SSC GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is B, the Satavahanas, who ruled the Deccan from the first century before the common era, with the school continuing later under the Ikshvakus of the Krishna valley.

The correct answer is B, spotted red sandstone, quarried near Sikri in the Mathura region, a deep red stone flecked with cream and black spots that makes a Mathura piece recognisable at a glance.

Its Buddhas have wavy hair, sharp features, muscular bodies and robes with thick naturalistic folds.

Both Indian games were demonstrated at the Berlin Olympic Games of 1936, the display being arranged by the Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal of Amravati in Maharashtra, and this remains the only Olympic appearance either sport has made.

The rectangular field of play in standard kho-kho is 27 metres long and 16 metres wide, with a wooden pole standing at each end of the central lane and free zones beyond the poles in which the defenders may run.

The Kho Kho Federation of India was set up in 1955 as the national governing body for the sport, and it organised the first national championship at Vijayawada at the end of that decade; it also instituted the Eklavya Award for the best male player and the Rani Laxmibai Award…

Kho-kho grew up in Maharashtra, and its first written rules were drawn up at Pune by the Deccan Gymkhana in 1914, which is why the state is treated as the home of the game in every standard account.

A kho-kho team consists of twelve players of whom nine take the field.

The Pro Kabaddi League, a city-franchise competition played on a mat before a television audience, began in 2014 and is widely credited with turning kabaddi from a rural sport into a professional one with full-time players and sponsorships.

Kabaddi carries a different local name in almost every region of the subcontinent, and in Maharashtra the game has long been called hu-tu-tu, after the sound of the raider's chant.

Kabaddi was included as a regular medal event at the eleventh Asian Games held at Beijing in 1990, and India won the first gold medal awarded in the sport.

A raider gets thirty seconds from the moment of entering the opposing half, and the raid must end with a return across the mid line within that time, or the raider is declared out.

When a team succeeds in putting all seven players of the opposing side out, the whole opposing team is revived and the scoring team is awarded two extra points; this achievement is called a lona, sometimes spelt lona or lobh in older rule books.

Kabaddi, known there as ha-du-du, was declared the national game of Bangladesh after the country's independence, and it is the single most asked fact about the sport in competitive papers.

A kabaddi side fields seven players at a time and keeps five substitutes, so the squad named for a match is twelve.

Sustainable Development Goal 15 is Life on Land, and target 15.3 commits countries to combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation neutral world.

The Ramsar Convention was signed at Ramsar in Iran in 1971 and came into force in 1975, two decades before the Earth Summit, and its secretariat sits at Gland in Switzerland; it therefore has no connection with Rio.

The permanent secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification has been based at Bonn in Germany since 1999, in the same United Nations campus that hosts the secretariat of the UNFCCC, which is a useful memory link because both are Rio Conventions with their secretariats in the same…

Running water in the Chambal basin of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh has cut deep, steep-sided channels into soft alluvium, and when these channels multiply and widen the land becomes unfit for cultivation.

The ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute is at Karnal in Haryana and is the national institute for the reclamation of salt-affected soils, the use of poor quality water in irrigation, subsurface drainage in waterlogged land, and salt-tolerant crop varieties.