SSC GK Questions 2026

Resistivity is a property of the material itself, so changing the length of a copper wire does not change it.

Article 324(5) gives the Chief Election Commissioner the same protection against removal as a Supreme Court judge.

Thungon Committee. This committee of Parliament, set up in 1988, recommended that Panchayati Raj bodies be given constitutional status.

. The Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary, set up in 1973 in the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, is the last home of the Indian wild ass, or khur, a fast and hardy animal adapted to the salt desert.

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Launched in October 1997, it reached Saturn in 2004 and studied the planet, its rings and its moons for thirteen years.

Kot Diji lies in the Khairpur district of Sindh, Pakistan, on the left (eastern) bank of the Indus, across the river from Mohenjo-daro, the largest Harappan city in Sindh.

. A Fischer projection draws a molecule as a cross: the horizontal bonds point towards the viewer and the vertical bonds point away.

Ammonium chloride sublimes: on heating, it changes directly from a solid into vapour without melting, and the vapour turns back into solid on a cool surface.

Agni-P, or Agni Prime, is a new-generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile of the Agni family developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), with a range capability of 1,000 to 2,000 km.

. According to the Manusmriti and other Dharmashastras, the paternal estate was to be divided equally among the sons after the death of the parents, with a special share for the eldest, while women could not claim a share of it.

The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 is an Indian law, so it can only set up and govern Indian bodies.

The Human Development Index, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 and designed with the economist Mahbub ul Haq, measures three dimensions.

Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India before, chaired the two Boundary Commissions, one for Punjab and one for Bengal, set up under the Indian Independence Act of 1947.

. A simple astronomical (refracting) telescope uses two convex, that is convergent, lenses.

A wind gap has nothing to do with wind, despite its name. It is a notch or gap in a ridge through which a river once flowed; when that river's headwaters were captured by another stream, the gap was left dry.

The rand is the official currency of South Africa, and ZAR is its international code, taken from the Dutch name Zuid-Afrikaanse Rand.

. An Exchange-Traded Fund holds a basket of assets, such as the shares of an index, gold or bonds, and its units are listed and traded on a stock exchange like a share.

Milton Friedman put forward the natural rate of unemployment in his presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1967, published in 1968; Edmund Phelps reached a similar idea independently.

Functional group isomers have the same molecular formula but different functional groups. Alkyl halides such as C2H5Cl can only contain the halogen group, so no other functional group can be built from the same formula; they show chain and position isomerism instead.

Helicobacter pylori is a spiral-shaped bacterium that lives in the lining of the stomach. It survives the strong acid by producing the enzyme urease, which makes ammonia around it, and it inflames and weakens the protective mucus layer, so acid can damage the wall and cause a peptic ulcer.