SSC GK Questions 2026

The men's quadrant event belongs to the sepaktakraw programme at the Asian Games, and the bronze won by the Indian men's quadrant team is India's first medal in that event at the Games, which is why the win was called a landmark moment for Indian sepaktakraw.

The achievement in the news is the Indian women's hockey team finishing first in the hockey competition at the Asian Games, a gold that came after a wait of more than four decades.

That is the length of the wait that the Indian women's hockey team ended by winning the gold medal at the Asian Games, and it is the figure named when the win was described as a very special moment for Indian hockey.

The gold medal that ended a wait of more than four decades was won in the hockey competition at the Asian Games by India's women's team, and the Prime Minister's message spoke of the win carrying hockey's popularity further across the country.

Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and is counted as its founder member and first president. The party was launched at Delhi in October 1951 as a nationalist alternative to the Congress.

Flatworms, the phylum Platyhelminthes, have an incomplete digestive system with just one opening, so the same mouth takes the food in and throws the waste out.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati set up the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha in 1929 to organise the peasants of Bihar against the zamindars.

SMILE stands for Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise, the central scheme that covers the welfare of transgender persons and of people engaged in begging.

Cutting the vegetation on a slope makes landslides more likely, not less, so it can never be a mitigation measure.

The Ryotwari settlement rested on David Ricardo's theory of rent, which held that rent is the surplus left after the cost of cultivation is met, so the state could claim that surplus straight from the tiller.

Thanjavur was the capital of the Chola dynasty, which ruled the Tamil country from the ninth to the thirteenth century.

Goal 15, called Life on Land, is the goal for land ecosystems, and its wording covers forests, desertification, land degradation and the loss of biodiversity.

Carbon monoxide is a dangerous air pollutant, but it is not counted among the major greenhouse gases, because it absorbs very little of the infrared heat leaving the earth.

Razia Sultan was the daughter of Iltutmish, and Iltutmish belonged to the Slave dynasty, also called the Mamluk dynasty or the Ilbari Turks.

The focal length of a mirror does not depend on the medium around it, so a convex mirror of focal length f in air keeps the focal length f inside the liquid.

Copper turns green because its surface slowly reacts with the air and gets covered by a layer of corrosion products, and that layer is green.

The equator is the latitude of 0 degrees and it runs east to west round the middle of the earth, cutting the globe into two equal halves.

The Swadeshi Movement began as the answer to Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal, which came into effect on 16 October 1905.

The Advocate General is the highest law officer of a state and advises the state government on legal matters.

Uttar Pradesh grows more wheat than any other state, because the fertile alluvial soil of the Ganga plain, canal and tubewell irrigation and a cool winter together suit the crop.