SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

He built the Chennakesava temple at Belur in the Hassan district to mark his victories, including the defeat of the Cholas at Talakad, and his reign from about 1108 to 1152 also saw the beginning of the Hoysaleswara temple at Halebidu.

Sarangadeva served at the court of Singhana II, the most powerful Yadava king, and his Sangita Ratnakara is the work from which both the Hindustani and the Carnatic traditions later drew their theory of ragas and talas.

Under this last great Yadava king Marathi flourished as a language of administration and devotion, and the saint Jnaneshwar wrote the Jnaneshwari, also called the Bhavarthadipika, in 1290.

Rudrama Devi was the daughter of Ganapatideva and succeeded him at Warangal, holding the throne for about three decades against rebellions by nobles and attacks from the Yadavas and the Pandyas, and the Venetian traveller Marco Polo wrote with admiration of her government.

The temple at Palampet in Mulugu district of Telangana was built in 1213 by Recherla Rudra, a general of Ganapatideva, and it is named Ramappa after its sculptor, the only temple in India popularly known by the name of its craftsman.

His long reign, from 1076 to 1126, was the cultural high point of the Western Chalukyas, and his court held both Bilhana, who wrote the Vikramankadeva Charita in praise of the king, and Vijnaneshwara, whose Mitakshara became the most widely followed authority of Hindu law in large parts of India.

He was a Chalukya feudatory who overthrew the last Rashtrakuta ruler in 973 and founded the line that ruled the Deccan from Manyakheta and then from Kalyani for more than two centuries.

The correct answer is B, Dwarasamudra, the present Halebidu in Hassan district of Karnataka, where the Hoysaleswara temple still stands.

Ravikirti was the court poet of Pulakeshin II of the Chalukyas of Badami and composed the Aihole inscription, a Sanskrit prashasti that records the king's victories, including the defeat of Harshavardhana, and in which the poet compares himself to Kalidasa and Bharavi.

Ganapatideva of the Kakatiya dynasty issued an inscription at Motupalli known as the Abhaya Shasana, which assured foreign merchants of the safety of their ships and goods and fixed the duties they would pay, and the port became the kingdom's main window to the sea trade of the Bay of…

The Hoysalas ruled from Dwarasamudra, the present Halebidu in Hassan district of Karnataka, and their famous temples at Belur, Halebidu and Somanathapura all stand in that state.

Odisha lies between about 17 and 22 degrees north, so it stays just south of the Tropic of Cancer, which is the reason it is the most common wrong choice in this question.

It is the only belt in which the noon sun can be vertically overhead at some time of the year, so it receives the most direct insolation and has the highest average temperatures.

The name Ecuador is the Spanish word for the equator, the line crosses the north of the country, and its capital Quito stands only a few kilometres south of it in the Andes, which makes Quito the large capital city closest to the Equator.

Because the earth's axis is tilted by about 23 and a half degrees, the northern hemisphere is turned most towards the sun on 21 June, the summer solstice, when the noon sun stands vertically above the Tropic of Cancer and the northern hemisphere has its longest day.

The Tropic of Capricorn crosses Australia through Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, passing close to the town of Rockhampton, and Australia is the only country of Oceania on this line.

Ethiopia lies wholly north of the Equator, roughly between 3 and 15 degrees north, and its capital Addis Ababa is about 9 degrees north, so the line misses it, although the country is tropical and highland in character.

Brazil is so large in north to south extent that the Equator crosses its northern part near the mouth of the Amazon while the Tropic of Capricorn crosses its south, close to Sao Paulo, making it the only country in the world cut by both lines.

From west to east the Tropic of Cancer passes through Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram, which is why the line is said to divide India almost into two halves.

On these two dates the noon sun is vertically overhead at the Equator, the circle of illumination passes through both poles, and day and night are of nearly equal length everywhere on the earth; 21 March is the spring or vernal equinox and 23 September the autumnal equinox.