SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Pit houses dug into the ground with steps leading down into them were found at Burzahom, a neolithic site near Srinagar in Kashmir.

The tiny pores on the surface of a leaf, found mostly on its lower side, are called stomata. Each stoma is a slit guarded by two bean shaped guard cells, which swell to open it and shrink to close it.

Panchsheel is the name given to the five principles that guide India's conduct towards other countries. The five are mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.

Chola inscriptions use the word shalabhoga for land set apart to maintain a school. The Cholas, who ruled from Thanjavur between the ninth and the thirteenth centuries, left hundreds of inscriptions on temple walls recording grants of land, and each kind of grant carried its own name.

Popir is a folk dance of the Adi people of Arunachal Pradesh, danced by women at the Mopin harvest festival.

The north-east trade winds blow over India in the winter season, roughly from October to February.

The Bharatiya Janata Party was founded on 6 April 1980, after the Janata Party broke up. Its ancestor was the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, started by Syama Prasad Mookerjee in 1951.

The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched on 1 May 2016 at Ballia in Uttar Pradesh.

Minicoy is the southernmost island of the Lakshadweep group, and it lies well apart from the rest of the archipelago.

The Supreme Court set up in 1774 sat at Fort William in Calcutta, the city now called Kolkata. It was created by the Regulating Act of 1773, the first British law to take direct notice of the Company's rule in India.

Issue price is the subsidised rate at which grain from the government's buffer stock is sold through ration shops, and it is deliberately kept below the market price.

In the Tamil region of ancient India the ordinary ploughmen, the men who actually tilled the fields, were called uzhavar.

The Dandi March of 1930 was a protest against the British monopoly on salt and the tax on it, under which no Indian was allowed to make or sell salt freely.

India covers about 32.87 lakh square kilometres, which is roughly 2.4 per cent of the world's total land area. That small share supports about 17 to 18 per cent of the world's people, and this gap between land and population is what the question is really testing.

The All India War Memorial in New Delhi is the monument known today as India Gate. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in memory of the Indian soldiers who died in the First World War and in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.

India is the standard example of a holding together federation, because one large country chose to divide its powers among states while keeping a strong central government.

Unemployment that rises when the economy slides into a recession or a depression, and falls again in a boom, is called cyclical unemployment.

The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 placed every industry in one of three schedules, according to how large a role the state was to play in it.

Ajay Tamta is wrong as the answer to this question, although he will also address the inaugural session; he serves as a Minister of State in the same ministry, not as its Cabinet Minister.

The conclave is built around five thematic sessions: PM GatiShakti and integrated infrastructure planning; Land Acquisition and Bhoomi Rashi; Model Concession Agreements and Ratings; Designing Safe Highways; and Quality Assurance and Project Monitoring.