SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The rotation of the Earth and the length of the day change how much sunlight a place receives, while the spread of land and water changes only how that energy heats the surface.

Each characteristic in the list belongs to a different layer from the one it is paired with. Ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by the ozone layer, which lies in the stratosphere, roughly 15 to 35 km above the Earth.

All four are recognised processes by which a river wears away its bed and banks. Hydraulic action is the sheer force of moving water that loosens rock and forces air into cracks.

The Faridabad division, one of the two divisions created after the original four, is made up of these three districts of the south-east of the state, all of which lie in the National Capital Region.

Palwal was separated from Faridabad district in 2008 and became the twenty-first district of Haryana; it now belongs to the Faridabad division along with Faridabad and Nuh.

Yamunanagar is the only district of Haryana that touches Uttarakhand, which it meets in the north-east where the Yamuna leaves the hills and becomes the boundary of the state.

Rao Birender Singh was the first Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha when the House was constituted in 1966, and he left the chair in 1967 to become Chief Minister, the first non-Congress Chief Minister of the state.

Within four years of its formation Haryana became the first state in India to carry electricity to every one of its villages, in 1970, and the achievement appears in almost every list of the state's firsts.

In the Census of 2011 Faridabad was the most populous district of Haryana and also the most densely peopled, because the district is an industrial city of the National Capital Region rather than a largely rural district.

Charkhi Dadri was carved out of Bhiwani district and notified as the twenty-second district of Haryana on 1 December 2016; both districts now lie in the Rohtak division.

Sirsa, in the south-west of the state on the Punjab and Rajasthan borders, is the largest district of Haryana by area and also the least densely peopled.

Kaithal belongs to the Karnal division along with Karnal and Panipat, and not to the Ambala division. The Ambala division is made up of four districts, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Yamunanagar, so Options A, B and C are all part of it and cannot be the answer.

Mahendragarh is the one district of Haryana whose headquarters does not sit in the town after which the district is named: its administration works from Narnaul, while Mahendragarh town is a tehsil headquarters within the same district.

The Government of Haryana notified Charkhi Dadri, carved out of Bhiwani district, as the twenty-second district of the state on 1 December 2016, and it remains the newest district.

Haryana is administered as six revenue divisions, namely Ambala, Rohtak, Hisar, Gurugram, Karnal and Faridabad, each headed by a Divisional Commissioner of the Indian Administrative Service who supervises the Deputy Commissioners of the districts under that division.

The fifth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games was held in Madhya Pradesh in 2023, with events spread over Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Ujjain and other towns, and Mallakhamb, the state sport, was among the games included.

Syed Mushtaq Ali of Indore was the first Indian to score a Test century outside India, at Manchester in 1936, and he played his domestic cricket in the Holkar side that dominated the Ranji Trophy in the nineteen forties; the national Twenty20 tournament carries his name.

Shankar Laxman of Mhow, the cantonment town near Indore, kept goal for India in the Olympic Games of 1956 and 1964, both won, and of 1960, when India took the silver, and he received the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri, a rare honour for a goalkeeper of that time.

Sachin Tendulkar scored two hundred not out against South Africa there on 24 February 2010, the first double century in the history of one day international cricket, and the ground is named after Captain Roop Singh, the hockey player of Gwalior who won Olympic gold with India in 1932 and…

The Kishore Kumar Samman honours work in cinema, in acting, direction, music or allied crafts, and it is named after the singer and actor Kishore Kumar, who was born at Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, so the state attaches his name to its film honour.