SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is B, Daya Ram Sahni, who dug at Harappa on the bank of the Ravi in 1921 while John Marshall was Director-General, and who ten years later became the first Indian to head the Survey.

The Survey is an attached office of that ministry, has its head office in New Delhi and divides the country into circles, each under a Superintending Archaeologist, which look after the monuments and sites declared to be of national importance.

An engineer of the Bengal Engineers who had surveyed Sarnath and Sanchi long before the Survey existed, he was appointed its first Archaeological Surveyor in 1861 and its first Director-General in 1871, and he used the travel accounts of the Chinese pilgrims Faxian and Xuanzang to identify ancient cities with…

The Survey was set up in that year, in the first years of Crown rule after the revolt of 1857, with Alexander Cunningham as its first Archaeological Surveyor, and it was reorganised as a full department with Cunningham as Director-General in 1871.

Bibi Ka Maqbara at Aurangabad in Maharashtra was built by prince Azam Shah in memory of his mother Dilras Banu Begum, who bore the title Rabia-ud-Daurani and was the wife of Aurangzeb.

Sher Shah Suri, who defeated Humayun and ruled from 1540 to 1545, was buried at his home town Sasaram in Bihar, and his tomb stands on a stone platform in the middle of a large artificial tank, an octagonal building counted among the finest works of the period between the…

Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur, now also called Vijayapura, is the tomb of Muhammad Adil Shah of the Adil Shahi dynasty and carries one of the largest masonry domes in the world, raised over a square hall without any pillar inside.

Humayun's Tomb was raised in Delhi by his widow Bega Begum, also known as Haji Begum, with Mirak Mirza Ghiyas as the architect, and it is the first garden tomb of the subcontinent, placed at the centre of a walled char bagh crossed by water channels.

Aurangzeb died in 1707 in the Deccan and was buried at Khuldabad, a small town near Aurangabad, beside the shrine of his spiritual guide Sheikh Zainuddin.

Sadaiv Atal is the memorial of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was Prime Minister of India three times and died in August 2018; it stands near Raj Ghat and its name plays on his own name, meaning forever unmoved.

Chaitya Bhoomi, on the sea front at Dadar in Mumbai, is the place where Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the chairman of the drafting committee of the Constitution, was cremated in December 1956, and lakhs of followers gather there on 6 December each year.

Kisan Ghat on the Yamuna bank in Delhi is the samadhi of Chaudhary Charan Singh, who was Prime Minister of India and is remembered above all as a leader of the farmers, which is why his memorial is named after the kisan.

Vijay Ghat in Delhi is the samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India, who died at Tashkent in January 1966, and the name recalls the victory of India in the war of 1965 fought during his term.

Shakti Sthal, the place of strength, is the samadhi of Indira Gandhi, who was Prime Minister of India and was cremated there in 1984, and a large uncut rock from Haryana marks the spot.

Shanti Van, which means the garden of peace, stands on the bank of the Yamuna in Delhi a little to the north of Raj Ghat and is the samadhi of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, who was cremated there in 1964.

A frame of snooker begins with fifteen red balls in a triangle, six colours on their own spots, namely yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black, and the white cue ball with which the player strikes, making twenty-two balls in all.

The pink ball is worth six points and is placed on its spot immediately in front of the apex of the triangle of reds, which is why it is so often involved in the opening shots of a break.

English billiards is played with three balls, and a cannon, in which the striker's cue ball hits both the red and the opponent's ball in the same stroke, scores two points.

Michael Ferreira of Mumbai won the World Amateur Billiards Championship in 1977, 1981 and 1983, and with those three titles he carried forward the tradition that Wilson Jones had begun and which Geet Sethi and Pankaj Advani later extended.

The billiards player from Bengaluru won both the time format and the points format of the World Billiards Championship in 2005, a double no player had achieved before, and it is for this that he is called the holder of the grand double.