SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Asia supplies more than half of the world's tin, because the great tin belt of South East Asia runs through Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and China is the largest single producer.

On Survey of India topographical sheets, railway lines, telegraph and telephone lines, settlement names and boundaries are printed in black, so black is the colour of such man-made linear features.

Kazakhstan is the world's largest producer of uranium and alone accounts for roughly two-fifths of global output. Its uranium comes mainly from the Chu-Sarysu and Syr Darya basins and is won by in-situ leaching, a method that dissolves the metal underground instead of digging it out.

Tropical deciduous forests are India's monsoon forests, and their trees shed their leaves for about six to eight weeks in the dry summer to save water.

Leh, in the cold desert of Ladakh, lies above 3,500 metres in the Himalayas, and its winter temperature falls far below freezing, lower than anywhere else in the list.

The Bombay Presidency Association was founded in 1885 by Badruddin Tyabji, Pherozeshah Mehta and Kashinath Trimbak Telang, three lawyers of Bombay who are often called the city's triumvirate.

In the mesosphere the temperature falls as one goes up, reaching about minus 100 degrees Celsius at the mesopause near 80 km, which makes it the coldest layer of the atmosphere.

Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested on 31 October 1940 for individual satyagraha against India being dragged into the Second World War without the consent of its people, and he was sentenced to four years in prison.

The Himalayas are young fold mountains, formed when the sediments of the Tethys Sea were squeezed and folded as the Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate.

Calderas are the most explosive of the earth's volcanoes, because they erupt so violently that the magma chamber empties and the summit collapses into a wide hollow instead of building a cone.

A committee headed by Motilal Nehru, with eight other members, drafted a constitution for India in 1928, and its report is known as the Nehru Report.

The Lahore session of the Indian National Congress passed the Purna Swaraj resolution on 19 December 1929 and declared complete independence to be the goal of the Congress.

Gandhi gave the famous call of Do or Die on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay, the day the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India resolution.

Genghis Khan led the Mongols into Transoxiana in 1219, the campaign that destroyed the Khwarazmian empire. The war began after the governor of Otrar killed Mongol traders and the Shah of Khwarazm, Ala-ud-din Muhammad, put Genghis Khan’s envoys to death.

Curium is a radioactive man-made element with the symbol Cm and atomic number 96.

Mosses and lichens are the typical plants of the tundra, the cold treeless belt that lies beyond the coniferous forests of the far north.

The All Bengal Students’ Conference was held in Calcutta in 1928 with Jawaharlal Nehru in the chair.

Alexander defeated Porus in 326 BCE in the Battle of the Hydaspes, fought on the banks of the Jhelum, the river the Greeks called the Hydaspes.

Milk is an emulsion because it is tiny drops of liquid fat spread through water, and an emulsion is a colloid in which one liquid is dispersed in another liquid.

Kerala shows almost no difference between day and night temperatures because it lies on the coast close to the equator, where the sea keeps the air mild and the humidity stays high.