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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

Q282.Indian PolityMedium

If a State law on a subject in the Concurrent List is repugnant to a law made by Parliament, which of the following is correct?

  1. A.The State law prevails in that State
  2. B.Both laws become void
  3. C.The law made by Parliament prevails and the State law is void to the extent of the repugnancy
  4. D.The Supreme Court must decide which law applies in each case
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Correct answer: C. The law made by Parliament prevails and the State law is void to the extent of the repugnancy

Article 254(1) lays down that where a State law is repugnant to a law made by Parliament on a Concurrent subject, the parliamentary law prevails and the State law is void to the extent of the inconsistency.

Q284.Indian PolityAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · 24 Aug 2021, Shift 2Medium

Which one of the following is not included in the state list in the Constitution of India?

  1. A.Police
  2. B.Law and Order
  3. C.Prison
  4. D.Criminal Procedure Code
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Correct answer: D. Criminal Procedure Code

Criminal procedure is an entry of the Concurrent List, List III of the Seventh Schedule, along with criminal law and the law of evidence, which is why the code of criminal procedure has always been a central law that States may amend with the President's assent.

Q285.Indian HistoryHard

The memoir Bandi Jivan, widely read by young revolutionaries, was written by

  1. A.Ram Prasad Bismil
  2. B.Sachindra Nath Sanyal
  3. C.Bhagat Singh
  4. D.Ashfaqullah Khan
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Correct answer: B. Sachindra Nath Sanyal

Sanyal, a founder of the Hindustan Republican Association and the author of its manifesto The Revolutionary, wrote Bandi Jivan, an account of prison life and revolutionary faith that circulated widely among the youth of the 1920s. Option A is wrong because Ram Prasad Bismil is remembered for his autobiography written…

Q286.Indian HistoryMedium

The Chittagong Armoury Raid of 18 April 1930 was led by

  1. A.Surya Sen
  2. B.Pulin Behari Das
  3. C.Barindra Kumar Ghosh
  4. D.Jatindra Nath Das
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Correct answer: A. Surya Sen

A schoolteacher known as Masterda, Surya Sen led the Indian Republican Army in a raid on the armoury at Chittagong in April 1930, hoisted the national flag and declared a provisional government before the group took to the hills.

Q287.Indian HistoryEasy

Who threw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 and courted arrest?

  1. A.Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt
  2. B.Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev
  3. C.Chandra Shekhar Azad and Rajguru
  4. D.Surya Sen and Kalpana Dutta
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Correct answer: A. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt

The two threw low-intensity bombs into the empty benches of the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 while the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill were being pushed through, shouted slogans, threw leaflets and refused to escape, so that the trial could be used to explain their…

Q288.Indian HistoryHard

The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was formed in 1928 at a meeting held at

  1. A.Kanpur
  2. B.Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi
  3. C.Lahore
  4. D.Chittagong
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Correct answer: B. Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi

Revolutionaries from the United Provinces, Punjab and elsewhere met at the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in September 1928 and reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, adding socialism to its aim of independence; Chandra Shekhar Azad became its commander in chief.

Q289.Indian HistoryHard

Madan Lal Dhingra is remembered for shooting, in London in 1909,

  1. A.Lord Hardinge
  2. B.Curzon Wyllie
  3. C.the magistrate Kingsford
  4. D.General Dyer
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Correct answer: B. Curzon Wyllie

Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie was a political aide to the Secretary of State for India, and Madan Lal Dhingra, who belonged to the India House circle of Shyamji Krishna Varma, shot him at a meeting in London in 1909 and was hanged the same year.

Q290.Indian HistoryMedium

The Kakori action of 9 August 1925, in which a train carrying government money was looted, was carried out by

  1. A.the Hindustan Republican Association
  2. B.the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
  3. C.the Ghadar Party
  4. D.the Anushilan Samiti
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Correct answer: A. the Hindustan Republican Association

The HRA had been founded at Kanpur in 1924 by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Ram Prasad Bismil, and it needed money for arms, so its members stopped a train near Kakori in the United Provinces and took the government treasury it carried.

Q300.NationalMedium

How many fugitives did India bring back, and from how many countries, between 2019 and August 2026?

  1. A.188 fugitives from 26 countries
  2. B.228 fugitives from 30 countries
  3. C.288 fugitives from 36 countries
  4. D.388 fugitives from 46 countries
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Correct answer: C. 288 fugitives from 36 countries

That is the count the Ministry of Home Affairs gave for the period from 2019 up to August 2026, during which returning absconders was pursued as a national priority through global outreach, close coordination between agencies and diplomacy.