SSC GK Questions 2026

Mulching means covering the bare ground between plants with straw, dry leaves or crop waste, so that the soil holds moisture and raindrops cannot beat the topsoil loose.

Marble is a metamorphic rock, formed when limestone is changed deep inside the earth by great heat and pressure; the Taj Mahal is built of it.

Coniferous forests grow in the cold northern belt of Asia, Europe and North America and are made of softwood evergreen trees such as pine, fir and spruce, whose light wood is used for paper and furniture.

Human beings are ureotelic, which means the main nitrogen waste they pass out is urea. When the body breaks down extra amino acids, ammonia is produced, and ammonia is highly poisonous even in small amounts.

India's village iron smelters were ruined by two pressures at once. Cheap iron and steel made in British factories was brought into India in large quantities from the middle of the nineteenth century, and local smiths could not match its price, so demand for their metal fell away.

The Seventh Schedule of the Constitution divides subjects into three lists. The Union List holds subjects only Parliament can legislate on, such as defence, foreign affairs, currency and railways.

A mansabdar was an officer who held a mansab, a rank that fixed his position at court, his pay and the number of horsemen he had to keep ready.

Blood is filtered in the glomerulus of the nephron, and the filtrate that first enters the tubule still holds many useful substances.

A ligament is the connective tissue that joins one bone to another at a joint. It is very elastic and strong, and it holds the bones in place so that a joint can move without the bones slipping apart.

Abscisic acid is the one plant hormone in this list that slows growth instead of speeding it up, which is why it is often called the stress hormone of plants.

Testosterone is made by the Leydig cells of the testes and is the main male sex hormone.

White blood cells are usually about 8 to 20 micrometres across, larger than red cells but not in the range given here.

The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched on 1 May 2016 at Ballia in Uttar Pradesh. It is run by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and gives a free LPG connection, with a deposit-free cylinder and a fitted regulator, to women of poor households.

The Third Battle of Panipat was fought on 14 January 1761 between the Marathas, led by Sadashivrao Bhau with Vishwasrao, and the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali, who was helped by Najib-ud-Daulah of Rohilkhand and Shuja-ud-Daulah of Awadh.

The Kakrapar Atomic Power Station stands near Vyara in the Tapi district of Gujarat, on the bank of the Tapi river, and is run by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.

Gases move across the cell membrane by diffusion, the spread of particles from a region where they are more concentrated to a region where they are less concentrated.

The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first Indian ruler to accept the Subsidiary Alliance, signing the treaty with Lord Wellesley in 1798, the year Wellesley took charge as Governor-General.

Birdie and eagle are scoring terms used in golf. Every hole on a golf course is given a par, the number of strokes a good player is expected to take on it.

Nations send teams rather than lone players, so the standings are read country by country, and a side needs several players in form at the same time to finish near the top.

FIDE stands for Federation Internationale des Echecs, the French name by which the world chess federation is known, and it is the body that runs the Chess Olympiad as well as the authority that confers titles such as Grandmaster.