SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Back-stick is a foul in field hockey, called when a player strikes the ball with the rounded back of the stick.

This pair is wrong, because tomato contains oxalic acid, along with some citric and malic acid. Formic acid, or methanoic acid, is the acid of an ant sting and a bee sting, and its name comes from the Latin word for ant.

Iron and steel is indeed a heavy industry, but not because of light raw materials. Industries are classified by the weight of the material they handle.

He was a Jaina in his early life and served as a minister in a Chalukya court in the twelfth century.

The Wang Chhu flows through western Bhutan and joins the Brahmaputra system in India. The Wang Chhu rises in the Himalayas of Tibet, passes Thimphu and Paro in Bhutan, and enters West Bengal, where it is known as the Raidak.

C. Rajagopalachari led the salt march in the Madras Presidency, in the area that is now Tamil Nadu. When the Civil Disobedience Movement began in 1930, Rajagopalachari marched from Tiruchirappalli to Vedaranyam on the Tanjore coast and broke the salt law there in April 1930.

Urea is made industrially by reacting ammonia with carbon dioxide under high pressure. The process runs in two steps: ammonia and carbon dioxide first form ammonium carbamate, which then loses a water molecule to give urea.

The Imad Shahi dynasty founded the Sultanate of Berar in 1490. As the Bahmani kingdom of the Deccan broke up in the late fifteenth century, five successor sultanates appeared.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development was set up on 12 July 1982.

A normal umbilical cord contains two arteries and one vein, three blood vessels in all. The umbilical cord joins the developing foetus to the placenta.

The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878, when Lord Lytton was Viceroy of India. The Act was aimed at Indian-language newspapers, which had grown sharply critical of British rule after the famine of 1876-78.

El Nino is the warming of surface water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific. In a normal year the trade winds push warm water westwards towards Australia and Indonesia, and cold water rises along the coast of Peru and Ecuador.

This article vests the superintendence, direction and control of elections in the Election Commission of India. Article 324 falls in Part XV of the Constitution, which covers elections.

The Vice President of India holds office for a term of five years from the date of entering upon the office.

The Fundamental Duties were added on the recommendation of this committee, set up in 1976. The Swaran Singh Committee suggested that the Constitution should spell out the duties of citizens alongside their rights.

This statement is incorrect, because the Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy at Calcutta in 1828. Swami Dayanand Saraswati was born in 1824 as Mool Shankar at Tankara in the Morbi region of present-day Gujarat.

Article 167 lists the duties of the Chief Minister towards the Governor.

He was the first person of Indian origin to win the Pulitzer Prize, sharing the award for reporting in 1937.

Scientific management of municipal solid waste has been a core objective of the mission since that launch, and as the mission grew, organic waste came to be treated as a resource for clean energy rather than as rubbish.

At the Bowenpally Vegetable Market roughly ten tonnes of vegetable and fruit waste is collected each day, and since an on-site biogas plant came up almost all of it is used rather than sent to landfill.