SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Kharosthi was written from right to left, like the Aramaic script from which it grew. It was the script of Gandhara in the north-west, now in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and was used roughly from the third century BCE to the third century CE, mostly for Prakrit.

Carbon dioxide, water vapour and CFCs are all greenhouse gases, because each of them traps the heat that the Earth gives off and warms the lower atmosphere.

The liver needs vitamin K to make prothrombin and other clotting factors, so without it blood takes much longer to clot.

Milk contains very little vitamin C, and what little there is gets destroyed further when milk is boiled. Milk is otherwise called a nearly complete food: it gives calcium and phosphorus for bones and teeth, good-quality protein, mainly casein, the sugar lactose, fat, and vitamins A, B2 and B12.

Each stoma is surrounded by two guard cells, and the pore opens or closes as these cells gain or lose water.

Aluminium oxide and zinc oxide behave like a base with acids and like an acid with bases, so both are amphoteric.

Money from National Savings Certificates belongs to the savers, not the government, so under Article 266(2) it is credited to the Public Account.

Fiscal policy is the government's use of taxation and public spending, so taxes are its main tool. In India, fiscal policy is run by the Union Government through the Ministry of Finance, and the Union Budget is its yearly statement.

The Sargasso Sea lies in the middle of the North Atlantic and is the only sea in the world with no coastline.

Of the four islands listed, Borneo has the largest area; it is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

The Rajya Sabha has both members nominated by the President and members elected indirectly, so statements A and C are both true.

Certiorari is called a postmortem because it is issued after a lower court or tribunal has already passed its order, to quash that order.

The first Backward Classes Commission, set up by the President under Article 340 in January 1953, was headed by the Gandhian writer Kaka Kalelkar.

The Panchayat Samiti is the middle tier of Panchayati Raj and works at the block level.

Under Article 316, the Chairman and the other members of a State Public Service Commission are appointed by the Governor.

Article 120 fixes the language of Parliament, and its proviso lets the presiding officer allow a member to speak in the mother tongue.

Both were sentenced to death in the Kakori case and hanged in December 1927. On 9 August 1925, members of the Hindustan Republican Association stopped a train at Kakori near Lucknow and took away government money to fund their fight.

Vinoba Bhave lived in his ashram at Pavnar near Wardha and began the individual Satyagraha from there on 17 October 1940.

Holt Mackenzie, a Company official, devised the Mahalwari system in 1822 for the North-Western Provinces of the Bengal Presidency.

Under the Delhi Sultans, the Muqaddam or Chaudhari was the headman of the village and helped collect land revenue from the peasants.