SSC 2023 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 inserted Article 21A, making free and compulsory education for every child of six to fourteen years a fundamental right.

Maha Shivratri falls on the Chaturdashi of the dark half of Phalguna, which comes in February or March, and in Uttar Pradesh it is the closing bathing day of the Magh Mela at Prayagraj and the biggest night of the year at the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.

Maha Shivratri falls on the Chaturdashi of the dark half of Phalguna, in February or March. In Madhya Pradesh it is the largest single fair day of the year: it fills the Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga at Ujjain, the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district and the Shiva shrines of Pachmarhi.

The Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda, and it is one of the seven rivers of the Sapta Sindhu, the land in which the hymns were composed.

The Census of 2011 found that 31.16 per cent of Indians lived in urban areas and the remaining 68.84 per cent in villages.

Among the union territories Puducherry recorded 1,037 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, the only union territory with more women than men and the highest figure in that group.

The Census of 2011 recorded 879 females for every 1,000 males in Haryana, the lowest figure of any state in the country, against a national average of 943.

Seleucus was the Macedonian general who took over Alexander's eastern conquests and tried to recover the Indian provinces around 305 BCE.

By status of development resources are grouped as potential resources, found in a region but not yet used; developed resources, surveyed and in use; stock, which exists but cannot be used for want of technology; and reserves, the part of the stock that can be drawn on in future with…

Coal, iron ore, manganese, limestone and water lie close together there, so the country's iron and steel plants crowded into it: Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Burnpur and Durgapur on its edges and Rourkela just beyond.

The sundari is a mangrove tree of the tidal deltaic forests of the Coasts biogeographic zone, and the Sundarbans of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta take their name from it; its wood is hard and durable, and like other mangroves it has salt tolerant roots and breathing roots in the waterlogged mud.

The Tropic of Cancer lies at 23 degrees 30 minutes north and crosses eight Indian states: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.

The correct answer is A, China, which was never a British territory and is therefore not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, so it does not take part in the Commonwealth Games.

These are communities within the Scheduled Tribes that are the least developed on four counts: a pre-agricultural level of technology, a stagnant or declining population, extremely low literacy and a subsistence economy.

Wood Despatch of 1854 was a scheme of education, and it is often called the Magna Carta of English education in India.

A cell whose nucleus is well organised and bounded by a nuclear membrane is called a eukaryotic cell. The word comes from the Greek eu, meaning true, and karyon, meaning kernel or nucleus.

Jawaharlal Nehru hoisted the national flag over the Lahori Gate of the Red Fort on 15 August 1947, and every Prime Minister has addressed the nation from its ramparts on Independence Day since.

The Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang reached Kanchi around 640 CE, when Narasimhavarman I was on the Pallava throne. Narasimhavarman I, who ruled about 630 to 668 CE, took the title Mamalla, meaning great wrestler, and gave his name to Mamallapuram.

These monsoon forests cover the largest part of India, so they are the most widespread forest type in the country.

Carbon-14 is the radioactive isotope of carbon used for radiocarbon dating, and its half-life is close to 5,700 years, which is the figure quoted in the question.