SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

In humans the digestion of starch begins in the buccal cavity, that is the mouth. The salivary glands pour out about 1.5 litres of saliva a day, and the enzyme in it, salivary amylase or ptyalin, breaks starch into the simpler sugar maltose.

The Avesta, also called the Zend-Avesta, is the sacred book of the Zoroastrians, the followers of the prophet Zarathustra or Zoroaster of ancient Iran.

The Battle of Swally was fought in November 1612 off Suvali, a village near Surat on the Gujarat coast. A small English squadron under Captain Thomas Best defeated a larger Portuguese fleet, and the victory ended the belief that the Portuguese could not be beaten at sea in Indian waters.

The 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 inserted a new Part IX-A titled The Municipalities into the Constitution, and it came into force on 1 June 1993.

Karnataka won the 2017-18 Vijay Hazare Trophy, beating Saurashtra in the final played in Delhi.

The ozone layer lies in the stratosphere, roughly 15 to 35 km above the ground, with the thickest concentration near 20 to 25 km, and that belt is sometimes called the ozonosphere.

Bamboo drip irrigation is a two-hundred-year-old practice of the Khasi and Jaintia hills of Meghalaya.

The Santhal rebellion, known as the Hul, broke out on 30 June 1855 in the Rajmahal hills of the Santhal Parganas, in what is now Jharkhand.

The wrestler Vinesh Phogat was nominated in 2019 for the Laureus World Sports Award in the Breakthrough of the Year category, the first Indian athlete to be shortlisted in that category.

The Manikya dynasty ruled Tripura for centuries, and its kings all took the title Manikya. Their history is recorded in the Rajmala, a chronicle in Bengali verse first compiled in the fifteenth century under Dharma Manikya.

The International Sand Art Festival is held every year on Chandrabhaga beach at Konark in Odisha, and its ninth edition took place in December 2020.

The Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 by a resolution of the Union Cabinet, not by the Constitution or by an Act of Parliament, so it was an extra-constitutional and non-statutory body.

The Battle of Plassey was fought on 23 June 1757 on the bank of the Bhagirathi near Palashi in Bengal, and Robert Clive's small Company force defeated Nawab Siraj-ud-daulah there.

Fat is digested in the small intestine by these two secretions working together.

Red algae, the division Rhodophyta, live in water, mostly in warm and shallow sea water, with a few species in fresh water.

The Moti Masjid, or Pearl Mosque, inside the Agra Fort was built by Shah Jahan in white marble between 1648 and 1654, and it takes its name from the pearl-like glow of the stone.

Pataliputra, today's Patna, stood where the Son joins the Ganga, and it was the capital of the Mauryan empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya in about 322 BCE with the help of Chanakya.

The Reserve Bank of India issued the fifty-rupee note of the Mahatma Gandhi (New) series in August 2017 with fluorescent blue as its base colour.

Granite is an igneous rock, not a sedimentary one. It forms when magma cools slowly deep inside the crust, so its crystals of quartz, feldspar and mica are large enough to see; because it cooled below the surface it is called an intrusive or plutonic rock.

The Right against Exploitation is given by Articles 23 and 24 in Part III of the Constitution. Article 23 forbids traffic in human beings, begar and other forms of forced labour, and lets the State impose compulsory service for a public purpose without discrimination.