SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Wilson Jones of Pune won the World Amateur Billiards Championship in 1958 and so became the first Indian to win a world title in any sport, a landmark often asked in general awareness papers.

Officers of the British garrison at Jabalpur, in present-day Madhya Pradesh, added coloured balls to the older game of black pool in 1875, and Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain of the Devonshire Regiment gave the new game the name snooker, which was slang at the Woolwich military academy for a…

The figure is arrived at by potting all fifteen reds for fifteen points, taking the black worth seven after each red for one hundred and five points, and then clearing the six colours in order of value for twenty-seven points, giving a total of one hundred and forty-seven.

The six colours of snooker are valued in a fixed order, yellow two, green three, brown four, blue five, pink six and black seven, so the black is the highest valued ball on the table and is the one a player takes after each red while building a big break.

A frame of snooker begins with fifteen red balls arranged in a triangle behind the pink, each worth one point.

The invasion exposed how weak the empire had become after Aurangzeb.

The Battle of Wandiwash, or Vandavasi in Tamil Nadu, was the decisive engagement of the Third Carnatic War, in which Sir Eyre Coote defeated Count de Lally in 1760.

On 14 January 1761 Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan, helped by Najib-ud-Daula and Shuja-ud-Daula, defeated the Maratha army commanded by Sadashivrao Bhau; the Peshwa's son Vishwasrao was killed, and the defeat destroyed Maratha hopes of replacing the Mughals at Delhi.

By the Treaty of Allahabad the next year the Company received the diwani, the right to collect revenue, in Bengal, Bihar and Odisha, and Clive built the system of dual government on it.

Bengal, the richest province of India, passed under the Company's political control.

In 1565 the allied Deccan sultanates of Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Golconda and Bidar defeated the Vijayanagara army led by Rama Raya at Talikota, a battle also called Rakshasa-Tangadi or Bannihatti; the capital city of Vijayanagara, today's Hampi, was plundered and the empire never recovered.

Akbar was only about thirteen years old in 1556, and his regent Bairam Khan commanded the army that defeated Hemu, the able general of the Sur side who had captured Delhi and crowned himself Hemchandra Vikramaditya.

The following year Sher Shah defeated him again at Kannauj, also called Bilgram, and Humayun left India for about fifteen years while the Sur dynasty ruled Delhi.

Babur defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi, the last Sultan of the Lodi dynasty, on the field of Panipat in 1526, using the tulughma flanking division and field guns served by Ustad Ali Quli and Mustafa Rumi, and founded the Mughal Empire.

Ghori had been defeated by Prithviraj Chauhan at the First Battle of Tarain in 1191 and returned the next year with a better organised army of mounted archers; the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 ended in the defeat and death of Prithviraj and opened north India to Turkish rule.

Porus ruled the Paurava kingdom between the Jhelum and the Chenab and fought Alexander on the Hydaspes, the Greek name for the Jhelum.

The Masai are a cattle-keeping people of the East African savanna, moving their herds with the seasonal rains; their life is the standard textbook example of pastoral nomadism in the tropical grasslands.

The Ural mountains, an old worn range running north to south across Russia, together with the Ural river, the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, form the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia, which is why the two are often treated as one land mass called Eurasia.

It also passes more capital cities than any other river, among them Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade.

The Volga, about 3,530 kilometres long, is the longest river of Europe and flows entirely within Russia to end in the Caspian, which is a landlocked salt lake and the largest lake in the world, so the Volga never reaches an ocean.