SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Latin words habeas corpus mean "you may have the body", and the writ orders a person who has detained someone to produce that person before the court.

At about 6 to 7 metres in an adult, the small intestine is by far the longest part of the alimentary canal.

Higher interest on deposits encourages people to save rather than spend, which pulls money out of circulation and cools demand.

There is no Sustainable Development Goal by that name; employment comes under Goal 8, Decent Work and Economic Growth, and Goal 10 is Reduced Inequalities.

A Lewis acid is a species that accepts a pair of electrons, and all three of these can do so.

Fertile land, nearby iron ore and a supply of forest elephants together made Magadha the strongest of the sixteen Mahajanapadas.

Hydrogen shows 0, +1 or -1 depending on what it is bonded to. In the free element H2 its oxidation number is 0, as for every element in its uncombined state.

A rainbow forms because raindrops split white sunlight into its seven colours, and this splitting of light into colours is dispersion.

The Mahalanobis Model shaped the Second Five Year Plan (1956-61), the Plan Holiday followed in 1966-69, and the Rolling Plan came in 1978-80.

Isobars are atoms of different elements with the same mass number, and 18 + 22 gives a mass number of 40, the same as calcium.

A direction in space needs two angles, one in the horizontal plane and one in the vertical plane, and declination and inclination supply exactly these.

Demographic dividend is the growth bonus a country gets when its working age group grows larger than its dependent population.

In this case the Delhi High Court held in 2009 that Section 377, in so far as it criminalised consensual sex between adults in private, violated Articles 21, 14 and 15.

This is the fluid mosaic model of the cell membrane given by Singer and Nicolson in 1972. Each phospholipid has a water-loving (hydrophilic) phosphate head and two water-fearing (hydrophobic) fatty acid tails.

Banks can create credit only from money deposited with them, so when people keep more cash at home, less is lent and re-lent, and the multiplier falls.

Dalton held that the atom is the smallest, indivisible particle of matter, so his theory cannot explain particles inside the atom.

The Richter scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake, which reflects the energy released at its source, not its intensity.

NSS units organised local tournaments in these four games, and more than 21,500 participants took part in them, the aim being healthy recreation, teamwork and positive engagement for rural youth.

They carried out the week across more than 160 institutions and the villages those institutions have adopted, mobilising over 80,000 participants that included young people, Gram Panchayat members, village elders and local residents.

That is the theme set for the campaign’s second month, and the week’s activities were arranged under it, bringing together physical fitness, community participation and social responsibility as the route to a substance-free society.