SSC GK Questions 2026

A small patrol of the Central Reserve Police Force was ambushed there in October 1959 and several policemen were killed, and since then 21 October has been kept as the day on which the country remembers all police personnel who died on duty during the year.

Armed Forces Flag Day has been observed since 1949, when it was decided that the country should contribute to the welfare of serving personnel, veterans and the families of those killed in service, and small flags are distributed in return for contributions.

The Kargil conflict of 1999 ended on this day with the recapture of the heights held in the Dras, Batalik and Kargil sectors, and the day is observed in memory of the soldiers who died in that campaign.

The Indian Air Force was constituted on 8 October 1932 and its first flight took to the air in the following year, which is why the day is kept as the anniversary of the force itself and is marked by a display at an air force station.

During the war of 1971 Indian missile boats struck Karachi harbour in an action that sank enemy vessels and set the oil installations on fire, and 4 December is kept as Navy Day in memory of it.

On this day in 1949 Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander in Chief of the Indian Army, and the day is marked with a parade and the presentation of gallantry awards.

A file ending in.exe is an executable, which means it contains instructions the processor can run, so double clicking it starts a program.

This combination opens Task Manager at once, the window that lists running programs and background processes and allows a program that has stopped responding to be ended.

The part of the name after the last dot is the extension, so in the name result.docx the extension is docx and the operating system uses it to decide which program will open the file and which icon will be shown.

Holding Ctrl while pressing Home carries the cursor right to the top of the document, no matter how many pages have been typed, and Ctrl + End does the same to the bottom.

A file with the extension.rar is an archive in which one or more files have been packed and compressed so that they take less space and can be sent as a single unit;.zip,.7z and.tar do the same work.

This combination closes the window or program that is active at the moment, and when it is pressed on the desktop with no program open it brings up the box that shuts down or restarts the computer.

From the 2007 version onwards, MS Office moved to an XML based format in which every main program received an extension ending in the letter x, and a PowerPoint presentation became.pptx, the older format being.ppt.

Selecting a file or folder in Windows and pressing F2 makes its name editable at once, without going through the right click menu.

This combination reverses the last action, whether it was typing, deleting, formatting or moving, and pressing it again walks further back through the list of recent actions.

When a new document is created in MS Word, the program offers a blank document as well as a gallery of templates for letters, resumes and reports, so statement one is correct.

A manual line break, also called a soft return, moves the text to the next line while keeping it inside the same paragraph, so the spacing before and after the paragraph and the list numbering are not disturbed.

A batch file is a plain text file containing a series of commands that the operating system carries out one after another without any further instruction from the user, and it is saved with the extension.bat.

The Progressive Writers' Association held its first conference at Lucknow in 1936 and Premchand, who had begun his career writing in Urdu under the name Nawab Rai before turning to Hindi, presided over it and delivered its opening address.

He wrote the poem in Urdu early in the twentieth century as a song in praise of the land, and it was later set to music and became one of the best loved patriotic songs of the country.