SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India, died at Tashkent on 11 January 1966, a day after signing the Tashkent Declaration with Pakistan, and his samadhi in Delhi is named Vijay Ghat after the victory of 1965.

The chief architect of the Indian Constitution died on 6 December 1956, and the day is observed as Mahaparinirvan Diwas, a Buddhist term for the final release, since he had embraced Buddhism shortly before his death.

Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and was affectionately called Chacha Nehru by children, so his birth anniversary is observed as Children's Day in India, with programmes in schools across the country.

Shanti Van, meaning the forest of peace, is the memorial on the bank of the Yamuna where the first Prime Minister of India was cremated after his death on 27 May 1964.

Eric Arthur Blair chose the pen name George Orwell, taking the surname from the river Orwell in England, and under it wrote Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Burmese Days and the essay Shooting an Elephant.

Sampooran Singh Kalra took the pen name Gulzar, meaning a garden in bloom, and is known both for Urdu poetry and for film lyrics, and for the collection Raat Pashmine Ki.

Netaji is a title of respect given to Subhas Chandra Bose by his followers, and he did not publish his writing under it.

The takhallus is the pen name a poet adopts, such as Ghalib, Mir, Faiz or Firaq, and by convention the poet mentions it in the closing couplet of a ghazal.

He was a leading figure of the Nayi Kavita movement, edited the Tar Saptak anthologies that introduced a generation of poets, and wrote the novels Shekhar Ek Jivani and Nadi ke Dweep.

Vaidyanath Mishra wrote in Hindi as Nagarjun, a name taken from the Buddhist philosopher, and in Maithili as Yatri, meaning the traveller; he is known for Balchanama and for sharply political poems.

As a boy Tagore wrote poems in an archaic Vaishnava style and presented them as the work of a poet named Bhanusimha, and the collection is therefore called Bhanusimha Thakurer Padavali.

She took a man's name so that her novels would be judged as serious literature rather than as light romances by a woman, and she wrote Middlemarch, Silas Marner, Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss under it.

Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan first wrote under the takhallus Asad and later chose Ghalib, which means dominant or victorious, and he names himself in the closing couplet of many ghazals.

He took the name from the call of a Mississippi riverboat crew, where mark twain meant a sounding of two fathoms, that is water deep enough to be safe.

He is always written as Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, the pen name meaning the unique or the unlike-any-other, and he wrote Saroj Smriti, Ram ki Shakti Puja and the poem Bhikshuk.

He wrote first in Urdu as Nawab Rai, and after the colonial administration seized his collection Soz-e-Watan he adopted the name Premchand, under which he wrote Godan, Nirmala, Gaban, Rangbhoomi and the story Kafan.

The men's competition bar weighs twenty kilograms and the women's fifteen, and the discs loaded on it are colour coded so that the total can be read from a distance: red for twenty-five kilograms, blue for twenty, yellow for fifteen, green for ten and white for five.

Rhythmic gymnastics combines dance and gymnastic movement with a hand apparatus, and the five recognised apparatus are the rope, the hoop, the ball, the clubs and the ribbon; a routine is performed on a floor area to music, and the apparatus must be kept in continuous motion.

The beam is a padded bar about five metres long and only ten centimetres wide, raised roughly a metre and a quarter above the floor, and it is one of the four women's apparatus along with the vault, the uneven bars and the floor exercise.

Dipa Karmakar performed it at the Rio Games of 2016, where she became the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics and finished fourth in the vault final.