SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Mrichchhakatika, the little clay cart, tells the story of the merchant Charudatta and the courtesan Vasantasena and is valued for its picture of ordinary city life rather than of kings.

Tholu Bommalata uses large leather puppets held against a lit screen, and the shadows tell episodes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata through the night.

Yakshagana is performed through the night in coastal Karnataka on episodes from the epics, with tall headgear, painted faces, a singer who carries the story and drums that mark the dance.

The Natya Shastra describes the playhouse, the actor's gestures, music, dance and the theory of rasa, the sentiment a performance raises in the spectator, and it is the foundation of every classical form of Indian theatre and dance.

Alam Ara carried recorded dialogue and songs and opened in Bombay in 1931; Irani also produced Kisan Kanya in 1937, the first Indian colour film, which is why his name answers two questions in this chapter.

Dadasaheb Phalke made it in 1913 as a silent film on the legend of the truthful king, and it is counted as the first Indian feature film.

In Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmaavat he played the Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khalji, whose siege of Chittor in 1303 is the historical background of the story, which is drawn from the Padmavat of Malik Muhammad Jayasi.

She won the Academy Award for costume design in 1983 for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, sharing it with John Mollo, and was the first Indian to win an Oscar in any category.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema and is named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made the first Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra, in 1913 and is called the father of Indian cinema; the first recipient was the actress Devika Rani.

Ankiya Nat is the one-act devotional play written by Srimanta Sankardeva, the saint of the Vaishnava movement in Assam, and its performance is called a Bhaona, staged in the prayer hall of a satra or naamghar with a narrator, songs and masks.

FIFA was founded in 1904 and has long had its headquarters at Zurich in Switzerland, from where it organises the World Cup and governs the national federations.

The Beighton Cup has been played at Kolkata since the closing years of the nineteenth century and is among the oldest field hockey tournaments anywhere, older than most international competitions in the game, and the great teams and players of Indian hockey have all passed through it.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India was formed in 1928 and India played its first Test match four years later, in 1932.

The Davis Cup is the international team competition for men in lawn tennis, played between countries in ties spread over a season, and the corresponding competition for women is now called the Billie Jean King Cup.

The Swaythling Cup is the men's team championship of the world table tennis championships and the Corbillon Cup is the women's team championship of the same event, and the two names are almost always set together in question papers.

The Santosh Trophy is the national football championship of India, played between teams representing the states and certain institutions, and it has been held since 1941.

The International Olympic Committee, founded in 1894 on the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, moved its seat to Lausanne during the First World War and has worked from that city ever since, which is why Lausanne is called the Olympic capital.

The Irani Cup was begun to mark twenty five seasons of the Ranji Trophy and is a single first class match in which the reigning national champions meet a side drawn from the best players of the other teams, which makes it a selection trial as much as a contest.

The Thomas Cup is the world team championship for men in badminton, and its counterpart for women is the Uber Cup, while the Sudirman Cup is the mixed team championship of the same game.

The Durand Cup was begun at Shimla in 1888 and is named after Mortimer Durand, who was then the foreign secretary of the British Indian government.