SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Under the Rules of Procedure of the Lok Sabha, a member who wants to move a resolution to remove the Speaker must give notice of it in writing to the Secretary General.

Too little fluoride in drinking water leaves tooth enamel weak, so teeth decay more easily and develop cavities, called dental caries.

The inner planets are the four that orbit the Sun inside the asteroid belt: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter divides the solar system into two groups.

Disinvestment, small savings and market borrowing either create a liability for the government or reduce its assets, so they are capital receipts; interest received is a revenue receipt.

Siddhartha's mother, Queen Maya, died a few days after his birth, and her younger sister Mahapajapati Gotami brought him up as her own son.

The Congress Socialist Party was formed in 1934 by Jayaprakash Narayan, Acharya Narendra Dev and Minoo Masani, not by M. N. Roy.

The Paramahansa Mandali was a Maharashtra body, founded in Bombay, not in Bengal by Swami Vivekananda, while the Prarthana Samaj was indeed a Maharashtra reform movement.

At spring tide the pulls of the Sun and the Moon add up, so the tidal range is at its greatest.

Retail core inflation is the rise in the Consumer Price Index after leaving out its two most volatile groups, food and beverages and fuel and light.

Potassium carbonate comes from a strong base and a weak acid, so statement 1 is wrong, while statements 2 and 3 are right.

When water is short, leaves make more abscisic acid (ABA), which makes the guard cells lose water and close the stomata, so the plant loses less water through transpiration.

Nekton are animals large enough to be seen with the naked eye that swim actively and can move against water currents.

The Harappan script has never been deciphered, so no one can say what it refers to; the name Meluhha comes from Mesopotamian texts, not from Harappan writing.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu worshipped God in a personal form, as Krishna, so he belonged to the Saguna school of Bhakti, not the Nirguna school.

Every biological molecule, from sugars and fats to proteins and DNA, is built on a skeleton of carbon atoms, which is why carbon is called the basic building block of life.

The Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul-Haq gave the concept of human development and launched the first Human Development Report for the UNDP in 1990.

In the southern hemisphere the Coriolis force turns winds to the left, not the right. The Coriolis force is an apparent force caused by the Earth's rotation.

The two statements are reversed: the Estimates Committee is a standing committee, and the Railway Convention Committee is an ad hoc committee.

A hydrogen bomb fuses light hydrogen nuclei, while a uranium bomb splits heavy uranium-235 nuclei. In nuclear fission a heavy nucleus such as uranium-235 absorbs a neutron and splits into two lighter nuclei, releasing energy and two or three more neutrons.

Antarctica is the highest continent on average, and Mount Vinson is its highest peak. Antarctica's average elevation is about 2,500 metres, far above that of any other continent; Asia, the next highest, averages under 1,000 metres.