SSC Important Questions and Answers

Question: Which objective is *not* included in India’s fiscal policy?
Answer: Regulation of international trade

Question: Which measure is *not* included among the Central Bank’s selective credit control instruments?
Answer: Moral suasion

Question: In which market structure is the market demand curve represented by the firm’s demand curve?
Answer: Monopoly

Question: What is subtracted from the NNP (Net National Product) to calculate the National Income?
Answer: Indirect taxes

Question: To what figure has the annual growth rate target for the 12th Five-Year Plan now been reduced from the original 9%?
Answer: 8.2%

Question: Whom did Dr. B.R. Ambedkar describe as the “Heart and Soul” of the Constitution?
Answer: The Right to Constitutional Remedies

Question: Which subject does *not* fall under the purview of local government?
Answer: Law and Order

Question: From which country was the concept of single citizenship adopted in India?
Answer: England

Question: Who proposed the concept of “Partyless Democracy” in India?
Answer: Jayaprakash Narayan

Question: What is the process of disinvestment in the public sector called?
Answer: Privatization

Question: For which group is the concept of “Darwinian Fitness” applied?
Answer: Animals

Question: How is an individual’s actual standard of living assessed?
Answer: By their Disposable Personal Income

Question: Who is *not* a member of the National Development Council?
Answer: The Governors of the States

Question: Which Sikh Guru referred to himself as the “True King” (*Sacha Badshah*)?
Answer: Guru Hargobind

Question: In which year did Mahatma Gandhi launch the Civil Disobedience Movement?
Answer: 1930

Question: What is the maximum prescribed number of members in a State Legislative Assembly?
Answer: 500

Question: During whose reign did Fa-Hien visit India?
Answer: Chandragupta II

Question: In 1661, at which location in Bengal did the Mughals grant the East India Company permission to trade and establish a factory?
Answer: Hooghly

Question: Diu is an island. Answer: Daman

Question: Which sea is a closed (landlocked) sea?
Answer: The Aral Sea

Question: On the course of which river is the Shivanasamudra Falls located?
Answer: Kaveri

Question: Who coined the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad”?
Answer: Bhagat Singh

Question: What is the global ranking of the Indian railway network?
Answer: Fourth

Question: Which is the oldest international airline?
Answer: KLM

Question: What is used to absorb neutrons in order to control the chain reaction during nuclear fission?
Answer: Heavy water

Question: On what principle does the hydrogen bomb operate?
Answer: On the principle of an uncontrolled chain reaction

Question: The Troposphere is the warmest layer of the atmosphere; why?
Answer: It is heated by the Earth’s surface.

Question: What is the outermost layer of the Sun called?
Answer: Corona

Question: Where was India’s first computer installed?
Answer: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Question: The dried flower buds of which plant are used as a spice?
Answer: Cloves

Question: In which human tissue does no cell division occur after birth?
Answer: Nervous tissue

Question: For what purpose is DNA fingerprinting used?
Answer: For the identification of parents and criminals

Question: What is the normal level of cholesterol in human blood?
Answer: 180 to 200 mg per deciliter

Question: Which animals are warm-blooded (homeothermic)?
Answer: Whales

Question: The syrinx is the vocal organ of which animals?
Answer: Birds

Question: What is the largest ecosystem on Earth?
Answer: The Biosphere

Question: In a food chain, what percentage of energy is utilized by plants?
Answer: 0.1%

Question: Which book was written by V.S. Naipaul? Answer: *A House for Mr. Biswas*

Question: Which folk dance is associated with Rajasthan?
Answer: Suchi Ni

Question: Who discovered the South Pole?
Answer: Amundsen

Question: Which model did India’s leading automobile company, Maruti Suzuki, recall to replace a defective fuel pump gasket?
Answer: Maruti A-Star

Question: In what ways can Indian citizenship be acquired?
Answer: By birth, by descent, or by registration.

Question: Why is glycol added to aviation gasoline?
Answer: It prevents the gasoline from freezing.

Question: Which metal causes Itai-itai disease?
Answer: Cadmium

Question: Which type of glass is used to manufacture glass-reinforced plastic?
Answer: Fiberglass

Question: Which type of reaction generates the most harmful radiation?
Answer: Fission reaction

Question: What was the mascot for the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Armadillo

Question: Jet aircraft cause pollution; by thinning which layer does this occur?
Answer: The Ozone layer