SSC GK Questions 2026

Retail core inflation is the rise in the Consumer Price Index after leaving out its two most volatile groups, food and beverages and fuel and light.

Potassium carbonate comes from a strong base and a weak acid, so statement 1 is wrong, while statements 2 and 3 are right.

When water is short, leaves make more abscisic acid (ABA), which makes the guard cells lose water and close the stomata, so the plant loses less water through transpiration.

Nekton are animals large enough to be seen with the naked eye that swim actively and can move against water currents.

The Harappan script has never been deciphered, so no one can say what it refers to; the name Meluhha comes from Mesopotamian texts, not from Harappan writing.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu worshipped God in a personal form, as Krishna, so he belonged to the Saguna school of Bhakti, not the Nirguna school.

Every biological molecule, from sugars and fats to proteins and DNA, is built on a skeleton of carbon atoms, which is why carbon is called the basic building block of life.

The Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul-Haq gave the concept of human development and launched the first Human Development Report for the UNDP in 1990.

In the southern hemisphere the Coriolis force turns winds to the left, not the right. The Coriolis force is an apparent force caused by the Earth's rotation.

The two statements are reversed: the Estimates Committee is a standing committee, and the Railway Convention Committee is an ad hoc committee.

A hydrogen bomb fuses light hydrogen nuclei, while a uranium bomb splits heavy uranium-235 nuclei. In nuclear fission a heavy nucleus such as uranium-235 absorbs a neutron and splits into two lighter nuclei, releasing energy and two or three more neutrons.

Antarctica is the highest continent on average, and Mount Vinson is its highest peak. Antarctica's average elevation is about 2,500 metres, far above that of any other continent; Asia, the next highest, averages under 1,000 metres.

Both were killed in 1942 during the Quit India Movement, Matangini Hazra in Bengal and Lakshman Naik in Odisha. The Quit India Movement began after the Congress passed the Quit India resolution in Bombay on 8 August 1942, with Gandhi's call of 'Do or Die'.

The base is made thin and lightly doped so that most charge carriers from the emitter cross it to the collector.

Cropping intensity is gross cropped area divided by net sown area, usually shown as a percentage, and it tells how many times the same land is cropped in a year.

Flint glass contains lead oxide, which gives it a high refractive index and clarity, so it is used for lenses and prisms of optical instruments.

Lysosomes bud off from the Golgi apparatus as small membrane-bound sacs packed with digestive enzymes. The hydrolytic enzymes of a lysosome are first made on ribosomes attached to the rough endoplasmic reticulum.

Tamil Nadu's decadal growth rose from about 11.7 per cent in 1991–2001 to about 15.6 per cent in 2001–2011, while the other three states slowed down.

As its name says, it is subsistence farming, where the family grows food mainly for its own use, not for sale.

The Sea of Azov joins the Black Sea through the narrow Kerch Strait, east of the Crimean peninsula. The Sea of Azov is bordered by Russia and Ukraine and is often called the shallowest sea in the world, with a maximum depth of only about 14 metres.