SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

It was started in Calcutta in 1780 and was the first printed newspaper in India. James Augustus Hicky brought it out as a weekly and called it the Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser.

Barium compounds such as barium nitrate give fireworks and signal flares a bright green flame. The colour comes from a flame test.

Gulbarga was renamed Ahsanabad and made the first capital of the Bahmani kingdom. The Bahmani sultanate was founded in 1347 by Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah, also called Hasan Gangu, after Deccan nobles revolted against Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

UCO Bank uses this line in its logo and advertising. UCO Bank was founded in Kolkata in 1943 as the United Commercial Bank, and the industrialist G. D. Birla was behind its creation.

The Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai set up the Second Backward Classes Commission in 1978.

He painted 'My Mother', a portrait done in the soft wash technique he made famous.

The Constitution (First Amendment) Act was passed in 1951, a little over a year after the Constitution came into force.

Gross National Product minus depreciation gives Net National Product. Depreciation is the wear and tear of machinery, buildings and other capital goods during the year.

The ending 'al' marks an aldehyde, so propanal is the three-carbon aldehyde, CH3CH2CHO. An aldehyde carries the group -CHO at the end of the carbon chain, with the carbonyl carbon attached to a hydrogen.

Dantidurga founded the Rashtrakuta kingdom in the Deccan in about 753 CE. Dantidurga was a feudatory of the Chalukyas of Badami and overthrew the Chalukya ruler Kirtivarman II to set up independent rule, with Manyakheta, today's Malkhed in Karnataka, becoming the capital.

The Dowry Prohibition Act was passed in 1961 and came into force on 1 July that year. The Act makes the giving, taking or demanding of dowry a punishable offence, and defines dowry as property or valuable security given in connection with a marriage.

The product method adds up the value of goods and services produced by all firms in the economy. National income can be measured in three ways, and all three should give the same figure.

Red Sindhi is an indigenous Indian dairy breed of cattle, while the other three are Indian dog breeds.

The craftspersons of Bidar were famous for inlay work in copper and silver, and the craft took the name Bidri from the town.

A glacier is a natural mass of moving ice and a source of fresh water, not a pollutant. A water pollutant is any substance added to water that makes it unfit for use.

She was the first Indian woman musician to win a Grammy, in 2010. Tanvi Shah, a singer and lyricist from Chennai, wrote and sang the Spanish lines of the song 'Jai Ho' from the film Slumdog Millionaire.

The Loo is the hot, dry wind of the northern and north-western plains of India. The Loo blows from the west and north-west during the day in May and June, when the land heats up and a low pressure trough forms over north-west India.

Maize is the crop grown both as food and as fodder, needing 21°C to 27°C and old alluvial soil. Maize is a kharif crop sown with the onset of the monsoon, though in Bihar and a few other states it is also raised in the rabi season.

Back-stick is a foul in field hockey, called when a player strikes the ball with the rounded back of the stick.

This pair is wrong, because tomato contains oxalic acid, along with some citric and malic acid. Formic acid, or methanoic acid, is the acid of an ant sting and a bee sting, and its name comes from the Latin word for ant.