SSC 2022 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Seasonal unemployment is the kind in which people find work only in certain months and sit idle in the rest.

The Lodis followed the Sayyids at Delhi. Bahlol Lodi, an Afghan noble who was governor of Sirhind, took the throne in 1451 when the last Sayyid ruler Alam Shah gave up Delhi and settled at Badaun.

The Eastern Railway zone has its headquarters at Fairlie Place in Kolkata, West Bengal. Eastern Railway was created in 1952 out of the eastern part of the old East Indian Railway and a portion of the Bengal Nagpur Railway, which makes it one of the oldest zones of Indian Railways.

The fourth session of the Indian National Congress met at Allahabad in 1888 and elected George Yule as its president, and he was the first Englishman and the first non Indian to hold the office.

Muriatic acid is the old trade name for hydrochloric acid, the water solution of hydrogen chloride gas, and the name survives in the market for the crude commercial grade used for cleaning metal and masonry.

The greater one-horned rhinoceros, the animal of Kaziranga and Manas in Assam, is placed in Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, the schedule that carries the highest protection and the strictest punishment for hunting or trade.

In the Sangam poems the word muvendar stands for the three crowned rulers of the Tamil country, the Chera, the Chola and the Pandya, each with a port and an inland centre of power, and the poems praise their gifts and their wars.

The Treaty of Salbai ended the First Anglo-Maratha War, fought during the term of Warren Hastings. By its terms Salsette remained with the Company, Raghunathrao's claim to the Peshwaship was dropped and Madhavrao II was recognised as Peshwa.

When the Government announced the rabi Minimum Support Prices for the marketing season 2021-22, it also published the margin of each price over the A2 plus FL cost of production.

Both are sown in October and November after the monsoon withdraws and harvested in March and April. Barley is a coarse cereal grown mainly in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, and gram is the most important rabi pulse of India, grown in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.

Water has a specific heat capacity of about 4186 joule per kilogram per kelvin, not 1200, so this pair is the wrong one.

Arikamedu, on the Ariyankuppam river near Puducherry on the Coromandel coast, began as a small fishing settlement and grew into a busy port that traded with the Romans and the Greco Roman world in the first centuries of the common era.

Germanium is not used to build light emitting diodes because it is an indirect band gap semiconductor, so an electron falling back across the gap gives up most of its energy as heat in the crystal rather than as light.

Salinity is the quantity of dissolved salt, in grams, present in one thousand grams of sea water, so it is read as parts per thousand.

The Vijayanagara kingdom was founded in 1336 by two brothers, Harihara and Bukka, who belonged to the Sangama family, and the line is therefore called the Sangama dynasty.

Sustainable Development Goal 6 is clean water and sanitation, and its aim is to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

In Koppen’s classification the group of cold climates, marked E, holds two types, the tundra climate and the ice cap climate.

Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh has a large coal based thermal power station on the Krishna river, named after Dr Narla Tata Rao, but no nuclear plant.

Pivoting is the legal turn in which a player holding the ball keeps one foot fixed on the floor, the pivot foot, and steps around with the other foot; it lets a player face the basket or protect the ball without being called for travelling.

In sheet erosion water spreads over a wide slope and carries away a thin, even film of topsoil, so nothing obvious is left behind to see, and the loss is noticed only years later as falling yields.