SSC 2024 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The defining feature of symmetric encryption is that a single shared secret key performs both operations: the sender encrypts the plaintext with it and the receiver decrypts the ciphertext with the very same key.

Symmetric encryption uses one shared secret key for both locking and unlocking data, and because it is the older and simpler of the two families it is variously called conventional, secret key or private key encryption.

Atomic number 59 is praseodymium, a lanthanide, and the lanthanides and actinides together make up the f-block. A block is named after the sub-shell that the last electron enters.

Mahendravarman I ruled the Pallava kingdom from Kanchipuram in the early seventh century, fought Pulakeshin II of Badami, began the rock-cut mandapas of the Tamil country and bore the titles Vichitrachitta and Mattavilasa, the second being the name of the Sanskrit farce attributed to him.

Pinctada margaritifera is the black lip pearl oyster, a bivalve mollusc of the warm shallow water of the Indo-Pacific, where it fastens itself to coral reefs by strong threads.

Hubbardia heptaneuron, known as Hubbard's grass or the Jog Falls grass, is a species of grass that grew only in the spray zone of the Jog Falls on the Sharavathi river in Karnataka.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is a public sector undertaking, which means the government holds the majority of its shares and controls its management.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in September 1961 at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, and twenty-five countries took part in it.

In the Tamil region of ancient India the ordinary ploughmen, the men who actually tilled the fields, were called uzhavar.

The Dandi March of 1930 was a protest against the British monopoly on salt and the tax on it, under which no Indian was allowed to make or sell salt freely.

Unemployment that rises when the economy slides into a recession or a depression, and falls again in a boom, is called cyclical unemployment.

Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi wrote the Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi in the reign of Mubarak Shah and claimed that Khizr Khan, who founded the dynasty in 1414, descended from the Prophet, which is how the line came to be called Sayyid.

Ustad Sultan Khan of the Sikar gharana was the best known sarangi player of his time, accompanied Ravi Shankar on world tours and won the Padma Bhushan in 2010.

The right order is the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, Khanwa in 1527, Ghaghra in 1529 and Chausa in 1539.

The Bombay Presidency Association was founded in 1885 by Badruddin Tyabji, Pherozeshah Mehta and Kashinath Trimbak Telang, three lawyers of Bombay who are often called the city's triumvirate.

Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested on 31 October 1940 for individual satyagraha against India being dragged into the Second World War without the consent of its people, and he was sentenced to four years in prison.

The All Bengal Students’ Conference was held in Calcutta in 1928 with Jawaharlal Nehru in the chair.

Section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 says that no person shall vote at any election while he is confined in a prison, whether under a sentence of imprisonment or transportation or otherwise, or is in the lawful custody of the police.

A monopolist is the only seller of a good that has no close substitute, so buyers cannot shift away easily when the price rises and the demand curve the firm faces is steeper, that is less elastic.

TISCO, now Tata Steel, is owned and run by private shareholders, which is what makes an enterprise part of the private sector.