This GK General Knowledge quiz covers SSC question answer like: Who of the Jain saints is associated with Chandragupta Maurya? The bitterest war of succession under the great Mughals was fought among the sons of..The Bhawal National Park is located in which country? Adithyan, who passed away recently, was the noted personality of which field? What is the common name of Calcium Sulphate Hemihydrate? Who presided over the first session of All India Kisan Sabha? What is the correct chronological sequence of the following?
1. Wood’s Education Despatch
2. Macauley’s minute on education
3. The Sargent Education Report
4. Indian Education (Hunter Commission)
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
The Union Cabinet has recently approved agreement with UNESCO on establishment of International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography. The centre will set up in which city? The Red List of IUCN provides the list of which of the following? The Keibul Lamjao National Park is located in which state? GK quiz set 799 – gk questions with answers for rbi assistant exam to improve your confidence. Objective general knowledge for SSC.
Who of the Jain saints is associated with Chandragupta Maurya?
  1. Umaswami
  2. Sthulbhadra
  3. Haribhadra
  4. Bhadrabahu

Correct answer is option D
The bitterest war of succession under the great Mughals was fought among the sons of..
  1. Babur
  2. Aurangzeb
  3. Jehangir
  4. Shahjehan

Correct answer is option D
The Bhawal National Park is located in which country?
  1. Bangladesh
  2. India
  3. Sri Lanka
  4. Myanmar

Correct answer is option A i.e. Bangladesh
Explanation:
The Bhawal National Park is located at Gazipur in Dhaka Division of Bangladesh.The core area of the park covers 940 hectares but extends to 5,022 ha of surrounding forest. Its purpose is to protect important habitats as well as to provide opportunities for recreation. The park has 345 plant species, including 152 different tree species, 53 shrubs, 106 herbs and 34 climber species.

Adithyan, who passed away recently, was the noted personality of which field?

  1. Music
  2. Politics
  3. Journalism
  4. Sports

Correct answer is option A i.e. Music
Explanation:

Adithyan, the noted South Indian music director, has passed away in Hyderabad on December 6, 2017. The musician is known for his numbers in films such as the super hit gangster flick Amaran, besides Seevalaperi Pandi, in the early 90s. He has scored music for many Telugu and Malayalam movies, the sources added. Adithyan also hosted a culinary show in a popular Tamil TV channel.

What is the common name of Calcium Sulphate Hemihydrate?

  1. Bleaching powder
  2. Slaked lime
  3. Plaster of paris
  4. Detergent

Correct answer is option C i.e. Plaster of paris
Explanation:

Plaster of Paris is calcium sulphate hemihydrate. The formula is given as, CaSO4.1/2 H2O or (2 CaSO4) . H2O. The powder is called plaster of Paris, because the gypsum which was used to get the powder was mainly found in Paris.

Who presided over the first session of All India Kisan Sabha?
  1. Swami Sahajanand
  2. Swami Shradhanand
  3. Indulal Yajnik
  4. N.N. Ranga

Correct answer is option A
What is the correct chronological sequence of the following?
1. Wood’s Education Despatch
2. Macauley’s minute on education
3. The Sargent Education Report
4. Indian Education (Hunter Commission)
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
  1. 2,1,4,3
  2. 2,1,3,4
  3. 1,2,4,3
  4. 4,3,1,3

Correct answer is option A

The Union Cabinet has recently approved agreement with UNESCO on establishment of International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography. The centre will set up in which city?

  1. New Delhi
  2. Hyderabad
  3. Chennai
  4. Lucknow

Correct answer is option B i.e. Hyderabad
Explanation:

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has recently approved the establishment of International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography, as a Category-2 Centre (C2C) of UNESCO, in Hyderabad. The purpose of this Agreement is to establish a training centre towards development of capacity for the countries on the Indian Ocean Rim (IOR), African countries bordering the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, small island countries under the framework of UNESCO. The operational oceanography is an activity of conducting systematic oceanographic studies towards providing information services to various sectors viz. fisherman, disaster management, shipping, ports, coastal states, navy, coast guard, environment, offshore industries for conducting their day-to- day operations.

The Red List of IUCN provides the list of which of the following?
  1. GM plants
  2. Dangerous plant species
  3. Threatened species
  4. Dangerous animal species

Correct answer is option C i.e. Threatened species
Explanation:
The Red List of IUCN provides the list of threatened species. It is recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species. It was founded in 1964 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the world’s main authority on the conservation status of species.
The Keibul Lamjao National Park is located in which state?
  1. Mizoram
  2. Manipur
  3. Tripura
  4. Assam

Correct answer is option B i.e. Manipur
Explanation:
The Keibul Lamjao National Park is the on
ly floating park in the world, located in the Bishnupur district of Manipur. It is an integral part of Loktak Lake, which is famous for the phumdis floating over it. The park is home to brow-antlered deer ‘Sangai’ that has been included in the Centre-sponsored endangered species recovery programme. Apart from the brow-antlered deer, the other mammals reported are the hog deer, wild boar, , large Indian civet, common otter, jungle cat, golden cat, bay bamboo rat, musk shrew, etc.