SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Photosynthesis makes carbohydrate and gives out oxygen, and of the four choices here only oxygen is something the plant produces.

Oil does not dissolve in water; it stays as a separate layer or as floating droplets, so the mixture is heterogeneous and the boundary between the two liquids can be seen.

In a class 3 lever the effort is applied between the fulcrum and the load, so the effort always sits nearer the fulcrum and its arm is the shorter of the two.

Pliers and scissors are each made of two arms joined at one rivet, and each arm is a complete class 1 lever, so the tool is called a double lever.

By the work-energy theorem the work done by a force equals the change in kinetic energy, so the work here is half of 4 kilograms times 5 metres per second squared, that is 0.5 into 4 into 25, which gives 50 joules.

Work done is force multiplied by the displacement along the force, so F equals the work divided by the distance, that is 480 joules divided by 15 metres, which gives 32 newtons.

A convex mirror bulges towards the viewer and always gives a virtual, erect and diminished image, so whatever your distance from it, your reflection looks smaller than you.

Pisciculture is the rearing of fish in ponds, tanks and other managed waters, the Latin word piscis meaning fish.

An ordinary filament bulb is filled with a mixture of argon and nitrogen because both are chemically unreactive and will not burn the white-hot tungsten filament.

Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, usually about 88 per cent copper to 12 per cent tin. Tin makes copper harder and gives it a far better resistance to rust and sea water, which is why bronze is used for statues, temple bells, coins, medals and ship fittings.

Reduction means the loss of oxygen or the gain of hydrogen, so each statement states one half of the same definition.

The Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India on 26 November 1949, and the Government of India declared that date Constitution Day, or Samvidhan Divas, in 2015, the year of the 125th birth anniversary of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, who chaired the Drafting Committee.

Pune stands on the Deccan plateau in Maharashtra, where the Mula and the Mutha meet, and it is called the Queen of the Deccan for its pleasant climate, its setting at the edge of the Sahyadri hills and its long standing as the seat of the Peshwas.

He wrote Why am I an Atheist in October 1930 in the Lahore Central Jail, answering a fellow prisoner who told him his disbelief was only vanity.

The Lotus Temple, the Bahai House of Worship at Kalkaji in New Delhi, was designed by Fariborz Sahba, an architect born in Iran who later settled in Canada, and it was completed and opened for worship in December 1986.

Humayun's library stood in the Sher Mandal, the small octagonal tower inside the Purana Qila in Delhi, which he used as a library and an observatory after he won back the throne in 1555.

Mahmud of Ghazni, who ruled the Ghaznavid kingdom from 998 to 1030, is recorded as having led seventeen raids into India between about 1000 and 1027.

That is the exact claim attached to the result, and it is the reason the bronze was described as a landmark moment for sepaktakraw in India rather than as one more entry on the medal table.

The Indian men's quadrant team finished third in the men's quadrant event of the sepaktakraw competition at the Asian Games and took the bronze medal, and that bronze is India's first medal ever in this event at the Games.

The men's quadrant event belongs to the sepaktakraw programme at the Asian Games, and the bronze won by the Indian men's quadrant team is India's first medal in that event at the Games, which is why the win was called a landmark moment for Indian sepaktakraw.