SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Vikramaditya VI ruled the Western Chalukya kingdom of Kalyani, and his court poet Bilhana wrote the Vikramankadevacharita on his life.

Earthquake waves fall into body waves, which travel through the interior of the Earth, and surface waves, which move along the surface, and the surface waves are called L waves, or long waves.

The Bureau of Indian Standards code IS 1893 divides the country into four seismic zones, numbered II, III, IV and V, where Zone V carries the highest risk and Zone II the least.

A demand curve is the picture of the demand function, which links the quantity a consumer buys to the price of the good, so statement I is correct.

The Lucknow Pact of December 1916 was an agreement between the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League, by which the Congress accepted separate electorates for Muslims and the two bodies placed a joint demand for self government before the British.

In the continental drift theory that Alfred Wegener put forward in 1912, the single land mass was Pangaea and the single mega ocean around it was Panthalassa, a Greek name meaning all sea.

The law of demand says that, other things remaining the same, a consumer buys more of a good when its price falls and less when the price rises, so price and quantity demanded move in opposite directions.

The All India Muslim League was founded at Dhaka in December 1906, with Nawab Salimullah of Dhaka taking the lead and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk and Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk among its founders, while Aga Khan III became its first president.

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.

The Earth turns through 360 degrees in 24 hours, so it covers 15 degrees of longitude in one hour, and each standard time zone is drawn one hour, that is 15 degrees, wide.

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.

Gandhi led the Kheda satyagraha in 1918, asking the government to remit land revenue after the crops failed in that district of Gujarat.

Manipur was the first part of India to hold an election on universal adult franchise, when its state assembly was elected in 1948 under the Manipur State Constitution Act of 1947.

Dal Lake in Srinagar is called the jewel of Srinagar, because the houseboats, floating gardens and shikaras of the city sit on it.

Magadha was the first power of ancient India to use elephants in war on a large scale, taking them from the forests of its east Indian heartland.

The Sirki Waterfall lies near Pasighat in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

Dadabhai Naoroji published Poverty and Un-British Rule in India in 1901, and in it he set out his drain theory, the argument that British rule was steadily draining India’s wealth to England through salaries, pensions, home charges and the profits of trade.

The Transmission Control Protocol decides how data is exchanged across the internet and breaks a message into numbered packets that IP then carries to the destination.

Madurai in Tamil Nadu is called the Athens of the East because, like ancient Athens, it was a seat of learning, poetry and debate for centuries.

Ugadi is the new year festival of Andhra Pradesh, and it is also kept in Telangana and Karnataka. The name comes from yuga and adi, meaning the beginning of an age, and it falls on the first day of the month of Chaitra, in March or April.