SSC 2020 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The Lahore session of the Indian National Congress passed the Purna Swaraj resolution on 19 December 1929 and declared complete independence to be the goal of the Congress.

The Bureau of Indian Standards code IS 1893 divides the country into four seismic zones, numbered II, III, IV and V, where Zone V carries the highest risk and Zone II the least.

In the continental drift theory that Alfred Wegener put forward in 1912, the single land mass was Pangaea and the single mega ocean around it was Panthalassa, a Greek name meaning all sea.

The All India Muslim League was founded at Dhaka in December 1906, with Nawab Salimullah of Dhaka taking the lead and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk and Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk among its founders, while Aga Khan III became its first president.

Madurai in Tamil Nadu is called the Athens of the East because, like ancient Athens, it was a seat of learning, poetry and debate for centuries.

The Kathasaritsagara, whose name means the ocean of the streams of story, was composed in Sanskrit verse in the eleventh century by Somadeva of Kashmir for the queen Suryavati, and it is a vast frame narrative drawing on the lost Brihatkatha of Gunadhya; the Vetala Panchavimshati, known in Hindi as…

The Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India on 26 November 1949, and the Government of India declared that date Constitution Day, or Samvidhan Divas, in 2015, the year of the 125th birth anniversary of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, who chaired the Drafting Committee.

The Lotus Temple, the Bahai House of Worship at Kalkaji in New Delhi, was designed by Fariborz Sahba, an architect born in Iran who later settled in Canada, and it was completed and opened for worship in December 1986.

The Rail Coach Factory, which carries exactly that name, was set up at Kapurthala in Punjab in 1986 and builds passenger coaches, among them the LHB coaches now standard on long-distance trains.

Humayun's library stood in the Sher Mandal, the small octagonal tower inside the Purana Qila in Delhi, which he used as a library and an observatory after he won back the throne in 1555.

Mahmud of Ghazni, who ruled the Ghaznavid kingdom from 998 to 1030, is recorded as having led seventeen raids into India between about 1000 and 1027.

Marco Polo belonged to a family of merchants of the Republic of Venice, then the leading trading city of the Mediterranean, and he travelled overland to the court of Kublai Khan in China, returning by sea at the end of the thirteenth century.

Only vitamin C and the eight vitamins of the B complex dissolve in water; the rest dissolve in fat.

Gopala founded the Pala dynasty in Bengal in the middle of the eighth century, and the Khalimpur copper plate records that he was raised to the throne by the chiefs to end a long spell of disorder known as matsyanyaya, the rule of the fish.

The B complex is a group of eight water soluble vitamins that work mainly as helpers in the reactions that release energy from food.

Cinnabar is mercuric sulphide, HgS, and the formula itself gives the answer away because Hg is the symbol of mercury.

Hiuen Tsang, the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, travelled in India in the seventh century, when Harshavardhana of the Pushyabhuti dynasty ruled from Kannauj.

The White Revolution is the name given to the sharp rise in milk production in India, so the colour white here stands for milk.

Ibrahim Lodi came to the throne of Delhi in 1517 after the death of his father Sikandar Lodi. He was the third and last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, which was the final dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development began work in 1982, set up on the recommendation of the Sivaraman Committee, and it is the apex development bank for agriculture and the rural economy, refinancing and supervising both Regional Rural Banks and cooperative banks.