SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Goal 15, called Life on Land, is the goal for land ecosystems, and its wording covers forests, desertification, land degradation and the loss of biodiversity.

Dadabhai Naoroji set up the East India Association in London in 1866 to place Indian questions before the British public and members of Parliament, and branches of it were soon opened in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.

The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes began work as a separate body in 2004.

Kandla, now named Deendayal Port, stands on the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat and is a tidal port, which means ships use the rise of the tide in its creek to come in and go out.

Khizr Khan founded the Sayyid dynasty at Delhi in 1414 after taking the city from Daulat Khan Lodi.

Mopin is the harvest and agricultural festival of the Galo people of Arunachal Pradesh, held in early April. It is a prayer to the goddess Mopin Ane for a good crop, for health and for prosperity, and for the driving away of evil and illness.

Vatapi is today's Badami in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, and it was the capital of the Chalukyas of Badami, founded by Pulakeshin the First in the sixth century.

Vipasha is the Sanskrit name of the Beas, the river the Greeks called Hyphasis and the one at whose bank Alexander's army refused to march further east in 326 BC.

The word Neolithic is built from the Greek neos, meaning new, and lithos, meaning stone, so the Neolithic is the New Stone Age.

The Sheesh Mahal, or palace of mirrors, inside the Agra Fort was built in Shah Jahan's reign as a bath and dressing chamber for the royal household.

The post of National Security Adviser was created in November 1998, when the Vajpayee government set up the National Security Council.

Mosses, lichens and low shrubs make up the tundra, the treeless cover of the lands around the Arctic Ocean and of high mountain slopes above the tree line.

National Voters' Day is observed on 25 January every year because the Election Commission of India was set up on 25 January 1950, a day before the Constitution came into force.

Seasonal unemployment is the kind in which people find work only in certain months and sit idle in the rest.

The Lodis followed the Sayyids at Delhi. Bahlol Lodi, an Afghan noble who was governor of Sirhind, took the throne in 1451 when the last Sayyid ruler Alam Shah gave up Delhi and settled at Badaun.

Tamil was the first language to be given classical language status in India, in 2004. Sanskrit was declared classical in 2005, Kannada and Telugu together in 2008, Malayalam in 2013 and Odia in 2014.

Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. At ordinary pressure it does not melt into a liquid at all: it changes straight from solid to gas, a process called sublimation, at about minus 78.5 degrees Celsius.

Rudramadevi ruled the Kakatiya kingdom from Warangal, called Orugallu then, in what is now Telangana, in the second half of the thirteenth century.

Litmus is a purple dye taken from lichens, and in the classification used in school science lichens are placed in Thallophyta, the group of simple plants whose body is an undifferentiated thallus with no true root, stem or leaf.

Shortughai stands in north-eastern Afghanistan, near the Oxus or Amu Darya river, and is the northernmost Harappan settlement known.