SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Hydra is the one animal in the list that reproduces both by budding and by regeneration. In budding, a bulge grows out from the body wall of the parent Hydra, develops a mouth and tentacles, and then breaks off as a small independent Hydra.

Papaya is raised from seed, so it is not multiplied by vegetative propagation the way the other three plants are.

Green plants give out oxygen only during photosynthesis, the process in which they use light energy to make their own food.

C. R. Das was the Calcutta barrister who defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore bomb case, gave up a large practice for the non-cooperation movement, and founded the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru to contest the legislative councils.

Milkha Singh was a sprinter who won the four hundred metres gold at the Commonwealth Games of 1958 and at the Asian Games, and who finished fourth in the four hundred metres final at the Rome Olympics of 1960.

Kurien built the cooperative dairy at Anand in Gujarat, gave the country the Amul brand and headed the National Dairy Development Board, whose Operation Flood turned India into a large milk producer.

Sarabhai set up the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad, persuaded the government that a developing country needed space technology for communication and weather, and built the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station in Kerala, so he is called the father of the Indian space programme.

Kalam worked on the SLV-3 launch vehicle and then led the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, out of which the Agni, Prithvi, Trishul, Akash and Nag missiles came, and that work gave him the name Missile Man of India.

The historian V. A. Smith first described Samudragupta as the Napoleon of India, because of the long list of kings and republics he subdued, recorded in the Allahabad pillar inscription, or Prayag Prashasti, composed by his court poet Harisena.

He organised the Khudai Khidmatgar, the servants of God, also known as the Red Shirts, in the North West Frontier Province, and he held to non-violence so completely that he became known as the Frontier Gandhi, or Sarhadi Gandhi.

Valentine Chirol, a British journalist, used the phrase Father of Indian Unrest for Tilak in his writing on Indian politics, and Tilak sued him for libel in England.

Naoroji was a founder of the Indian National Congress, its President three times, and the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons.

Naidu was a poet in English whose collections include The Golden Threshold and The Bird of Time, and the lyrical quality of her verse earned her the name Nightingale of India, or Bharat Kokila.

Bose addressed Gandhi as the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast made while he was leading the Azad Hind movement during the Second World War, and the phrase has stayed with Gandhi ever since.

Patel was the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India, and he persuaded or pressed more than five hundred princely states into joining the Indian Union after 1947.

Chapchar Kut is the best known festival of the Mizo, held in March once the jhum fields have been cleared and burnt and the villagers wait for the sowing rains.

Until 2003 a single National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes worked under Article 338.

The Sammakka Saralamma Jatara, usually called the Medaram Jatara, is held at Medaram in the Mulugu district of Telangana, once in two years in the month of Magha.

The Hornbill Festival is held at the Naga Heritage Village at Kisama, near Kohima, from 1 to 10 December, and it opens on the day Nagaland became a state.

Wangala is the post-harvest thanksgiving festival of the Garo of Meghalaya, offered to Saljong, the sun god who grants the harvest.