SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

The ruler of Golconda who founded the city of Hyderabad wrote verse in Dakhani, the southern form of the language, and the collection that survives under his name is counted as the first complete diwan in it, which is why the earliest chapter of Urdu literature belongs to the Deccan…

Akbar set up a translation department in which Sanskrit works were rendered into Persian, and the Mahabharata was translated there as the Razmnama, a name that means the book of war.

Barani lived at the court of Muhammad bin Tughlaq and wrote in the reign of Firoz Shah Tughlaq.

He was a minister and a close friend of Akbar and wrote the Akbarnama, of which the Ain-i-Akbari forms the third volume, setting out the departments of state, the revenue of the provinces, the ranks of the nobility, the coins, the crops and the customs of the country.

Khusrau served a line of Sultans at Delhi, was a disciple of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, and was given the title Tuti-e-Hind, the parrot of India.

This is one of the striking facts of Mughal cultural history: the emperor who withdrew court patronage from musical performance presided over a reign in which the largest number of Persian treatises on Indian classical music was written, as scholars turned from the court to the book.

He was an officer of Jahangir's court who continued the record of the reign after the emperor stopped writing his own memoir, and his Iqbalnama-i-Jahangiri is one of the main Persian sources for the period.

She was a daughter of Babur and a sister of Humayun, and she wrote her account of the family at the request of her nephew Akbar, who wanted material for the Akbarnama.

Babur's memoir was written in Chagatai Turkish and was translated into Persian in Akbar's time by Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, one of the nine jewels of the court, so that the book could be read by the Persian speaking nobility of the empire.

Babur wrote his memoirs in Chagatai Turkish, the language of his homeland in Central Asia, and the book is admired for its plain, observant prose about the men, fruits, animals and rivers of the countries he passed through.

India beat Sri Lanka there in the final of the 2011 tournament, which India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh had hosted together, and it was the first time a host country had won the World Cup final on its own ground.

The Kalinga Stadium is the sports complex of the capital of Odisha and it staged the men's Hockey World Cup of 2018; the state has since become the main home of Indian hockey, and the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium built at Rourkela in the same state hosted matches of the…

Camp Nou stands in the city of Barcelona in Spain and is the home of that club and one of the largest football stadiums in Europe.

The circuit was built there and held the Formula One Indian Grand Prix in 2011, 2012 and 2013, the only rounds of the world championship ever staged in India; it continues to be used for motorcycle racing and other motor sport events.

The ground of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association was renamed in 2019 in memory of the former union minister who had led that association for many years; the playing area alone was renamed, and the older name Feroz Shah Kotla still attaches to the historic complex beside it.

The ground's formal name is Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, it stands in the Salt Lake area of Kolkata, and it is the largest football stadium in the country and among the largest in the world; the city's clubs and the national team both play there, and it hosted the final…

Wimbledon is held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, it is the oldest of the four Grand Slam tournaments and it is the only one still played on grass, a surface on which the ball keeps low and comes quickly on to the racket, so…

Lord's was founded by Thomas Lord and is owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club, the body that framed the laws of cricket and guarded them for two centuries; the final of the first Cricket World Cup in 1975 was played there, and the pavilion holds the game's most famous museum.

The ground stands in the Motera area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, inside the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave, and after rebuilding it became the largest cricket stadium in the world by seating capacity; it was given its present name in 2021, so papers of earlier years call it the Motera…

The ground was laid out in 1864, which makes it the oldest cricket ground in the country by a wide margin; it is the home of the Cricket Association of Bengal, one of the largest cricket grounds in the world by seating and is often called the Lord's of the…