SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Among the gases listed, carbon dioxide is present in by far the largest amount, about 0.04 per cent of the air, which is roughly two hundred times the amount of methane.

Most places have two high tides a day, and because the moon rises about 52 minutes later each day, each high tide comes about 12 hours 26 minutes after the last.

In Köppen's code, C means a warm temperate climate, f means rain in all seasons with no dry season, and a means a hot summer.

The mistral is a cold, dry northerly wind that blows from the Alps down the Rhone valley of France to the Mediterranean coast.

Ziyarat means a visit to a sacred place, and in India it came to mean the pilgrimage to the dargah of a sufi saint to seek blessings.

An allele is one of the alternative forms of the same gene, found at the same place on a pair of matching chromosomes.

It was set up in 1992 under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990, so it is a statutory body, not a constitutional one.

Lysosomes are small sacs bound by a membrane that are filled with digestive enzymes able to break down almost any material in the cell.

In a crash a sensor fires an igniter, and sodium azide breaks down almost instantly into sodium and a large volume of nitrogen gas that fills the bag.

Kerosene and petrol mix completely with each other, and their boiling points are close, so they are separated by fractional distillation.

The Tsangpo enters India as the Dihang and the Godavari has the second largest basin, but the Chambal and Betwa join the Yamuna, not the Ganga.

Diamond is an allotrope of carbon, made of carbon atoms alone and nothing else. In diamond each carbon atom is joined to four other carbon atoms by strong covalent bonds, forming a rigid three-dimensional network.

Oxygen in the air reacts with the fats and oils, and the food turns rancid, with a bad smell and taste.

Feldspar makes up about half of the earth's crust and is light cream to salmon pink in colour, but magnesium is not its common element.

When sandstone, made mostly of quartz grains, is put under great heat and pressure, the grains fuse together and the rock turns into quartzite.

The volcanoes of Hawaii, such as Mauna Loa and Kilauea, are broad, gently sloping cones built by runny basaltic lava.

Ladli Behna sets no educational condition at all; it is unconditional income support for adult women and its tests are of residence, age and family means only.

Running since 2006, it gives financial assistance for the marriage of daughters of poor families and holds community marriage ceremonies at which several couples are married together, which keeps the cost to the family low.

The Mukhyamantri Seekho-Kamao Yojana places young people aged about 18 to 29 as trainees in registered establishments and pays them a monthly stipend in the range of Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 while they learn, so that training carries an income and the trainee is not forced to drop out.

Madhya Pradesh introduced the Mukhyamantri Kisan Kalyan Yojana in 2020 as a state top-up paid in instalments to farmers who are already eligible beneficiaries of the central PM-KISAN income support, so a farmer in the state receives both amounts and the state uses the central beneficiary list for verification.