SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

World Aquatics recognises six disciplines, namely swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming, open water swimming and high diving. Rowing is played on water but is governed by a separate international body, World Rowing, long known as FISA, and its Olympic events are listed under rowing, not aquatics.

The body was founded in 1908 in London during that year's Olympic Games, as the Federation Internationale de Natation, and the shortened form FINA stayed in use until it was renamed World Aquatics in 2023.

The American swimmer won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics of 2008, the most won by any athlete at one Games, and he closed his career as the most decorated Olympian in history with 28 medals, 23 of them gold.

The correct answer is C, seven: six field players and one goalkeeper, who is distinguished by a red cap while the two teams wear white and dark caps.

The correct answer is B, the 1500 metre freestyle, often called the metric mile, which covers thirty lengths of a 50 metre pool and is the longest event on the Olympic pool programme.

A lawyer from Bengal, he swam the English Channel in 1958 and went on to cross five major seas and straits in a single year, 1966, including the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles, the Bosphorus and the Panama Canal.

The Bengali swimmer crossed the English Channel in September 1959, becoming the first woman from Asia to do so, and in 1960 she became the first Indian sportswoman to be awarded the Padma Shri. Option A is wrong but close enough to be the standard distractor: Bula Choudhury, also from…

The medley relay order is backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle, and the reason the sequence differs from the individual medley is practical.

One swimmer covers all four strokes in that fixed sequence over 200 or 400 metres, and freestyle is always last.

A pool built to the long course standard is marked into ten lanes of 2.5 metres each across its 25 metre width.

An Olympic-size or long course pool measures 50 metres in length and 25 metres in width, and all Olympic pool races are swum in it, so a 100 metre race means two lengths and the 1500 metre freestyle means thirty.

The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification in 2024 declaring 25 June as Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas, to pay tribute to those who suffered during the Emergency, which was proclaimed on 25 June 1975 and withdrawn on 21 March 1977.

It therefore predates 2014.

The initiative offers recognised startups tax benefits, easier compliance and funding support, and it is run by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.

The day was announced in 2021 to remember the suffering, violence and displacement that accompanied the Partition of 1947, and it falls on the eve of Independence Day.

With it India became the fourth country to land on the Moon and the first to land in that polar region, and the landing site was named Shiv Shakti Point.

The day was announced in 2022 on the Prakash Parv of Guru Gobind Singh and named Veer Bal Diwas, the day of the brave children.

The day was approved in 2021 as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas, the day of tribal pride.

The day was declared in 2021, the year of his 125th birth anniversary, and is named Parakram Diwas, the day of valour, after the Azad Hind Fauj he led.

The day was declared Constitution Day in 2015, during the 125th birth anniversary year of Dr B. R. Ambedkar; the same date had earlier been observed as National Law Day.