SSC GK Questions 2026

The Scottish painter Joseph Noel Paton painted "In Memoriam" in 1858 in response to the revolt of 1857. The painting shows British women and children huddled together, clutching the Bible and waiting helplessly for an attack, an image meant to recall the killings at Kanpur (Cawnpore).

Tin is a chemical element (symbol Sn, atomic number 50), a pure substance made of only one kind of atom, so it is not a mixture.

Deendayal Port is the new name of Kandla Port, which lies on the Gulf of Kachchh in the Kachchh district of Gujarat.

Air is optically rarer than water, so light speeds up, not slows down, when it passes from water into air.

The Indian Factories Act of 1881, passed under Viceroy Lord Ripon, was mainly about child labour and capped the working day of children aged 7 to 12 at nine hours.

When the force acts opposite to the displacement, the angle between them is 180°, and work W = F d cos 180° = −F d. Work done by a force is the product of the force, the displacement and the cosine of the angle between them.

Lymph forms when plasma leaks out of blood capillaries into the spaces between cells, so it is essentially plasma with less protein and no red blood cells.

Kanaklata Barua was shot dead by the police on 20 September 1942 while leading a procession to hoist the tricolour at the Gohpur police station in Assam.

The geographical grid is the network of parallels of latitude, running east to west, and meridians of longitude, running from the North Pole to the South Pole.

The retina is the light-sensitive layer at the back of the human eye; it is not a part of any microscope.

The Benguela current flows along the west coast of southern Africa, off Namibia and South Africa, not North Africa, so this statement is the incorrect one.

Solid carbon dioxide is called dry ice because it turns straight into gas without melting into a liquid, so it leaves nothing wet behind.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was elected president of the All India Kisan Sabha when it was founded at Lucknow in April 1936.

Defining acids and bases by the H⁺ and OH⁻ ions they release in water is exactly the theory Svante Arrhenius gave in 1884.

Tritium gives out beta particles, not alpha particles, and a water molecule is bent, not linear, so these two statements are wrong.

DigiPost is a phygital mail service of the Department of Posts under which traffic e-challans issued by the Gujarat Police are transmitted digitally and then delivered in physical form to the citizen concerned.

Since 2 October 2026 the Department of Posts disposed of 3,06,026 kg of scrap and that fetched revenue of Rs 67.56 lakh.

Under Special Campaign 6.0 the Department of Posts set three targets: resolution of 1,50,000 public grievances, disposal of 1,500 appeals and cleanliness drives at 1,35,000 sites across the country.

Special Campaign 6.0 is being carried out at postal establishments throughout the country over that month by the Department of Posts, which comes under the Ministry of Communications.

The port of call was Salalah in Oman, so the host service was Oman's own navy.