SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

The cranial nerves arise from the brain and serve the head and neck, among them the optic nerve of sight, the auditory nerve of hearing, the olfactory nerve of smell and the vagus, which is the longest cranial nerve and reaches down to the heart, lungs and stomach.

Iodine is needed to make thyroxine, so when the diet is short of it the thyroid gland works harder and enlarges into a visible swelling of the neck called goitre; a severe shortage in a growing child causes cretinism and in an adult myxoedema, and iodised salt is the standard…

Insulin lowers the level of glucose in the blood by helping the cells take it in and by having the liver store it as glycogen, and a want of insulin or a failure of the body to respond to it causes diabetes mellitus.

It is called the master gland because its secretions control other glands: thyroid stimulating hormone drives the thyroid, adrenocorticotropic hormone the adrenal cortex, and the gonadotropins the testes and ovaries, besides its own growth hormone.

The correct answer is B, the cerebellum, which lies below and behind the cerebrum and coordinates the work of the muscles so that movement is smooth and the body stays balanced; this is why a person whose cerebellum is affected by alcohol staggers.

The correct answer is B, the thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped gland in front of the windpipe in the neck, which is the largest purely endocrine gland in the body and secretes thyroxine, triiodothyronine and calcitonin.

The brain is the organ that interprets pain, but its own tissue has no pain receptors, so cutting or pricking it causes no sensation; the covering membranes, the blood vessels and the scalp do have receptors, which is why a headache hurts.

The official account records that the boxer took the gold with an emphatic victory in the final, which indicates a commanding performance rather than a result that could have gone either way.

The Prime Minister used exactly this framing, which marks the medal as the closing result of the country's boxing effort at these Games, and he separately called the boxer's passion and dedication noteworthy.

Ankush won the gold medal in the men's 80 kg boxing event at the Asian Games with an emphatic victory in the final, and the weight division is the detail that decides this question.

Mopin is the harvest and agricultural festival of the Galo people of Arunachal Pradesh, held in early April. It is a prayer to the goddess Mopin Ane for a good crop, for health and for prosperity, and for the driving away of evil and illness.

National Voters' Day is observed on 25 January every year because the Election Commission of India was set up on 25 January 1950, a day before the Constitution came into force.

Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. At ordinary pressure it does not melt into a liquid at all: it changes straight from solid to gas, a process called sublimation, at about minus 78.5 degrees Celsius.

The capital of Italy was called the Eternal City by Roman poets who believed the city would last whatever happened to its empire, and the Seven Hills, the Palatine, Capitoline, Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Quirinal and Viminal, are the heights on which the ancient city grew.

The phrase came into use among jazz musicians and racing writers in the United States in the early twentieth century and was later taken up as a tourism slogan for New York City, which is also called the City of Skyscrapers and the Empire City.

The Maharashtra city earned the title from its long list of colleges, its university and its old tradition of Sanskrit and English learning, which drew students from across western and southern India; it is also called the Queen of the Deccan.

Dhanbad sits on the Jharia coalfield, the chief source of coking coal for Indian steel plants and notorious for an underground fire that has burned for decades, and the city also holds the old Indian School of Mines, founded in 1926.

The capital of West Bengal is called the City of Joy, a name made popular by Dominique Lapierre's book, and the City of Palaces for the grand colonial mansions built when it was the capital of British India; it is also called the Cultural Capital of India.

Also written Alleppey, the town is laced with canals, lagoons and backwater channels crossed by houseboats, and the comparison with Venice is said to have been made by Lord Curzon; it is the home of the Nehru Trophy snake boat race.

The port on the Malabar coast of Kerala was the first European settlement in India and remained the chief trading harbour of the spice coast, which earned it the title Queen of the Arabian Sea; it is also the base of the Southern Naval Command and of the Cochin Shipyard.