SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The World Snooker Championship, the oldest and most important event in the professional game, has been staged at this small theatre in the English city of Sheffield without a break since 1977, and the venue is so closely identified with the title that the championship is often called the Crucible.

Wilson Jones of Pune won the World Amateur Billiards Championship in 1958 and so became the first Indian to win a world title in any sport, a landmark often asked in general awareness papers.

Officers of the British garrison at Jabalpur, in present-day Madhya Pradesh, added coloured balls to the older game of black pool in 1875, and Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain of the Devonshire Regiment gave the new game the name snooker, which was slang at the Woolwich military academy for a…

The figure is arrived at by potting all fifteen reds for fifteen points, taking the black worth seven after each red for one hundred and five points, and then clearing the six colours in order of value for twenty-seven points, giving a total of one hundred and forty-seven.

The six colours of snooker are valued in a fixed order, yellow two, green three, brown four, blue five, pink six and black seven, so the black is the highest valued ball on the table and is the one a player takes after each red while building a big break.

A frame of snooker begins with fifteen red balls arranged in a triangle behind the pink, each worth one point.

Connell showed in the field that on the intertidal rocks of the Scottish coast the larger and faster-growing barnacle Balanus physically crowds out the smaller Chathamalus wherever the two settle together, so that Chathamalus survives only higher up the shore where Balanus cannot tolerate the exposure.

In a mycorrhiza the threads of a fungus grow around or inside the fine roots of a plant and greatly extend the surface from which minerals, especially phosphorus, can be absorbed from the soil.

Brood parasitism is the habit of laying eggs in the nest of another species and letting the host bird incubate them and feed the young.

In amensalism one species is harmed while the other neither gains nor loses, a pattern written as minus and zero.

Rhizobium lives inside the nodules on the roots of legumes such as gram, pea, groundnut and arhar. The bacterium converts atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, a form the plant can absorb and build into proteins, while the plant supplies the bacterium with shelter and with sugars made in photosynthesis.

Robert Paine removed the predatory starfish Pisaster from rocky intertidal pools and found that within a short time the mussels it had been eating took over the rock surface and crowded out other animals, so that more than ten invertebrate species were lost from the pools.

The Russian ecologist G. F. Gause worked with cultures of Paramecium and concluded that when two species need exactly the same limited resource in the same space, one of them is always eliminated in the long run; this is the competitive exclusion principle, also called Gause's principle.

Prickly pear cactus was taken to Australia in the nineteenth century and spread uncontrollably over grazing land because no local animal fed on it.

The egret walks beside grazing cattle and feeds on the grasshoppers and other insects flushed out of the grass by the cattle's hooves.

Cuscuta, known as dodder or amarbel, is a flowering plant that has lost its chlorophyll and its leaves and cannot make its own food.

A lichen is a close partnership between an alga and a fungus in which both partners gain. The alga prepares carbohydrates by photosynthesis and shares them with the fungus, while the fungus absorbs and holds water and minerals and anchors the pair to bare rock or tree bark.

Tata Consultancy Services was set up in 1968 as a division of the Tata group to provide management consultancy and data processing, and its registered office and headquarters have remained in Mumbai, the home city of the group.

The two left a research centre in California and founded Adobe in 1982 at San Jose, naming it after a creek near Warnock's home.

Alibaba was started in 1999 by Jack Ma, a former English teacher, in his apartment in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, and the company has kept its headquarters in that city.