SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi wrote the Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi in the reign of Mubarak Shah and claimed that Khizr Khan, who founded the dynasty in 1414, descended from the Prophet, which is how the line came to be called Sayyid.

A homogeneous mixture has the same composition and properties throughout and no visible boundary between its parts, so a true solution such as salt water qualifies, and so does brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, since alloys are solid solutions.

The interior of the country has the sharpest difference between summer and winter because it lies far from the sea, and this effect is called continentality.

On 9 August 1925 members of the Hindustan Republican Association stopped the 8 Down train near Kakori in Uttar Pradesh and took the government treasury bags, hoping to fund an armed struggle and buy weapons.

The Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, refused to sign the Instrument of Accession and signed only a standstill agreement in 1947, so in September 1948 the Indian government sent in the army in a police action code-named Operation Polo and the state joined the Indian Union.

Ustad Sultan Khan of the Sikar gharana was the best known sarangi player of his time, accompanied Ravi Shankar on world tours and won the Padma Bhushan in 2010.

The right order is the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, Khanwa in 1527, Ghaghra in 1529 and Chausa in 1539.

The institution stands at Teen Murti Bhavan in New Delhi, the house where Jawaharlal Nehru lived as Prime Minister for sixteen years, and it was opened to the public in 1964 after his death.

Gamma rays are electromagnetic waves of the highest frequency and shortest wavelength, given out by the nucleus of a radioactive atom and in nuclear reactions, and their energy lets them kill cancer cells in radiotherapy.

An intermediate good is bought by one producer to be used up or built into another good in the same year, while a final good is bought by the last user for consumption or investment.

The principle says a body immersed wholly or partly in a fluid is pushed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it pushes aside, and that upward force is called buoyancy or upthrust.

The United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015, with 17 goals and 169 targets, and Goal 10 is Reduced Inequalities.

In Koeppen's scheme the capital letter gives the broad climatic group and the small letters add the rainfall and temperature detail.

The standard school classification divides India's natural vegetation into five groups: tropical evergreen rainforests, tropical deciduous or monsoon forests, tropical thorn forests and scrubs, montane forests, and mangrove or tidal forests.

Article 75(3) says the Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People, that is the Lok Sabha.

A stalagmite is built up on the floor of a limestone cave by water that seeps in from above, so the agent at work is underground water.

The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 was the first comprehensive consumer law in India and created the three-tier machinery of district forums, state commissions and the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.

In photosynthesis a green plant absorbs sunlight through chlorophyll and uses that energy to join carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrate.

The Indian Independence Act was introduced in the British Parliament in July 1947 on the basis of the Mountbatten Plan of 3 June 1947, received royal assent on 18 July 1947 and came into effect on 15 August 1947, creating the dominions of India and Pakistan.

This Act abolished dyarchy in the provinces and made them autonomous units, with ministries responsible to elected provincial legislatures; the first elections under it were held in 1937 and Congress ministries took office in most provinces.