SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Incorporated in 1920 and later taken over by the government, SCCL is India's oldest government-owned coal mining company. Coal was found in the Godavari valley near Yellandu in the 1870s, and the Hyderabad (Deccan) Company began mining there in 1886.

During a hard sprint the muscles run short of oxygen and switch to anaerobic respiration, which leaves lactic acid behind.

Gravitational force varies inversely as the square of the distance, so halving the distance makes the force 2 × 2 = 4 times larger.

Man Kautuhal was compiled under the patronage of Raja Man Singh Tomar, who ruled Gwalior from 1486 to 1516. Man Singh Tomar was a great patron of music, and his court is closely linked with the growth of the Dhrupad style of Hindustani singing.

Plants need magnesium in fairly large amounts, so it is a macronutrient, not a micronutrient. Plant nutrients are grouped by how much of them a plant needs.

S-waves are transverse waves: they shake the ground at right angles to their direction of travel, and that sideways motion forms crests and troughs.

The events fall in 1972, 1974, 1985 and 2001 in that order, which is also UPSC's official key. The Simla Agreement was signed on 2 July 1972 by Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the 1971 war; it turned the ceasefire line in Kashmir into the Line of Control.

Lactase breaks down lactose, the sugar in milk, so a person who still makes enough of it can digest milk at any age.

For a 4d orbital, n = 4 and l = 2, which gives l = 2 angular nodes and n − l − 1 = 1 radial node.

A bacterium is a living cell filled with cytoplasm, while a virus is only genetic material inside a protein coat.

Accelerators speed up the vulcanisation of rubber; they are not a part of paint.

Animal cells are bounded only by a flexible cell membrane; a rigid cell wall is found in plants, fungi and bacteria.

The first three are written into Article I of the SAARC Charter; ending cross-border terrorism is not one of its listed objectives.

The number after PM gives the upper size limit of the particles in micrometres. Particulate matter is classed by aerodynamic diameter: PM10 is 10 micrometres or less, PM2.5 is 2.5 micrometres or less, and PM1 is 1 micrometre or less, about one-seventieth of a human hair's width.

A liquid boils when its vapour pressure equals the pressure above it, so less outside pressure means boiling starts at a lower temperature.

All three subjects sit in the list named against them in the Seventh Schedule. The Seventh Schedule, read with Article 246, divides law-making powers into three lists.

Magnesium burns in air with a dazzling white flame, which is why it goes into fireworks, sparklers and flares. When magnesium ribbon is heated it reacts with oxygen to form white magnesium oxide (2Mg + O2 → 2MgO), giving out intense heat and brilliant white light, including ultraviolet.

A short-sighted (myopic) person sees near things clearly but distant things blurred, and a concave lens corrects it.

A compound microscope uses two convex lenses, and its magnification depends on the tube length. The objective is a convex lens of very short focal length that forms a real, enlarged image of the specimen.

The third law does not make one force the cause and the other the effect; action and reaction arise together, at the same instant.