, Michael Faraday in England and Joseph Henry in the United States showed that a changing magnetic flux through a circuit sets up an electromotive force in it, and that the effect depends on the rate of change of flux rather than on the flux itself.

At the midnight sitting of the Constituent Assembly on 14 and 15 August 1947, Nehru moved the pledge resolution with his Tryst with Destiny speech, and Dr S. Radhakrishnan, then a member of the Assembly and later the first Vice-President and the second President of India, spoke after him.

C. Rajagopalachari was one of the first three recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1954, along with C. V. Raman and S. Radhakrishnan, not of the Padma Shri, so this statement is not true.

On 9 August 1925 members of the Hindustan Republican Association stopped the 8 Down train near Kakori in Uttar Pradesh and took the government treasury bags, hoping to fund an armed struggle and buy weapons.

The Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, refused to sign the Instrument of Accession and signed only a standstill agreement in 1947, so in September 1948 the Indian government sent in the army in a police action code-named Operation Polo and the state joined the Indian Union.

The institution stands at Teen Murti Bhavan in New Delhi, the house where Jawaharlal Nehru lived as Prime Minister for sixteen years, and it was opened to the public in 1964 after his death.

Gamma rays are electromagnetic waves of the highest frequency and shortest wavelength, given out by the nucleus of a radioactive atom and in nuclear reactions, and their energy lets them kill cancer cells in radiotherapy.

The United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015, with 17 goals and 169 targets, and Goal 10 is Reduced Inequalities.

On Survey of India topographical sheets, railway lines, telegraph and telephone lines, settlement names and boundaries are printed in black, so black is the colour of such man-made linear features.

Kazakhstan is the world's largest producer of uranium and alone accounts for roughly two-fifths of global output. Its uranium comes mainly from the Chu-Sarysu and Syr Darya basins and is won by in-situ leaching, a method that dissolves the metal underground instead of digging it out.

The calm centre of a cyclone is called the eye of the storm, a roughly circular area twenty to fifty kilometres across where the air sinks, the winds are light and the sky can even be clear.

In the mesosphere the temperature falls as one goes up, reaching about minus 100 degrees Celsius at the mesopause near 80 km, which makes it the coldest layer of the atmosphere.

The Indian National Army took 'Ittehad, Etmad, Qurbani' as its motto, and those three words mean unity, faith and sacrifice.

Calderas are the most explosive of the earth's volcanoes, because they erupt so violently that the magma chamber empties and the summit collapses into a wide hollow instead of building a cone.

A committee headed by Motilal Nehru, with eight other members, drafted a constitution for India in 1928, and its report is known as the Nehru Report.