SSC 2023 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Rana Kumbha of the Sisodia house of Mewar was both a builder and a scholar: he raised the fort of Kumbhalgarh and the Vijaya Stambha at Chittorgarh and wrote on music, the Sangeet Raj being the best known of his works, along with commentaries on the Gita Govinda.

The correct answer is A, Nedunjeliyan II, the Pandya king of Madurai who is remembered in Sangam poetry as the victor of the battle of Talaiyalanganam, in which he is said to have defeated a confederacy of the Chera and Chola kings and five lesser chieftains.

In 1924 Satyendra Nath Bose sent Albert Einstein a paper deriving Planck s radiation law by counting indistinguishable light quanta.

This form, analysed by Edward Chamberlin, keeps two features of perfect competition, a large number of firms and free entry and exit, but drops the third: each firm sells a differentiated or branded product, so it faces a downward sloping demand curve and has a little control over its own…

Julia was a storm of the Atlantic basin and never approached India, so it cannot belong to a list of Indian landfalls.

The eye of a tropical cyclone is the roughly circular column of calm, descending air at its centre, usually a few tens of kilometres across, where the pressure is lowest, the winds are light and the sky is often nearly clear.

The Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, launched in October 2021, is the largest pan-India scheme for building up health infrastructure, and it works at all three levels of care.

Koeppen grouped climates by temperature and rainfall and gave each group a capital letter, and E stands for the polar group, where the mean temperature of the warmest month stays below 10 degrees Celsius.

The north-east trade winds blow over India in the winter season, roughly from October to February.

India covers about 32.87 lakh square kilometres, which is roughly 2.4 per cent of the world's total land area. That small share supports about 17 to 18 per cent of the world's people, and this gap between land and population is what the question is really testing.

The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 placed every industry in one of three schedules, according to how large a role the state was to play in it.

Methyl ethyl ketone has a methyl group on one side of the carbonyl and an ethyl group on the other, which makes four carbons in all with the carbonyl at the second position, so its IUPAC name is butan-2-one or 2-butanone.

A homogeneous mixture has the same composition and properties throughout and no visible boundary between its parts, so a true solution such as salt water qualifies, and so does brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, since alloys are solid solutions.

The standard school classification divides India's natural vegetation into five groups: tropical evergreen rainforests, tropical deciduous or monsoon forests, tropical thorn forests and scrubs, montane forests, and mangrove or tidal forests.

This Act abolished dyarchy in the provinces and made them autonomous units, with ministries responsible to elected provincial legislatures; the first elections under it were held in 1937 and Congress ministries took office in most provinces.

Both statements state the same rule from opposite sides: national income is the value of final goods and services, and the value of intermediate goods is excluded so that the same output is not counted at every stage of production.

Asia supplies more than half of the world's tin, because the great tin belt of South East Asia runs through Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and China is the largest single producer.

Tropical deciduous forests are India's monsoon forests, and their trees shed their leaves for about six to eight weeks in the dry summer to save water.

Leh, in the cold desert of Ladakh, lies above 3,500 metres in the Himalayas, and its winter temperature falls far below freezing, lower than anywhere else in the list.

Mosses and lichens are the typical plants of the tundra, the cold treeless belt that lies beyond the coniferous forests of the far north.