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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

Q8661.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

A bank's credit-deposit ratio is obtained by dividing

  1. A.Total deposits by total advances
  2. B.Total advances by total deposits
  3. C.Total advances by risk-weighted assets
  4. D.Net profit by total deposits
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Correct answer: B. Total advances by total deposits

The credit-deposit ratio, usually written as the CD ratio and given in per cent, shows how much of every hundred rupees of deposits a bank has lent out.

Q8662.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Net interest income of a bank is calculated as

  1. A.Total income minus operating expenses
  2. B.Interest earned minus interest expended
  3. C.Net profit minus provisions and contingencies
  4. D.Interest earned minus operating expenses
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Correct answer: B. Interest earned minus interest expended

Net interest income, written as NII, is the core earning of a bank: the interest it collects on advances and investments less the interest it pays on deposits and borrowings.

Q8663.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

The CASA ratio of a bank is the proportion of which of the following to its total deposits?

  1. A.Cash and statutory liquidity holdings
  2. B.Current account and savings account deposits
  3. C.Capital and surplus
  4. D.Credit and advances to small borrowers
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Correct answer: B. Current account and savings account deposits

CASA is short for current account and savings account, and the CASA ratio is current plus savings deposits divided by total deposits, shown as a percentage.

Q8664.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Which of the following items appears on the liabilities side of a commercial bank's balance sheet?

  1. A.Advances to customers
  2. B.Investments in government securities
  3. C.Deposits of customers
  4. D.Cash balances with the Reserve Bank of India
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Correct answer: C. Deposits of customers

A deposit is money the bank owes back to the depositor, so it is a claim on the bank and is shown under liabilities in Form A of the Third Schedule to the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, along with capital, reserves and surplus, borrowings and other liabilities and provisions.

Q8667.Static GKHard

The city of Agra was founded in 1504 by:

  1. A.Bahlol Lodi
  2. B.Sikandar Lodi
  3. C.Ibrahim Lodi
  4. D.Babur
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Correct answer: B. Sikandar Lodi

The correct answer is B, Sikandar Lodi, the second ruler of the Lodi dynasty, who founded Agra on the Yamuna in 1504 and made it his capital so that he could keep a closer watch on the chiefs of the east and the Rajputs of the south.

Q8668.Static GKMedium

The city of Vijayanagara was founded in 1336 by:

  1. A.Krishnadeva Raya
  2. B.Harihara and Bukka
  3. C.Deva Raya II
  4. D.Pulakeshin II
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Correct answer: B. Harihara and Bukka

The correct answer is B, Harihara and Bukka, the two brothers of the Sangama family who founded both the city and the empire of Vijayanagara on the Tungabhadra in 1336; its ruins at Hampi in Karnataka are a World Heritage Site.

Q8669.Static GKEasy

Jamshedpur, the steel city of Jharkhand, is named after:

  1. A.Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
  2. B.Jamshed Nagarwala
  3. C.Dorabji Tata
  4. D.Jehangir Ratanji Tata
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Correct answer: A. Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata

The correct answer is A, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the founder of the Tata group, after whom the steel town built by his company on the Subarnarekha in the first years of the twentieth century is named; it is also called Tatanagar, which remains the name of its railway station.

Q8670.Static GKMedium

The city of Madras, now Chennai, was founded in 1639 by:

  1. A.Job Charnock
  2. B.Francis Day and Andrew Cogan
  3. C.Gerald Aungier
  4. D.Francois Martin
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Correct answer: B. Francis Day and Andrew Cogan

The correct answer is B, Francis Day and Andrew Cogan, officers of the English East India Company who in 1639 obtained a strip of coast from the local ruler and built Fort St George, around which the town of Madras grew.

Q8671.Static GKMedium

Which Sikh Guru founded the city of Amritsar?

  1. A.Guru Nanak Dev
  2. B.Guru Angad Dev
  3. C.Guru Ram Das
  4. D.Guru Arjan Dev
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Correct answer: C. Guru Ram Das

The correct answer is C, Guru Ram Das, the fourth Guru, who founded the city in 1577 around the sacred tank he had excavated; the settlement was first called Ramdaspur after him and later took the name Amritsar, meaning the pool of nectar.

Q8673.Static GKMedium

The city of Ahmedabad was founded in 1411 by:

  1. A.Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat
  2. B.Mahmud Begada
  3. C.Sikandar Lodi
  4. D.Alauddin Khalji
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Correct answer: A. Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat

The correct answer is A, Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat, who founded the city on the Sabarmati in 1411 and gave it his own name; the Jama Masjid, the Teen Darwaza and the Bhadra fort belong to his time.

Q8674.Static GKEasy

Fatehpur Sikri was built by which Mughal emperor?

  1. A.Babur
  2. B.Humayun
  3. C.Akbar
  4. D.Shah Jahan
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Correct answer: C. Akbar

He began the city near Agra in 1571, named it the city of victory after his success in Gujarat, and filled it with the Buland Darwaza, the Panch Mahal, the Diwan-i-Khas and the tomb of Shaikh Salim Chishti; the court left it within about fifteen years, by tradition because its…

Q8675.Static GKMedium

Who founded the city of Hyderabad in 1591?

  1. A.Quli Qutb Shah, the founder of the dynasty
  2. B.Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
  3. C.Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah
  4. D.Ibrahim Adil Shah
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Correct answer: B. Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

The fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda founded the new city on the Musi in 1591 because the fortress of Golconda had grown too crowded, and he built the Charminar at its centre; accounts of the founding also mention the name Bhagyanagar.

Q8676.Static GKEasy

The city of Jaipur was founded in 1727 by:

  1. A.Maharana Udai Singh II
  2. B.Sawai Jai Singh II
  3. C.Rao Jodha
  4. D.Rawal Jaisal
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Correct answer: B. Sawai Jai Singh II

The Kachhwaha ruler of Amber shifted his capital from the hills down to the plain in 1727 and had the new city laid out by Vidyadhar Bhattacharya on a grid of nine rectangular blocks with wide straight streets, which makes Jaipur the first planned city of modern India; the same…

Q8679.Sports GKMedium

A handball match consists of:

  1. A.Four quarters of 10 minutes each
  2. B.Two halves of 30 minutes each
  3. C.Three periods of 20 minutes each
  4. D.Five sets of 25 points each
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Correct answer: B. Two halves of 30 minutes each

The correct answer is B, two halves of thirty minutes each, making an hour of play with an interval between the halves.