SSC GK Questions 2026

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's highway development programme for building and upgrading national highways, economic corridors and border and coastal roads.

Exfoliation is a process of physical (mechanical) weathering, in which outer layers of rock peel off like the skin of an onion, with no change in the rock's chemical make-up.

The statement is wrong because the inner wall of a thermos flask is silvered so that it radiates very little heat; the shiny outer surface also reflects heat back rather than absorbing it.

The Caucasus Mountains stretch from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east, across Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

In hydration, minerals take water into their structure, swell in volume and change into new minerals, which loosens and breaks the rock.

Work equals force multiplied by displacement, and 4 N multiplied by 0.25 m gives exactly 1 joule.

In his Gettysburg Address of 19 November 1863 he spoke of government of the people, by the people, for the people, and the phrase became the classic definition of democracy.

The Maski minor rock edict in Raichur district, Karnataka, calls the king Devanampiya Asoka, and it was the first inscription found to name him as Ashoka.

In bacteria the DNA is not wrapped around histone proteins as it is in the chromosomes of eukaryotes, so it is called naked DNA.

Newton's law of cooling describes a hot body losing heat to cooler surroundings, which is exactly what a cup of coffee on a table does.

The two pathogens have been swapped: malaria is caused by Plasmodium and TB by Mycobacterium, so both pairs are wrong.

All three statements describe how ocean waves form and travel. Statement 1 is correct: wind-driven waves grow with the wind's speed, the length of time it blows and the fetch, the stretch of open water over which it blows.

Muling La lies in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, on the route from the Gangotri region into Tibet, not in Arunachal Pradesh.

In the southern hemisphere the trade winds are the south-east trades, blowing from the subtropical high towards the equator and turned to their left by the Coriolis force.

It is the heat a liquid absorbs to turn into vapour at its boiling point, while its temperature stays the same.

The Indravati is a tributary of the Godavari, flowing from Odisha through the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh; it has nothing to do with the Cauvery basin.

He passed the Indian Civil Service examination in London in 1863 and joined the service in 1864, the first Indian to do so.

Sulphur and nitrogen oxides from industries in the Great Lakes region and the US Midwest are carried by westerly winds and fall as acid rain and snow over eastern Canada.

Iceland's volcanic and tectonic activity gives it cheap geothermal energy, adds new land through eruptions and draws large numbers of tourists.

In every isolated system these three quantities stay constant, and no known process has ever been found to break these laws.