SSC 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.

Gustatory receptors are the receptors of taste, and they lie in the taste buds of the tongue, which sit mostly on small projections called papillae; they are stimulated by chemicals dissolved in saliva and send impulses to the brain.

Anamudi, about 2,695 metres high, rises in the Anaimalai hills of the Idukki district of Kerala and is the highest peak of the Western Ghats and of the whole peninsular plateau south of the Himalayas; the Eravikulam National Park around it shelters the Nilgiri tahr.

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…

Suraj Mal, the ablest ruler of the Bharatpur Jat house, pushed Jat power north into the Haryana plain in the middle of the eighteenth century, holding Ballabhgarh, Farrukhnagar and much of the country around Delhi.

Shaukat Ali and his brother Muhammad Ali, the Ali brothers of Rampur in the United Provinces, led the Khilafat agitation and met Mahatma Gandhi to argue that the Khilafat cause and swaraj should be fought together.

The territory was the eastern wing of Pakistan from 1947, and it became the independent country of Bangladesh after the war of 1971, which ended when Lieutenant General A. A. K. Niazi signed the Instrument of Surrender at Dhaka on 16 December 1971 before Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora.

Bose raised this all-women fighting unit in 1943 and named it after Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi, the heroine of the revolt of 1857.

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.

NDMA is the apex body for disaster management in India, created under the Disaster Management Act of 2005 and chaired by the Prime Minister; it frames policies and plans for prevention, mitigation and preparedness.

The correct answer is B, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, who brought out Sambad Kaumudi in Bengali in 1821 and the Persian weekly Mirat-ul-Akhbar the next year, closing the latter in protest against the Licensing Regulations of 1823.

Nepal touches five Indian states, namely Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim, so options A, B and C are all genuine Nepal border states and only Assam is not.

Mysore under Haidar Ali and then Tipu Sultan built iron-cased war rockets and organised regular rocket units, using them against the English in the Anglo-Mysore wars; specimens taken at Seringapatam were studied in England and shaped the rockets developed there.

Saadat Khan, who held the title Burhan-ul-Mulk, was appointed governor of Awadh in 1722 and converted the governorship into a hereditary principality, keeping the outward forms of allegiance to the Mughal emperor while ruling independently.

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.

The Khetri copper belt lies in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, in the north-eastern part of the state. Khetri is the best known copper field of India and is worked by Hindustan Copper Limited.

The Golden Boat is the English title of Sonar Tari, the Bengali collection of poems Tagore published in 1894, nineteen years before his Nobel Prize, and its title poem is among the best known in modern Bengali verse.