SSC 2021 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Calaverite is gold telluride, with the formula AuTe2. It is one of the very few minerals in which gold occurs chemically combined rather than as the free metal, because gold is a noble metal that usually resists reaction.

He founded ISKCON in New York in 1966. Born Abhay Charan De in Calcutta in 1896, he sailed to the United States at the age of sixty-nine with a few rupees and a trunk of books, and began chanting the Hare Krishna mantra in a park in Manhattan.

It was started in Calcutta in 1780 and was the first printed newspaper in India. James Augustus Hicky brought it out as a weekly and called it the Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser.

Barium compounds such as barium nitrate give fireworks and signal flares a bright green flame. The colour comes from a flame test.

Gulbarga was renamed Ahsanabad and made the first capital of the Bahmani kingdom. The Bahmani sultanate was founded in 1347 by Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah, also called Hasan Gangu, after Deccan nobles revolted against Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

Dantidurga founded the Rashtrakuta kingdom in the Deccan in about 753 CE. Dantidurga was a feudatory of the Chalukyas of Badami and overthrew the Chalukya ruler Kirtivarman II to set up independent rule, with Manyakheta, today's Malkhed in Karnataka, becoming the capital.

The Wang Chhu flows through western Bhutan and joins the Brahmaputra system in India. The Wang Chhu rises in the Himalayas of Tibet, passes Thimphu and Paro in Bhutan, and enters West Bengal, where it is known as the Raidak.

C. Rajagopalachari led the salt march in the Madras Presidency, in the area that is now Tamil Nadu. When the Civil Disobedience Movement began in 1930, Rajagopalachari marched from Tiruchirappalli to Vedaranyam on the Tanjore coast and broke the salt law there in April 1930.

A normal umbilical cord contains two arteries and one vein, three blood vessels in all. The umbilical cord joins the developing foetus to the placenta.

This statement is incorrect, because the Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy at Calcutta in 1828. Swami Dayanand Saraswati was born in 1824 as Mool Shankar at Tankara in the Morbi region of present-day Gujarat.

Kabartal Wetland, known locally as Kanwar Jheel, lies in Begusarai district of Bihar and was designated a Ramsar site in 2020, becoming the first Ramsar site in the state.

An IPv4 address, which is what the question means by an IP address, is thirty-two bits long.

The Fundamental Rights in Part III of the Indian Constitution were drawn from the Bill of Rights, the name given to the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

Lonar Lake, in Buldhana district of Maharashtra, was added to the list of Ramsar sites in November 2020 along with Sur Sarovar in Uttar Pradesh.

The All India Rural Credit Survey Committee found that rural credit needed a bank with a nationwide branch network, so Parliament passed the State Bank of India Act, 1955, and the Imperial Bank of India was taken over and renamed the State Bank of India with effect from 1 July…

The Indian elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, was declared the National Heritage Animal in 2010 on the recommendation of the Elephant Task Force, so that its protection could be given the same weight as that of the tiger.

The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 is the statute that created the Bank and it carries the provisions on the custody and deployment of the country's foreign exchange reserves, which the Bank holds and invests.

The Warli are a tribal community of the Palghar and Thane districts of northern Maharashtra, on the border of Gujarat.

The Malayalam poet, known simply as Akkitham, received the 55th Jnanpith Award, given for the year 2019. He was the sixth Malayalam writer to be honoured, the language whose G. Sankara Kurup had won the very first Jnanpith for 1965.

The Malayalam poet, known simply as Akkitham, received the 55th Jnanpith Award, given for the year 2019. The Jnanpith is instituted by Bharatiya Jnanpith and is regarded as the highest literary award in India.