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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

Q12921.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

Who is the Appellate Authority against an Award passed under the Reserve Bank - Integrated Ombudsman Scheme?

  1. A.The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.The Executive Director in charge of the Consumer Education and Protection Department, RBI
  3. C.The Secretary, Department of Financial Services
  4. D.The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
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Correct answer: B. The Executive Director in charge of the Consumer Education and Protection Department, RBI

Either the complainant or the regulated entity may appeal to this officer within thirty days of receiving the Award, and a regulated entity that failed to appoint a Principal Nodal Officer cannot appeal at all.

Q12923.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Under the Reserve Bank - Integrated Ombudsman Scheme, 2021, the Centralised Receipt and Processing Centre for complaints is located at:

  1. A.Mumbai
  2. B.New Delhi
  3. C.Chandigarh
  4. D.Hyderabad
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Correct answer: C. Chandigarh

The integrated scheme is jurisdiction neutral, so a complaint no longer has to be sent to the ombudsman office of a particular region; all complaints, whether filed online, by email or on paper, are received and processed at a single Centralised Receipt and Processing Centre set up at Chandigarh, which…

Q12924.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Reserve Bank - Integrated Ombudsman Scheme, which merged three earlier ombudsman schemes, was launched in which year?

  1. A.2017
  2. B.2018
  3. C.2019
  4. D.2021
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Correct answer: D. 2021

The Reserve Bank - Integrated Ombudsman Scheme, or RB-IOS, was launched on 12 November 2021 and merged the Banking Ombudsman Scheme of 2006, the Ombudsman Scheme for Non-Banking Financial Companies of 2018 and the Ombudsman Scheme for Digital Transactions of 2019 into a single scheme on the principle of one…

Q12926.Art & CultureHard

The bronze sculpture Triumph of Labour on the Marina at Chennai was made by the first chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi. Who was he?

  1. A.Ramkinkar Baij
  2. B.Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury
  3. C.K. C. S. Paniker
  4. D.Nandalal Bose
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Correct answer: B. Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury

Roy Choudhury, a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore who became the first Indian principal of the Government School of Art at Madras, modelled Triumph of Labour, the group of four men straining at a rock that stands on the Marina beach at Chennai, and also the Martyrs' Memorial outside the Patna…

Q12927.Art & CultureHard

Which Indian painter directed the short film Through the Eyes of a Painter, which won the Golden Bear for a short film at Berlin in 1967?

  1. A.F. N. Souza
  2. B.M. F. Husain
  3. C.Satish Gujral
  4. D.Krishen Khanna
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Correct answer: B. M. F. Husain

Maqbool Fida Husain, a founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group and often called the Picasso of India, made the short film Through the Eyes of a Painter, which took the Golden Bear for a short film at the Berlin festival in 1967; he later directed the feature Gaja Gamini.

Q12928.Art & CultureMedium

The Cholamandal Artists' Village, founded in 1966 by K. C. S. Paniker, is located near which city?

  1. A.Chennai
  2. B.Bengaluru
  3. C.Kochi
  4. D.Hyderabad
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Correct answer: A. Chennai

Cholamandal Artists' Village was founded in 1966 on the coast south of Chennai by K. C. S. Paniker and other artists of the Madras art movement, and it is described as the first self-supporting artists' commune in India, where painters and sculptors lived together and sold batik and metalwork to…

Q12930.Art & CultureMedium

Jamini Roy gave up academic oil painting for the flat figures and bold lines of which folk tradition?

  1. A.Madhubani of Mithila
  2. B.Kalighat pat of Bengal
  3. C.Warli of Maharashtra
  4. D.Phad of Rajasthan
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Correct answer: B. Kalighat pat of Bengal

Jamini Roy trained in the academic manner at the Government School of Art in Calcutta but abandoned it for the Kalighat pat, the cheap brush-drawn pictures sold to pilgrims near the Kalighat temple, and for Bengal scroll painting.

Q12932.Art & CultureMedium

Which modern Indian painter built his later abstract work around the motif of the Bindu?

  1. A.S. H. Raza
  2. B.V. S. Gaitonde
  3. C.Tyeb Mehta
  4. D.Akbar Padamsee
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Correct answer: A. S. H. Raza

Raza, a founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group, moved to Paris, won the Prix de la critique there in 1956, and from the 1970s built his canvases around the Bindu, the black seed point from which, in his words, form and energy radiate, often combined with the triangle and…

Q12935.Art & CultureMedium

The borders and page decorations of the original manuscript of the Constitution of India were made by which artist and his students?

  1. A.Prem Behari Narain Raizada
  2. B.Nandalal Bose
  3. C.Ramkinkar Baij
  4. D.Jamini Roy
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Correct answer: B. Nandalal Bose

Nandalal Bose, who headed Kala Bhavana at Santiniketan, was asked to illuminate the handwritten Constitution, and he and his students painted the borders and the headings of its pages with scenes from Indian history, from the Indus seals to Gandhi's march.

Q12936.Art & CultureEasy

The 1905 painting Bharat Mata, showing a four-armed figure in saffron, was painted by whom?

  1. A.Nandalal Bose
  2. B.Abanindranath Tagore
  3. C.Jamini Roy
  4. D.Gaganendranath Tagore
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Correct answer: B. Abanindranath Tagore

He painted Bharat Mata in 1905, during the Swadeshi movement that followed the partition of Bengal, showing the motherland as a calm four-armed figure in saffron robes holding a book, sheaves of paddy, a piece of white cloth and a rudraksha garland, the four gifts of learning, food, clothing and…