SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Bile breaks fat into tiny droplets and lipase then splits those droplets into fatty acids and glycerol. Bile is made by the liver, stored in the gall bladder and poured into the duodenum.

Curd contains lactic acid, which reacts with copper and brass to form poisonous salts, so it should not be stored in them.

A chloride XCl 2 means X has valency 2, and an ionic chloride with a high melting point points to a Group 2 metal such as magnesium.

A solid that does not vaporise stays behind when the solvent is removed, whether the solvent is boiled off or the solid is made to crystallise out.

Because water is densest at 4°C, the bottom of a lake stays liquid and relatively warm while the surface freezes, so aquatic animals survive there.

Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, usually about 88 parts copper to 12 parts tin. Adding tin makes copper harder, stronger and easier to cast, and bronze also resists corrosion well.

A famine is marked by widespread deaths from starvation and from epidemics, which spread through contaminated water, rotting food and bodies weakened by hunger.

A hygrometer measures humidity, that is, the amount of water vapour or moisture in the air. The name comes from the Greek "hygros", meaning wet.

Organic farming relies heavily on crop rotation, not on as little of it as possible, so this is the statement that is not correct.

The green pigment of leaves is chlorophyll, and a magnesium atom sits at the centre of every chlorophyll molecule.

Honshu is the largest of Japan's islands, the main island on which Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Mount Fuji are found.

The Act of 1935 proposed an All India Federation of provinces and princely states, but kept defence and foreign affairs with the Governor-General, not the legislature.

Article 361 shields the Governor from criminal proceedings during the term, and Article 158 protects the Governor's pay from being cut during it.

These three INA officers were tried together by the British at the Red Fort in Delhi in 1945. After the Second World War, the British put Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sehgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon on trial for "waging war against the King".

Kaumarabhritya is Ayurvedic paediatrics, and the conference named after it was devoted to advancing child healthcare through Ayurveda. The sessions covered Ayurvedic paediatric education, regulatory frameworks, traditional practices and scope for collaboration between countries, and a round-table examined policy, education and research in the discipline.

The international agreement was signed between AIIA Goa and that university, which is located at Fairfield in the state of Iowa, and it provides for an Academic Chair in Ayurveda in the university’s Department of Physiology and Health.

Both agreements were signed at the Foundation Day ceremony to strengthen cooperation between institutions and the sharing of knowledge in Ayurveda.

The All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi celebrated ten years of work in Ayurveda teaching, research, clinical care and international collaboration, and the day fell on the concluding day of KAUMARACON 2026, the three-day international conference on Kaumarabhritya organised by the institute.

The United Nations marks 12 August every year as International Youth Day. The UN General Assembly endorsed the day in 1999, on the recommendation of the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth held in Lisbon in 1998, and it was first observed in 2000.

x86 and MIPS assembly are low-level languages written for particular processor families, while Python and Java are high-level languages. An assembly language uses short mnemonics such as MOV, ADD and JMP that stand directly for a processor's machine instructions, so each family of processors has its own.