SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Under Jahangir, Mughal painting moved away from large illustrated manuscripts towards single paintings, portraits and nature studies collected in albums (muraqqa).

Lemongrass and its close relative citronella grass yield aromatic oils that keep mosquitoes away, so they are the base of many natural repellents.

Mandamus reaches anyone who owes a public duty, including government companies, and quo warranto can be sought by any interested person, not only the aggrieved one.

A diode does not obey Ohm's law: the current through it is not proportional to the voltage across it. An ohmic conductor gives a straight-line graph of current against voltage, so its resistance stays constant at a fixed temperature.

Anhydrous sodium carbonate is Na₂CO₃, and 2 × 23 + 12 + 3 × 16 = 106 u. Formula mass is the sum of the atomic masses of all the atoms in one formula unit of an ionic compound.

Pitchblende, or uraninite, is the chief ore of uranium, the fuel used in most nuclear power stations. Pitchblende is a heavy, black mineral made mostly of uranium oxide.

Portland cement is made by heating a mix of limestone, which supplies lime, with clay, which supplies silica and alumina.

Traditional solder is an alloy of lead and tin, often in a ratio of about 60 parts tin to 40 parts lead.

A constitution can set rules and limits, but it cannot guarantee that good people will enter politics. A constitution is the basic set of rules by which a country is governed.

The trapped steam raises the pressure inside the cooker, and at higher pressure water boils at a higher temperature, so food cooks faster.

Podzolisation is the typical soil-forming process under the cool, moist coniferous forests of the taiga. In the taiga, cold winters slow down decay, and the needles of pine, spruce and fir form an acidic litter on the ground.

Mercury(II) oxide is a red-orange solid, mercury is a liquid metal at room temperature, and oxygen is a gas. This is a thermal decomposition reaction: when mercuric oxide is heated, it breaks down into mercury and oxygen, written with states as 2HgO(s) → 2Hg(l) + O₂(g).

The Second Plan put its stress on basic and heavy industries, not on consumer goods, which were left mainly to small and cottage industries.

One mole of N₂ weighs 28 g, so half a mole weighs 14 g. A nitrogen molecule is made of two nitrogen atoms, each with an atomic mass of 14 u, so its molecular mass is 28 u and its molar mass is 28 g per mole.

Panchsheel says nothing about nuclear weapons; its five principles concern sovereignty, non-aggression, non-interference, equality and peaceful coexistence.

Planck's constant has the dimensions [ML²T⁻¹], exactly those of angular momentum. From E = hf, h = E / f. Energy has dimensions [ML²T⁻²] and frequency has [T⁻¹], so h has [ML²T⁻²] ÷ [T⁻¹] = [ML²T⁻¹], with the SI unit joule-second.

Soft sand gives way slowly, so the person is brought to rest over a longer time and the force on the body is smaller.

A Mach number greater than 1 means the body is moving faster than sound in the surrounding medium. The Mach number is the ratio of a body's speed to the speed of sound in the medium around it, named after the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach.

The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific, east of the Mariana Islands and near Guam. It is the deepest known part of the world's oceans.

An object denser than the liquid sinks, and one less dense than the liquid floats. By Archimedes' principle, a body placed in a liquid feels an upward buoyant force equal to the weight of the liquid it displaces.