SSC GK Questions 2026

In 1887, while studying the sparks produced across a gap between two electrodes, Hertz noticed that the spark passed more easily when ultraviolet light fell on the electrodes, which was the first observation of the photoelectric effect; Hallwachs and Lenard then studied it systematically.

Indian federation was not formed by States coming together under an agreement, which is why the Constitution calls India a 'Union of States'.

The heart of Cabinet government is collective responsibility: the ministers stand or fall together before the elected House. Article 75(3) of the Constitution says the Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha, and Article 164(2) says the same for State ministers and the Legislative Assembly.

Sumatra in Indonesia lies just across the sea to the south-east of Great Nicobar, the southernmost island of India.

Cas9 is the enzyme in the CRISPR-Cas9 system that cuts DNA at a chosen spot, which is why it is called molecular scissors.

The Right against Exploitation is made up of Articles 23 and 24, which cover exactly items 1 and 4. Article 23 prohibits traffic in human beings, begar and other similar forms of forced labour, and Parliament has backed it with laws such as the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976.

PSLV mainly carries Earth observation satellites to low orbits, GSLV was built for communication satellites, and the other two statements describe the rockets wrongly.

Under President's rule the State Council of Ministers must go, but the Assembly need not be dissolved and local bodies are not touched.

Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary, also called Pakke, lies in the East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh and is also a tiger reserve.

The merger of two black holes sent out ripples in space-time, and catching those ripples was the first direct detection of gravitational waves.

Nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide are the two gases that turn rain acidic. When coal and oil burn in power plants, factories and vehicles, they release sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air.

Barley, finger millet, groundnut and sesamum are among the crops covered by Minimum Support Price, while areca nut, coffee and turmeric are not.

Evaporation is a surface process, so its rate depends on conditions at the surface of the liquid, not on how much liquid there is in total.

Devika Rani received the first Dadasaheb Phalke Award, for 1969, the year the Government of India instituted it to mark the centenary of the birth of Dadasaheb Phalke, maker of Raja Harishchandra (1913), India's first full-length feature film.

Protective democracy does not hold that active citizen participation is essential; it values democracy only as a shield that lets citizens protect themselves from those who govern them.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, a socialist and Congress leader, persuaded Gandhiji to let women join the salt satyagraha of 1930, which he had first planned with men alone.

Khardung La, the Nubra Valley and monasteries such as Hemis, Thiksey and Diskit all lie in Ladakh, which became a separate Union Territory in 2019.

Under Article 54, the President is elected only by the elected members of both Houses of Parliament and the elected members of the State Legislative Assemblies, so a college of all members of Parliament and all State Legislatures is wrong.

The great Bengal famine of 1769–70 began with failed rains, but the East India Company's harsh revenue demand turned a crop failure into a catastrophe.

Asha Parekh received the Padma Shri in 1992, chaired the Central Board of Film Certification from 1998 to 2001 as its first woman head, and was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2020.