SSC 2023 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Article 316(2) says that a member of the Union Public Service Commission holds office for a term of six years from the date on which he enters upon his office, or until he attains the age of sixty-five years, whichever is earlier.

An industrial city does not stand alone: the country around it supplies food for its workers, agricultural raw material such as cotton, cane, oilseed and jute for its mills, and labour from the villages, while the city in turn sells manufactured goods and services back to that countryside.

When industries gather at one urban centre, each of them can use the roads, railways, power lines, water supply, banks, insurance offices, skilled workers, component suppliers and repair workshops that the others have brought into being, and the saving in cost that follows from this sharing is called an agglomeration…

Aram Bagh stands in Agra in Uttar Pradesh, on the left bank of the Yamuna across from the Taj Mahal, and it is held to be the oldest Mughal garden in India.

The Green Revolution rested on high yielding variety seeds, usually shortened to HYV seeds, which gave far more grain per hectare than the older local varieties when used with assured irrigation, chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Dzongkha is the national and official language of Bhutan, and it is written in the Tibetan script. The name itself means the language of the dzong, the fortress-monasteries from which Bhutan was governed.

Radiation carries heat as electromagnetic waves, so it needs no material medium and can travel through a vacuum. This is how the heat of the Sun crosses empty space to reach the Earth, and why you feel warmth in front of a fire without touching it.

Mohun Bagan Athletic Club was founded in 1889 in Kolkata and is among the oldest football clubs of the country.

The Wild Ass Sanctuary lies in the Little Rann of Kachchh in Gujarat and is the last home of the Indian wild ass, locally called the khur, a Schedule I animal that grazes on the raised patches of grass known as bets in the salt desert.

When a new document is created in MS Word, the program offers a blank document as well as a gallery of templates for letters, resumes and reports, so statement one is correct.

This is one of the striking facts of Mughal cultural history: the emperor who withdrew court patronage from musical performance presided over a reign in which the largest number of Persian treatises on Indian classical music was written, as scholars turned from the court to the book.

He was an officer of Jahangir's court who continued the record of the reign after the emperor stopped writing his own memoir, and his Iqbalnama-i-Jahangiri is one of the main Persian sources for the period.

A shortage of iodine makes the thyroid gland in the neck swell, a condition called goitre. The thyroid needs iodine to make the hormone thyroxine, and when iodine is short the gland grows larger to trap whatever little is available, so the neck looks visibly swollen.

The Kyoto Protocol set its target on a basket of six greenhouse gases, to be cut by an average of 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels.

This is the statement that is not correct, because water has a much higher surface tension than ethyl alcohol.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India heads the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the organisation through which the audit of Union and State accounts is actually carried out.

Five writs can be issued: habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto. Habeas corpus asks that a detained person be produced before the court.

India's first jute mill was set up at Rishra, on the bank of the Hooghly near Serampore in Bengal, in 1855 by George Auckland.

A solar cell turns sunlight straight into electricity by the photovoltaic effect at a semiconductor junction, usually of silicon, so nothing inside it turns or slides.

India marched behind its own flag at the Olympics for the first time at Antwerp in 1920, and the athlete Purma Banerjee carried it at the opening ceremony.