SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Digboi in the Tinsukia district is where oil was first struck in India in the late nineteenth century, and the refinery built there is the oldest in the country still working.

Sattriya grew in the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries founded by Srimanta Sankardeva in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, many of them on the river island of Majuli, and it was recognised as a classical dance of India in 2000, the most recent addition to the list.

It ended the First Anglo-Burmese War, and under it the Burmese gave up their claims to Assam, Manipur, Arakan and Tenasserim, so Assam came under the East India Company.

Sukaphaa was a Tai prince who crossed the Patkai range and established the Ahom kingdom in 1228; it lasted about six hundred years, the longest unbroken rule by any Indian dynasty of the medieval period, and 2 December is observed in Assam in his memory.

Saraighat was a naval battle fought on the Brahmaputra near Guwahati in 1671, in which the Ahom commander Lachit Borphukan defeated the Mughal force led by Ram Singh, and it ended Mughal ambitions in the Brahmaputra valley.

Kaziranga, which holds the largest population of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1985, the same year as Manas National Park on the Bhutan border.

Dispur is the seat of the Assam government and lies within the larger city of Guwahati, which is why the two are so often confused.

The Mannerheim Line was built by Finland across the Karelian Isthmus and is named after Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim; it was the main Finnish defensive position against the Soviet Union in the Winter War of 1939 and 1940.

After the war of 1971 India and Pakistan signed the Simla Agreement, which provided that the line resulting from the ceasefire of December 1971 would be respected by both sides, and from then on that line was called the Line of Control.

India's land border with Bangladesh is about 4,096 kilometres long, the longest it has with any neighbour, and it touches five states: West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

The Oder and Neisse Line follows the courses of the Oder and the Lusatian Neisse rivers and was settled as the western boundary of Poland after the Second World War, which moved Poland's frontier a long way west.

The Maginot Line was a chain of concrete forts and obstacles built by France along its eastern frontier between the two world wars, facing Germany, and named after the French minister of war Andre Maginot.

A long stretch of the border between the United States and Canada, from the Lake of the Woods to the Strait of Georgia, follows the 49th parallel of north latitude, which is why that part of the frontier appears as a perfectly straight line on any map; a boundary drawn…

The Korean peninsula was divided along the 38th parallel of north latitude after the Second World War, and although the armistice line of 1953 does not follow the parallel exactly, the Demilitarized Zone runs close to it and the parallel remains the name used for the division.

The Simla Convention brought together representatives of British India, Tibet and China, and the line drawn there by Sir Henry McMahon runs along the crest of the eastern Himalaya; India treats it as the boundary with China in the eastern sector, while China rejects it and claims Arunachal Pradesh.

The Radcliffe Line was the award of the boundary commissions for Punjab and Bengal, headed by the British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe, and it was published in August 1947 at the time of Partition.

The Durand Line was agreed in 1893 between British India and the Amir of Afghanistan and is named after Sir Mortimer Durand, the foreign secretary of the Government of India who negotiated it; after 1947 it became the boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The anda, meaning the egg, is the solid hemispherical dome of a stupa, raised over the relic chamber, and it is the part that gives the stupa its shape.

Sammed Shikharji stands on Parasnath hill in the Giridih district of Jharkhand, the highest hill in the state, and is held to be the place where twenty of the twenty-four tirthankaras attained liberation, which makes it the holiest of all Jain tirthas.

The thirty-four caves at Ellora in Maharashtra are grouped by faith: caves 1 to 12 are Buddhist, caves 13 to 29 are Hindu, and caves 30 to 34 are Jain, the finest of the Jain group being Cave 32, the Indra Sabha, with its carved mandapa and the image of…