CTET 2022 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

He founded the Satyashodhak Samaj, or Truth Seekers Society, at Pune in 1873, the same year in which his book Gulamgiri appeared.

Mathura did stand on major trade routes, but those routes ran from the north-west to the east and from the north to the south, not from north to east and south to west as statement (A) puts it, so (A) is wrong as worded.

All three are mixtures: wood is made of cellulose, lignin, water and resins, air is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen and other gases, and sand is mostly silica mixed with mineral and shell grains.

The Himalayan region is home to wild goats such as the ibex and the tahr and to the snow leopard, which hunts them above the tree line, so pair (a) is right.

A primary source is one produced in the very period being studied, and the Allahabad Pillar Inscription, the prashasti composed by the court poet Harisena in praise of Samudragupta, was carved in the fourth century CE, inside the ancient period itself.

All three are unicellular, which means a single cell carries out every job of life. In a unicellular organism that one cell manages nutrition, respiration, movement and reproduction, while a multicellular body shares the work among tissues and organs.

Under Article 131, the Supreme Court alone can hear, as a court of first instance, disputes between the Government of India and one or more States, between the Government of India and a State on one side and other States on the other, or between two or more States.

Mulching means covering the bare ground between plants with straw, dry leaves or crop waste, so that the soil holds moisture and raindrops cannot beat the topsoil loose.

A mansabdar was an officer who held a mansab, a rank that fixed his position at court, his pay and the number of horsemen he had to keep ready.

All three reasons together made Magadha the strongest mahajanapada in about two hundred years. Rivers such as the Ganga and the Son gave water for the fields, made the plain fertile and served as cheap routes for moving men and goods.

Inamgaon is a Chalcolithic farming settlement on the Ghod river in the Pune district of Maharashtra.

A magnet cannot be cut into a single north pole and a single south pole.

Loudness and frequency are two different properties of sound. Loudness depends on the amplitude of the vibration, that is how far the vibrating part moves from its rest position, while frequency is the number of vibrations made in one second and is measured in hertz.