SSC 2021 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

IBM and Coca-Cola wound up their Indian operations in 1977 rather than dilute their holdings to 40 per cent. The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, passed in 1973, required foreign companies to cut their equity in Indian subsidiaries to that level and to obtain permission for most dealings in foreign exchange.

The Sun temple at Konark in Odisha was built in the thirteenth century by Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga dynasty.

Ustad Bismillah Khan was the shehnai player who lifted that instrument from wedding processions to the concert stage.

Mahavira attained nirvana, or salvation, at Pavapuri in the Nalanda district of Bihar, at the age of 72. He was the twenty-fourth and last Tirthankara of Jainism, born at Kundagrama near Vaishali to Siddhartha and Trishala.

Gross Domestic Product counts the value of final goods and services produced inside a country during a year. Only final output is added, because the value of intermediate goods is already inside the price of the finished product, and counting both would be double counting.

Bimbisara belonged to the Haryanka dynasty of Magadha, not to the Mauryas. He ruled from Rajagriha in the sixth century BC, was a contemporary of the Buddha and Mahavira, and enlarged Magadha through marriage alliances and by annexing Anga.

Amartya Sen received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics.

'Ace against Odds' is the autobiography of the tennis player Sania Mirza, brought out in 2016 and written with her father Imran Mirza and the journalist Shivani Gupta.

The First Buddhist Council was held under the patronage of Ajatashatru, the Haryanka ruler of Magadha. It met at Rajgir, in the Sattapanni cave, soon after the Buddha's death, and was presided over by Mahakassapa.

The Amrita Devi Bishnoi National Award is given for outstanding courage and devotion in protecting wildlife. It was instituted by the Union environment ministry in 1994 and carries a cash prize with a citation.

Net Domestic Product is what is left of the domestic product after setting aside the wear and tear of capital.

Windows is proprietary, or closed-source: Microsoft keeps its source code private and sells it under a licence that does not let users study, change or redistribute the code.

A hard disk is secondary storage: the CPU cannot work on its contents directly, and data must first be copied into main memory.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in New York, with the agreement of the Philippine government, in memory of Ramon Magsaysay, the third President of the Philippines, who had died in an air crash in March that year.

The Industrial Development Bank of India has its head office in Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra, at the IDBI Tower in Cuffe Parade.

In Rock Edict XIII, Ashoka states that the country of the Kalingas was conquered eight years after his consecration as king.

Article 21A says the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years, in such manner as the State may by law determine.

Sudarshan Sahoo, the stone and wood sculptor from Puri in Odisha, was given the Padma Vibhushan in 2021 in the field of art. He had already received the Padma Shri in 1988, and his work carries the Odishan temple-sculpture tradition of Konark and Puri into modern studios.

The Sudirman Cup is the world mixed team championship of badminton, organised by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was first held in 1989 in Jakarta and is named after Dick Sudirman, the founder of the Badminton Association of Indonesia.

The pineal gland, a small pine-cone-shaped gland deep in the brain, secretes melatonin. Melatonin controls the body's day-night rhythm, called the circadian rhythm, and helps regulate sleep.