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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

Q10161.Computer AwarenessMedium

A passive RFID tag draws the power it needs from

  1. A.an internal lithium battery
  2. B.the radio signal of the reader
  3. C.a solar cell on the tag
  4. D.the magnetic field of the earth
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Correct answer: B. the radio signal of the reader

A passive tag is only a chip and an antenna. When it enters the field of a reader, the incoming radio waves induce a current in the antenna, that current powers the chip for an instant, and the chip replies by modulating the reflected signal, a method called backscatter.

Q10164.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which IEEE standard is associated with Bluetooth?

  1. A.IEEE 802.3
  2. B.IEEE 802.11
  3. C.IEEE 802.15.1
  4. D.IEEE 802.16
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Correct answer: C. IEEE 802.15.1

The 802.15 group of standards covers wireless personal area networks, and 802.15.1 is the one that was drawn from the Bluetooth specification; the technology itself is now developed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.

Q10167.Books & AuthorsHard

The Children's Book Trust was founded in 1957 by

  1. A.Anant Pai
  2. B.K. Shankar Pillai
  3. C.Sudha Murty
  4. D.Ruskin Bond
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Correct answer: B. K. Shankar Pillai

The cartoonist Shankar, famous for his political cartoons and for Shankar's Weekly, founded the Children's Book Trust in New Delhi in 1957 to publish good and affordable books for Indian children, and also started the Shankar's International Children's Competition for painting and writing as well as the doll museum in…

Q10168.Books & AuthorsMedium

Which of the following fables is attributed to Aesop?

  1. A.The Tortoise and the Hare
  2. B.The Blue Jackal
  3. C.The Monkey and the Crocodile
  4. D.The Talkative Tortoise
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Correct answer: A. The Tortoise and the Hare

The race in which the slow tortoise beats the overconfident hare is one of the best known fables attributed to Aesop of ancient Greece, along with the fox and the grapes, the boy who cried wolf and the lion and the mouse.

Q10172.Books & AuthorsEasy

Mowgli, Baloo and Shere Khan are characters created by

  1. A.Rudyard Kipling
  2. B.Robert Louis Stevenson
  3. C.Roald Dahl
  4. D.Kenneth Grahame
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Correct answer: A. Rudyard Kipling

Mowgli the boy raised by wolves, Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Kaa the python and Shere Khan the tiger are the characters of The Jungle Book, written by Rudyard Kipling and set in the forests of central India.

Q10173.Books & AuthorsMedium

International Children's Book Day is observed on 2 April to mark the birthday of

  1. A.the Brothers Grimm
  2. B.Hans Christian Andersen
  3. C.Lewis Carroll
  4. D.Rudyard Kipling
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Correct answer: B. Hans Christian Andersen

The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2 April, and the International Board on Books for Young People chose that date for International Children's Book Day; the same body gives the Hans Christian Andersen Award, often called the little Nobel of children's literature.

Q10175.Books & AuthorsEasy

The Jataka tales are stories of

  1. A.the earlier births of the Buddha
  2. B.the exploits of King Vikramaditya
  3. C.the adventures of the Pandavas
  4. D.the childhood of Mahavira
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Correct answer: A. the earlier births of the Buddha

The Jataka tales form part of the Buddhist canon in Pali and number over five hundred.

Q10177.Awards & HonoursHard

Which four pageants are together called the Big Four international beauty pageants?

  1. A.Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Earth and Miss International
  2. B.Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Asia Pacific and Femina Miss India
  3. C.Miss Universe, Miss Earth, Miss Supranational and Femina Miss India
  4. D.Miss World, Miss Earth, Miss Asia Pacific and Miss International
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Correct answer: A. Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Earth and Miss International

These four are the oldest and most widely covered international pageants: Miss World from 1951 in Britain, Miss Universe from 1952 in the United States, Miss International from 1960 and held mainly in Japan, and Miss Earth from 2001 in the Philippines.

Q10178.Awards & HonoursMedium

Which pair correctly matches the winners of 2000?

  1. A.Lara Dutta won Miss World and Priyanka Chopra won Miss Universe
  2. B.Priyanka Chopra won Miss World and Lara Dutta won Miss Universe
  3. C.Both titles were won by Priyanka Chopra
  4. D.Yukta Mookhey won Miss World and Lara Dutta won Miss Universe
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Correct answer: B. Priyanka Chopra won Miss World and Lara Dutta won Miss Universe

The year 2000 was the second time India held both crowns, with Priyanka Chopra crowned Miss World at London and Lara Dutta crowned Miss Universe at Nicosia in Cyprus; Dia Mirza also won Miss Asia Pacific the same year.