SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

It governs artistic, rhythmic, trampoline, acrobatic and aerobic gymnastics and sets the code of points by which routines are scored.

The correct answer is C, Nadia Comaneci of Romania, who received the first perfect ten in Olympic gymnastics at the Montreal Games of 1976, at the age of fourteen; the scoreboard of the day could show only three digits and displayed her mark as 1.00.

The men's programme has six apparatus, the floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar, and of these the pommel horse, the rings, the parallel bars and the horizontal bar appear in no women's event.

Powerlifting is made up of three lifts, the squat, the bench press and the deadlift, in none of which the bar finishes overhead, and the sport is not on the Olympic programme; para powerlifting, contested at the Paralympic Games, is the bench press alone.

Karnam Malleswari took bronze there and became the first Indian woman ever to win an Olympic medal, a feat that earned her the popular title Iron Lady of India.

Olympic weightlifting consists of the snatch and the clean and jerk, and a competitor is allowed three attempts at each; the best valid lift in each is added to give the total that decides the medal.

It hastens the ripening of fruit, encourages leaves and flowers to drop and is used commercially in the form of ethephon to ripen mangoes, bananas and tomatoes evenly; a ripe fruit kept with unripe ones ripens them because it gives off ethylene.

The potato is an underground stem tuber, and the proof is on its skin: the hollows called eyes are axillary buds with tiny scale leaves, and buds of this kind are never found on a true root.

Once fertilisation is complete, the ovary enlarges and ripens into the fruit, and its wall becomes the pericarp that may be fleshy, as in a mango, or dry, as in a pea pod.

Their pollen tube carries two male gametes into the ovule; one fuses with the egg to form the diploid zygote, which is syngamy, and the other fuses with the two polar nuclei to form the triploid primary endosperm nucleus, which is triple fusion.

A stamen is the male reproductive unit of a flower and has just two parts: a stalk called the filament and a swollen head called the anther, in which pollen grains are produced.

The gas is first fixed in the mesophyll cells by the enzyme PEP carboxylase on to a three-carbon acceptor, and the pathway is named after Hatch and Slack.

Here the ATP and NADPH made in the light reaction are spent on fixing carbon dioxide into carbohydrate.

In the light reaction, water absorbed by the roots is split in the presence of light and chlorophyll, a step called photolysis of water or the Hill reaction.

Chlorophyll is built on a ring structure with a single magnesium atom held at its centre, and because magnesium is needed to make the pigment, a plant short of magnesium develops chlorosis, the yellowing of leaves between the veins.

In photosynthesis a green plant absorbs sunlight through chlorophyll and uses that energy to join carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrate.

Haemophilia is an inherited disorder in which a clotting factor is missing, so bleeding continues for a long time after an injury.

The thyroid gland needs iodine to make the hormones thyroxine and triiodothyronine, and when the supply is short the gland enlarges in an attempt to trap more of it, which appears as a swelling in the neck.

Rabies is caused by a virus present in the saliva of an infected animal, usually a dog, and it travels along the nerves to the brain, where it causes inflammation, fear of water and almost certain death once the symptoms begin; it is prevented by vaccination after the bite, a…

Kala-azar, also called visceral leishmaniasis, is caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani and is passed on by the bite of the female sandfly, which breeds in cracks of mud walls and damp soil.