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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

Q11983.Computer AwarenessEasy

An optical fibre transmits light along its length on the principle of

  1. A.Diffraction
  2. B.Total internal reflection
  3. C.Polarisation
  4. D.Dispersion
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Correct answer: B. Total internal reflection

The fibre has a core of higher refractive index surrounded by a cladding of lower refractive index. Light that enters the core and meets the boundary at an angle greater than the critical angle is reflected entirely back into the core, with none of it refracted away into the cladding.

Q11984.Computer AwarenessAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · 22 March 2022Hard

Five channels each with 100 kHz bandwidth are to be multiplexed together. What is the minimum bandwidth of the link, if there is a need for a guard band of 10 kHz between the channels to prevent interference?

  1. A.500 kHz
  2. B.540 kHz
  3. C.460 kHz
  4. D.560 kHz
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Correct answer: B. 540 kHz

In frequency division multiplexing each channel is given its own slice of the frequency band, and a small unused strip called a guard band is left between two neighbouring channels so that one does not spill into the next.

Q11988.Books & AuthorsEasy

Who created the character of James Bond?

  1. A.John le Carre
  2. B.Ian Fleming
  3. C.Frederick Forsyth
  4. D.Robert Ludlum
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Correct answer: B. Ian Fleming

A British naval intelligence officer during the Second World War, Fleming turned his experience into fiction and introduced James Bond, the agent with the code number 007, in Casino Royale in 1953, following it with eleven more novels and two collections of stories.

Q11989.Books & AuthorsMedium

In Mary Shelley s novel, Frankenstein is the name of

  1. A.the monster
  2. B.the scientist who makes the creature
  3. C.the village where the story is set
  4. D.the ship that rescues the narrator
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Correct answer: B. the scientist who makes the creature

Victor Frankenstein is a student of natural philosophy who assembles a being from dead matter and gives it life, then abandons it in horror; the being itself is never named in the novel and is called the creature, the being or the daemon.

Q11990.Books & AuthorsHard

The early Hindi novel Chandrakanta, famous for its magic and its masters of disguise, was written by

  1. A.Devaki Nandan Khatri
  2. B.Bharatendu Harishchandra
  3. C.Jaishankar Prasad
  4. D.Acharya Chatursen Shastri
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Correct answer: A. Devaki Nandan Khatri

Published from 1888, Chandrakanta tells of the princess Chandrakanta and prince Virendra Singh and of the ayyars, the shape-shifting spies who serve them, moving through a tilism, an enchanted maze of traps and illusions.

Q11992.Books & AuthorsMedium

The comic characters Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu were created by

  1. A.Anant Pai
  2. B.R. K. Laxman
  3. C.Pran Kumar Sharma
  4. D.Mario Miranda
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Correct answer: C. Pran Kumar Sharma

He created Chacha Chaudhary, the small turbaned old man whose brain is said to work faster than a computer, and his giant companion Sabu from the planet Jupiter, and the strip became one of the most widely read Indian comics in Hindi and in many other languages.

Q11993.Books & AuthorsEasy

Mowgli, Shere Khan and Baloo are characters created by

  1. A.Rudyard Kipling
  2. B.Jim Corbett
  3. C.Kenneth Anderson
  4. D.Lewis Carroll
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Correct answer: A. Rudyard Kipling

Born in Bombay, Kipling created the boy Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Seoni forests of central India, along with the tiger Shere Khan, the bear Baloo, the panther Bagheera and the python Kaa, in The Jungle Book of 1894.

Q11994.Books & AuthorsMedium

Hori and Dhania are the central characters of which novel?

  1. A.Nirmala
  2. B.Godan
  3. C.Gaban
  4. D.Rangbhoomi
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Correct answer: B. Godan

Published in 1936, Godan is the best known novel of Munshi Premchand, the pen name of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, and it follows the peasant Hori and his wife Dhania as their small ambition of owning a cow is destroyed by debt, caste and the demands of the landlord.

Q11995.Books & AuthorsMedium

The Bengali detective Feluda was created by

  1. A.Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
  2. B.Satyajit Ray
  3. C.Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
  4. D.Sunil Gangopadhyay
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Correct answer: B. Satyajit Ray

The film-maker was also a prolific writer for young readers in Bengali, and he created Pradosh Chandra Mitra, called Feluda, who solves cases with his cousin Topshe and the thriller writer Lalmohan Ganguly, nicknamed Jatayu.

Q11996.Books & AuthorsEasy

The detective Sherlock Holmes was created by

  1. A.Agatha Christie
  2. B.Arthur Conan Doyle
  3. C.Edgar Allan Poe
  4. D.Wilkie Collins
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Correct answer: B. Arthur Conan Doyle

The Scottish physician and writer introduced Holmes in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 and went on to write four novels and more than fifty short stories about him, narrated by Dr John Watson, with the address 221B Baker Street in London.

Q11997.Books & AuthorsAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 29 Nov 2021, Shift 1Easy

Who among the following is the author of the novel Oliver Twist?

  1. A.Charlotte Bronte
  2. B.EM Forster
  3. C.Thomas Hardy
  4. D.Charles Dickens
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Correct answer: D. Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist, published in instalments from 1837, is his second novel and follows an orphan boy from a workhouse into a gang of young thieves in London, giving English the figures of Fagin, the Artful Dodger and Bill Sikes.

Q11998.Indian PolityMedium

Who is the highest law officer of a state government and under which article is the office created?

  1. A.Advocate General, under Article 165
  2. B.Solicitor General, under Article 76
  3. C.Attorney General, under Article 165
  4. D.Public Prosecutor, under Article 148
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Correct answer: A. Advocate General, under Article 165

The Governor appoints a person qualified to be a judge of a High Court as Advocate General of the state, to advise the state government on legal matters and to perform the legal duties the Governor assigns; he holds office during the pleasure of the Governor and may speak in…

Q11999.Indian PolityMedium

Which statement about the Attorney General of India in Parliament is correct?

  1. A.He can speak and vote in both Houses
  2. B.He can speak in both Houses but cannot vote
  3. C.He can attend only the Rajya Sabha
  4. D.He has no right to enter either House
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Correct answer: B. He can speak in both Houses but cannot vote

Article 88 gives the Attorney General the right to speak in and otherwise take part in the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, in any joint sitting and in any committee of which he is named a member, and Article 105 extends the privileges and immunities of a member to…

Q12000.Indian PolityEasy

Which article of the Constitution deals with the Attorney General of India?

  1. A.Article 72
  2. B.Article 76
  3. C.Article 78
  4. D.Article 88
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Correct answer: B. Article 76

It provides for the appointment of the Attorney General for India by the President from among persons qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court, states his duty to advise the Government of India on legal matters, and says he holds office during the pleasure of the President…