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SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CGL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 25 in Tier-II Paper-I, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CGL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. Polity questions ask about articles, parts and schedules of the Constitution, amendments, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Delhi Sultanate and Mughals, and the freedom struggle from 1857 to 1947. Geography asks about rivers, soils, climate, national parks, minerals and world physical features. The Economy part asks about budget terms, the RBI, banking and basic concepts. General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CGL, written as short facts and tables so a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained.

SSC CGL GK Questions with Answers

Q5481.BiharMedium

Orissa was separated from the Province of Bihar and Orissa in which year, and under which law?

  1. A.1919, under the Government of India Act, 1919
  2. B.1936, under the Government of India Act, 1935
  3. C.1947, under the Indian Independence Act
  4. D.1956, under the States Reorganisation Act
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Correct answer: B. 1936, under the Government of India Act, 1935

The Act of 1935 reorganised several provinces, and on 1 April 1936 Orissa was constituted as a separate province, leaving Bihar on its own.

Q5482.BiharMedium

Who is regarded as the architect of the movement for a separate Bihar province?

  1. A.Rajendra Prasad
  2. B.Anugrah Narayan Sinha
  3. C.Sachchidananda Sinha
  4. D.Mazharul Haque
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Correct answer: C. Sachchidananda Sinha

He argued the case for separation in print, most notably in his 1906 pamphlet on the partition of Bengal and the separation of Bihar, used the press and the Bihari Students Conference to build opinion, and pressed the demand before the colonial government.

Q5486.Indian PolityHard

The Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir, whose final order of 2022 fixed ninety assembly seats, was headed by:

  1. A.Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai
  2. B.Justice Kurian Joseph
  3. C.Justice R. C. Lahoti
  4. D.Justice Deepak Verma
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Correct answer: A. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai

A retired judge of the Supreme Court, she chaired the Delimitation Commission set up in March 2020 for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which gave its final order in May 2022.

Q5487.Indian PolityHard

Which provisions of the Constitution of India applied to the State of Jammu and Kashmir directly, without the concurrence of the State government, while Article 370 was in force?

  1. A.Articles 1 and 370
  2. B.Articles 1 and 3
  3. C.Articles 370 and 371
  4. D.Articles 1, 3 and 370
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Correct answer: A. Articles 1 and 370

Article 370(1)(c) said that Article 1, which declares India a Union of States and lists its territory in the First Schedule, and Article 370 itself applied to the State; everything else could reach it only through a presidential order made with the concurrence of the State government.

Q5488.Indian PolityMedium

Under Article 370(3), the President could declare that the article shall cease to be operative only on the recommendation of:

  1. A.Both Houses of Parliament
  2. B.The Governor of the State
  3. C.The Constituent Assembly of the State
  4. D.The Supreme Court of India
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Correct answer: C. The Constituent Assembly of the State

The proviso to Article 370(3) said that the President could issue a public notification ending the article only on the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir.

Q5490.Indian PolityEasy

Of the two Union Territories created by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which one was given no legislative assembly?

  1. A.Jammu and Kashmir
  2. B.Ladakh
  3. C.Both of them
  4. D.Neither of them
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Correct answer: B. Ladakh

The Act created the Union Territory of Ladakh without a legislature, administered by a Lieutenant Governor, and carved it out with the two districts of Leh and Kargil; its first Lieutenant Governor was Radha Krishna Mathur.

Q5491.Indian PolityEasy

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 came into effect on its appointed day, which was:

  1. A.5 August 2019
  2. B.9 August 2019
  3. C.31 October 2019
  4. D.26 January 2020
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Correct answer: C. 31 October 2019

The Act named an appointed day on which the State of Jammu and Kashmir would cease to exist and the two Union Territories would come into being, and the Union notified that day as 31 October 2019, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, which is observed as National Unity…

Q5493.Indian PolityEasy

The Instrument of Accession of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was signed by Maharaja Hari Singh on:

  1. A.15 August 1947
  2. B.26 October 1947
  3. C.27 October 1948
  4. D.26 January 1950
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Correct answer: B. 26 October 1947

Tribal raiders backed by Pakistan entered the Kashmir valley in the third week of October 1947, and Maharaja Hari Singh of the Dogra dynasty signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947; Governor-General Lord Mountbatten accepted it the next day, after which Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar.

Q5495.Indian HistoryHard

Rani Abbakka Chowta of Ullal, on the coast of present Karnataka, is remembered for her long resistance to which European power?

  1. A.The Dutch
  2. B.The French
  3. C.The Portuguese
  4. D.The Danes
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Correct answer: C. The Portuguese

Rani Abbakka Chowta ruled Ullal near Mangaluru in the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese were trying to control the pepper and spice trade of the Malabar and Tulunadu coast, and she fought them for decades, which is why she is often called the first woman freedom fighter of the Indian…

Q5497.Indian HistoryMedium

Rani Chennamma, who took up arms against the East India Company in 1824 over the refusal to accept her adopted heir, ruled which state?

  1. A.Kittur
  2. B.Keladi
  3. C.Ullal
  4. D.Ramgarh
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Correct answer: A. Kittur

Kittur Chennamma ruled the small state of Kittur in present Karnataka; when her son died, the Company refused to recognise her adopted son Shivalingappa as heir, and she resisted in arms in 1824, defeating the first British force before being overcome, so she is counted among the earliest rulers to…

Q5499.Indian HistoryEasy

Under which policy of Lord Dalhousie was Jhansi annexed in 1854, after the refusal to recognise the adopted son of Gangadhar Rao?

  1. A.Subsidiary Alliance
  2. B.Doctrine of Lapse
  3. C.Permanent Settlement
  4. D.Ring Fence policy
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Correct answer: B. Doctrine of Lapse

Under this policy of Lord Dalhousie, a dependent princely state whose ruler died without a natural heir lapsed to the Company, and adoption was not accepted; Satara, Jaitpur, Sambalpur, Nagpur and Jhansi were taken over in this way, and Jhansi was annexed in 1854 after the death of Gangadhar Rao.