Skip to content
GK24

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

Q9421.Indian EconomyEasy

A gig worker, a platform worker and an aggregator have been defined in central law for the first time by which code?

  1. A.The Code on Social Security, 2020
  2. B.The Code on Wages, 2019
  3. C.The Industrial Relations Code, 2020
  4. D.The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Show answer
Correct answer: A. The Code on Social Security, 2020

It defines a gig worker as one who works outside a traditional employer-employee relationship, a platform worker as one who gets work through an online platform, and an aggregator as the digital intermediary that connects buyer and seller, and it provides a social security fund for such workers.

Q9422.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, an employer must take the prior permission of the appropriate government for lay-off, retrenchment or closure if the establishment employs at least

  1. A.Fifty workers
  2. B.One hundred workers
  3. C.Two hundred workers
  4. D.Three hundred workers
Show answer
Correct answer: D. Three hundred workers

The code raises the threshold from the earlier figure and also makes three hundred the point at which certified standing orders become compulsory, so one number serves two provisions.

Q9423.Indian EconomyMedium

The Trade Unions Act, 1926, the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 and the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 have been subsumed into which code?

  1. A.The Code on Wages, 2019
  2. B.The Industrial Relations Code, 2020
  3. C.The Code on Social Security, 2020
  4. D.The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Show answer
Correct answer: B. The Industrial Relations Code, 2020

These three Acts dealt with the registration of unions, the conditions of service to be published as standing orders, and the machinery for disputes, lay-off, retrenchment and closure, and all three subjects are now in one code.

Q9426.GeographyMedium

Cadastral maps are prepared mainly for which purpose?

  1. A.Recording the boundaries and ownership of land holdings
  2. B.Showing the distribution of rainfall in a country
  3. C.Showing air routes between continents
  4. D.Showing the relief of a mountain range on a small scale
Show answer
Correct answer: A. Recording the boundaries and ownership of land holdings

A cadastral map is a very large-scale map of a village or a town drawn to register plots, fields, their boundaries and their owners, and it is the basis of land revenue records and of the registration of property.

Q9429.GeographyMedium

A geostationary satellite is placed at an approximate height of

  1. A.900 km above the earth
  2. B.10,000 km above the earth
  3. C.36,000 km above the equator
  4. D.1,00,000 km above the equator
Show answer
Correct answer: C. 36,000 km above the equator

At that height a satellite's orbital period equals the period of the earth's rotation, so it stays above the same point on the equator and appears fixed in the sky, which is what communication and weather satellites need.

Q9430.GeographyMedium

Which of the following is an example of an active remote sensing sensor?

  1. A.An ordinary aerial camera
  2. B.A multispectral scanner recording reflected sunlight
  3. C.RADAR
  4. D.A thermal sensor recording the earth's emission
Show answer
Correct answer: C. RADAR

An active sensor generates its own energy, sends it to the target and measures what returns; RADAR does this with microwaves and LiDAR with a laser pulse, which is why such sensors can image at night and, in the case of microwaves, through cloud, haze and smoke.

Q9434.GeographyMedium

Mercator's projection of 1569 belongs to which family, and which property does it preserve?

  1. A.Conical, and it preserves area
  2. B.Cylindrical, and it preserves shape
  3. C.Zenithal, and it preserves distance
  4. D.Conical, and it preserves direction only at the poles
Show answer
Correct answer: B. Cylindrical, and it preserves shape

Mercator's is a cylindrical projection on which both parallels and meridians are straight lines crossing at right angles, and it is orthomorphic or conformal, meaning that shapes are true locally and a rhumb line of constant bearing plots as a straight line.

Q9435.GeographyAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · UPSSSC JE Civil 2015 Paper 2Hard

The suitable contour interval for a map with scale 1:10,000 is

  1. A.2 m
  2. B.5 m
  3. C.10 m
  4. D.20 m
Show answer
Correct answer: A. 2 m

The contour interval chosen for a sheet depends chiefly on its scale and on the relief of the ground: a large-scale map can carry closely spaced contours without the lines running into each other, so a small interval is both possible and desirable.

Q9436.GeographyEasy

The representative fraction of a map is written as 1:50,000. What does this mean?

  1. A.One unit on the map represents 50,000 of the same units on the ground
  2. B.One centimetre on the map represents 50,000 kilometres on the ground
  3. C.The map covers an area of 50,000 square kilometres
  4. D.The map has been reduced 50,000 times from an aerial photograph
Show answer
Correct answer: A. One unit on the map represents 50,000 of the same units on the ground

The representative fraction is a pure ratio without units, so one unit of length on the map stands for fifty thousand of the same units on the ground; it can be read in centimetres, inches or any other unit, which is why it is understood everywhere.

Q9438.General ScienceHard

In the pasteurisation of milk, the milk is heated to about

  1. A.40 degrees Celsius for five minutes
  2. B.70 degrees Celsius for 15 to 30 seconds
  3. C.100 degrees Celsius for ten minutes
  4. D.121 degrees Celsius for twenty minutes
Show answer
Correct answer: B. 70 degrees Celsius for 15 to 30 seconds

The short, sharp heating kills the disease-causing and most spoilage microbes while leaving the taste and most of the food value of the milk unchanged, which is exactly what boiling does not do.

Q9439.General ScienceHard

Viruses are described as standing on the border of the living and the non-living chiefly because

  1. A.they are smaller than bacteria
  2. B.they can multiply only inside a living host cell and are inert outside it
  3. C.they contain both DNA and RNA
  4. D.they can be killed by antibiotics
Show answer
Correct answer: B. they can multiply only inside a living host cell and are inert outside it

A virus has heredity and mutates like a living thing, yet it has no cell, no metabolism and no means of reproduction of its own; outside a host it is an inert particle that can even be crystallised, as W. M. Stanley showed with the tobacco mosaic virus in 1935…

Q9440.General ScienceMedium

Tuberculosis in human beings is caused by

  1. A.A virus
  2. B.The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  3. C.A fungus of the genus Aspergillus
  4. D.The protozoan Entamoeba histolytica
Show answer
Correct answer: B. The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis

It spreads through droplets in the air, chiefly attacks the lungs, and is treated with a long and uninterrupted course of several antibiotics.