SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Brass is made by melting copper with zinc, and the resulting homogeneous mixture is harder than copper, easier to cast and machine and gives the familiar yellow colour used for utensils, fittings and musical instruments.

When two miscible liquids boil at temperatures far apart, ordinary distillation is enough, because the more volatile liquid boils off almost completely before the other begins.

Kerosene and water do not mix, so on standing they form two distinct layers with the lighter kerosene above the denser water.

Milk is an emulsion in which tiny globules of fat are dispersed through water, and those globules fall within the colloidal size range, so milk looks uniform to the eye, does not separate on standing, passes through filter paper and shows the Tyndall effect.

The particles of a colloid are between one and one thousand nanometres across, which is large enough to scatter a beam of light sideways and make the path of the beam visible.

Common salt is sodium chloride, in which sodium and chlorine are chemically combined in a fixed ratio by mass, and the result has properties quite unlike either element, since sodium reacts violently with water and chlorine is a poisonous gas while their compound is eaten daily.

The world governing body for chess was established on 20 July 1924 in Paris, and the anniversary is kept as International Chess Day, with the United Nations later recognising it as an international day in acknowledgement of the reach of the game and of its Indian ancestor, chaturanga.

World Music Day grew out of the Fete de la Musique begun in France, on which musicians of every kind play free in streets and public places.

UNESCO adopted World Poetry Day in 1999 to support the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry and to give a hearing to small publishers and to poetry in endangered languages.

UNESCO declared this day to promote the use and preservation of mother tongues, and the date commemorates the Bengali language movement of 1952, when students in Dhaka were killed while demanding recognition for Bengali in what was then East Pakistan.

That decision, taken on 14 September 1949, was later written into Article 343 of the Constitution, and the anniversary has been observed within India as Hindi Diwas.

A congress convened by Pierre de Coubertin at the Sorbonne in Paris established the International Olympic Committee on 23 June 1894, and national Olympic committees mark the anniversary with runs and open sporting events.

Dhyan Chand was born on 29 August 1905 and was part of the Indian hockey teams that won the Olympic gold medal in 1928, 1932 and 1936; he is regarded as the finest hockey player the country has produced, and the national sports awards are conferred on his birthday each…

The day was proposed by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and approved by UNESCO in 1983, and it is used to draw public attention to the conservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes, including the sites on the World Heritage List.

International Museum Day was declared by the International Council of Museums, and on it museums across the world open to the public around a common annual theme meant to show the part museums play in education and in society.

Noverre was the French dancer and choreographer who argued that ballet should tell a story through expressive movement rather than remain a display of steps, and the International Theatre Institute chose his birthday, 29 April, for International Dance Day.

World Theatre Day was instituted in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute, and every year a figure from world theatre delivers an international message that is read out in theatres across many countries.

UNESCO fixed this date because it carries unusual literary weight: Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, died on 23 April 1616, and the same date is traditionally given for the death of William Shakespeare.

Samskara is his best known novel, set in a Brahmin village thrown into crisis by the question of who may perform the last rites of a man who had broken every rule of the community, and it is read as a central text of modern Kannada fiction; its author received…

Allasani Peddana was the foremost of the eight poets of the court of Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara, a group known as the Ashtadiggajas, and he wrote Manucharitra, which earned him the title Andhra Kavita Pitamaha, the grandfather of Telugu poetry; the reign is remembered as the golden age of Telugu, and…