SSC GK Questions 2026

Fiscal deficit is total expenditure minus total receipts other than borrowings, so it shows how much the government must borrow in a year.

Jointed legs are the mark of the phylum Arthropoda, to which insects belong; an earthworm has no legs at all.

These gases react with water in the air to form sulphuric and nitric acids, which fall as acid rain. Sulphur dioxide comes mainly from burning coal and oil in power plants and smelters, and nitrogen oxides from vehicle engines and high-temperature furnaces.

Resistance varies inversely with the area of cross-section, and doubling the diameter makes the area four times larger. The resistance of a wire is R = ρl/A, where ρ is the resistivity of the metal, l the length and A the cross-sectional area.

At about 5,895 m, it is the highest peak in Africa and the tallest free-standing mountain in the world. Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in north-eastern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border.

Bacteria and fungi cannot break down most plastics, so plastic waste stays in soil and water for hundreds of years.

With the velocity changing steadily from 5 m/s to 7 m/s, the average velocity is 6 m/s, and 6 m/s × 3 s = 18 m. For uniform acceleration, displacement s = ((u + v)/2) × t. Here u = 5 m/s, v = 7 m/s and t = 3…

This is the taxonomic hierarchy for animals, going from the broadest group down to the most specific. Linnaeus built this ladder of ranks, and each rank contains one or more ranks below it.

An ordinance has the same force as an Act of Parliament, so it can amend a central law and can be retrospective, but like any law it cannot take away a Fundamental Right.

The Fundamental Duties are moral obligations that the Constitution itself does not enforce, and they are not the legal counterpart of any right.

The 1919 reforms gave no such right to all women, while the 1935 Act did reserve seats for women in the legislatures.

In 1837 Prinsep, an officer of the East India Company's mint and secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, deciphered the Brahmi script in which most of Ashoka's edicts are written.

The Banjaras were travelling traders and carriers who moved goods across the country on long caravans of pack oxen. Their caravans, called tanda, could have thousands of bullocks carrying grain, salt and other goods from the countryside to towns and markets.

Prokaryotic cells such as bacteria have no membrane-bound organelles, so they lack mitochondria. Prokaryotes have no true nucleus: their DNA lies in a region called the nucleoid, and they have no mitochondria, chloroplasts, endoplasmic reticulum or Golgi body.

From south to north the order is Bhadra (Karnataka), Simlipal (Odisha), Pachmarhi (Madhya Pradesh) and Shikari Devi (Himachal Pradesh). Bhadra lies in the Western Ghats of Chikkamagaluru district, Karnataka, at about 13.5°N, and is a tiger reserve.

Chalk, limestone and marble are all forms of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃. Chalk is a soft, porous rock built from the tiny shells of marine plankton.

The enzyme that makes most of the cell's ATP, ATP synthase, sits in the inner mitochondrial membrane along with the electron transport chain.

The Tropic of Cancer (23.5°N) passes through eight Indian states, and Manipur is not one of them; it lies just to the north.

Leucoplasts are colourless plastids that store food: starch, oils and proteins. Plastids are found only in plant cells and some algae, and they are of three main kinds.

Silver turns black in air because it reacts with sulphur compounds, mainly hydrogen sulphide, to form a thin black coating of silver sulphide (Ag₂S).