SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

The calm centre of a cyclone is called the eye of the storm, a roughly circular area twenty to fifty kilometres across where the air sinks, the winds are light and the sky can even be clear.

The Bombay Presidency Association was founded in 1885 by Badruddin Tyabji, Pherozeshah Mehta and Kashinath Trimbak Telang, three lawyers of Bombay who are often called the city's triumvirate.

In the mesosphere the temperature falls as one goes up, reaching about minus 100 degrees Celsius at the mesopause near 80 km, which makes it the coldest layer of the atmosphere.

Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested on 31 October 1940 for individual satyagraha against India being dragged into the Second World War without the consent of its people, and he was sentenced to four years in prison.

The Himalayas are young fold mountains, formed when the sediments of the Tethys Sea were squeezed and folded as the Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate.

The Indian National Army took 'Ittehad, Etmad, Qurbani' as its motto, and those three words mean unity, faith and sacrifice.

Calderas are the most explosive of the earth's volcanoes, because they erupt so violently that the magma chamber empties and the summit collapses into a wide hollow instead of building a cone.

A committee headed by Motilal Nehru, with eight other members, drafted a constitution for India in 1928, and its report is known as the Nehru Report.

The Lahore session of the Indian National Congress passed the Purna Swaraj resolution on 19 December 1929 and declared complete independence to be the goal of the Congress.

Gandhi gave the famous call of Do or Die on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay, the day the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India resolution.

Genghis Khan led the Mongols into Transoxiana in 1219, the campaign that destroyed the Khwarazmian empire. The war began after the governor of Otrar killed Mongol traders and the Shah of Khwarazm, Ala-ud-din Muhammad, put Genghis Khan’s envoys to death.

Mosses and lichens are the typical plants of the tundra, the cold treeless belt that lies beyond the coniferous forests of the far north.

The All Bengal Students’ Conference was held in Calcutta in 1928 with Jawaharlal Nehru in the chair.

Alexander defeated Porus in 326 BCE in the Battle of the Hydaspes, fought on the banks of the Jhelum, the river the Greeks called the Hydaspes.

Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement after a crowd at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district set fire to a police station on 5 February 1922, in which about twenty-two policemen died.

Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE at Babylon, aged about thirty-two, on his way back from the Indian campaign.

Mountains are built by endogenic forces, the forces that act from inside the earth and raise, bend or break the crust.

Prithviraja III, the Chahamana or Chauhan ruler of Ajmer and Delhi, defeated Muhammad Ghori in the First Battle of Tarain in 1191; he is the Prithviraj Chauhan of popular memory.

France has twelve time zones, more than any other country, because its overseas departments and territories are scattered across the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean.

The Home Rule Movement began in 1916, when two leagues were set up to demand self-government for India within the British Empire.