SSC GK Questions 2026

After Guru Gobind Singh died at Nanded in 1708, Banda Singh Bahadur led the Sikhs in revolt against Mughal rule in Punjab.

The Santhal rebellion, called the Hool, was led by the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu.

Kolathunadu, Valluvanad and Thekkumkoor were small medieval kingdoms, or swaroopams, of Kerala.

Ricky Kej won the Grammy for Best New Age Album at the 57th Grammy Awards in 2015 for Winds of Samsara, made with the South African flautist Wouter Kellerman.

The Loo is the hot, dry, dusty wind that blows over the plains of north India in summer.

Section 8(1) of the Indian Independence Act, 1947 gave the Constituent Assembly of each new Dominion the powers of its legislature.

Only a transverse wave can be polarised, so the polarisation of light proves that its vibrations are at right angles to the direction of travel.

A nuclear reactor splits heavy atoms; it burns no fuel, so it releases no carbon dioxide and needs no equipment to cut such emissions.

It is a sea level canal: the Mediterranean and the Red Sea stand at almost the same height, so ships sail straight through without being raised or lowered.

Bacteria are prokaryotes, so their DNA lies free in the cytoplasm instead of being packed inside a nucleus. The single circular chromosome sits in a region of the cytoplasm called the nucleoid, which has no nuclear membrane around it.

The Ilbert Bill of 1883 sought to remove the rule that European British subjects could be tried only by European judges.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar founded Abhinav Bharat at Nashik in 1904, together with his brother Ganesh. It grew out of an earlier group called Mitra Mela and took its name from Mazzini’s Young Italy, whose biography Savarkar translated into Marathi.

Baking soda is sodium hydrogen carbonate, NaHCO3, a mild base made by the Solvay process from brine, ammonia and carbon dioxide.

Melting means breaking the particles free of the forces holding them in a fixed lattice, so a higher melting point means stronger forces of attraction.

Asia takes the largest share of India’s exports, close to half of the total, far ahead of any other continent.

Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1935. He bombarded beryllium with alpha particles and found that the radiation given off was not affected by electric or magnetic fields, yet could knock protons out of paraffin.

Bryophytes live on land but still need water to complete reproduction, so they are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom.

A liquid boils when its vapour pressure equals the pressure of the air pressing on its surface, so lower air pressure means a lower boiling point.

Cones are the photoreceptor cells of the retina that respond to colour in bright light. The human retina carries two kinds of photoreceptors.

The correct answer is Mariyappan Thangavelu, who has won Paralympic medals three times in the high jump and whose shoes form part of the sporting memorabilia in this collection.