SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

The Sheesh Mahal, or palace of mirrors, inside the Agra Fort was built in Shah Jahan's reign as a bath and dressing chamber for the royal household.

The post of National Security Adviser was created in November 1998, when the Vajpayee government set up the National Security Council.

Mosses, lichens and low shrubs make up the tundra, the treeless cover of the lands around the Arctic Ocean and of high mountain slopes above the tree line.

National Voters' Day is observed on 25 January every year because the Election Commission of India was set up on 25 January 1950, a day before the Constitution came into force.

Seasonal unemployment is the kind in which people find work only in certain months and sit idle in the rest.

The Lodis followed the Sayyids at Delhi. Bahlol Lodi, an Afghan noble who was governor of Sirhind, took the throne in 1451 when the last Sayyid ruler Alam Shah gave up Delhi and settled at Badaun.

Tamil was the first language to be given classical language status in India, in 2004. Sanskrit was declared classical in 2005, Kannada and Telugu together in 2008, Malayalam in 2013 and Odia in 2014.

Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. At ordinary pressure it does not melt into a liquid at all: it changes straight from solid to gas, a process called sublimation, at about minus 78.5 degrees Celsius.

Rudramadevi ruled the Kakatiya kingdom from Warangal, called Orugallu then, in what is now Telangana, in the second half of the thirteenth century.

Litmus is a purple dye taken from lichens, and in the classification used in school science lichens are placed in Thallophyta, the group of simple plants whose body is an undifferentiated thallus with no true root, stem or leaf.

Shortughai stands in north-eastern Afghanistan, near the Oxus or Amu Darya river, and is the northernmost Harappan settlement known.

The earliest and by far the longest phase of human prehistory is the Palaeolithic, or Old Stone Age, when people lived by hunting and gathering and used rough, unpolished tools made mostly of quartzite.

Article 60 lays down the form of the oath or affirmation that the President of India makes before entering office.

The Eastern Railway zone has its headquarters at Fairlie Place in Kolkata, West Bengal. Eastern Railway was created in 1952 out of the eastern part of the old East Indian Railway and a portion of the Bengal Nagpur Railway, which makes it one of the oldest zones of Indian Railways.

That is precisely what the word mixed means in the name of the event: a country is represented by a male and a female archer who shoot as one unit, their scores being added together, which is why the Indian silver in this event is credited to Dhiraj Bommadevara and…

Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod finished second in the recurve mixed team event, and the Prime Minister noted that the pair had given the country its first ever silver in this event at the Asian Games.

The two shot together in the recurve mixed team event at the Asian Games and finished with the silver medal, which is India's first in that event at these Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name.

The Himalayas are the youngest mountains in India. They are fold mountains, thrown up where the Indian plate pushed into the Eurasian plate and crumpled the sediments of the old Tethys Sea between them.

Overgrazing is a cause of soil degradation, not a way to conserve soil, so it is the option that does not belong.

The blackbuck, called Krishna Jinka in Telugu, is the state animal of Andhra Pradesh. It is an antelope of open grassland and scrub; the male turns dark brown to black with age and carries long spiral horns, while the female stays fawn coloured and usually hornless.