SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

One mole of any gas occupies 22.4 litres at STP, so 5.6 litres is 5.6 divided by 22.4, that is one quarter of a mole.

The National Housing Bank is one of the central nodal agencies through which the Centre passes the interest subsidy of the Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) down to the lenders.

The Fifth Schedule lets the Governor make regulations for the peace and good government of a Scheduled Area, and it names three matters such a regulation may cover: it may prohibit or restrict the transfer of land by or among members of the Scheduled Tribes, regulate the allotment of land…

Alexander and Porus fought the Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE on the banks of the Jhelum, the river the Greeks called Hydaspes and the Rig Veda calls Vitasta.

HYVP was launched in 1966-67 and it carried the Green Revolution into Indian fields by spreading dwarf, high-yielding seeds.

The name itself means the birth of Kumara, that is Kartikeya, the son of Shiva and Parvati, and the poem tells how Shiva and Parvati were married and how their son was born to kill the demon Taraka.

Sublimation is the change from solid to vapour without passing through the liquid stage. It happens when particles of the solid gain enough energy to escape straight into the gas phase, and the reverse change, gas to solid, is called deposition.

The Sino-Indian War was fought between 20 October and 21 November 1962, when China attacked across the Himalayan frontier. The fighting ran in two separate theatres, Aksai Chin in Ladakh in the west and the North East Frontier Agency, today Arunachal Pradesh, in the east.

It is the micro-finance scheme under which women borrow small sums at a concessional rate of interest, so the rebate in interest is built into the scheme itself.

Only vitamin C and the eight vitamins of the B complex dissolve in water; the rest dissolve in fat.

Gopala founded the Pala dynasty in Bengal in the middle of the eighth century, and the Khalimpur copper plate records that he was raised to the throne by the chiefs to end a long spell of disorder known as matsyanyaya, the rule of the fish.

The B complex is a group of eight water soluble vitamins that work mainly as helpers in the reactions that release energy from food.

Aram Bagh stands in Agra in Uttar Pradesh, on the left bank of the Yamuna across from the Taj Mahal, and it is held to be the oldest Mughal garden in India.

Cinnabar is mercuric sulphide, HgS, and the formula itself gives the answer away because Hg is the symbol of mercury.

The Green Revolution rested on high yielding variety seeds, usually shortened to HYV seeds, which gave far more grain per hectare than the older local varieties when used with assured irrigation, chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Ibn Batuta, the Moroccan traveller, reached Delhi in the fourteenth century during the reign of Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who appointed him the qazi of Delhi and later sent him as an envoy to China.

Muriatic acid is the old trade name for hydrochloric acid, the water solution of hydrogen chloride gas, and the name survives in the market for the crude commercial grade used for cleaning metal and masonry.

Hiuen Tsang, the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, travelled in India in the seventh century, when Harshavardhana of the Pushyabhuti dynasty ruled from Kannauj.

The White Revolution is the name given to the sharp rise in milk production in India, so the colour white here stands for milk.

Ibrahim Lodi came to the throne of Delhi in 1517 after the death of his father Sikandar Lodi. He was the third and last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, which was the final dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.