SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Kalpakkam, on the coast south of Chennai, carries the Madras Atomic Power Station with its two indigenous pressurised heavy water reactors and the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, the centre of India's fast breeder reactor programme under the Department of Atomic Energy.

Coimbatore, on the Noyyal river below the Palakkad Gap, earned the name from its cotton mills, textile machinery works and pump industry, and the nearby Tiruppur is the knitwear and hosiery centre.

The Thirukkural of the poet Thiruvalluvar has 1,330 couplets arranged in 133 chapters of ten each, grouped into three parts on virtue, wealth and love, and the 133 foot statue of Thiruvalluvar off Kanyakumari records those 133 chapters.

On 10 July 1806 the Indian sepoys of the garrison at Vellore in present day Tamil Nadu rose against their British officers over new regulations on dress, beards and caste marks, and the rising, though crushed within a day, is remembered as the first major mutiny of Indian soldiers, half…

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, notified in 1986, was the first biosphere reserve in India and spreads across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, taking in Mudumalai, Mukurthi, Bandipur, Wayanad and Silent Valley.

The Nilgiri tahr, a wild goat found only on the higher slopes of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, is the state animal of Tamil Nadu, and the Mukurthi national park and the Anamalai hills are its strongholds.

Tamil Nadu elects 39 members to the Lok Sabha and 18 to the Rajya Sabha, and its Legislative Assembly has 234 seats; the Legislative Council was abolished in 1986, so the legislature is unicameral.

The Kallanai, called the Grand Anicut by the British, was built across the Kaveri near Tiruchirappalli by the early Chola king Karikala, and it still spreads the river's water across the delta of Thanjavur, which is why that delta is called the rice bowl of Tamil Nadu.

Mahabalipuram or Mamallapuram, the port town of the Pallavas on the Coromandel coast, carries the rock cut Pancha Rathas and the relief called Arjuna's Penance from the reign of Narasimhavarman I, and the structural Shore Temple from that of Narasimhavarman II, Rajasimha; the group was inscribed as a World Heritage…

The Brihadeeswarar or Peruvudaiyar temple at Thanjavur, also called the Big Temple, was completed about 1010 CE by Rajaraja Chola I, and its tall vimana of granite is the high point of Dravidian temple architecture; it is the core of the Great Living Chola Temples inscribed as a World Heritage…

Doddabetta, about 2,637 metres high and close to Udhagamandalam or Ooty, is the highest point in Tamil Nadu and the highest in the Nilgiri range, where the Western and Eastern Ghats meet.

Madras State was created on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, and the change of name to Tamil Nadu took effect on 14 January 1969 under the Madras State Alteration of Name Act.

Rana Kumbha of Mewar raised the nine-storeyed Vijay Stambha inside Chittorgarh fort in about 1448 to mark his victory over Mahmud Khilji of Malwa, and he also built the great hill fort of Kumbhalgarh, whose outer wall is among the longest fortification walls in the world.

The Gateway of India on the Apollo Bunder waterfront at Mumbai was designed by the Scottish architect George Wittet in a style that blends Gujarati work with Islamic arch forms, and it was completed in 1924 to commemorate the landing of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911.

Cave 16 at Ellora in Maharashtra, the Kailasa temple, was cut under the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I in the eighth century.

The Brihadeeswarar temple, also called the Rajarajeswaram, was completed by Rajaraja I at Thanjavur in about 1010 and is the first of the three Great Living Chola Temples inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

He built the Sun Temple at Konark in Odisha in the thirteenth century, designing the whole shrine as the chariot of the sun god with twelve pairs of carved stone wheels drawn by seven horses.

The Hawa Mahal, the five-storeyed screen of pink sandstone pierced by hundreds of small windows so that royal women could watch processions in the street unseen, was built at Jaipur in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh, with Lal Chand Ustad as its architect.

The Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur in Karnataka is the tomb of Muhammad Adil Shah of the Adil Shahi dynasty and was finished in about 1656.

Bega Begum, also called Haji Begum because she had made the pilgrimage to Mecca, had the tomb built at Delhi from about 1565 and engaged the Persian architect Mirak Mirza Ghiyas for it.