SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

Vitamin B3 is niacin, also called nicotinic acid, and its shortage gives pellagra, remembered by the three Ds of dermatitis, diarrhoea and dementia, with death as a fourth if it is untreated; the disease appeared where maize was the staple, because the niacin in maize is bound and poorly absorbed.

Vitamin K, chemically phylloquinone, is needed by the liver to make prothrombin and other clotting factors, so a shortage of it makes bleeding last longer and can cause haemorrhage in a newborn; green leafy vegetables supply it and the bacteria of the large intestine make part of our requirement.

Thiamine is vitamin B1, and its shortage causes beriberi, in which the nerves and the heart are affected, giving weakness, loss of sensation in the legs and in the wet form swelling and heart failure; the disease was common where polished rice was the staple, since polishing removes the thiamine-rich…

Vitamin C, chemically ascorbic acid, is needed to make collagen, the protein that holds tissues together; without it the gums swell and bleed, wounds refuse to heal and the joints ache, and the disease is called scurvy.

Amylase breaks starch into the sugar maltose; a lipase works on fat, and saliva carries no significant lipase, so the statement pairs the right action with the wrong enzyme.

Linlithgow was Viceroy from 1936 to 1944, so the Second World War, the resignation of the Congress ministries, the August Offer of 1940, the Cripps Mission of 1942 and the suppression of the Quit India Movement all fall in his tenure.

At Champaran in Bihar the peasants were compelled under the tinkathia system to grow indigo on a part of their holding for the European planters.

The Lahore session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, declared Purna Swaraj to be the goal of the Congress, authorised the launch of civil disobedience and called upon the people to observe 26 January 1930 as Independence Day, which is why that date was later chosen for the…

The Poona Pact was signed on 24 September 1932 while Gandhi was on a fast unto death in Yerwada jail against the separate electorates granted to the depressed classes by the Communal Award.

The Gandhi-Irwin Pact, also called the Delhi Pact, was signed on 5 March 1931 between Gandhi and the Viceroy Lord Irwin.

Gandhi set out from the Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 with 78 chosen volunteers and walked about 385 kilometres in twenty four days to the coastal village of Dandi, where he picked up a lump of natural salt on 6 April 1930 and broke the salt law, opening the…

On 5 February 1922 a crowd at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district of the United Provinces set fire to a police station and twenty two policemen died.

The programme of non-cooperation was first approved at the special session held in Calcutta in September 1920 and was ratified at the regular annual session at Nagpur in December 1920, which also changed the Congress constitution and made provincial committees on a linguistic basis.

Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the national flag at Gowalia Tank in Bombay on 9 August 1942, after the arrest of the senior leaders, and then went underground to direct the movement along with Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia, which earned her the name Heroine of the 1942 movement.

The All India Congress Committee, meeting at Gowalia Tank in Bombay, passed the Quit India resolution on 8 August 1942, and Gandhi gave his Do or Die speech the same evening.

The socialist leader Yusuf Meherally, who had been Mayor of Bombay, coined the words Quit India, just as he had coined Simon Go Back in 1928, and the Congress adopted the phrase for its resolution of 8 August 1942.

The census is taken under the Census Act of 1948 by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, which works under the Ministry of Home Affairs, and census is a Union subject so the responsibility is wholly that of the central government.

It is the only census year in which the population of India actually declined, the cause being the influenza epidemic of 1918 along with famine and outbreaks of plague and cholera.

The correct answer is B, Sikkim, whose population in Census 2011 was about 6.1 lakh, the smallest of any state; among the union territories the smallest was Lakshadweep with about 64,000 people.

The correct answer is A, Kerala, with a literacy rate of 93.91 per cent, the highest among the states, the result of a long history of schooling, missionary and princely state education and high female literacy.