SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Its sculptors worked mainly in relief on the drum slabs and railings of the great stupa, filling each panel with figures that tell a story from the Buddha's life or from the Jataka tales, and their bodies are slender and elongated, bent in the triple flexion called tribhanga, so that…

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.

Sultan Mehmed the Second captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine or Eastern Roman empire, and the city became the Ottoman capital under the name Istanbul.

Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on 20 July 1969, and Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on its surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin, while Michael Collins stayed in the command module in orbit.

The Berlin Wall, built in 1961 to stop movement from East Berlin to West Berlin, was opened and then demolished by crowds on both sides from 9 November 1989, and its fall is the symbol of the collapse of communist rule in eastern Europe.

The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth once aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961, becoming the first human being in space; the day is observed as the International Day of Human Space Flight.