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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

Q7021.Indian EconomyMedium

Which amendment of the Constitution added the Ninth Schedule in order to protect land reform laws from challenge?

  1. A.First Amendment, 1951
  2. B.Fourth Amendment, 1955
  3. C.Seventeenth Amendment, 1964
  4. D.Forty-fourth Amendment, 1978
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Correct answer: A. First Amendment, 1951

Courts had begun to strike down zamindari abolition laws as a breach of the right to property, so Parliament inserted Articles 31A and 31B and created the Ninth Schedule, in which a law can be placed to put it beyond challenge on the ground that it takes away a fundamental…

Q7022.Indian EconomyMedium

The Ryotwari system of land revenue is associated chiefly with which official?

  1. A.Holt Mackenzie
  2. B.Thomas Munro
  3. C.John Shore
  4. D.Lord Cornwallis
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Correct answer: B. Thomas Munro

Working with Alexander Read in the ceded districts and later as Governor of Madras, Munro settled the revenue directly with each cultivator, the ryot, who was recognised as the owner of his field so long as he paid, with the demand revised every twenty or thirty years.

Q7025.GeographyHard

Which of the following statements about the green revolution in India is NOT correct?

  1. A.It began in the middle of the nineteen sixties.
  2. B.It depended on high yielding dwarf varieties, irrigation and fertiliser.
  3. C.Its gains were spread evenly across all states of India.
  4. D.It raised wheat output more than it raised rice output.
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Correct answer: C. Its gains were spread evenly across all states of India.

The correct answer is C, because the gains were not spread evenly: they were concentrated in the assured irrigation belt of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, and later in parts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, while the rain fed districts of central and eastern India gained far less.

Q7029.GeographyMedium

Pashmina wool is obtained from which animal?

  1. A.Chokla sheep of Rajasthan
  2. B.Changthangi goat of Ladakh
  3. C.Murrah buffalo of Haryana
  4. D.Nellore sheep of Andhra Pradesh
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Correct answer: B. Changthangi goat of Ladakh

This goat of the cold Changthang plateau grows a very fine soft undercoat in winter, and that fibre, combed out in spring, is the pashmina from which Kashmiri shawls are woven.

Q7030.GeographyEasy

Murrah is a well known breed of which animal?

  1. A.Cow
  2. B.Buffalo
  3. C.Goat
  4. D.Sheep
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Correct answer: B. Buffalo

Murrah, from the Rohtak and Hisar belt of Haryana, is the best known milk buffalo of India, recognised by its tightly curled horns and heavy milk yield, and it has been used to improve buffalo stock in many states and abroad.

Q7031.GeographyEasy

Who is known as the father of the white revolution in India?

  1. A.M.S. Swaminathan
  2. B.Verghese Kurien
  3. C.Norman Borlaug
  4. D.Hiralal Chaudhuri
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Correct answer: B. Verghese Kurien

He organised the milk producers of the Kaira district into the cooperative known by the brand Amul, designed the three tier Anand pattern, headed the National Dairy Development Board and led Operation Flood, which is why the growth of Indian dairying is credited to him.

Q7032.GeographyMedium

In which year was Operation Flood launched in India?

  1. A.1946
  2. B.1965
  3. C.1970
  4. D.1986
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Correct answer: C. 1970

Operation Flood was launched by the National Dairy Development Board in 1970 to build a national milk grid on the Anand pattern of cooperatives, and it ran in three phases until 1996, by which time village societies in most states were selling milk to the big cities.

Q7033.GeographyAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · 20 Sep 2020Easy

Blue Revolution is related with the following

  1. A.Food grain production
  2. B.Oil seed production
  3. C.Fish production
  4. D.Milk production
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Correct answer: C. Fish production

The blue revolution is the name given to the rapid rise in fish output through aquaculture and improved marine fishing, which in India followed the spread of induced breeding of carp, the work of fish farmers development agencies and later a dedicated central scheme for fisheries.

Q7034.General ScienceEasy

Who among the following is called the father of the Indian space programme?

  1. A.Homi Jehangir Bhabha
  2. B.Vikram Sarabhai
  3. C.Satish Dhawan
  4. D.Meghnad Saha
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Correct answer: B. Vikram Sarabhai

A cosmic ray physicist who founded the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad, he persuaded the government that a poor country needed space technology for communication, weather and education, set up the rocket launching station at Thumba and built the organisation that became the Indian Space Research Organisation.

Q7035.General ScienceMedium

C.V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in which year?

  1. A.1928
  2. B.1930
  3. C.1954
  4. D.1983
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Correct answer: B. 1930

Raman announced in 1928 that light scattered by a transparent medium contains components of changed wavelength, a shift that reveals the energy levels of the scattering molecules, and the Nobel Prize in Physics followed in 1930, making him the first Asian to receive a Nobel in a science.

Q7036.General ScienceHard

The periodic law based on increasing atomic number, rather than atomic mass, is credited to whom?

  1. A.Dmitri Mendeleev
  2. B.Henry Moseley
  3. C.John Newlands
  4. D.Johann Dobereiner
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Correct answer: B. Henry Moseley

His study of the characteristic X-rays of the elements showed that the nuclear charge, the atomic number, is the quantity that rises regularly from element to element, and the modern periodic law therefore states that properties are a periodic function of atomic number.

Q7037.General ScienceMedium

Ohm law states that, at constant temperature, the current through a conductor is

  1. A.inversely proportional to the potential difference across it
  2. B.directly proportional to the potential difference across it
  3. C.independent of the potential difference across it
  4. D.proportional to the square of the potential difference across it
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Correct answer: B. directly proportional to the potential difference across it

Ohm found that for a metallic conductor at a steady temperature the ratio of potential difference to current is a constant, the resistance, which is written as V equals I into R, so doubling the voltage doubles the current.

Q7038.General ScienceEasy

Who is known as the father of genetics for the laws of inheritance?

  1. A.Charles Darwin
  2. B.Gregor Mendel
  3. C.Jean Baptiste Lamarck
  4. D.Hugo de Vries
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Correct answer: B. Gregor Mendel

His experiments on garden pea, in which he followed single characters such as seed shape and flower colour through generations, gave the laws of dominance, segregation and independent assortment, and showed that inheritance works through discrete factors rather than a blending of parental traits.

Q7039.General ScienceEasy

Hydraulic brakes in a motor car work on which principle?

  1. A.Archimedes principle
  2. B.Pascal law
  3. C.Bernoulli principle
  4. D.Hooke law
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Correct answer: B. Pascal law

Pressure applied to an enclosed liquid is transmitted equally and undiminished in every direction, so a small force on the narrow master cylinder of a brake creates a much larger force on the wide piston at each wheel, which is also how a hydraulic press and a hydraulic lift work.

Q7040.General ScienceEasy

The three laws of planetary motion were given by whom?

  1. A.Nicolaus Copernicus
  2. B.Galileo Galilei
  3. C.Johannes Kepler
  4. D.Isaac Newton
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Correct answer: C. Johannes Kepler

Working on the observations of Tycho Brahe he found that a planet moves in an ellipse with the sun at one focus, that the line from the sun to the planet sweeps equal areas in equal times, and that the square of the orbital period is proportional to the cube…