SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The Supreme Court set up in 1774 sat at Fort William in Calcutta, the city now called Kolkata. It was created by the Regulating Act of 1773, the first British law to take direct notice of the Company's rule in India.

Issue price is the subsidised rate at which grain from the government's buffer stock is sold through ration shops, and it is deliberately kept below the market price.

In the Tamil region of ancient India the ordinary ploughmen, the men who actually tilled the fields, were called uzhavar.

A loan becomes a non-performing asset when interest or an instalment of principal stays overdue for more than 90 days.

The Dandi March of 1930 was a protest against the British monopoly on salt and the tax on it, under which no Indian was allowed to make or sell salt freely.

India covers about 32.87 lakh square kilometres, which is roughly 2.4 per cent of the world's total land area. That small share supports about 17 to 18 per cent of the world's people, and this gap between land and population is what the question is really testing.

The All India War Memorial in New Delhi is the monument known today as India Gate. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in memory of the Indian soldiers who died in the First World War and in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.

The General Insurance Corporation of India, or GIC, was incorporated as a company in November 1972, the year general insurance was nationalised in India.

India is the standard example of a holding together federation, because one large country chose to divide its powers among states while keeping a strong central government.

Unemployment that rises when the economy slides into a recession or a depression, and falls again in a boom, is called cyclical unemployment.

The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 placed every industry in one of three schedules, according to how large a role the state was to play in it.

Khatoli, fought in 1517 near Bundi in present-day Rajasthan, was the first clash between Rana Sanga of Mewar and Ibrahim Lodi, who had just succeeded to the throne of Delhi, and the Rajputs won.

Methyl ethyl ketone has a methyl group on one side of the carbonyl and an ethyl group on the other, which makes four carbons in all with the carbonyl at the second position, so its IUPAC name is butan-2-one or 2-butanone.

The cold snow-forest climate, group D in Koeppen's scheme, lies in the continental interiors of the northern hemisphere between about 40 and 70 degrees north, across northern Europe, Siberia, Canada and Alaska.

Banking produces no goods; it supports the making and selling of goods by taking deposits, lending and moving money, so it belongs to the tertiary or service sector.

C. Rajagopalachari was one of the first three recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1954, along with C. V. Raman and S. Radhakrishnan, not of the Padma Shri, so this statement is not true.

Article 76 provides for the Attorney General, the highest law officer of the Union, appointed by the President from among persons qualified to be a judge of the Supreme Court.

The Banihal Pass crosses the Pir Panjal range and is the gateway between the Jammu region and the Kashmir valley, carrying the Jammu to Srinagar national highway at a height of about 2832 metres.

The Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987 and came into force in 1989 to phase out the substances that destroy stratospheric ozone, chiefly chlorofluorocarbons, halons and carbon tetrachloride used in refrigeration, foam and fire fighting.

Agriculture still employs the largest share of India's workers because industry and services have not created enough jobs to draw them away, so people stay on the farm for want of a better option.