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SSC GK Questions 2026

Static GK decides most of the General Awareness score in SSC exams. The CGL, CHSL and CPO notices describe it in almost the same words: questions on India and its neighbouring countries in History, Culture, Geography, the Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research, and on everyday observation in its scientific aspect. The GD notice adds Sports, General Polity and the Indian Constitution, and the MTS notice lists Social Studies, General Science and Environmental Studies up to the 10th Standard. This page brings together GK24's GK notes and practice questions tagged for all five SSC exams. The notes follow a subject-wise syllabus, one topic per note in English and Hindi: Indian Polity, Indian History, Geography, Indian Economy, General Science, Environment and Ecology, Art and Culture, Computer, Sports, Awards and Honours, Books and Authors, Days and Dates, and Static GK. Each note is written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, and each ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. The level is what changes between exams: read MTS and GD topics at Class 10 depth, CHSL at Class 12 depth, and CGL and CPO at graduate depth, where questions ask for the article number or the year rather than the broad idea. Start with Polity, History and Geography, which fill the most questions in past papers in GK24's reading, then move to the Economy and Science. After each note, solve its questions here and your exam's previous-year questions on its own page.

SSC GK Questions with Answers

Q17182.Computer AwarenessAsked in: Haryana · HSSC Staff Nurse 2019 Official PaperEasy

Which out of the following is used as an electronic spread sheet?

  1. A.Microsoft Word
  2. B.Microsoft Power point
  3. C.Microsoft Excel
  4. D.Microsoft Access
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Correct answer: C. Microsoft Excel

An electronic spreadsheet stores data in a grid of rows and columns and recalculates its formulas whenever a value changes, and Excel is the spreadsheet program of the Microsoft Office suite.

Q17186.Books & AuthorsMedium

The Sahitya Akademi has its headquarters in which of the following buildings?

  1. A.Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi
  2. B.Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
  3. C.Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi
  4. D.Nirman Bhavan, New Delhi
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Correct answer: B. Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi

The building on Feroze Shah Road, named after Rabindranath Tagore, houses all three of India's national academies, the Sahitya Akademi for letters, the Lalit Kala Akademi for the fine arts and the Sangeet Natak Akademi for the performing arts.

Q17193.Books & AuthorsHard

A recipient of the Jnanpith Award is presented with a bronze statue of which figure?

  1. A.Vagdevi, the goddess Saraswati
  2. B.Nataraja
  3. C.Goddess Lakshmi
  4. D.Gautama Buddha
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Correct answer: A. Vagdevi, the goddess Saraswati

Along with a citation and a cash prize, every Jnanpith laureate receives a bronze replica of Vagdevi, Saraswati as the goddess of speech and learning, which is a fitting emblem for a literary honour and a detail asked directly in objective papers.

Q17194.Books & AuthorsMedium

Who was the first woman writer to receive the Jnanpith Award?

  1. A.Mahadevi Verma
  2. B.Ashapurna Devi
  3. C.Amrita Pritam
  4. D.Mahashweta Devi
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Correct answer: B. Ashapurna Devi

The Bengali novelist received the Jnanpith for the year 1976 for Pratham Pratishruti, the first book of a trilogy about three generations of women in a Bengali household, and she was the first woman to be honoured with the award.

Q17197.Books & AuthorsAsked in: SSC CHSL · 13 April 2021, Shift 3Medium

Who among the following was awarded the 55th Jnanpith Award?

  1. A.Amitav Ghosh
  2. B.Raghuveer Chaudhari
  3. C.Chandrashekhara Kambara
  4. D.Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
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Correct answer: D. Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

The Malayalam poet, known simply as Akkitham, received the 55th Jnanpith Award, given for the year 2019. He was the sixth Malayalam writer to be honoured, the language whose G. Sankara Kurup had won the very first Jnanpith for 1965.

Q17198.Awards & HonoursMedium

The JCB Prize for Literature, instituted in 2018, is awarded for which category of writing?

  1. A.A distinguished work of Indian fiction, translations included
  2. B.Poetry in any Indian language
  3. C.Non-fiction on Indian history
  4. D.Writing for children
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Correct answer: A. A distinguished work of Indian fiction, translations included

The JCB Prize for Literature was instituted in 2018 for a work of fiction by an Indian writer, and a novel translated into English from an Indian language is eligible, with a separate sum going to the translator when a translated book wins.

Q17199.Awards & HonoursMedium

Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for which work?

  1. A.The Namesake
  2. B.Unaccustomed Earth
  3. C.Interpreter of Maladies
  4. D.The Lowland
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Correct answer: C. Interpreter of Maladies

The collection of nine short stories, most of them about Indians and Indian Americans living between two countries, was Jhumpa Lahiri's first book and won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000, an unusual honour for a debut collection of stories.

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