SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

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.

Aibak, the founder of the Slave or Mamluk dynasty of Delhi, laid the foundation of the Qutub Minar in 1199 and completed only its first storey.

Shah Jahan raised the Taj Mahal over the grave of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, and the court records name Ustad Ahmad Lahori as the chief architect of the work, which went on at Agra from about 1632 to 1653.

The Bahai House of Worship, known the world over as the Lotus Temple, stands at Bahapur near Kalkaji in New Delhi.

Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa, known by his pen name Kuvempu, received the Jnanpith Award for his epic Sri Ramayana Darshanam and was the first writer in Kannada to be so honoured.

The Kaveri rises at Talakaveri on the Brahmagiri hills in Kodagu district, the old Coorg, and flows east and then south-east across Karnataka into Tamil Nadu before reaching the Bay of Bengal.

The Krishna Raja Sagara dam, usually shortened to KRS, stands across the Kaveri near Mysuru and was built under the direction of Sir M. Visvesvaraya during the reign of Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, after whom it is named; the Brindavan Gardens lie below it.

The hydroelectric station built at Shivanasamudra on the Kaveri in 1902 was the first of its kind in Asia, and its power was carried to the Kolar Gold Fields, then one of the deepest mining operations in the world, over what was at the time the longest transmission line in…