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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

Q361.DefenceEasy

Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff was raised on which date, observed as Tri-Service Day?

  1. A.1 October 2001
  2. B.1 October 1999
  3. C.15 January 2002
  4. D.1 January 2020
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Correct answer: A. 1 October 2001

HQ IDS was established in New Delhi on that date, and the day is observed every year as Tri-Service Day; the organisation therefore completed 25 years and celebrated its Silver Jubilee under the theme of future readiness through jointness and integration.

Q363.Books & AuthorsHard

Which is the oldest surviving work on Tamil grammar and poetics?

  1. A.Tirukkural
  2. B.Tolkappiyam
  3. C.Manimekalai
  4. D.Nalayira Divya Prabandham
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Correct answer: B. Tolkappiyam

Ascribed to Tolkappiyar, it belongs to the Sangam age and lays down the rules of Tamil letters, words and poetic composition, including the division of poetry into akam, the inner world of love, and puram, the outer world of war and public life.

Q364.Books & AuthorsMedium

The Dnyaneshwari, written by Sant Dnyaneshwar, is a commentary in Marathi on which text?

  1. A.The Bhagavad Gita
  2. B.The Ramayana
  3. C.The Rigveda
  4. D.The Arthashastra
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Correct answer: A. The Bhagavad Gita

Written in the thirteenth century and also called the Bhavartha Dipika, the Dnyaneshwari explains the Gita verse by verse in Marathi poetry, and its importance lies in taking scripture out of Sanskrit and placing it before ordinary readers, which laid the foundation of the Varkari devotional tradition.

Q365.Books & AuthorsEasy

The Bengali novel Devdas was written by:

  1. A.Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
  2. B.Kazi Nazrul Islam
  3. C.Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  4. D.Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
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Correct answer: C. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Devdas, the story of a young man ruined by his own indecision and by the rigidity of the society around him, is the most often filmed of all Indian novels, and its author also wrote Parineeta, Srikanta and Palli Samaj.

Q367.Books & AuthorsEasy

The novel Anandamath, which contains the song Vande Mataram, was written by:

  1. A.Rabindranath Tagore
  2. B.Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  3. C.Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
  4. D.Michael Madhusudan Dutt
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Correct answer: C. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

He published Anandamath in 1882, and the song Vande Mataram that appears in it became the rallying cry of the freedom movement and was adopted as the national song of India; his other well-known works are Durgeshnandini, Kapalkundala and Devi Chaudhurani.

Q368.Books & AuthorsAsked in: Delhi · 19 April 2021, Shift 1Medium

In which of the following cities was the Sangam assemblies held?

  1. A.Nagapattinam
  2. B.Thiruvarur
  3. C.Thiruvallur
  4. D.Madurai
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Correct answer: D. Madurai

Tamil tradition holds that assemblies of poets, called Sangams, met under the patronage of the Pandya kings, and Madurai, the Pandya capital, is the seat remembered in the accounts that survive; the poems collected there form the oldest body of Tamil literature.

Q369.Books & AuthorsMedium

The Tamil epic Silappadikaram, which tells the story of Kovalan and Kannagi, was composed by:

  1. A.Sattanar
  2. B.Ilango Adigal
  3. C.Thiruvalluvar
  4. D.Subramania Bharati
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Correct answer: B. Ilango Adigal

The Silappadikaram, whose name means the tale of the anklet, follows the merchant Kovalan, his wife Kannagi and the dancer Madhavi, and ends with Kannagi proving her husband's innocence before the Pandya king and bringing fire upon Madurai; she is worshipped afterwards as a goddess of chastity.

Q371.Books & AuthorsEasy

The Tirukkural was written by:

  1. A.Thiruvalluvar
  2. B.Ilango Adigal
  3. C.Kambar
  4. D.Tolkappiyar
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Correct answer: A. Thiruvalluvar

He composed one thousand three hundred and thirty couplets arranged in one hundred and thirty-three chapters and grouped in three parts, on virtue, wealth and love; because the work preaches conduct without attaching itself to any one religion, people of every faith in the Tamil country honour it, and it…

Q380.DefenceMedium

What kind of vessel was intercepted, and who was operating it?

  1. A.A Sri Lankan trawler operated by three Indian nationals
  2. B.An Iranian dhow operated by five Pakistani nationals
  3. C.A Pakistani dhow operated by five Iranian nationals
  4. D.A container ship operated by a foreign crew of twelve
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Correct answer: B. An Iranian dhow operated by five Pakistani nationals

The boat was tracked on intelligence, intercepted and boarded on the high seas, and then escorted under armed security to Mumbai along with its crew and the seized drugs.