SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The B complex is a group of eight water soluble vitamins that work mainly as helpers in the reactions that release energy from food.

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.

Cinnabar is mercuric sulphide, HgS, and the formula itself gives the answer away because Hg is the symbol of mercury.

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.

Ibn Batuta, the Moroccan traveller, reached Delhi in the fourteenth century during the reign of Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who appointed him the qazi of Delhi and later sent him as an envoy to China.

Muriatic acid is the old trade name for hydrochloric acid, the water solution of hydrogen chloride gas, and the name survives in the market for the crude commercial grade used for cleaning metal and masonry.

Hiuen Tsang, the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, travelled in India in the seventh century, when Harshavardhana of the Pushyabhuti dynasty ruled from Kannauj.

The White Revolution is the name given to the sharp rise in milk production in India, so the colour white here stands for milk.

Ibrahim Lodi came to the throne of Delhi in 1517 after the death of his father Sikandar Lodi. He was the third and last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, which was the final dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.

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.

Swine flu is an influenza infection of the type first recognised in pigs, and the name itself records the animal in which the virus circulates before it passes to people; once it is in a human population it spreads from person to person by droplets.

Malaria is caused by the protozoan Plasmodium and carried by the female Anopheles mosquito, and kala azar, also called visceral leishmaniasis, is caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani and carried by the sandfly.

Typhoid is caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi, which spreads through food and water contaminated with human waste, and it is prevented both by sanitation and by the typhoid conjugate vaccine.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development began work in 1982, set up on the recommendation of the Sivaraman Committee, and it is the apex development bank for agriculture and the rural economy, refinancing and supervising both Regional Rural Banks and cooperative banks.

The Bharat Interface for Money application was released in December 2016 by the National Payments Corporation of India so that payments over the Unified Payments Interface, launched earlier that year, could be made from any smartphone with a bank account linked to it.

Ankiya Nat is the one-act devotional play written by Srimanta Sankardeva, the saint of the Vaishnava movement in Assam, and its performance is called a Bhaona, staged in the prayer hall of a satra or naamghar with a narrator, songs and masks.

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

The Royal Calcutta Golf Club was founded in 1829 in the city that was then the capital of British India, and it is counted as the first golf club established anywhere outside Britain.

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.