General knowledge questions asked in the official papers of SSC exams, SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC MTS, SSC GD Constable and SSC CPO, in one place. Each comes with the correct answer, an explanation and the exam, year and shift it was asked in.
Pick a year below to see that year's questions, or open an exam's own page for its papers alone. Questions from one exam are often asked again in another, so revising the whole SSC family together is a quick way to cover what the papers test.
When a new text document is created in MS - Office 2016, the default text size of the document is _____.
A blank document in MS Word 2016 opens with the body font Calibri at a size of 11 points.
Read the full explanation →Identify the INCORRECT pair with respect to the substances and their specific heat capacity (J kg-1K-1) at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.
Water has a specific heat capacity of about 4186 joule per kilogram per kelvin, not 1200, so this pair is the wrong one.
Read the full explanation →Since the clinical thermometer is designed to measure the temperature of the human body only, it displays the range of 35°C to ______ .
A clinical thermometer is marked from 35 to 42 degrees Celsius, which on the Fahrenheit scale is 94 to 108 degrees.
Read the full explanation →Due to deficiency of which mineral/vitamin, does the glands in the neck appear swollen?
A shortage of iodine makes the thyroid gland in the neck swell, a condition called goitre. The thyroid needs iodine to make the hormone thyroxine, and when iodine is short the gland grows larger to trap whatever little is available, so the neck looks visibly swollen.
Read the full explanation →The target for the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol is to reduce emissions of how many greenhouse gases by 5.2% from 1990 levels?
The Kyoto Protocol set its target on a basket of six greenhouse gases, to be cut by an average of 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels.
Read the full explanation →Which power were the Badami (or Vatapi) Chalukyas originally subjects of?
The Chalukyas of Badami began as feudatories of the Kadambas of Banavasi and broke away as the Kadamba power declined.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following ruling dynasty's capital is NOT correctly matched?
Tanjore, or Thanjavur, was the capital of the Cholas and not of the Chalukyas, so this pair is wrongly matched.
Read the full explanation →'Piklihal' and 'Utnur' are important ______ sites.
Piklihal and Utnur are South Indian Neolithic settlements, famous for the ash mounds their cattle-keeping people left behind.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was a fishing colony that was used as a port for trading with the Romans and the Greco-Romans in ancient India?
Arikamedu, on the Ariyankuppam river near Puducherry on the Coromandel coast, began as a small fishing settlement and grew into a busy port that traded with the Romans and the Greco Roman world in the first centuries of the common era.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following elements is NOT suitable for the fabrication of a light emitting diode structure?
Germanium is not used to build light emitting diodes because it is an indirect band gap semiconductor, so an electron falling back across the gap gives up most of its energy as heat in the crystal rather than as light.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements is NOT correct about surface tension?
This is the statement that is not correct, because water has a much higher surface tension than ethyl alcohol.
Read the full explanation →The salinity of ocean waters is calculated as the amount of salt (in gm) dissolved in _____ gm of seawater.
Salinity is the quantity of dissolved salt, in grams, present in one thousand grams of sea water, so it is read as parts per thousand.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following dynasties established the kingdom of Vijayanagara?
The Vijayanagara kingdom was founded in 1336 by two brothers, Harihara and Bukka, who belonged to the Sangama family, and the line is therefore called the Sangama dynasty.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following Sustainable Development Goals ensures availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all?
Sustainable Development Goal 6 is clean water and sanitation, and its aim is to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following climate types is found under the cold climates?
In Koppen’s classification the group of cold climates, marked E, holds two types, the tundra climate and the ice cap climate.
Read the full explanation →Who is the Administrative Head of the Indian Audit and Accounts Department?
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India heads the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the organisation through which the audit of Union and State accounts is actually carried out.
Read the full explanation →How many types of writs can be issued under Article 32 and 226 of the Constitution of India?
Five writs can be issued: habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto. Habeas corpus asks that a detained person be produced before the court.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following sites does NOT have a nuclear power plant?
Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh has a large coal based thermal power station on the Krishna river, named after Dr Narla Tata Rao, but no nuclear plant.
Read the full explanation →In which year did the Kyoto Protocol come into force?
The Kyoto Protocol came into force on 16 February 2005. It had been adopted at Kyoto in Japan on 11 December 1997 as the first binding agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992.
Read the full explanation →Anti-defection law is given in which schedule of the Indian Constitution?
The anti-defection law sits in the Tenth Schedule, which sets out when a member of Parliament or of a State legislature loses the seat for defecting.
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