SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

The 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002 made free and compulsory education a fundamental right. It inserted Article 21A, under which the State shall provide free and compulsory education to every child between the ages of six and fourteen years.

Sericulture is the rearing of silkworms to produce raw silk. Mulberry or other host plants are grown, the worms are fed on the leaves until they spin cocoons, and the cocoons are then boiled and reeled into thread.

The tenth and last human Guru of the Sikhs founded the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib on Baisakhi day in 1699.

Pinaka is the multi-barrel rocket launcher built for the Indian Army by DRDO's Armament Research and Development Establishment, Pune, and named after the bow of Lord Shiva.

The fusion of a male gamete with a female gamete is called fertilisation, and the single cell it produces is the zygote.

India's literacy rate at independence in 1947 is put at about 12 per cent. Colonial education reached only a thin urban layer, and the figure for women was far lower, around six per cent.

Lead and mercury are in fact the poorest conductors of heat among the metals, so calling them the best is wrong.

Epithelium covers the body and lines its organs, so it is the protective tissue. It forms the outer layer of the skin, the lining of the mouth, stomach, intestine, blood vessels and kidney tubules.

Silk comes from the cocoon spun by the caterpillar of a moth. The common silk moth is Bombyx mori, and rearing it is called sericulture.

He founded ISKCON in New York in 1966. Born Abhay Charan De in Calcutta in 1896, he sailed to the United States at the age of sixty-nine with a few rupees and a trunk of books, and began chanting the Hare Krishna mantra in a park in Manhattan.

The 1983 Cricket World Cup was hosted by England, and the final was played at Lord's in London. India, led by Kapil Dev, beat the West Indies by 43 runs in that final on 25 June 1983, scoring only 183 and then bowling the holders out for 140.

CFCs release chlorine in the stratosphere, and that chlorine destroys ozone. CFCs were used as refrigerants, in aerosol sprays and in foam.

Muga silk is produced only in Assam and is the state's best known textile. It comes from the semi-domesticated silkworm Antheraea assamensis, which feeds on som and soalu leaves in the Brahmaputra valley.

Barium compounds such as barium nitrate give fireworks and signal flares a bright green flame. The colour comes from a flame test.

The Vice President of India holds office for a term of five years from the date of entering upon the office.

Majuli, lying in the Brahmaputra in Assam, is the largest river island in the world.

F1 is the function key that opens Help in Windows and in almost every Microsoft Office program, which is why it is the first key on the row.

Ahmad Shah Abdali, also called Ahmad Shah Durrani, defeated the Marathas in the Third Battle of Panipat on 14 January 1761.

Shri Krishna Sinha, affectionately called Shri Babu, is remembered as Bihar Kesari, the lion of Bihar. He was the first Premier of Bihar under the 1937 provincial elections and then the first Chief Minister of the state after independence, holding office until 1961.

Cotton is a kharif crop: it is sown with the first showers of the south-west monsoon in June and July and picked from September onwards, because it needs high temperature, light rain and a long frost-free spell.