SSC GK Questions 2026

Anthracene sublimes on heating, while common salt does not, so heating the mixture separates them. Sublimation is the change of a solid directly into vapour without passing through the liquid state.

A honeybee sting injects methanoic acid, also called formic acid (HCOOH), which causes the burning pain and irritation.

Potassium hydroxide gives potassium soaps, which are softer and milder than sodium soaps. Saponification is the reaction in which an oil or fat is heated with an alkali to give soap, the sodium or potassium salt of a long-chain fatty acid, and glycerol.

Rain water is the purest natural form of water because it is formed by evaporation and condensation, a natural distillation.

The Ahmedabad mill strike of 1918 was Gandhi's satyagraha for industrial workers. A dispute arose between the cotton mill owners and the workers over the plague bonus, which the owners wanted to withdraw.

Balakot, along with Nageshwar in Gujarat, is described as a specialised centre for making shell objects. Both settlements lay near the coast, where shells were easy to collect, and excavations there have found large amounts of shell waste, unfinished pieces and finished items.

Surge pricing is a form of dynamic pricing in which the price moves up when demand rises faster than the available supply.

The Constitution gives the Supreme Court no such jurisdiction; the collegium is only the system by which senior judges recommend appointments.

Among the four, Charan Singh held office for the shortest time, about 170 days. He became Prime Minister on 28 July 1979 after the Janata government of Morarji Desai fell, but resigned on 20 August 1979 without ever facing Parliament, when the Congress withdrew its support.

Dryland farming is practised where annual rainfall is below about 75 cm. Indian agriculture is grouped by the source of moisture into irrigated and rainfed farming, and rainfed farming is further divided into dryland and wetland farming.

Relative humidity compares the moisture in the air with what the air could hold, and that capacity rises with temperature.

Thawing is the melting of ice, a physical change that works on rocks only mechanically.

Both the Steppes and the Pampas are mid-latitude grasslands, so only the first statement is right.

The Big Bang theory is the accepted explanation of how the universe itself began, while the other options try to explain only the solar system.

The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway joining two seas, and it is the busier and more important of the two great canals.

Lithification is the name for turning loose sediment into solid rock. Fragments produced by weathering and erosion are carried by rivers, wind, glaciers or waves and laid down in layers.

Pressure of water breaks rock mechanically without changing its minerals, so it is a physical process. Weathering is the breaking down of rocks where they lie.

The correct answer is Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, where the Ministry of Labour and Employment is holding the two-day state-level capacity-building and awareness programme on Labour Codes, labour welfare and social protection in collaboration with the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

The correct answer is the Code on Wages, which belongs to 2019.

Shram Samvad is a 90-day outreach initiative through which the Ministry of Labour and Employment is undertaking district-level engagement across 316 districts in all 36 States and Union Territories, with special attention to industrial clusters.