SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Indian contingent of para-athletes closed the Asian Para Games 2026 with that number of medals, which is a record for the country at the event and the best-ever performance it has managed there.

The correct answer is Tamil Nadu, which accounts for 20 of the Ramsar Sites in the country, the highest for any State.

The treaty takes its name from Ramsar, the Iranian town where it was adopted on 2 February 1971, and it entered into force in 1975.

Sukhna Wetland lies in Chandigarh and is a rain-fed reservoir created in 1958 at the foot of the Shivalik hills; it shelters threatened species such as the Pallas's fish eagle, the common pochard and the black pond turtle, and migratory birds of the Central Asian Flyway winter there.

India reached this figure on 15 October 2026, when Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh were added to the list of Wetlands of International Importance.

Rubidium, an alkali metal like caesium, gives off electrons easily when light falls on it, so it is used in photoelectric cells.

Tooth enamel is made mainly of calcium phosphate in the form of a hard crystal called hydroxyapatite. Enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, harder even than bone.

In a recumbent fold the rock layers are pushed over so far that the fold lies on its side and its axial plane is almost horizontal.

The rebels wanted Hindus and Muslims to stand together against British rule. Proclamations issued in the name of Bahadur Shah Zafar called on everyone to join the fight, recalling the Mughal past when different communities had lived together.

Smallpox was caused by the variola virus, a large DNA virus of the pox family that spread from person to person through the air.

Wang Xuance, a Tang envoy who came to India several times in the seventh century, wrote an account called Records of the Travels to Middle India, of which only fragments survive.

After fertilisation the ovary of the flower grows into the fruit, and each ovule inside it develops into a seed.

Sylhet, then a Muslim-majority district of Assam, held a referendum in July 1947, and its people voted to join East Bengal, which became part of Pakistan.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 are true, but carbon never forms a quadruple, or tetra, bond between two carbon atoms.

Sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid react to form new substances, sodium chloride and water, so this is a chemical change.

In the DNA double helix, adenine on one strand always pairs with thymine on the other, and guanine always pairs with cytosine.

P waves are the fastest earthquake waves and reach a seismograph first, and they are longitudinal, while S waves are transverse.

The patches of evergreen temperate forest in the high valleys of the Nilgiri, Anaimalai and Palani hills of the Western Ghats are called sholas.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012–17) aimed at 4 per cent growth in agriculture, not 5 per cent. The Twelfth Plan, titled Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, was the last five-year plan; after it the Planning Commission was replaced by NITI Aayog in 2015.

An alloy of sodium and potassium, called NaK, stays liquid at room temperature and carries heat away from the core of some nuclear reactors.