CTET 2021 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

On these two dates the noon sun is vertically overhead at the Equator, the circle of illumination passes through both poles, and day and night are of nearly equal length everywhere on the earth; 21 March is the spring or vernal equinox and 23 September the autumnal equinox.

Conventional sources are those in long use before modern technology offered alternatives, that is coal, petroleum, natural gas, firewood, cattle dung cake and water power.

Omprakash Valmiki published Joothan in 1997, and it is the best known Dalit autobiography in Hindi; the title refers to the leftover food that upper-caste households gave to Dalit families, and the book records humiliation in school, in the village and at work.

Migration is studied through push factors in the place of origin and pull factors in the place of destination, and all three items listed belong to that study.

Statement B is sound: for the poor and for people of the lower castes, the new jobs in colonial cities were a way out of the control of upper-caste landowners in the village and of the daily humiliation they suffered there, and this pull is part of every account of…

The Ain-i-Akbari was written by Abul Fazl, the courtier and friend of Akbar, and it forms the third volume of the Akbarnama; it is an administrative gazetteer, listing departments and officers, the subas with their sarkars and parganas, measured areas, revenue rates, prices and wages, which is why historians use…

Where air pressure is low the air rises, cools as it goes up and the moisture in it condenses, so low pressure brings cloudy skies and wet weather, while in a high pressure area the air sinks and warms, clouds do not form and the sky stays clear and sunny.

When the British left in 1947, India had, besides the provinces under direct British rule, about 565 princely states whose rulers had accepted British paramountcy.

In the binary system every place stands for a power of two, and 257 is 256 plus 1, that is two raised to the eighth plus two raised to the zero.

Chola temples such as the Brihadisvara temple at Thanjavur, built by Rajaraja I, were far more than places of worship.

Jyotirao Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj, the Truth Seekers' Society, at Pune in 1873 to fight caste rank and priestly control in Maharashtra.

A concave lens is a diverging lens, so for every position of a real object it forms an image that is virtual, erect and diminished.

Coniferous forests grow in the cold northern belt of Asia, Europe and North America and are made of softwood evergreen trees such as pine, fir and spruce, whose light wood is used for paper and furniture.

India's village iron smelters were ruined by two pressures at once. Cheap iron and steel made in British factories was brought into India in large quantities from the middle of the nineteenth century, and local smiths could not match its price, so demand for their metal fell away.

Mansab means a position or rank, and Akbar used it to place every officer of the empire on a graded ladder.

Phule wrote Gulamgiri, meaning slavery, in Marathi in 1873, and dedicated it to the people of America who had fought to free slaves, drawing a line between their struggle and the condition of the lower castes in India.

Biogas is produced when cattle dung, crop waste and sewage are broken down by bacteria in a closed tank without air, a process called anaerobic digestion.

Sulphur dioxide dissolves in water to give sulphurous acid, a weak acid with the formula H2SO3, by the reaction SO2 + H2O to H2SO3.

Statement A is right because Article 153 provides a Governor for each state, and the Governor is the constitutional head of the state, in whose name all executive action of the state is taken.

An idgah is an open walled ground on the edge of a town where the whole community gathers for the Id prayer, so it matches an open prayer place.