SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was born on 15 September 1861, served as the Diwan of Mysore, and built the Krishnarajasagara dam and the system of automatic sluice gates that made his name.

He was born on 5 September 1888, was a philosopher and teacher before entering public life, and served as the first Vice-President and the second President of India.

Sir C. V. Raman announced his discovery of the scattering of light, now called the Raman effect, on 28 February 1928, and it won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, the first for an Indian in the sciences.

He was born on 12 January 1863, and the Government of India declared his birthday National Youth Day so that his call to the young would be placed before students each year.

The Constitution took effect on 26 January 1950 and India became a sovereign republic. The date was chosen on purpose, because the Indian National Congress had declared Purna Swaraj, or complete independence, on 26 January 1930, and the founders wished to honour that pledge.

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It opens two channels with a server, one on port 21 for commands and one on port 20 for the matter itself, and moves whole files in either direction, which is how web pages are put on a hosting server.

The last part of a domain name is the top-level domain and tells you the kind of owner. Government offices use.gov, often with the country code added, as in india.gov.in for the National Portal of India.

The Domain Name System is the directory of the internet. People remember names, while machines route traffic by numbers, so a DNS server looks up the name typed in the browser and returns the matching IP address before the page is fetched.

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is the rule set that pushes a letter out of your mail program to the server and onward from one server to the next until it reaches the receiver's mailbox.

IPv6 was framed because the older scheme was running out of addresses, and its 128-bit length yields a pool so large that shortage is no longer a worry.

Bcc stands for blind carbon copy. An address typed there receives the letter, but it is hidden from everyone else on the list, and the people in Bcc cannot see one another either.

HTTPS is HTTP wrapped in encryption, and web servers listen for it on port 443. When an address begins with https, the browser opens a secure channel on that port, and the padlock shown beside the address means the traffic on it is coded.

Ray Tomlinson sent the first message between two computers on ARPANET in 1971 and needed a character that would never appear in a person's name.

Working at CERN in Switzerland, he proposed a system of linked documents in 1989, wrote the first browser and server, and put the first website online in 1991.

ARPANET was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense, and in 1969 it linked computers at four American universities and passed its first message between them.

The To field of a mail window is meant for the addresses of the people the letter is written to.

When a letter is deleted from a mailbox it is not wiped out at once. It is moved to a folder called Trash, or Bin in some services, and kept there for a fixed number of days so that a letter deleted by mistake can be restored.

Interpreter of Maladies, her first book, is a collection of nine stories about Indian families in America, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000.

The Guide, published in 1958, is the story of Raju, a tourist guide who is taken for a holy man, and it is set in Malgudi, the imaginary south Indian town Narayan built across his books.

Emily Bronte published it in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell, and it was the only novel she wrote before her death the following year.