SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Mercury is small and very close to the Sun, so its weak gravity and the intense solar heat and wind have stripped away almost all gas; it has only a trace exosphere, which is why it is described as having no atmosphere.

The winter solstice of the Northern Hemisphere falls on about 22 December. On that day the Sun's rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun.

Colostrum is the thick, yellowish first milk a mother produces in the first few days after childbirth.

When a magnet moves inside a coil, the magnetic flux linked with the coil changes, and this change produces an electromotive force and a current.

The Karachi Session of March 1931, presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, passed the resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy.

The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was founded in Pune in 1870 to act as a bridge between the government and the people and to put the grievances of the public, especially peasants, before the British authorities.

This statement is incorrect because the Speaker resigns by writing to the Deputy Speaker, not to the President.

This is the incorrect statement, because the Rajya Sabha does discuss a Money Bill. Under Article 109, a Money Bill is introduced only in the Lok Sabha and, after it is passed, it is sent to the Rajya Sabha.

The United Nations Security Council has fifteen members: five permanent members and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms.

A cumulonimbus cloud is the final stage of a growing cumulus cloud. On a hot day, rising warm air forms small fair-weather cumulus.

An avalanche is a mass of snow and ice sliding suddenly down a mountain slope. It is driven by gravity acting on the snowpack, so it is grouped with landslides as a terrestrial or mass-movement disaster, not an atmospheric one.

Shipki La is the pass through which the Satluj river enters India from Tibet. It lies in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, on the border with the Tibet region of China.

Cooking soda, also called baking soda, is sodium hydrogen carbonate, also known as sodium bicarbonate. It is a mild base made from one sodium, one hydrogen, one carbon and three oxygen atoms.

The correct answer is 3 October 2014, the day of the programme's opening episode, from which citizens were asked to buy at least one khadi product.

KVIC chairman Manoj Goel said the sector supported employment on that scale in the 2025-26 financial year, in the same statement in which he placed its turnover above Rs 1.87 lakh crore.

KVIC is the commission placed under that ministry, and its chairman Manoj Goel spoke in that capacity when he put the khadi and village industries sector's turnover above Rs 1.87 lakh crore with employment of more than 2.04 crore people.

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission said the sector's turnover crossed that mark in the 2025-26 financial year, and that the same year it gave work to more than 2.04 crore people.

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's highway development programme for building and upgrading national highways, economic corridors and border and coastal roads.

Exfoliation is a process of physical (mechanical) weathering, in which outer layers of rock peel off like the skin of an onion, with no change in the rock's chemical make-up.

The statement is wrong because the inner wall of a thermos flask is silvered so that it radiates very little heat; the shiny outer surface also reflects heat back rather than absorbing it.