SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

It says two things at once: the provisions of Part IV "shall not be enforceable by any court", but the principles laid down in it are "nevertheless fundamental in the governance of the country and it shall be the duty of the State to apply these principles in making laws".

Part IV of the Constitution, Articles 36 to 51, contains the Directive Principles: the goals the State should pursue in making laws and policies, such as a living wage, free legal aid, village panchayats and a Uniform Civil Code.

The Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports and Games was instituted in 2002 to honour sportspersons who not only performed well in their playing days but kept serving the sport after retiring.

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's national academy of music, dance and drama, was created by a government resolution of 31 May 1952 and formally inaugurated on 28 January 1953 by President Rajendra Prasad.

'Ace Against Odds' is the autobiography of Sania Mirza, India's most successful woman tennis player, published in 2016 and written with her father Imran Mirza and Shivani Gupta.

Kathakali, which means 'story play', is the classical dance-drama of Kerala, performed traditionally by men, in which stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharata are told through hand gestures (mudras), eye movements and facial expressions.

Gir in Gujarat is a national park and wildlife sanctuary, famous as the only home of the Asiatic lion, but it has never been declared a biosphere reserve.

International Tiger Day, also called Global Tiger Day, is observed every year on 29 July. It was started in 2010 at the Tiger Summit held in St Petersburg, Russia, where the thirteen tiger-range countries promised to double the number of wild tigers by 2022.

Vini Mahajan, an IAS officer of the 1987 batch of the Punjab cadre, was appointed Chief Secretary of Punjab in June 2020, the first woman to hold the state's top civil service post since Punjab was formed in 1966.

Sucheta Kripalani became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in October 1963 and served till March 1967, making her the first woman to head a state government in India.

Vitamin A, chemically retinol, is needed to make rhodopsin, the light-sensitive pigment in the rod cells of the retina that lets us see in dim light.

Pellagra is caused by a lack of vitamin B3, also called niacin or nicotinic acid. The body can also make niacin from the amino acid tryptophan, so the disease is common where people live mainly on maize, which is poor in both.

Laughing gas is nitrous oxide, N2O, a colourless gas with a faintly sweet smell that makes people giggle and feel light-headed when they breathe it in.

The name itself gives the formula: 'hexa' means six, so sulphur hexafluoride has one sulphur atom joined to six fluorine atoms, SF6.

Real GDP measures the value of all final goods and services produced in a year at the prices of one fixed earlier year, called the base year, so that the effect of rising prices is removed and true growth can be seen.

In India the fiscal or financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March, so the year that starts on 1 April 2025 is written as 2025-26.

The Son rises at Amarkantak on the Maikal hills in Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh, the same plateau from which the Narmada starts in the opposite direction.

The Kishanganga rises near Gurez in the Kashmir valley, flows north-west through Bandipora, crosses the Line of Control, where it is called the Neelum, and joins the Jhelum at Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

The Mahananda rises in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal, near Kurseong, at a height of about 2,100 metres. It flows down through Siliguri, enters Bihar near Kishanganj, and then passes into Bangladesh, where it joins the Ganga (called the Padma there).

The Arabian Sea branch of the southwest monsoon strikes the Western Ghats first and drops most of its moisture on the windward western slopes, so the land on the eastern, leeward side gets little rain.