SSC 2021 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Vikramaditya VI ruled the Western Chalukya kingdom of Kalyani, and his court poet Bilhana wrote the Vikramankadevacharita on his life.

The Lucknow Pact of December 1916 was an agreement between the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League, by which the Congress accepted separate electorates for Muslims and the two bodies placed a joint demand for self government before the British.

Manipur was the first part of India to hold an election on universal adult franchise, when its state assembly was elected in 1948 under the Manipur State Constitution Act of 1947.

Magadha was the first power of ancient India to use elephants in war on a large scale, taking them from the forests of its east Indian heartland.

The Sirki Waterfall lies near Pasighat in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

Dadabhai Naoroji published Poverty and Un-British Rule in India in 1901, and in it he set out his drain theory, the argument that British rule was steadily draining India’s wealth to England through salaries, pensions, home charges and the profits of trade.

The tale of queen Maynamati and her son Gopichandra belongs to the Nath literature of eastern India, the body of songs and ballads around the Nathpanthi yogis.

The Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 by a resolution of the Union Cabinet, so it was neither a constitutional nor a statutory body.

In the SI system the prefix femto, written f, stands for 10 raised to minus 15. The name comes from the Danish and Norwegian word femten, meaning fifteen.

Galileo was the first to argue that, with air resistance removed, every body falls with the same acceleration regardless of its mass.

Kolleru Lake lies in Andhra Pradesh, between the deltas of the Krishna and the Godavari, spread across the Eluru and West Godavari districts.

Razia was the only woman to sit on the throne of Delhi, so she was both the first and the last woman ruler of the Sultanate.

An aquifer is a body of rock or loose sediment that is both saturated with groundwater and permeable enough to let that water move freely, so a well sunk into it keeps yielding water.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919 in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles and formally ended the First World War between Germany and the Allied powers.

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a Persian scholar from Khwarizm, came to India in the time of Mahmud of Ghazni in the early eleventh century, learnt Sanskrit, read Indian texts in the original and wrote the Kitab-ul-Hind, also called Tahqiq-i-Hind, a study of Indian religion, philosophy, astronomy, law and custom that is…

Amylase breaks starch into the sugar maltose; a lipase works on fat, and saliva carries no significant lipase, so the statement pairs the right action with the wrong enzyme.

The Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on 2 October 2014, and its rural wing completed the first phase of toilet building with the declaration of open defecation free villages in 2019.

Ecowrap is the research report of the State Bank of India, brought out by its economic research department. Ecowrap is written by the team of the group chief economic adviser at SBI and comments on growth, inflation, bank credit, government finances and the state of households.

The Purusha Sukta is the ninetieth hymn of the tenth mandala of the Rigveda.

Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and is counted as its founder member and first president. The party was launched at Delhi in October 1951 as a nationalist alternative to the Congress.