SSC GK Questions 2026

Germanium is a metalloid, an element whose properties lie between those of metals and non-metals. It is a hard, shiny, grey-white solid like a metal, yet it is brittle and conducts electricity far less well than a metal, which makes it a semiconductor.

This statement is wrong because every photon, whatever its energy, travels in vacuum at the same speed of light, about 3 × 10^8 metres per second.

A demographic dividend is the boost to economic growth that a country can get when the share of people of working age, roughly 15 to 64 years, rises above the share of dependants, children and the elderly.

Temporary hardness is caused by the bicarbonates of magnesium and calcium, Mg(HCO3)2 and Ca(HCO3)2. It is called temporary because simple boiling removes it: on heating, the soluble bicarbonates break down into insoluble carbonate or hydroxide, carbon dioxide and water, and the solid settles out.

The gap between an object and its real image is smallest when the object is placed at 2F, twice the focal length from the lens.

Faizi, Akbar's poet laureate and the elder brother of Abul Fazl, translated the Lilavati into Persian in 1587. The Lilavati is the arithmetic part of the Siddhanta Shiromani, written by the mathematician Bhaskaracharya (Bhaskara II) in the twelfth century, and it covers numbers, fractions, progressions and measurement.

Article 78 sets out the duties of the Prime Minister towards the President, chief among them keeping the President informed.

Primary deficit is fiscal deficit minus interest payments, so it shows the borrowing a government needs for its current needs alone.

Article 1 of the Draft Constitution described India as a 'Union of States', and the same words survive in Article 1 of the Constitution today.

Rutherford's gold foil experiment showed that an atom has a tiny, dense, positively charged centre, which he called the nucleus.

By weight, calcium is the smallest of the four and oxygen the largest, so the ascending order is calcium, aluminium, silicon, oxygen.

A rod standing upright on one end falls over at the slightest push, because its centre of gravity is high and its base is tiny.

Article 243E gives every panchayat a term of five years from the date of its first meeting, allows it to be dissolved earlier under a law in force, and requires the election to be completed within six months of the dissolution; but a panchayat constituted at such an election continues…

Article 243F says that a person who is not qualified to be a member of the legislature of the state is disqualified from a panchayat, but adds that no one shall be disqualified for being under twenty-five years of age if he has attained the age of twenty-one, so twenty-one…

Part IX of the Constitution does not apply on its own to the Fifth Schedule areas, so Parliament passed the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act in 1996 to extend it with changes that protect tribal custom.

A Nagar Palik Nigam, that is a municipal corporation, is constituted for a larger urban area under this Act of 1956, the same year in which the state of Madhya Pradesh was formed; its elected head is the Mayor and its executive head the Municipal Commissioner.

The state passed this law in 1993 to carry out the 73rd Amendment, held elections under it in 1994 and added the words Gram Swaraj to its name after the reform that made the Gram Sabha the centre of village government.

Article 243ZD, inserted by the 74th Amendment, requires every state to constitute a District Planning Committee in each district to consolidate the plans prepared by the panchayats and the municipalities of the district and to prepare a draft development plan for the district as a whole; at least four-fifths of…

Madhya Pradesh brought in the Gram Swaraj system in 2001, giving the Gram Sabha committees of its own for development, education, health and agriculture and a Gram Kosh built from contributions of grain, labour, material and cash; the state Act was renamed the Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Evam Gram Swaraj…

In Madhya Pradesh the voters of the panchayat area elect the Sarpanch directly, along with the Panches of the wards, and the Panches then choose an Up-Sarpanch from among themselves.