SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The Golden Quadrilateral, the first and best known phase of the National Highways Development Project, is a four-lane and six-lane ring of about 5,846 kilometres joining the four metropolitan cities, and it is the single most asked fact in this chapter.

NH-44 begins at Srinagar in the Kashmir valley and ends at Kanyakumari at the southern tip of the peninsula, covering about 3,745 kilometres and passing through Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

It was created in the renumbering of 2010 by merging several older highways, including the old NH-1A, NH-1, NH-2, NH-3, NH-75, NH-26 and NH-7, and it passes through about a dozen states and union territories.

The event was created to give Europe a continental games of the kind Asia, Africa and the Americas already had, and several of its competitions double as qualifying events for the Olympic Games.

It is conducted by the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf and is older than both the Paralympics and the Special Olympics; starters use lights and flags instead of a whistle or a gun, and referees signal with hand flags.

CISM holds championships in many sports through the year and gathers them every four years into the Military World Games, whose first edition was held at Rome in 1995 and which carry the motto of friendship through sport.

The Afro-Asian Games were conceived as a meeting of the champions of Africa and Asia, and the first edition was held at Hyderabad in 2003, with the main events at the Gachibowli stadium complex built for the purpose.

The Winter series began the next year, in 1960, at Chamonix in France, so option B is the right city attached to the wrong series, and that swap is the usual way this question is made difficult.

FISU was founded in 1949, has its headquarters at Lausanne in Switzerland, and runs both the Summer and the Winter World University Games along with a long list of World University Championships.

The twelfth edition of the South Asian Games was held in 2016 across two north-eastern cities, with Guwahati in Assam as the main venue and Shillong in Meghalaya hosting part of the programme, and India finished at the top of the medal table as it has in almost every edition.

The regional games of the subcontinent began in the Nepalese capital in 1984 under the name South Asian Federation Games, commonly shortened to SAF Games, and the shorter name South Asian Games was adopted in 2004.

The International Olympic Committee set this band when it created the Youth Olympic Games so that the event would reach adolescents at the stage when they are choosing whether to continue in sport, and the age is counted as of the year of the Games.

The Youth Olympic Games were proposed by Jacques Rogge, then President of the International Olympic Committee, approved in 2007, and the first Summer edition was staged at Singapore in 2010 for athletes aged fifteen to eighteen.

G. Evelyn Hutchinson distinguished the fundamental niche, which is the full range of conditions and resources a species could use if nothing interfered, from the realised niche, which is the narrower part left to it once competitors, predators, parasites and disease are at work.

A keystone species holds the structure of its community together out of all proportion to its own numbers, exactly as the keystone at the top of an arch holds the stones in place.

Where conditions stay constant and the resource is limiting, the better competitor increases while the weaker one dies out or shifts its niche.

A lichen is a partnership of an alga and a fungus that takes its water and minerals straight from the air, having no protective cuticle and no roots.

Paine introduced the term in 1969 after an experiment on the rocky Pacific shore in which he removed the starfish Pisaster ochraceus from study plots.

An ecotone is the zone where two adjoining ecosystems meet and blend, such as the mangrove belt between land and sea, an estuary between a river and the ocean, or the strip where grassland gives way to forest.

Oceans cover close to seventy-one per cent of the earth's surface and hold about ninety-seven per cent of its water, which makes the marine ecosystem the largest on the planet by both area and volume.