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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

Q9322.Environment & EcologyMedium

The Ministry of Jal Shakti was formed in 2019 by merging which two ministries?

  1. A.Agriculture, and Rural Development
  2. B.Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, and Drinking Water and Sanitation
  3. C.Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Earth Sciences
  4. D.Housing and Urban Affairs, and Panchayati Raj
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Correct answer: B. Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, and Drinking Water and Sanitation

In 2019 the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation was merged with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to create a single Ministry of Jal Shakti, so that irrigation, river basins, groundwater, drinking water supply and sanitation would be handled by one ministry.

Q9323.Environment & EcologyHard

The surangam, a horizontal tunnel driven into a hill to tap seepage water, is found mainly in

  1. A.The laterite country of Kasaragod in Kerala
  2. B.The Banni grassland of Kutch
  3. C.The Tapi basin of Maharashtra
  4. D.The Alwar district of Rajasthan
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Correct answer: A. The laterite country of Kasaragod in Kerala

A surangam is a tunnel about two metres high cut nearly level into the side of a laterite hill until it meets a seepage zone; the water that oozes out of the rock trickles along the floor of the tunnel and is collected in a pit outside, so the structure…

Q9325.Environment & EcologyMedium

In the traditional ahar-pyne system of south Bihar, what is a pyne?

  1. A.An embanked reservoir that stores runoff
  2. B.A diversion channel that carries water from a river
  3. C.A covered underground drinking water tank
  4. D.A stepped well cut down to the water table
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Correct answer: B. A diversion channel that carries water from a river

In the old Magadh region of south Bihar the land slopes gently and the soil holds water poorly, so farmers cut long channels, the pynes, from the flood flow of rivers such as the Phalgu, Sakri and Morhar and led the water across the fields.

Q9326.Environment & EcologyEasy

Bamboo drip irrigation, in which split bamboo pipes carry spring water to the fields, is a traditional practice of

  1. A.Meghalaya
  2. B.Kerala
  3. C.Ladakh
  4. D.Bihar
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Correct answer: A. Meghalaya

In the Khasi and Jaintia hills, spring and stream water on a hill slope is tapped and carried through a network of split bamboo pipes, channels and diversion sticks that step the flow down the slope and finally release it drop by drop at the root of each betel vine…

Q9328.Environment & EcologyAsked in: Rajasthan · RSMSSB JE Mechanical (Degree) held on 13Easy

In Rajasthan, the tanka and khadin type is

  1. A.Of traditional water conservation techniques
  2. B.Of traditional war skills
  3. C.Of traditional folk dances
  4. D.Of traditional farming method
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Correct answer: A. Of traditional water conservation techniques

A tanka is a covered underground tank, usually sunk in a courtyard or beneath a house in western Rajasthan, into which rain falling on the paved courtyard or the roof is led through a filter and stored for drinking right through the dry months.

Q9329.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which of the following statements about MS-DOS and Linux is correct?

  1. A.Both are case sensitive in command and file names
  2. B.MS-DOS is multi-user while Linux is single-user
  3. C.Linux is case sensitive and multi-user while MS-DOS is neither
  4. D.Both use the backslash as the separator in a path
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Correct answer: C. Linux is case sensitive and multi-user while MS-DOS is neither

Linux treats upper and lower case as different, so a file named Report is not the same as report, and it is built as a multi-user, multitasking system in which several accounts can work at once with separate permissions and a login.

Q9330.Computer AwarenessHard

In the Linux shell, which symbol adds the output of a command to the end of an existing file without erasing its contents?

  1. A.A single greater-than sign
  2. B.Two greater-than signs
  3. C.The vertical bar
  4. D.A single less-than sign
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Correct answer: B. Two greater-than signs

Writing a command followed by two greater-than signs and a file name appends the output to the end of that file and keeps whatever was already in it, which is how log files are built up.

Q9332.Computer AwarenessMedium

The MS-DOS rule that a file name may have up to eight characters with an extension of up to three is called

  1. A.The 3.8 rule
  2. B.The 8.3 convention
  3. C.The long file name convention
  4. D.The FAT32 convention
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Correct answer: B. The 8.3 convention

The name is read as eight dot three: up to eight characters for the name, a dot, and up to three for the extension, as in LETTER.TXT or AUTOEXEC.BAT, with spaces and certain punctuation marks not allowed.

Q9335.Computer AwarenessMedium

In Linux, the command chmod 777 on a file gives which set of permissions?

  1. A.Read and write to the owner only
  2. B.Read, write and execute to the owner, the group and others
  3. C.Read and execute to everyone, write to nobody
  4. D.Execute to the owner, read to the group, nothing to others
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Correct answer: B. Read, write and execute to the owner, the group and others

In the numeric form of chmod each of the three digits stands for one set of users, in the order owner, group and others, and each digit is the sum of read as 4, write as 2 and execute as 1.

Q9340.Art & CultureMedium

Which Chinese pilgrim studied at Nalanda under the teacher Silabhadra during the reign of Harshavardhana?

  1. A.Faxian
  2. B.Xuanzang
  3. C.Yijing
  4. D.Song Yun
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Correct answer: B. Xuanzang

The correct answer is B, Xuanzang, who travelled overland through Central Asia in the seventh century, spent years in India in the reign of Harshavardhana, studied at the monastery of Nalanda under Silabhadra, and carried manuscripts back to China, where he translated them and left the fullest foreign account of…