SSC GK Questions 2026

It is the deepest landlocked and well-protected port on India's east coast. Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh lies in a natural harbour cut into the land, sheltered by the Dolphin's Nose headland, which protects ships from the waves of the Bay of Bengal.

A geostrophic wind blows high above the surface, where the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force balance and the air flows parallel to the isobars.

Only the Supreme Court and the High Courts are courts of record under the Constitution; subordinate courts are not. Article 129 declares the Supreme Court a court of record, and Article 215 does the same for every High Court.

The American historian described the Indian Constitution as a "seamless web" of three closely linked strands.

A wave carries energy from one place to another, while the particles of the medium only vibrate about their fixed positions.

The nature of the good, its substitutes and its share in the budget decide how strongly demand reacts to price; the growth of income in the economy does not.

Water passes through limestone along its joints and bedding planes, and slowly dissolves the rock as it goes. Limestone is a sedimentary rock made mainly of calcium carbonate.

He founded the Sikkim Praja Mandal in 1945 to oppose the feudal landlord system and the absolute rule of the Chogyal.

The territories of the amara-nayakas were not hereditary; the Vijayanagara kings transferred them from one place to another from time to time.

Of the four, the Sabarmati is both the shortest river and the one with the smallest basin. The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan and flows about 370 km south-west through Gujarat, past Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, into the Gulf of Khambhat.

The Order of Zayed is the highest civilian decoration of the UAE. The medal is named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE and its first President from 1971 until his death in 2004.

On the frontier all resources are already fully used, so more of one good can be produced only by giving up some of the other.

Equal and opposite forces acting for the same time give equal and opposite changes in momentum, so the total stays the same.

Only statement 2 is wrong, because it reverses the date-line rule. The Earth turns 360° in 24 hours, or 15° every hour, so neighbouring standard time zones are usually one hour apart (statement 1).

By the 2011 Census, Bihar was the most densely populated State, followed by West Bengal, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. The 2011 Census gave these densities in persons per square kilometre: Bihar 1,106, West Bengal 1,028, Kerala 860 and Uttar Pradesh 829, against a national average of 382.

The day marks the Pokhran nuclear tests of 11 May 1998. On 11 May 1998 India carried out the Shakti series of nuclear tests at Pokhran in Rajasthan, under Operation Shakti; two more tests followed on 13 May.

Atoms get smaller along a period and larger down a group. Moving from left to right in a period, electrons are added to the same shell while the nuclear charge rises by one at each step.

The speed of the wave is frequency times wavelength, 700 m/s, and 2,100 m at 700 m/s takes 3 seconds.

Prokaryotes have no true nucleus, so there is no membrane around their genetic material. Prokaryotes are the simplest cells: bacteria and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae).

ASEAN came first in 1967, then SAARC in 1985, APEC in 1989 and the SCO last, in 2001. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations was set up on 8 August 1967 by the Bangkok Declaration, signed by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.