SSC GK Questions 2026

England beat Spain in the final at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata to win the 2017 Under-17 World Cup, the first FIFA tournament of any kind staged in India.

India beat Sri Lanka in the final of the 2011 World Cup at the Wankhede, with Mahendra Singh Dhoni finishing the match with a six and Gautam Gambhir making the highest score of the innings.

The first three World Cups of 1975, 1979 and 1983 were all played in England, and the 1987 tournament, sponsored as the Reliance Cup, moved the event to the subcontinent for the first time; the overs were reduced from sixty to fifty, which has remained the standard since.

Delhi hosted the nineteenth Commonwealth Games in 2010, the first and so far the only time India has held them.

Appu was the cheerful baby elephant created as the mascot of the ninth Asian Games, and the figure became so popular that an amusement park in Delhi was named after it.

The first Asian Games were held at the National Stadium in New Delhi in 1951, after Guru Dutt Sondhi of India proposed a games for the newly independent countries of Asia in place of the older Far Eastern Games.

This scheme, launched in 2015 as a component of the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture, groups farmers into clusters, trains them in organic practice and certifies their produce through the Participatory Guarantee System of India, in which members of the group inspect one another's fields.

Endosulfan is an organochlorine insecticide that was sprayed from the air over state owned cashew plantations in Kasaragod for about two decades.

The Stockholm Convention lists chemicals that resist breakdown, travel long distances, accumulate in fatty tissue and harm health, beginning with the twelve named compounds often called the dirty dozen; DDT, aldrin, endrin, dieldrin and the dioxins are on that list, and DDT is allowed only in restricted disease vector control.

This Act, with the Insecticides Rules of 1971, sets up the registration of every pesticide before it may be sold, licensing of manufacturers and dealers, labelling and packing requirements and the appointment of insecticide inspectors and analysts.

This red worm, often called the red wiggler or tiger worm, lives in the surface litter layer rather than in deep burrows, eats a large weight of organic waste every day, tolerates crowding in a pit or bed and breeds quickly.

Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, gathered the evidence on DDT and other sprays and argued that a chemical released into a field does not stay in that field.

Dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane is built on a chlorinated hydrocarbon skeleton, which makes it fat soluble, chemically stable and extremely slow to break down in soil and water.

Sikkim began phasing chemical fertilisers out in 2003, converted its entire cultivated area to certified organic practice and was declared a fully organic state.

A pesticide such as DDT dissolves in fat, is not broken down and is not excreted, so the amount in a predator's body is the sum of what all its prey carried.

Rhizobium is a symbiotic bacterium that enters the roots of pulses, groundnut, soybean and other legumes and multiplies inside swellings called root nodules.

Organic farming is defined by the inputs it refuses. In place of factory made fertilisers it uses farmyard manure, compost, vermicompost, green manure and biofertilisers such as Rhizobium and Azotobacter.

A barcode must be presented squarely to a scanner, one item at a time, and a torn or dirty label fails.

A Bluetooth link does not stay on one frequency. Master and slave agree on a pseudo random sequence and jump together between the narrow channels of the 2.4 GHz band many hundreds of times a second.

Infrared communication, the old IrDA link of television remote controls and early mobile phones, uses light just beyond the red end of the visible spectrum.