SSC GK Questions 2026

An aquifer is a body of rock or loose sediment that is both saturated with groundwater and permeable enough to let that water move freely, so a well sunk into it keeps yielding water.

Potassium permanganate is a neutral compound, so the oxidation numbers of all its atoms must add up to zero. Potassium, an alkali metal, is always +1, and each of the four oxygen atoms is -2, giving the oxygens a total of -8.

Wood's Dispatch of 1854, sent by Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control, is called the Magna Carta of English education in India, and both statements describe it correctly.

The Goods and Services Tax was announced for the first time in the Union Budget for 2006-07, presented by the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, who proposed 1 April 2010 as the date for rolling it out.

The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli Range in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, then flows south-west across Gujarat and empties into the Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea after a course of about 371 km.

Coulomb friction, also called dry friction, is the resistance that acts when two solid surfaces touch each other with no lubricant between them.

In electroplating the article to be coated is made the cathode, the plating metal serves as the anode, and both are dipped in an electrolyte containing a salt of that metal.

Balance is controlled by the inner ear, which holds the vestibular apparatus alongside the organ of hearing. It is made of three semicircular canals set at right angles to one another and two small sacs, the utricle and the saccule.

The speed of any wave is its frequency multiplied by its wavelength, so here 200 Hz times 2 m gives 400 metres per second.

HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the application-layer protocol a browser uses to ask a web server for a page and to receive the HTML, images and scripts that make it up.

HTML has no separate checkbox element at all. Every simple form control is written with the single input tag, and the type attribute decides what the browser draws, whether that is text, password, radio, checkbox, submit, file or hidden.

A concave lens, also called a diverging lens, spreads out the rays that fall on it and so can never bring them to a real focus.

Wetting is decided by a contest between two forces: cohesion, the attraction among the molecules of the liquid itself, and adhesion, the attraction between the liquid and the solid surface.

PPP is a data-link layer protocol that carries data directly between two nodes over a single link, such as a telephone line, a leased line or a serial cable.

Most renewable sources depend on the weather, so the power they give is intermittent rather than steady. Solar panels make nothing at night and little under thick cloud, wind turbines stop when the wind drops, and hydropower falls away in a weak monsoon.

Each hexadecimal digit stands for exactly four binary digits, so a two-digit hex number becomes an eight-bit binary number. Here C is 12 in decimal, which is 1100 in binary, and 6 is 0110.

The atomic number of an element is by definition the number of protons in its nucleus, so an atomic number of 11 means 11 protons.

Flash memory, ROM and a hard drive all keep their contents after the power is switched off, and that is exactly what non-volatile means.

Two laws of 2011 did the work together: the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Act changed the name of the state to Odisha, and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Act changed Oriya to Odia in the Eighth Schedule, which lists the languages of India.

Odissi grew out of the temple dance of Odisha, from the Mahari tradition of women dancers in the Jagannath temple and the Gotipua tradition of boys dressed as girls dancing outside it, and its sculptural poses echo the carvings of Konark and Bhubaneswar.