SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

He founded the Arya Samaj at Bombay in 1875, held the Vedas to be the source of all true knowledge, rejected idol worship, priestly authority and hereditary caste, and set out his views in Satyarth Prakash.

He founded the Atmiya Sabha, a society of friends for religious and philosophical discussion, at Calcutta in 1815, and it was the first of his organised efforts against idol worship and empty ritual.

Each target face has ten rings and the innermost ring scores 10 points, so 72 arrows all in the 10 ring give 72 multiplied by 10, that is 720 points.

A compound archer draws and looses the string with a hand held mechanical release, and may also use a magnifying scope and a peep sight set in the string.

He won the compound individual gold at the 2014 Asian Games held at Incheon in South Korea, one of India's landmark results in the compound bow, and has since been a fixture of the compound team that wins Asian Games and World Cup team medals.

Limba Ram comes from a tribal family of the Udaipur region of southern Rajasthan and was India's best known archer of the early 1990s, shooting at three Olympic Games and equalling a world record at a continental event.

The archer from West Bengal won the women's recurve gold at the 2007 Archery World Cup Final in Dubai, the first World Cup Final title won by an Indian archer, and she was honoured with the Arjuna Award.

Recurve individual matches are shot in sets of three arrows. The archer with the higher total in a set takes 2 set points, a tied set gives 1 set point to each, and the first archer to reach 6 set points wins the match.

Archery is Bhutan's national sport and its village and festival contests, shot at long distances with small wooden targets and their own customs, are a part of national life.

The compound bow uses cams and cables that hold most of the draw weight for the archer, a magnifying scope and a mechanical release aid, so scores are far higher than with a recurve.

The full target face used at 70 metres measures 122 centimetres across and carries ten concentric scoring rings, the innermost worth 10 points and the outermost worth 1.

All Olympic recurve events, individual, team and mixed team, are shot at 70 metres at a target face of 122 centimetres.

Archery was part of the 1900 Paris Olympics and a few Games after it, but disappeared from the programme after 1920 because the rules varied from country to country.

It was founded in 1931 as the Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc, known by the short form FITA, and adopted the name World Archery in 2011.

He held that the rising of 1857 was not the first armed challenge to British power, that it did not cover the whole country or unite its people, and that it was not fought for a clear idea of national independence; his summing up is quoted in this exact form…

Canning was Governor General when the revolt broke out and became the first Viceroy of India under the Act of 1858.

Known as the Act for the Better Government of India, it abolished the East India Company along with the Board of Directors and the Board of Control, vested the government of India in the Crown, created the office of Secretary of State for India with a Council of India of…

Sir Hugh Rose led the central India campaign, took Jhansi in April 1858 and pursued the rebels to Kalpi and Gwalior, where Rani Lakshmibai died fighting in June 1858.

The last Mughal emperor was captured at Delhi in September 1857, tried by the British, deprived of his title and sent to Rangoon in Burma, where he died in 1862.

The General Service Enlistment Act of 1856, passed while Lord Canning was Governor General, required new recruits of the Bengal Army to serve wherever they were sent, including overseas.