SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

The Colosseum is the vast amphitheatre of the Roman empire, standing in the heart of Rome in Italy, and it was chosen in 2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

The Sydney Opera House, with its shells rising above the harbour, was designed by the Danish architect Jorn Utzon and is the best known building in Australia.

Borobudur stands on the island of Java in Indonesia and is the largest Buddhist temple in the world, built as a great stepped monument whose terraces carry hundreds of relief panels and stupas.

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing, and for that reason it was given honorary standing alongside the New Seven Wonders chosen in 2007.

Christ the Redeemer stands on a peak above Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and was chosen in 2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

Petra is the city carved into rose-red rock in southern Jordan, built by the Nabataeans, and it was included among the New Seven Wonders of the World chosen in 2007.

Machu Picchu is the Inca citadel set high in the Andes of Peru, and it was chosen in 2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world; it was built in the twelfth century as a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu and later became a Buddhist site, and its image appears on the national flag of Cambodia.

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States, dedicated in 1886, designed by the sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi with its internal framework by Gustave Eiffel, and it stands on an island at the entrance to New York harbour.

The Eiffel Tower was built by Gustave Eiffel and completed in 1889 in Paris for the world exposition held to mark the centenary of the French Revolution, and it has remained the best known landmark of France.

The twentieth year is the china anniversary, also called the porcelain anniversary, and it is the last of the early names before the silver jubilee of twenty-five.

A millennium is one thousand years, from the Latin mille for a thousand and annus for a year, and in Hindi it is called the sahasrabdi.

India became independent in 1947, so the completion of fifty years, the golden jubilee or Swarna Jayanti, fell in 1997.

The fortieth year is the ruby jubilee, one of the intermediate names in the table that lies between the silver jubilee of twenty-five and the golden jubilee of fifty.

Swarna is the word for gold, so the Swarna Jayanti is the golden jubilee, the completion of fifty years.

In the traditional table of anniversary names, the tenth year is the tin anniversary, the materials rising in value as the years increase from paper in the first year to silver, gold and diamond in the longer spans.

One hundred and fifty years is a sesquicentennial, the prefix sesqui meaning one and a half, so the word reads as one and a half centuries.

The seventy-fifth year of independence was observed from 2021 as the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, and in the scheme of anniversary names seventy-five completed years are a platinum jubilee in Indian official usage.

The diamond jubilee, the Hirak Jayanti, marks sixty completed years in the usage now standard in India, and the figure is natural because sixty years completes a full cycle in the traditional Indian calendar.

The golden jubilee marks fifty completed years and is called the Swarna Jayanti in Hindi, the name taken from the gift of gold traditionally made on a fiftieth wedding anniversary.