SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is A, Kurinji, the hilly and forested tract whose people lived by hunting and gathering.

The poems credit him with the victory at Venni, which broke the power of a Chera and Pandya alliance, with developing Puhar at the mouth of the Kaveri, and with the embankment raised across that river.

The work belongs to the Pathinenkilkanakku, the Eighteen Minor Works, and is the most widely quoted book of Tamil literature.

It is a work on Tamil grammar and poetics in three books, and because its sections on poetic conventions describe the land, the people and their occupations, historians use it as a source for Sangam society, including the five-fold division of land into kurinji, mullai, marutham, neithal and palai.

The early Cholas ruled from Uraiyur on the Kaveri and later made Puhar, also called Kaveripattinam, their capital and chief port; their emblem was the tiger.

The Sangam corpus is the oldest body of Tamil literature and includes the grammar Tolkappiyam, the Eight Anthologies, the Ten Idylls and the Eighteen Minor Works, all in Tamil.

The correct answer is A, Nedunjeliyan II, the Pandya king of Madurai who is remembered in Sangam poetry as the victor of the battle of Talaiyalanganam, in which he is said to have defeated a confederacy of the Chera and Chola kings and five lesser chieftains.

The Department of Posts named two digital platforms, the Dak Sewa App and the Dak Mitra App, as the means by which postal services are being made simpler to reach and to use.

The day draws attention to the contribution of the Department of Posts in widening access to financial services through its very large network, reaching citizens across varied geographies and socio-economic backgrounds.

The theme announced for World Post Day this year is 'World Post Day: One Postal Network, Infinite Possibilities', and it frames the week-long observance by the Department of Posts.

World Post Day is observed on this date and it opens National Postal Week, which the Department of Posts is celebrating from 9 to 15 October 2026.

The Dr Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary lies on Chorao island in the Mandovi river near Panaji and is a stretch of mangrove forest and mudflat known for its herons, egrets, kingfishers and migratory waterbirds; it is named after the ornithologist Salim Ali, the author of the standard handbooks on Indian…

Goa covers about 3,702 square kilometres, less than any other state of the Union; in population too it is among the smallest, ahead only of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Sikkim at the census of 2011.

Mormugao harbour, a natural harbour on the Goan coast, stands at the mouth of the Zuari, the largest river of the state, with the town of Vasco da Gama beside it; the port was developed for the export of iron ore brought down by barge.

Goa has a single house, the Legislative Assembly, of forty seats, which is the floor the Constitution allows for a state assembly through the special provision made for Goa; the state also sends two members to the Lok Sabha, from North Goa and South Goa, and one to the Rajya…

In 1510 Albuquerque took Goa from the Adil Shahi rulers of Bijapur, and the city became the seat of Portuguese power in the East, the capital of the Estado da India, which it remained until 1961.

The Basilica of Bom Jesus, built at the end of the sixteenth century, holds the body of St Francis Xavier in a silver casket, and the relics are brought out for public veneration at an exposition held about once in ten years; his feast falls on 3 December.

The correct answer is C, the Seventy-first Amendment Act, passed in 1992, which added Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali to the Eighth Schedule, taking the number of scheduled languages from fifteen to eighteen.

The Dudhsagar Falls, a drop of roughly 310 metres in four tiers, are on the Mandovi river in the Western Ghats near the Goa and Karnataka border, inside the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary; the name means sea of milk, from the white sheet the water makes in the monsoon.

It is the single national park of Goa and lies within the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary on the border with Karnataka, in the belt of the Western Ghats where the Dudhsagar Falls also stand.