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SSC CPO GK Questions 2026

Static GK decides most of the General Knowledge and General Awareness score in SSC CPO. The CPO 2026 notice lists History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Polity, the Indian Constitution and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries, together with everyday science. In Paper-I the part has 25 questions for 25 marks in 15 minutes; in Paper-II it has 20 questions for 40 marks in 20 minutes, and those marks count in the final merit. Polity questions ask about articles, parts and schedules of the Constitution, amendments, Parliament, the President, the judiciary and constitutional bodies. History runs from the Indus Valley and the Mauryas and Guptas through the Sultanate and the Mughals to the freedom struggle. Geography asks about rivers, soils, climate, national parks, minerals and world physical features. The Economy part asks about budget terms, the RBI, banking and basic concepts, and General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CPO, written as short facts and tables so that one topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what stayed with you.

SSC CPO GK Questions with Answers

Q203.Computer AwarenessEasy

MS Visio is used mainly for which of the following?

  1. A.Editing photographs
  2. B.Drawing flowcharts and diagrams
  3. C.Recording video lectures
  4. D.Managing email accounts
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Correct answer: B. Drawing flowcharts and diagrams

Visio supplies ready-made shape sets, called stencils, for flowcharts, organisation charts, network diagrams, floor plans, electrical schematics and entity relationship diagrams, and connectors that stay attached to a shape when it is moved, which is what distinguishes a diagramming program from a drawing program.

Q204.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which Office program is used to prepare a project schedule and draw a Gantt chart?

  1. A.MS Project
  2. B.MS Excel
  3. C.MS OneNote
  4. D.MS Teams
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Correct answer: A. MS Project

Project is the project management program of the Microsoft family. The user enters tasks with their durations and the dependencies between them, assigns people and costs, and the program draws the Gantt chart, a bar chart of time against task, and works out the critical path and the resource loading.

Q205.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which Microsoft Office program is meant for desktop publishing work such as brochures, cards and newsletters?

  1. A.MS Visio
  2. B.MS Publisher
  3. C.MS Project
  4. D.MS Access
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Correct answer: B. MS Publisher

Publisher is built around page layout rather than around text flow: the user places text boxes, images and shapes exactly where they are wanted on the page, which suits brochures, greeting cards, certificates, labels and newsletters, and its files carry the extension.pub.

Q212.Indian HistoryMedium

The Constituent Assembly of India held its first sitting on which date?

  1. A.9 December 1946
  2. B.24 March 1946
  3. C.15 August 1947
  4. D.26 November 1949
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Correct answer: A. 9 December 1946

The Constituent Assembly, elected indirectly by the provincial legislatures under the Cabinet Mission Plan, met for the first time on 9 December 1946 in the Constitution Hall at New Delhi, with Dr Sachchidananda Sinha as temporary chairman as the oldest member present.

Q213.Indian HistoryMedium

The Simla Conference of June 1945 was convened to discuss which proposal?

  1. A.The August Offer
  2. B.The Wavell Plan
  3. C.The Cabinet Mission Plan
  4. D.The Cripps Mission proposals
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Correct answer: B. The Wavell Plan

Lord Wavell called Indian leaders to Simla in June 1945 to consider his plan for a reconstructed Executive Council in which all members except the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief would be Indians, with equal representation for caste Hindus and Muslims.

Q214.Indian HistoryEasy

Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?

  1. A.Lord Archibald Wavell
  2. B.Lord Louis Mountbatten
  3. C.C. Rajagopalachari
  4. D.Dr Rajendra Prasad
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Correct answer: B. Lord Louis Mountbatten

Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India from 24 March 1947 and continued after 15 August 1947 as the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India, holding the post till June 1948.

Q215.Indian HistoryMedium

Which plan provided for a vote in the legislative assemblies of Bengal and Punjab on the division of those provinces and a referendum in the North-West Frontier Province?

  1. A.The Wavell Plan, 1945
  2. B.The Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946
  3. C.The Mountbatten Plan, 1947
  4. D.The Cripps Proposals, 1942
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Correct answer: C. The Mountbatten Plan, 1947

Announced on 3 June 1947 and therefore also called the 3 June Plan, it provided that the legislative assemblies of Bengal and Punjab would meet in two parts to decide on partition, that a referendum would be held in the North-West Frontier Province and in Sylhet district of Assam, that…

Q218.Indian HistoryAsked in: SSC CPO · 23 November 2020, Shift 1Hard

Who among the following was one of the speakers after Jawaharlal Nehru to address the Parliament on the midnight of 15 August 1947?

  1. A.C Rajagopalachari
  2. B.Rajendra Prasad
  3. C.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  4. D.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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Correct answer: C. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

At the midnight sitting of the Constituent Assembly on 14 and 15 August 1947, Nehru moved the pledge resolution with his Tryst with Destiny speech, and Dr S. Radhakrishnan, then a member of the Assembly and later the first Vice-President and the second President of India, spoke after him.

Q219.Indian HistoryAsked in: RRB NTPC · 14 June 2022, Shift 2Medium

On February 20, 1947, who announced that the power would be transferred to the Indians by June 1948?

  1. A.Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. B.Lord Wavell
  3. C.Lord Mountbatten
  4. D.Clement Attlee
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Correct answer: D. Clement Attlee

Attlee, the Labour Prime Minister of Britain, told the House of Commons on 20 February 1947 that His Majesty's Government intended to transfer power to responsible Indian hands by June 1948, and announced at the same time that Lord Mountbatten would succeed Lord Wavell as Viceroy.

Q220.Indian HistoryAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · 12 June 2022Hard

The first Interim National Government was announced on

  1. A.25th August 1946
  2. B.24th August 1946
  3. C.23rd August 1946
  4. D.22nd August 1946
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Correct answer: B. 24th August 1946

The Viceroy announced the formation of the interim national government on 24 August 1946, and the new Executive Council took office on 2 September 1946 with Jawaharlal Nehru as its Vice-President, which made him in effect the head of government.