SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Rourkela in Sundargarh district of Odisha matches all three clues: Jharia coal, Sundargarh and Kendujhar iron ore, Hirakud power and water from the Koel and Sankh.

Urea, CO(NH2)2, contains about 46 per cent nitrogen, the highest of any common solid fertiliser, and is the main nitrogen fertiliser used in India.

The primary structure of a protein is simply the linear order of amino acids joined one after another by peptide bonds.

This statement is false: diamond is an electrical insulator because it has no free electrons. In diamond, every carbon atom uses all four of its valence electrons to form strong covalent bonds with four other carbon atoms in a rigid three-dimensional network.

Land left uncultivated for more than one year but less than five years falls in this category of the land revenue records.

This is false: an economic model can be stated in words, shown in diagrams or graphs, or written as equations.

Neither has a Mediterranean climate, so neither has sclerophyll vegetation. Sclerophyll means 'hard leaf'.

Its Challenger Deep, about 10,900 metres (nearly 11 km) below sea level, is the deepest known point of the oceans.

A new state is created, or a state's boundaries changed, by an ordinary law of Parliament under Article 3, passed by a simple majority.

This statement is wrong: the Benami law is enforced by the Income Tax Department, not the ED. The Directorate of Enforcement, set up in 1956, is a specialised financial investigation agency under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, with its headquarters in New Delhi.

Peasant risings against moneylenders were common in the 19th century, and the Deccan Riots began at Supa in May 1875.

It is one of the two education indicators in NITI Aayog's National Multidimensional Poverty Index. The national MPI measures deprivation, not income, across three equally weighted dimensions: health, education and standard of living.

Both statements describe the standard method used to draw India's poverty line. A poverty line is the income or spending needed to meet basic needs.

Platelets, or thrombocytes, release the factors that start blood clotting at a wound. Platelets are tiny cell fragments made from large cells called megakaryocytes in the bone marrow; a healthy adult has about 1.5 to 4.5 lakh of them per cubic millimetre of blood.

The first all-India census was attempted in 1872, and from 1881 a census has been held every ten years. The 1872 count, under Viceroy Lord Mayo, was taken in different regions at different times and did not cover the whole country, so it is called the first, non-synchronous attempt.

Magma is mostly molten silicate, so the minerals that crystallise from it, such as feldspar, quartz, mica, pyroxene and olivine, are silicates.

TELNET is an application-layer protocol that lets a user log in to a remote computer and work on it through a text terminal.

The standard hydrogen electrode has a real, non-zero potential; it is only assigned the value zero by convention. The absolute potential of a single electrode cannot be measured, because any measurement needs a second electrode to complete the circuit.

This is false: the north-east has several tiger reserves. Manas, Kaziranga, Nameri and Orang in Assam, Namdapha, Pakke (Pakhui) and Kamlang in Arunachal Pradesh, and Dampa in Mizoram are all tiger reserves.

Bank rate and open market operations are instruments of the Reserve Bank's monetary policy; public debt and public revenue belong to fiscal policy.