SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Amylase breaks starch into the sugar maltose; a lipase works on fat, and saliva carries no significant lipase, so the statement pairs the right action with the wrong enzyme.

Humus is the dark, formless material left in soil after decomposers have broken down dead leaves, roots and animal remains; it resists further microbial attack and decays only very slowly, which makes it the long term store of carbon and nutrients in soil and a key step in every biogeochemical…

The IBM System/360, announced in 1964, was built around integrated circuits, and the integrated circuit is exactly what defines the third generation of computers; the series is also remembered for introducing a single compatible family of machines of different sizes.

In Census 2011 Haryana recorded a sex ratio of 879 females per 1,000 males, the lowest among all the states of India, against the national figure of 943; among the union territories the lowest was Daman and Diu.

A VVPAT unit is attached to the balloting unit of an electronic voting machine and prints a slip showing the serial number, name and symbol of the candidate the voter has chosen; the slip is visible through a window for about seven seconds and then drops into a sealed box…

Article 324(2) says the Chief Election Commissioner and the other Election Commissioners shall be appointed by the President, and under the Act of 2023 the President acts on the recommendation of a Selection Committee of the Prime Minister, a Union Cabinet Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in the…

The first session of the Indian National Congress met at the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay from 28 to 31 December 1885 and was attended by 72 delegates, most of them lawyers, journalists, teachers and merchants drawn from the presidency towns, with W. C. Bonnerjee presiding.

A retired officer of the Indian Civil Service who had served in the North-Western Provinces, Hume issued an appeal to the graduates of Calcutta University in 1883, organised the body he called the Indian National Union, and brought its first session together at Bombay in December 1885, where it took…

It places on the State the duty to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and to improve public health, and a health assurance scheme such as Ayushman Bharat, which gives a cover of five lakh rupees a family a year for hospital treatment…

The Atal Pension Yojana, launched in 2015 and administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, is open to a bank account holder between 18 and 40 years of age, who contributes until the age of 60 and then draws a guaranteed monthly pension of between one thousand and…

The Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on 2 October 2014, and its rural wing completed the first phase of toilet building with the declaration of open defecation free villages in 2019.

In 1989 the National Rural Employment Programme of 1980 and the Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme of 1983 were brought together into a single wage employment programme named the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, which was run through the panchayats and remained the main rural employment programme of the early 1990s. Option…

Under the Regional Connectivity Scheme called UDAN, which stands for Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik and was launched in 2016, the fare on a subsidised seat is capped at about 2,500 rupees for an hour of flight on a fixed-wing aircraft, and the difference between that fare and the cost…

Ecowrap is the research report of the State Bank of India, brought out by its economic research department. Ecowrap is written by the team of the group chief economic adviser at SBI and comments on growth, inflation, bank credit, government finances and the state of households.

The Nyaya Sutra was composed by the sage Gautama, also called Akshapada Gautama, who founded the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy.

A bacterial flagellum is built of exactly these three parts. The filament is the long thread outside the cell, made of the protein flagellin coiled into a hollow helix, and it acts like a propeller.

Puhar, also called Kaveripattinam, was the great port of the early Cholas of the Sangam age. The town stood where the Kaveri meets the Bay of Bengal, and Karikala, the best known early Chola ruler, is credited with developing it.

That is the wording of Sustainable Development Goal 6, the water and sanitation goal. The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda, and they replaced the eight Millennium Development Goals.

The Purusha Sukta is the ninetieth hymn of the tenth mandala of the Rigveda.

The iron pillar that now stands in the Qutb complex at Mehrauli in Delhi carries a Sanskrit inscription in Brahmi script praising a king called Chandra, taken to be Chandragupta II of the Gupta dynasty, and it was raised in the fourth or early fifth century as a standard of…