Defence GK Questions 2026

In 1988 the German won the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, and then took the Olympic singles gold medal at Seoul, the first Games at which tennis was again a full medal sport.

The Australian won all four Majors in the same calendar year in 1962 as an amateur and did it again in 1969, in the second year of the Open Era, which no other man has matched.

Until that year the Majors were reserved for amateurs, and the best players of the day, once they turned professional, could no longer enter them.

Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the mixed doubles title at Melbourne Park in 2009, and that made Mirza the first Indian woman to win any Grand Slam title.

He won the mixed doubles title at the 1997 French Open partnering Rika Hiraki of Japan, and that was the first Grand Slam title of any kind won by an Indian.

The Coupe des Mousquetaires, or Musketeers' Cup, is handed to the men's singles winner at Roland Garros.

The ladies' singles champion at Wimbledon receives a sterling silver salver, a flat dish rather than a cup, decorated with figures from classical mythology, and it has been awarded since 1886.

Played at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris in May and June, it is the only Major contested on clay, and its red crushed brick surface slows the ball and makes it bounce high, so rallies are long and a patient baseline player is favoured.

The Championships were first played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London in 1877, which makes Wimbledon the oldest tennis tournament in the world.

Built in the early sixth century, it is one of the first stone temples to carry a shikhara over the sanctum, the feature that defines the Nagara style, and its panels of Vishnu reclining on Shesha and of Nara-Narayana are standard illustrations of Gupta sculpture.

The Gupta empire was divided into provinces called bhuktis, each placed under a governor called an uparika who was often a prince of the royal family.

Aryabhata completed the Aryabhatiya in 499 CE at the age of twenty-three.

The Sudarshana lake near Girnar in Saurashtra was an artificial reservoir first built in Mauryan times and repaired more than once.

Kumaragupta I, who bore the title Mahendraditya, is credited with founding the Nalanda Mahavihara in present-day Bihar. Later rulers, including Harshavardhana and the Palas, endowed it further, and it grew into the largest residential centre of Buddhist learning in Asia before it was destroyed in the late twelfth century.

Fa-Hien came to India in search of Buddhist texts and travelled through the Gupta dominions during the reign of Chandragupta II.

He ended the long rule of the Shaka Kshatrapas over Gujarat, Kathiawar and Malwa, took the title Shakari meaning enemy of the Shakas, and is also known by the title Vikramaditya.

Harishena was the court poet and a high officer of Samudragupta, and he composed the Prayag Prashasti in ornate Sanskrit, partly in verse and partly in prose.

The first two members of the family, Sri Gupta and Ghatotkacha, used only the modest title Maharaja, which historians read as a sign that they were subordinate rulers.

Gupta gold coins were called dinaras, a name borrowed from the Roman denarius that had already reached India through trade and through Kushana coinage.

Gupta imperial rule is conventionally dated from about 320 CE, the epoch of the Gupta era that begins with the accession of Chandragupta I, and it faded out by about 550 CE after the Huna invasions.