SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

India's first vulture breeding centre, the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre, was set up at Pinjore in the Panchkula district of Haryana in 2001.

India took the idea of five-year plans from the erstwhile Soviet Union, which began its first plan in 1928 under Stalin.

The Tropic of Cancer, at 23 degrees 30 minutes north, cuts India almost in half and divides it into a tropical south and a subtropical north.

Lavani is the best known folk dance of Maharashtra, performed by women in a nine-yard sari to the beat of the dholki.

Part XIV of the Constitution, titled Services under the Union and the States, covers Articles 308 to 323, and the public service commissions sit in it.

Gross domestic product, or GDP, is the money value of all final goods and services produced inside the borders of a country in one year.

Saturn lies beyond the asteroid belt, so it is an outer planet. The eight planets are divided by the asteroid belt that runs between Mars and Jupiter.

Mehrgarh was a Neolithic farming village, not a city of the Harappan civilisation. It lies on the Kachi plain of Balochistan and goes back to about 7000 BCE, thousands of years before the mature Harappan phase of 2600 to 1900 BCE.

India took the idea of a single citizenship for the whole country from the British constitution. Part II of the Constitution, Articles 5 to 11, deals with citizenship.

The city stands on the Sarayu in eastern Uttar Pradesh and is one of the oldest towns named in Indian literature.

Andhra State came into being on 1 October 1953 from the Telugu-speaking districts of the Madras province. The immediate cause was the death of Potti Sriramulu on 15 December 1952 after a fast unto death for a Telugu state, and the agitation that followed forced the Government's hand.

Women of the Self-Employed Women's Association at Ahmedabad, who worked as vendors, headloaders and home-based workers, pooled their own share capital and registered a cooperative bank of their own in 1974 because ordinary banks would not deal with borrowers who had no collateral and no paperwork.

It was founded in 1908 by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, nationalised in the first round of July 1969, and the Government of India still holds the majority of its shares, which is what makes a bank a public sector bank.

A commercial bank exists to gather savings from those who have a surplus and lend them to those who need funds, and it earns from the gap between the interest it pays depositors and the interest it charges borrowers.

The Reserve Bank opened in 1935 as a shareholders' bank with privately held share capital.

It was founded in 1865 and is remembered as the oldest joint stock bank in India, a joint stock bank being one owned by shareholders rather than by a partnership of agency houses.

The philosopher and teacher Dr S. Radhakrishnan was India's first Vice-President, from 1952 to 1962, serving two full terms. He then became the second President of India (1962–67).

Under Article 67(b), the Vice-President can be removed by a resolution of the Rajya Sabha passed by a majority of all its then members, an "effective majority", and agreed to by the Lok Sabha by a simple majority.

It provides that the Vice-President shall be elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of the members of both Houses of Parliament, elected and nominated alike, by proportional representation through the single transferable vote and by secret ballot.

Droupadi Murmu was elected President in July 2022, defeating Yashwant Sinha, and took the oath on 25 July 2022, succeeding Ram Nath Kovind, the 14th President.