SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Mahendravarman I ruled the Pallava kingdom from Kanchipuram in the early seventh century, fought Pulakeshin II of Badami, began the rock-cut mandapas of the Tamil country and bore the titles Vichitrachitta and Mattavilasa, the second being the name of the Sanskrit farce attributed to him.

Vijayalaya, who founded the line of the imperial Cholas in the middle of the ninth century, captured the Kaveri delta from the Muttaraiyar chiefs and built Thanjavur, which became the Chola capital and later the site of Rajaraja I's Brihadeeswara temple.

Dantidurga founded the Rashtrakuta dynasty in the middle of the eighth century, threw off the overlordship of the Chalukyas of Badami by defeating Kirtivarman II, and took imperial titles; his successors ruled from Manyakheta, the modern Malkhed.

Julia was a storm of the Atlantic basin and never approached India, so it cannot belong to a list of Indian landfalls.

The eye of a tropical cyclone is the roughly circular column of calm, descending air at its centre, usually a few tens of kilometres across, where the pressure is lowest, the winds are light and the sky is often nearly clear.

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world, about 9,289 km from Moscow, with through services from St. Petersburg, to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast of Russia.

The Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, launched in October 2021, is the largest pan-India scheme for building up health infrastructure, and it works at all three levels of care.

Pinctada margaritifera is the black lip pearl oyster, a bivalve mollusc of the warm shallow water of the Indo-Pacific, where it fastens itself to coral reefs by strong threads.

Delhi first became a capital under the Tomar Rajputs, who founded the town of Dhillika, or Dilli, and built Lal Kot near present day Mehrauli, the earliest of the seven cities of Delhi.

Jyotiba Phule wrote Gulamgiri, which means slavery, in Marathi in 1873, the same year in which he founded the Satyashodhak Samaj at Pune.

Cashew does best on light, well drained, slightly acidic red laterite soil, which is why it is grown on the coastal plains and hill slopes of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Tamil Nadu.

Hubbardia heptaneuron, known as Hubbard's grass or the Jog Falls grass, is a species of grass that grew only in the spray zone of the Jog Falls on the Sharavathi river in Karnataka.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is a public sector undertaking, which means the government holds the majority of its shares and controls its management.

Balban sat on the throne of the Delhi Sultanate from 1266 to 1287. He had been a slave of Iltutmish and one of the Chalisa, the band of forty Turkish nobles, and served as naib to the weak Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud before taking power himself.

Onam is the harvest festival of Kerala and is kept in the Malayalam month of Chingam, which falls in August and September.

Convection is the transfer of heat by the bodily movement of the particles of a fluid. The part that is heated expands, becomes lighter and rises, and colder, denser fluid sinks to take its place, so a circulating convection current is set up.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in September 1961 at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, and twenty-five countries took part in it.

Koeppen grouped climates by temperature and rainfall and gave each group a capital letter, and E stands for the polar group, where the mean temperature of the warmest month stays below 10 degrees Celsius.

Aihole, on the Malaprabha river in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, was the first capital of the early Chalukyas, the dynasty founded by Pulakeshin I in the sixth century.

In its middle course, over the gentle slope of the plain, a river loses the power to cut downward and begins to swing from side to side.