SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Genghis Khan led the Mongols into Transoxiana in 1219, the campaign that destroyed the Khwarazmian empire. The war began after the governor of Otrar killed Mongol traders and the Shah of Khwarazm, Ala-ud-din Muhammad, put Genghis Khan’s envoys to death.

Curium is a radioactive man-made element with the symbol Cm and atomic number 96.

Mosses and lichens are the typical plants of the tundra, the cold treeless belt that lies beyond the coniferous forests of the far north.

The All Bengal Students’ Conference was held in Calcutta in 1928 with Jawaharlal Nehru in the chair.

Alexander defeated Porus in 326 BCE in the Battle of the Hydaspes, fought on the banks of the Jhelum, the river the Greeks called the Hydaspes.

Milk is an emulsion because it is tiny drops of liquid fat spread through water, and an emulsion is a colloid in which one liquid is dispersed in another liquid.

Kerala shows almost no difference between day and night temperatures because it lies on the coast close to the equator, where the sea keeps the air mild and the humidity stays high.

Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement after a crowd at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district set fire to a police station on 5 February 1922, in which about twenty-two policemen died.

Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE at Babylon, aged about thirty-two, on his way back from the Indian campaign.

Mountains are built by endogenic forces, the forces that act from inside the earth and raise, bend or break the crust.

The Act of 1935 ended dyarchy in the provinces, granted provincial autonomy and placed the whole provincial administration under ministers answerable to elected legislatures.

Prithviraja III, the Chahamana or Chauhan ruler of Ajmer and Delhi, defeated Muhammad Ghori in the First Battle of Tarain in 1191; he is the Prithviraj Chauhan of popular memory.

France has twelve time zones, more than any other country, because its overseas departments and territories are scattered across the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean.

The Home Rule Movement began in 1916, when two leagues were set up to demand self-government for India within the British Empire.

The Second Backward Classes Commission, headed by B. P. Mandal, recommended 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in central government services and public undertakings.

Balban took the title Zil-i-Ilahi to claim that the sultan rules as the shadow of God on earth, a claim that placed him far above his nobles.

Bali Trutiya, also written Bali Tritiya, is an Odia festival kept mainly by married women of Odisha in the month of Bhadrab.

An ordinary incandescent bulb is filled with an unreactive gas, nitrogen usually mixed with argon, so that the white-hot tungsten filament does not burn away.

Vikramaditya VI ruled the Western Chalukya kingdom of Kalyani, and his court poet Bilhana wrote the Vikramankadevacharita on his life.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the wrestler on winning India's first Asian Games gold in the men's 57 kg freestyle event, called the win a phenomenal triumph and said that the journey from bronze at the last Games to the top of the podium showed great tenacity.