SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

India's gallantry awards come in two families. For valour in the presence of the enemy the order is Param Vir Chakra, Maha Vir Chakra and Vir Chakra; for valour otherwise than in the face of the enemy the order is Ashoka Chakra, Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra, so the Ashoka…

The list of Bharat Ratna and Padma awardees is released on 25 January, the eve of Republic Day, and the honours are conferred by the President at Rashtrapati Bhavan later in the year.

A volleyball court is a rectangle 18 metres long and 9 metres wide, divided into two square halves of 9 metres by 9 metres by the centre line, above which the net is fixed at 2.43 metres for men and 2.24 metres for women.

In field hockey a bully was the method of restarting play after certain stoppages: one player of each side stood facing the other over the ball and they tapped sticks and ground alternately before playing it.

The distance was fixed after the London Olympic Games of 1908, where the course was lengthened to finish in front of the royal box, and it has been the standard ever since.

A table tennis ball is 40 millimetres across and weighs 2.7 grams, and it is made of plastic with a matt white or orange surface.

The correct answer is A, 1.524 metres, that is five feet at the centre of the court, with the net standing slightly higher, 1.55 metres, at the posts.

A chukker is one period of play in polo, and a match is made up of several chukkers with breaks between them so that the ponies can be changed.

A water polo team plays with seven players in the pool, six field players and one goalkeeper, with substitutes on the bench.

The ring, or basket, is fixed with its upper edge 3.05 metres above the floor, that is exactly 10 feet, and the measurement has not changed since the game was invented by James Naismith in 1891.

The Laws of Cricket fix the pitch at 22 yards between the two bowling creases, that is between the two sets of stumps, which works out to about 20.12 metres; the pitch is 10 feet wide.

Pivoting is the legal turn in which a player holding the ball keeps one foot fixed on the floor, the pivot foot, and steps around with the other foot; it lets a player face the basket or protect the ball without being called for travelling.

In golf an albatross, also called a double eagle, means holing out in three strokes fewer than the par of that hole, which is among the rarest feats in the game.

An offside trap is a defensive tactic in which the defenders move up the field together at the right moment so that an attacking player is left beyond the last defender when the ball is played forward, and the referee then gives offside.

India proposed the observance at the United Nations, the General Assembly adopted the resolution in 2014 with the support of a very large number of member states, and the first International Day of Yoga was observed on 21 June 2015.

The General Assembly declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, to draw attention to the melting of glaciers that feed rivers such as the Ganga, the Indus and the Brahmaputra and to the risk this carries for water supply and for floods.

The year 2011 was the International Year of Forests, observed to show how forests support water, soil, climate and the livelihood of people who live in and around them; the same year was also the International Year of Chemistry.

After the International Year of Indigenous Languages in 2019 showed how many languages are close to disappearing, the General Assembly set aside the ten years from 2022 to 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, with UNESCO as the lead agency.

The Decade on Ecosystem Restoration runs from 2021 to 2030, the same ten years as the Sustainable Development Goals, and it is led jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization; its aim is to revive damaged forests, wetlands, grasslands and coasts.

The year 2019 marked one hundred and fifty years since Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the elements in his table in 1869, and the United Nations declared it the International Year of the Periodic Table alongside the International Year of Indigenous Languages.