SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

The Ten Degree Channel runs along the ten degree north parallel and divides the Andaman group from the Nicobar group, with Little Andaman on its northern side and Car Nicobar on its southern side.

This small uninhabited island in the Andaman Sea, north-east of the territorial capital, carries the only confirmed active volcano in India and in the whole of South Asia.

The Samruddhi Mahamarg, formally named after Balasaheb Thackeray, is an access-controlled expressway of about 701 kilometres built entirely within Maharashtra, joining Mumbai with Nagpur across the state and passing near several district headquarters of Marathwada and Vidarbha, which is why it is presented as a corridor of economic development rather…

The Purvanchal Expressway runs about 340.8 kilometres from the Lucknow area to Ghazipur in the eastern part of the state and includes a runway stretch on which air force aircraft can land in an emergency, a feature that made it a favourite with question setters.

The BRO was raised in 1960 to build and maintain the roads of the frontier regions, works under the Ministry of Defence, and has to its credit the Atal Tunnel under the Rohtang Pass as well as some of the highest motorable roads in Ladakh.

In the system adopted in 2010, highways whose general alignment is east to west carry odd numbers, while those running north to south carry even numbers.

The National Highways Authority of India Act was passed in 1988, and the authority it created became operational in 1995; it develops, maintains and manages the National Highways entrusted to it and is the body behind the Golden Quadrilateral and most of the country's expressways, working under the Ministry of…

The Atal Tunnel is 9.02 kilometres long, was built by the Border Roads Organisation and was inaugurated on 3 October 2020; it connects Manali with the Lahaul valley on the way to Leh, shortens the journey considerably and keeps the route open through the winter months when the pass above…

It was the first road in India built as a six-lane concrete expressway with fully controlled access, no crossings at grade and no entry for slow-moving traffic, and it crosses the Sahyadri through a series of tunnels and viaducts.

The Golden Quadrilateral, the first and best known phase of the National Highways Development Project, is a four-lane and six-lane ring of about 5,846 kilometres joining the four metropolitan cities, and it is the single most asked fact in this chapter.

NH-44 begins at Srinagar in the Kashmir valley and ends at Kanyakumari at the southern tip of the peninsula, covering about 3,745 kilometres and passing through Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

It was created in the renumbering of 2010 by merging several older highways, including the old NH-1A, NH-1, NH-2, NH-3, NH-75, NH-26 and NH-7, and it passes through about a dozen states and union territories.

The event was created to give Europe a continental games of the kind Asia, Africa and the Americas already had, and several of its competitions double as qualifying events for the Olympic Games.

It is conducted by the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf and is older than both the Paralympics and the Special Olympics; starters use lights and flags instead of a whistle or a gun, and referees signal with hand flags.

CISM holds championships in many sports through the year and gathers them every four years into the Military World Games, whose first edition was held at Rome in 1995 and which carry the motto of friendship through sport.

The Afro-Asian Games were conceived as a meeting of the champions of Africa and Asia, and the first edition was held at Hyderabad in 2003, with the main events at the Gachibowli stadium complex built for the purpose.

The Winter series began the next year, in 1960, at Chamonix in France, so option B is the right city attached to the wrong series, and that swap is the usual way this question is made difficult.

FISU was founded in 1949, has its headquarters at Lausanne in Switzerland, and runs both the Summer and the Winter World University Games along with a long list of World University Championships.

The twelfth edition of the South Asian Games was held in 2016 across two north-eastern cities, with Guwahati in Assam as the main venue and Shillong in Meghalaya hosting part of the programme, and India finished at the top of the medal table as it has in almost every edition.

The regional games of the subcontinent began in the Nepalese capital in 1984 under the name South Asian Federation Games, commonly shortened to SAF Games, and the shorter name South Asian Games was adopted in 2004.