SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

The Kyoto Protocol set its target on a basket of six greenhouse gases, to be cut by an average of 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels.

The Chalukyas of Badami began as feudatories of the Kadambas of Banavasi and broke away as the Kadamba power declined.

Tanjore, or Thanjavur, was the capital of the Cholas and not of the Chalukyas, so this pair is wrongly matched.

Piklihal and Utnur are South Indian Neolithic settlements, famous for the ash mounds their cattle-keeping people left behind.

A block lying quietly on a table is in equilibrium, so the forces on it must add up to zero, but that does not mean there are no forces at all.

Mehrgarh, on the Bolan river in the Kachi plain of Baluchistan, is the earliest known farming village in the Indian subcontinent, occupied from about 7000 BCE.

A brand is the name, term, sign, symbol or design a seller gives a product so that buyers can tell it apart from everything else on the shelf.

When the British left in 1947, India had, besides the provinces under direct British rule, about 565 princely states whose rulers had accepted British paramountcy.

An echo is the sound heard when a wave is reflected from a distant obstacle and comes back, so in the time measured the sound covers the distance to the cliff and then the same distance back again.

Plant tissues are first divided into meristematic tissue, whose cells keep dividing, and permanent tissue, whose cells have stopped dividing and have taken a fixed shape and job.

The middle ear holds three tiny bones, the smallest in the human body, called the malleus, the incus and the stapes, which in everyday English are the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup.

Sound is a mechanical wave: it travels only when the particles of a medium push against their neighbours, so the closer and more tightly bound those particles are, the faster the disturbance is passed on.

Electrical energy is power multiplied by time, so the unit follows directly from the units you put in. The oven is rated 2500 W, which is 2500 divided by 1000, that is 2.5 kilowatts.

A unisexual flower carries only one kind of reproductive organ, either stamens or a pistil, while a bisexual flower carries both.

Power is the work done divided by the time taken, and here the work is the potential energy the boy gains while climbing the staircase.

A microphone is a transducer: sound waves strike a thin diaphragm, the diaphragm vibrates, and that mechanical vibration is turned into a varying electric signal.

At sunset the Sun is close to the horizon, so its light travels through a much thicker layer of atmosphere before it reaches the eye.

Fly ash is the fine, powdery residue that rises with the flue gases when pulverised coal is burnt to raise steam in a coal-fired power station.

The correct answer is the Commission for Air Quality Management, usually written as CAQM, which the ministry named as the body coordinating work with the agencies concerned.

A daily average below 200 falls in the moderate category, and the nine months of the current year gave 194 such days, the most in the five-year comparison.