SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

The Aryabhatiya is a short Sanskrit work in verse, written by the astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata, which states an accurate approximation for pi, explains the daily rotation of the earth as the cause of the apparent motion of the stars, and gives the correct reason for eclipses.

Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, setting out the theory that species change over generations through natural selection, in which individuals better suited to their surroundings leave more offspring.

Straight from the Heart is the autobiography of the all-rounder Kapil Dev, who captained India to its first cricket World Cup title in 1983 at Lord's and who was the first bowler to take four hundred Test wickets.

The shooter Abhinav Bindra, who won the ten metre air rifle gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and became independent India's first individual Olympic gold medallist, wrote this book with the sports journalist Rohit Brijnath.

Unbreakable is the autobiography of the boxer M C Mary Kom of Manipur, a multiple world champion and an Olympic bronze medallist at London in 2012, and the book describes her journey from a farming family in Manipur to the world stage while raising a family.

The Race of My Life was written by the sprinter Milkha Singh, known as the Flying Sikh, together with his daughter Sonia Sanwalka, and it describes his childhood during Partition, his rise in Indian athletics and the fourth place in the 400 metres at the 1960 Rome Olympics that he…

The British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time in 1988 to explain the Big Bang, black holes and the nature of time to readers without a background in physics, and it became one of the best-selling science books ever published.

Wings of Fire was written by the aerospace scientist and eleventh President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam, along with Arun Tiwari, and it traces his life from a modest childhood at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu to his work on the satellite launch vehicle and the missile programme.

Playing It My Way is the autobiography of the batsman Sachin Tendulkar, published in 2014 soon after he retired, and it was written with the sports writer Boria Majumdar.

Under the rules of United World Wrestling a freestyle bout stops as soon as one wrestler is ten points ahead, and the win is recorded as technical superiority, because a lead that wide is treated as decisive and there is no point in continuing.

The 50 metre rifle three positions event requires the shooter to fire the same rifle from three different body positions, lying flat on the stomach which is called prone, upright on both feet which is standing, and resting on one knee with a roll under the ankle which is kneeling.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, an army officer, won the silver medal in the men's double trap shotgun event at Athens in 2004, and that was India's first individual silver medal at the Olympic Games; he was later honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and the Padma Shri. Option A is…

The half nelson is a wrestling hold in which one arm is passed under the opponent's armpit from behind and the hand is placed on the back of the neck, giving the wrestler leverage to turn the opponent over and work towards a pin; using both arms in this way…

Vijender Singh of Bhiwani in Haryana won the bronze medal in the middleweight category at the Beijing Olympic Games of 2008, becoming the first boxer from India ever to win an Olympic medal, and he later received the Arjuna and Padma Shri honours.

The International Shooting Sport Federation, abbreviated as ISSF, has its headquarters in Munich in Germany, the same city that hosted the Olympic Games of 1972, and it frames the rules for rifle, pistol and shotgun events and recognises world records.

The code published in 1867 under the patronage of John Douglas, the ninth Marquess of Queensberry, turned bare-knuckle prize fighting into a regulated sport: it made padded gloves compulsory, fixed the round at three minutes with a minute of rest, introduced the ten-second count for a downed boxer and forbade…

A southpaw is a boxer who stands with the right foot forward and leads with the right hand because the left is the stronger one, and below the belt describes an illegal punch landed under the waistline, for which the referee warns or disqualifies the offender.

Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the men's 10 metre air rifle event at the Beijing Olympic Games of 2008, and it remains the first individual gold medal ever won by India at the Olympics; the only earlier golds had been won by the men's hockey team.

Sakshi Malik of Rohtak in Haryana won the bronze medal in the 58 kilogram freestyle category at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games of 2016, coming back from behind in the last seconds of her repechage bout, and she thus became the first Indian woman wrestler to stand on an…

In Greco-Roman wrestling a competitor may not seize the opponent below the waist and may not use the legs actively to trip or lock, so every attack must be made with the arms and the upper body and the style is famous for its high throws.