SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Indian food standards divide preservatives into two classes. Class I preservatives are the natural ones that cooks have always used, and no limit is placed on the quantity: common salt, sugar, dextrose, spices, vinegar or acetic acid, honey and edible vegetable oils.

In lyophilisation the material is first frozen and then placed under a strong vacuum, so that the ice changes directly into vapour without passing through the liquid state.

Pasteurisation is not sterilisation: it is a mild heating that kills disease-causing organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Salmonella and Brucella and most spoilage bacteria, while leaving the taste and nutritive value of milk largely unchanged.

Khesari dal, botanically Lathyrus sativus and also called grass pea, is a hardy pulse that survives drought and is therefore sometimes mixed with arhar dal or besan.

Argemone mexicana, the prickly poppy known in India as satyanashi, has seeds that look very like mustard seeds, so its oil is a classic adulterant of mustard oil.

A harvested fruit is still a living tissue that keeps respiring, using up its own sugars and acids and giving off heat, carbon dioxide and ethylene.

The Company and then the Crown treated the region as a punished territory after 1857: the chiefs who had joined the revolt were hanged or exiled and their estates confiscated, and in 1858 the Haryana districts were transferred from the North-Western Provinces to the province of Punjab, to be administered…

The town was laid out by its first Nawab, Faujdar Khan, in the time of the later Mughals and was named after the emperor Farrukhsiyar.

The Satnamis were a sect of peasants and artisans of the Narnaul and Mewat country who rose in 1672 after a quarrel with a Mughal foot soldier grew into a general rising.

The tomb of Abd-ur-Rahim, known as Sheikh Chilli, stands on a high plinth at Thanesar in Kurukshetra district, with a marble dome and a madrasa court beside it, and belongs to the reign of Shah Jahan.

George Thomas, a sailor from Ireland who rose in the service of Indian rulers, carved out a principality for himself in the Haryana plain towards the end of the eighteenth century and chose Hansi, with its old fort, as his capital.

Suraj Mal, the ablest ruler of the Bharatpur Jat house, pushed Jat power north into the Haryana plain in the middle of the eighteenth century, holding Ballabhgarh, Farrukhnagar and much of the country around Delhi.

After Guru Gobind Singh's death Banda Singh Bahadur led the Sikh rising of 1709 and 1710, took Samana and Sadhaura and fortified Lohgarh in the Sivalik hills of what is now Yamunanagar district, making it his capital and striking coins and a seal in the name of the Gurus.

Shaikh Farid was the treasurer of Jahangir, and he founded Faridabad in 1607 to protect the imperial road from Delhi to Agra, building a fort, a tank and a mosque at the spot.

Timur, the Turkish ruler of Samarkand, invaded India in 1398 during the reign of Nasiruddin Mahmud Tughlaq, came down the Yamuna route and sacked the Haryana towns of Tohana, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Kaithal and Hisar before taking and plundering Delhi.

He founded Hisar-e-Firoza in 1354, built its fort and palace complex with the Gujari Mahal inside, and brought canals from the Yamuna to water the town, a line the British later rebuilt as the Western Yamuna Canal.

Bangabhaban in Dhaka is the official residence of the President of Bangladesh. The name itself carries the clue, since Banga is the old name of the Bengal region, and the building served earlier as the residence of the governor of East Bengal.

The Potala Palace rises above Lhasa, the chief city of Tibet, and was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from the seventeenth century.

The Danish architect Jorn Utzon won the competition for the Sydney Opera House, whose shell shaped roofs stand on Bennelong Point in Sydney harbour.

Big Ben is strictly the name of the large bell hung in the clock tower at the northern end of the Palace of Westminster.