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SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CGL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 25 in Tier-II Paper-I, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CGL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. Polity questions ask about articles, parts and schedules of the Constitution, amendments, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Delhi Sultanate and Mughals, and the freedom struggle from 1857 to 1947. Geography asks about rivers, soils, climate, national parks, minerals and world physical features. The Economy part asks about budget terms, the RBI, banking and basic concepts. General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CGL, written as short facts and tables so a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained.

SSC CGL GK Questions with Answers

Q17723.Computer AwarenessEasy

MICR technology is used mainly in which of the following?

  1. A.Processing of bank cheques
  2. B.Reading objective answer sheets
  3. C.Billing at a retail counter
  4. D.Recording fingerprints
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Correct answer: A. Processing of bank cheques

MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. The line of characters printed along the foot of a cheque is set in magnetic ink in the E-13B font, and the reader identifies each character from its magnetic signal, so the cheque is sorted correctly even when it has been folded, stamped…

Q17725.Computer AwarenessEasy

Who invented the computer mouse?

  1. A.Douglas Engelbart
  2. B.Charles Babbage
  3. C.Jack Kilby
  4. D.Christopher Latham Sholes
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Correct answer: A. Douglas Engelbart

He built the first mouse, a small wooden box with a pair of wheels underneath, at the Stanford Research Institute, and the patent describes it as an X-Y position indicator for a display system.

Q17728.Books & AuthorsEasy

The newspaper Kesari was started by

  1. A.Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  2. B.Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  3. C.Aurobindo Ghosh
  4. D.Annie Besant
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Correct answer: A. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

He ran Kesari in Marathi and Maratha in English, and it was through the writing in Kesari that he reached ordinary readers in Maharashtra, a reach that also brought him prosecutions for sedition.

Q17730.Books & AuthorsHard

Where did Mahatma Gandhi write Hind Swaraj?

  1. A.In Yerwada jail in 1932
  2. B.On the voyage from London to South Africa in 1909
  3. C.At the Sabarmati Ashram in 1919
  4. D.At Champaran in 1917
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Correct answer: B. On the voyage from London to South Africa in 1909

Gandhi wrote the book in Gujarati on board the ship while returning from a deputation to London, casting it as a dialogue between an editor and a reader in which he explains what true self-rule means and criticises modern industrial civilisation.

Q17731.Books & AuthorsMedium

The book The Indian Struggle was written by

  1. A.Subhas Chandra Bose
  2. B.Jawaharlal Nehru
  3. C.V. D. Savarkar
  4. D.M. N. Roy
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Correct answer: A. Subhas Chandra Bose

The Indian Struggle is his own narrative and analysis of the Indian national movement, written during his years in Europe, and it reflects the impatience with gradual methods that later separated him from the Congress leadership.

Q17732.Books & AuthorsMedium

Annihilation of Caste was written by

  1. A.B. R. Ambedkar
  2. B.Jyotirao Phule
  3. C.Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
  4. D.Narayana Guru
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Correct answer: A. B. R. Ambedkar

He prepared the text in 1936 as the presidential address for a conference at Lahore, but the organisers withdrew the invitation over its contents, so the speech was never delivered and he published it himself.

Q17735.Books & AuthorsEasy

The book India Wins Freedom was written by

  1. A.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  2. B.Rajendra Prasad
  3. C.Lala Lajpat Rai
  4. D.Vallabhbhai Patel
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Correct answer: A. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

India Wins Freedom is his account of the national movement and of the negotiations in the years around Independence, written from the position of a Congress president of that period.

Q17736.Books & AuthorsEasy

Gita Rahasya was written by which leader?

  1. A.Lala Lajpat Rai
  2. B.Bipin Chandra Pal
  3. C.Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  4. D.Aurobindo Ghosh
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Correct answer: C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

He wrote Gita Rahasya during his imprisonment at Mandalay in Burma, reading the Bhagavad Gita as a call to selfless action rather than to withdrawal from the world, an interpretation that suited his own politics of active resistance.

Q17737.Books & AuthorsEasy

The book The Discovery of India was written by

  1. A.Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. B.Subhas Chandra Bose
  3. C.Sarojini Naidu
  4. D.Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Correct answer: A. Jawaharlal Nehru

He wrote The Discovery of India during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar Fort, and the book traces Indian history, thought and civilisation from the earliest times to the national movement of his own day.

Q17739.Awards & HonoursHard

Which motif appears around the state emblem on the Param Vir Chakra?

  1. A.Four replicas of the vajra, the thunderbolt of Indra
  2. B.Four lotus flowers
  3. C.The Ashoka Chakra with twenty-four spokes
  4. D.Two crossed swords and a shield
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Correct answer: A. Four replicas of the vajra, the thunderbolt of Indra

Savitri Khanolkar chose the motif from the old story in which the sage Dadhichi gave up his body so that his bones could be made into the weapon with which Indra defeated his enemy, a symbol of sacrifice that suits the highest award for valour.