SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Strain is a ratio of two lengths (or two volumes), so its units cancel and it has no dimensions. When a force deforms a body, strain measures the fractional change in its shape or size.

BrahMos is indeed a joint DRDO-NPOM missile, but the IRRPL factory at Korwa is in Uttar Pradesh, not Madhya Pradesh.

The 52nd Amendment Act of 1985 added the Tenth Schedule, which holds the anti-defection law.

Going by their states, Uttarakhand lies furthest north, then Rajasthan, then Odisha, and Kerala lies furthest south.

Probiotics are live, helpful microbes taken in food or supplements to improve the balance of bacteria in the gut. The word means "for life", the opposite of antibiotic, "against life".

Gulbadan Begum, a daughter of Babur, wrote the Humayun Nama, an account of the life of her half-brother Humayun. Gulbadan Begum wrote the book in Persian at the request of her nephew Akbar, who wanted material for the official history of his reign, the Akbarnama of Abul Fazl.

Tavernier was a French gem merchant, not Dutch, so this pair is wrong. Jean Baptiste Tavernier travelled to India six times between about 1640 and 1667, during the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.

A positive power means a converging (convex) lens, and f = 1/P = 1/2 = 0.5 m. The power of a lens is the reciprocal of its focal length in metres: P = 1/f. Its SI unit is the dioptre (D), and 1 D is the power of a lens…

The Speaker does not vote in the first instance; under Article 100 the Speaker has only a casting vote when there is a tie.

Using kinetic energy = ½mv² with the mass in kilograms gives a speed of exactly 10 m/s. First convert the mass to SI units: 2000 g = 2 kg.

SONAR sends out ultrasonic pulses and times their echo from underwater objects. SONAR stands for Sound Navigation and Ranging.

This follows from Newton's third law and his law of gravitation. Newton's law of gravitation gives the force between two bodies as F = Gm₁m₂/r².

Resistivity is a property of the material itself, so changing the length of a copper wire does not change it.

Article 324(5) gives the Chief Election Commissioner the same protection against removal as a Supreme Court judge.

Thungon Committee. This committee of Parliament, set up in 1988, recommended that Panchayati Raj bodies be given constitutional status.

. The Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary, set up in 1973 in the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, is the last home of the Indian wild ass, or khur, a fast and hardy animal adapted to the salt desert.

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Launched in October 1997, it reached Saturn in 2004 and studied the planet, its rings and its moons for thirteen years.

Kot Diji lies in the Khairpur district of Sindh, Pakistan, on the left (eastern) bank of the Indus, across the river from Mohenjo-daro, the largest Harappan city in Sindh.

. A Fischer projection draws a molecule as a cross: the horizontal bonds point towards the viewer and the vertical bonds point away.

Ammonium chloride sublimes: on heating, it changes directly from a solid into vapour without melting, and the vapour turns back into solid on a cool surface.