SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Resistivity is a property of the material and its temperature, not of the wire's shape, so every copper wire has the same resistivity.

An avalanche is a sudden slide of snow, ice and debris down a mountain slope, a movement of material on the land surface, so it is grouped with terrestrial disasters.

Allocation of resources through central planning is the mark of a socialist or command economy, not a capitalist one. In a capitalist economy, the means of production such as land, factories and capital are owned mainly by private individuals and firms.

Under the dadni system, European companies gave cash advances to weavers through middlemen to secure cloth for export. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the English, Dutch and French companies bought huge quantities of cotton and silk cloth in Bengal and other regions.

Every point on the Earth turns through 360 degrees in the same time, but points nearer the equator travel a longer circle and so move faster.

Maithili was added to the Eighth Schedule by the 92nd Amendment Act of 2003, along with Bodo, Dogri and Santali; this was the most recent addition to the list.

The Durand Line is the roughly 2,640 km boundary between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was fixed in 1893 by an agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan, to mark the limits of their spheres of influence.

Sir William Jones, a judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, founded the Asiatic Society in January 1784 and served as its first president until his death in 1794.

Sulphuric acid has two replaceable hydrogen atoms, so its equivalent mass is 98 ÷ 2 = 49 g, and 49 g in one litre makes exactly one gram-equivalent per litre.

The SDGs form the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all UN member states in September 2015.

Going from east to west, the order is Kosi, Gandak, Ghaghara and Gomti. All four join the Ganga from the north.

Defending President's Rule in the Constituent Assembly, Ambedkar said he hoped such Articles would never be called into operation and would remain a 'dead letter', used only as a last resort.

Gravitational force varies inversely with the square of the distance, so doubling the distance cuts the force to one-fourth.

Iodine is a non-metal, yet its solid crystals have a shiny, metallic lustre, which makes it the standard exception taught in school chemistry.

The damage an earthquake does depends on how strongly the ground shakes and on what, and who, stands on it, not on the region's climate.

UN peacekeeping troops wear light blue helmets or berets, which is why they are called the Blue Helmets. Peacekeepers are military, police and civilian personnel sent by member countries to serve in missions authorised by the UN Security Council.

A dastak was a free pass that let the English East India Company move goods without paying internal customs duties.

In India's land-use records, land that can be farmed but has lain uncultivated for over five years is called culturable wasteland.

The National Commission for Women was created by an Act of Parliament, and that Act gives it both the review and the advisory roles named in the question.

The Preamble reads 'Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic', so 'socialist' comes before 'secular', while the order of ideals is justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.