SSC GK Questions 2026

Adding water to an acid spreads the same number of hydrogen ions through a larger volume, so the number of hydrogen ions per unit volume falls, and that process is called dilution.

The object stands between the pole and the focus of the concave mirror, so the image formed is virtual, erect and enlarged, and the magnification is positive.

Birds and mammals are warm-blooded, which means they keep their body temperature nearly constant whatever the temperature outside, and a pigeon is a bird.

The weight of an object is the force with which the earth attracts it, so the force of gravity acting on an object is its weight.

In the equation given, glucose reacts with oxygen to release carbon dioxide, water and energy, and the breakdown of food inside the cell to release energy is called respiration.

Deposition is the direct change of a substance from the gaseous state to the solid state, without passing through the liquid state in between.

Kullu Dussehra begins on Vijayadashami, the day the Dussehra of the plains ends, runs for seven days at the Dhalpur maidan and centres on the chariot of Raghunath ji, whom the village deities of the valley come to attend; it is recognised as an international festival.

The Atal Tunnel runs about nine kilometres under the Rohtang Pass on the Pir Panjal, was inaugurated in October 2020 and gives the Lahaul valley a road to Manali through the winter, when the pass itself is closed by snow.

Lahaul and Spiti is the largest district of the state in area and one of the most thinly peopled districts in India, a cold desert beyond the Pir Panjal that holds the Tabo, Key and Dhankar monasteries and the Chandra Tal Ramsar site.

The Simla Agreement was signed at Shimla on 2 July 1972 by Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the Bangladesh war, converting the ceasefire line in Jammu and Kashmir into the Line of Control and binding the two countries to settle disputes bilaterally.

The western tragopan, known locally as jujurana or the king of birds, is a rare pheasant of the western Himalayan forests and the state bird of Himachal Pradesh; the Great Himalayan National Park is its best refuge.

The Bhakra Dam stands at the Bhakra gorge in Bilaspur district, impounds the Gobind Sagar and is the tallest concrete gravity dam in India; the old town of Bilaspur was submerged by the reservoir and a new town built above it.

The Beas, the Vipasha of the Vedas, rises at Beas Kund on the southern side of the Rohtang Pass, flows past Manali, Kullu and Mandi, is dammed at Pandoh and Pong in Kangra and finally joins the Sutlej at Harike in Punjab.

Parmar led the hill states movement from the 1940s, headed the government through the Union Territory years and took office as the first Chief Minister of the full state on 25 January 1971; the horticulture university at Nauni near Solan is named after him.

The Great Himalayan National Park lies in the upper Beas basin of Kullu district and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014 for its alpine biodiversity; it protects the western tragopan, the monal and the Himalayan brown bear.

The Sutlej, which rises from the Rakshastal near Mansarovar in Tibet, crosses into India at Shipki La in Kinnaur district, and it is the longest river of Himachal Pradesh, carrying the Bhakra, Nathpa Jhakri and Kol Dam projects.

Dharamshala, the headquarters of Kangra district and the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, was declared the second or winter capital of Himachal Pradesh in 2017, while Shimla remains the capital and the seat of the High Court.

The State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970 came into force on that day and Indira Gandhi inaugurated the new state at Shimla, with Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar as its first Chief Minister.

Lipulekh lies in Pithoragarh district at the meeting point of Uttarakhand, Nepal and Tibet, and the oldest official route for the Kailash Mansarovar yatra crosses it through the Kali valley; Mana and Niti in Chamoli are the other passes of the state to Tibet.

The monal, a bright pheasant of the high forests known locally as munal, is the state bird of Uttarakhand; the state animal is the alpine musk deer, the state tree the buransh or rhododendron and the state flower the Brahma Kamal.