SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute in 1931, devised the Mahalanobis distance and the method of large scale sample surveys, and shaped the Second Five Year Plan; National Statistics Day is observed on his birthday, 29 June.

Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj, the society of truth seekers, at Pune in 1873 to work against caste oppression and priestly domination; he and Savitribai Phule had already opened schools for girls and for the depressed classes.

Gokhale founded the Servants of India Society at Pune in 1905 to train men who would give their lives to public service in a disciplined, constitutional way, and Gandhi called him his political teacher.

Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897, after his return from the Parliament of Religions at Chicago, and its headquarters came up at Belur near Calcutta; it combines spiritual teaching with service in education, health and relief.

Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj at Bombay in 1875 with the call to go back to the Vedas; it opposed idol worship and caste by birth, supported widow remarriage and women education, and ran the shuddhi movement, and his book Satyarth Prakash states its doctrine.

Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Samaj at Calcutta in 1828, growing out of his earlier Atmiya Sabha and Brahmo Sabha; it preached worship of one formless God, rejected idol worship and caste rigidity, and campaigned against sati, which was banned in 1829.

The Marwari horse of the Marwar region of Rajasthan is identified at once by its inward-curving ears, whose tips can touch, and it was the warhorse of the Rathore rulers; it is used today in ceremonial riding and in the native dance called the horse dance.

At the Asian Games held in Indonesia in 2018, Fouaad Mirza won the individual silver and was part of the team that won silver in eventing, the first Indian equestrian medals at the Asian Games in a long gap, and he later represented India at the Olympic Games.

The correct answer is B, Eventing, also called the three-day event, in which the same horse and rider go through a dressage test, a cross-country course over natural obstacles and a show jumping round; penalty points from all three phases are added and the lowest total wins, so it is…

Equestrian events are not divided by the sex of the rider, so male and female riders contest the same medals in dressage, jumping and eventing, and it is also the only Olympic sport in which an animal competes alongside the athlete.

The Olympic programme has exactly these three equestrian disciplines, each with an individual and a team event; dressage tests set movements in a marked arena, jumping tests clearing a course of fences, and eventing combines dressage, cross-country and jumping with the same horse.

The correct answer is A, FEI, the Federation Equestre Internationale, founded in 1921 with its headquarters at Lausanne in Switzerland; it governs dressage, jumping, eventing, driving, endurance, vaulting and para-equestrian sport.

Argentina has produced most of the ten-goal handicap players in the history of the game and its Argentine Open, played at the Palermo ground in Buenos Aires, is considered the most important polo tournament in the world; Argentina also won the last Olympic polo title.

Polo featured in five editions of the Olympic Games between 1900 and 1936 and was dropped after the Berlin Games of 1936, mainly because of the cost and difficulty of transporting strings of horses; Argentina won that last Olympic title.

The Ezra Cup is the oldest polo tournament in India and is played under the Indian Polo Association, along with other well known trophies such as the Sir Pratap Singh Cup and the Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia Gold Cup.

Sagol Kangjei, played in Manipur on the small Manipuri pony, is the game from which the modern rules of polo were drawn after British officers and tea planters saw it in the eighteen fifties, which is why Manipur is called the birthplace of modern polo.

A polo match is divided into chukkas, also spelt chukker, of seven minutes each, and a match has four to six of them depending on the tournament; ponies are usually changed between chukkas because the galloping is so hard on the horse.

A polo team puts four mounted players on the field, numbered one to four, where number one is the attacking forward and number four, called the back, is the main defender.

It is a movable flap in the rear wing which a driver may open in marked zones of the circuit when close enough to the car in front; opening the flap cuts air resistance, raises the top speed and makes overtaking easier.

It is one of the best known one-day classics, famous for its cobbled roads and for the nickname the Hell of the North, but a single day race can never be a Grand Tour.