SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Renin, released by the kidney, converts angiotensinogen made by the liver into angiotensin I, which is then changed into angiotensin II.

At a fixed speed v, centripetal acceleration equals v²/r, so a larger radius gives a smaller acceleration. An object moving in a circle at constant speed is still accelerating, because its direction keeps changing.

In a reflex arc the message runs from the sense organ to the spinal cord and straight back to a muscle or gland.

A nuclear reactor splits heavy nuclei such as uranium-235 in a chain reaction that is kept under control, releasing heat at a steady rate.

Mitochondria have their own DNA and their own ribosomes, so they can make some of the proteins they need. Mitochondria are the "powerhouses of the cell", where food is broken down in aerobic respiration to release energy stored as ATP.

Of the four states listed, Punjab had the smallest population in the 2011 Census, about 2.77 crore people. The 2011 Census, the fifteenth census of India, counted about 121 crore people in all.

Reverberation is the lingering of sound in a closed space caused by many reflections from the walls, ceiling and floor.

John Kay, an English inventor, patented the flying shuttle in 1733, one of the first machines of the Industrial Revolution.

The element with atomic number 35 is bromine, whose 35 electrons are arranged as 2, 8, 18, 7, leaving seven in the outermost shell.

A split-ring commutator reverses the coil's connection to the outer circuit every half turn, so the current outside flows in one direction only.

Sponges belong to the phylum Porifera, a name that means "pore bearers", because their bodies are full of tiny pores.

Nitrogen dioxide has an unpaired electron, so two of its molecules join to form dinitrogen tetroxide, N 2 O 4.

Shortughai, a Harappan trading settlement in north-eastern Afghanistan, is the site where traces of irrigation canals have been found. Most Harappan farmers relied on river floods and wells, and no canals have been found in the Indus heartland.

Tincture of iodine is a true solution, which is homogeneous, so statement I is wrong, while II and III are right.

Section 110 of that Act lets a customs officer seize goods believed liable to confiscation, and it was used to take the 43.2 lakh foreign-origin cigarettes and the truck carrying them in Mizoram.

Officers of the Aizawl Regional Unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence mounted surveillance along the Champhai-Aizawl Road and stopped the truck at Tuirial village, where a search produced 432 cases containing 43.2 lakh cigarette sticks of the Patron brand worth Rs 8.64 crore.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence put that value on the 43.2 lakh foreign-origin cigarette sticks it seized in Mizoram, a haul of 432 cases of the Patron brand recovered from a truck.

Ganja is a narcotic drug, so the 591.3 kg recovered in Uttar Pradesh and the truck in which it travelled were both seized under that statute, which governs narcotic and psychotropic offences in India and allows the conveyance used in the crime to be taken as well.

The intelligence that set off the operation said the truck carrying ganja from Nepal would come into Uttar Pradesh through Sonauli, so officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence at Gorakhpur built their surveillance around that crossing, helped by teams at Lucknow, Patna and Varanasi.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 591.3 kg of ganja from a truck in Uttar Pradesh in an operation carried out during 17 and 18 October 2026.