SSC GK Questions 2026

Certiorari, meaning 'to be certified' or 'to be informed', is issued by a higher court to a lower court or tribunal to transfer a case or to quash an order it has already passed.

Article 371A gives Nagaland special protection for Naga religious and social practices, customary law and the ownership of land and its resources.

Elephantiasis, or lymphatic filariasis, is an endemic disease: it stays steadily present in certain regions and develops slowly over years, rather than breaking out suddenly in a large number of people.

Singapore lies at about 1.3° North, which makes it the closest of these cities to the Equator, only about 140 km north of it.

The spring constant is force divided by extension, so its SI unit is newton per metre. Hooke's law says that, within the elastic limit, the restoring force of a spring is proportional to how far it is stretched or compressed: F = −kx.

In the soil classification of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, based on the USDA Soil Taxonomy, Inceptisols cover the largest share of India, close to 40 per cent of its area.

Mission Indradhanush was launched in December 2014 to bring every child under two years and every pregnant woman under full immunisation against vaccine-preventable diseases.

The wave travels at 1,200 m/s, so 2,400 m takes 2 seconds. The speed of any wave is the product of its frequency and wavelength: v = fλ.

Saubhagya, the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, was launched to give an electricity connection to every household in the country.

All three are fungi that feed saprophytically: they release enzymes onto dead organic matter, digest it outside their bodies and then absorb the dissolved food.

The inner lining of the mouth and the oesophagus is made of squamous epithelium, so an injury to that lining damages this tissue.

Both are stored forms of glucose, but plants store it as starch and animals as glycogen. Starch and glycogen are polysaccharides, long chains of glucose units.

Genetic modification is used in plants, animals and microbes alike, so this statement is false. A genetically modified organism is one whose DNA has been changed, usually by taking a useful gene from one organism and putting it into another.

The chloride ion has 18 electrons, while the magnesium ion has only 10, so the two are not isoelectronic. Isoelectronic species have the same number of electrons.

Walls are whitewashed with a solution of slaked lime, calcium hydroxide, which is an inorganic compound; quicklime itself is not applied, and the shiny layer comes from Ca(OH)₂, not CaO.

The monks who went south were the followers of Bhadrabahu, who later became the Digambaras, not the Shvetambaras.

Magnesium ribbon burns in air with a dazzling white flame, giving off heat and light and leaving a white powder of magnesium oxide.

Amuktamalyada was written in Telugu by Krishnadevaraya, the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara. Krishnadevaraya ruled from 1509 to 1529.

An atomic clock keeps time by locking onto the fixed frequency of radiation that makes atoms such as cesium-133 or rubidium jump between two energy levels.

Lithium is so light that it floats on kerosene or paraffin oil, so it is kept coated in petroleum jelly or paraffin wax, or under an inert gas, instead of under oil.