SSC GK Questions 2026

NASDAQ opened in 1971 in the United States as the world's first electronic stock market, with quotations carried on a computer network instead of a trading floor, and it now lists most of the large American technology companies; its benchmark is the NASDAQ Composite.

It was established in 1602 by the Dutch East India Company, whose shares were traded there continuously, and it is therefore counted as the world's first stock exchange; the exchange is now part of Euronext.

KOSPI stands for the Korea Composite Stock Price Index and is the benchmark of the Korea Exchange, which handles the securities market of South Korea.

The DAX is the benchmark index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and tracks the largest German companies by market capitalisation and turnover.

The Hang Seng index records the leading shares of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and has been published since 1969; it is one of the most quoted Asian indices along with the Nikkei of Tokyo and the KOSPI of Seoul.

The FTSE 100 began in 1984 and records the share prices of the hundred largest companies by market capitalisation listed in London; the name comes from the Financial Times and the Stock Exchange, which set up the index jointly, and it is read as the Footsie.

The Nikkei 225 is the benchmark index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is named after Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the newspaper that has compiled it since the 1950s; it covers 225 leading Japanese companies.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average tracks 30 large American companies and is quoted for the New York Stock Exchange; it was created by Charles Dow in 1896 and is the oldest index of share prices still in use, the broader American benchmark being the S&P 500 and the technology-heavy one…

The Sensex was launched in 1986 and its series was worked back to the base year 1978-79, for which the index value is taken as 100, so that a Sensex reading shows how many times the market has grown since that base.

The SENSEX, short for Sensitive Index, is composed of 30 large, well established and actively traded companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, and since 2003 it has been calculated on the free-float market capitalisation method, which counts only the shares actually available for trading.

It was established in 1875 as the Native Share and Stock Brokers Association and functions from Dalal Street in Mumbai, which makes it the oldest stock exchange in Asia; it was also the first exchange in India to receive permanent recognition from the Government under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act…

K2, 8,611 metres, also called Godwin Austen, is the highest summit of the Karakoram range of the Trans-Himalayan belt and lies in the part of Jammu and Kashmir under illegal occupation, which is why it is often given as the highest point in Indian territory as claimed.

Mullayanagiri, 1,930 metres, in the Baba Budan range of the Chikkamagaluru district, is the highest peak of Karnataka and of the Western Ghats within that state, and the range is also called Chandra Drona.

Sandakphu, 3,636 metres, on the Singalila ridge in the Darjeeling district, is the highest point of West Bengal and a well-known viewpoint from which the Kangchenjunga massif and, in clear weather, Everest itself can be seen.

Phawngpui, 2,157 metres, in the Lushai or Mizo hills, is the highest point of Mizoram, is known as the Blue Mountain, and gives its name to the Phawngpui National Park, also called the Blue Mountain National Park.

Saramati, 3,826 metres, is the highest peak of Nagaland and of the Naga hills, and it stands on the boundary between Nagaland and Myanmar in the Purvanchal or eastern hill belt, which runs from the Patkai Bum through the Naga, Manipur and Mizo hills.

Doddabetta, 2,637 metres, is the highest summit of the Nilgiri hills and of Tamil Nadu, and it overlooks Udhagamandalam, that is Ooty; the Nilgiris are the meeting place of the Western Ghats, the Eastern Ghats and the Anaimalai, and the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve was the first biosphere reserve of India.

Reo Purgyil, 6,816 metres, stands in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh on the Zanskar range near the border with Tibet, and it is the highest point of the state.

Dhupgarh, about 1,350 metres, rises above Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh and is the highest point of the Satpura range and of the state; Pachmarhi is the only hill station of Madhya Pradesh and lies within a biosphere reserve.

Guru Shikhar, 1,722 metres, stands on Mount Abu in the Sirohi district of Rajasthan and is the highest point both of the state and of the Aravalli, the oldest fold mountain system of India; Mount Abu is also the only hill station of Rajasthan.