SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is B, Mount Elbrus, 5,642 metres, a dormant volcano in the Caucasus range in Russia and the highest point of the continent.

The Great Rift Valley runs for about six thousand kilometres from the Jordan valley and the Dead Sea, down the Red Sea, through Ethiopia and the lake region of East Africa to Mozambique, and it is the largest rift on the continents, formed where the crust is being pulled apart.

Its shape and depth come from the rift: the floor between two parallel faults sank, giving a trough rather than a shallow basin.

The Bedouin are its best known nomadic people, and oases such as those of the Nile and the Fezzan support its settled life.

The Victoria Falls lie on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, where the Zambezi drops into a narrow basalt gorge; the local name Mosi-oa-Tunya means the smoke that thunders.

Its enormous basin lies on both sides of the Equator, so the river cuts the line twice before reaching the Atlantic.

Its highest summit is Kibo, also called Uhuru peak, and it stands close to the Equator yet carries snow and shrinking glaciers, a favourite illustration of climate changing with altitude.

He later ran Bahishkrit Bharat from 1927, Samata and Janata, which became Prabuddha Bharat.

After years of work in the United States, Mangoo Ram returned to Punjab and founded the Ad Dharm movement in 1926, arguing that the so-called untouchable castes were the original inhabitants of the land and formed a religion of their own; the census of 1931 recorded lakhs of people as…

Gulamgiri, meaning slavery, was published in 1873 in Marathi and compared the condition of the lower castes in India with that of enslaved people in the United States, dedicating the work to those who fought slavery there.

He left the Congress in 1925 and launched the Self-Respect Movement, which rejected priestly ritual, conducted marriages without Brahmin priests and without religious ceremony, campaigned for widow remarriage and for women rights, and later turned into the Dravidar Kazhagam in 1944.

Vaikom lies in the former princely state of Travancore, in present-day Kottayam district of Kerala, and the satyagraha of 1924 and 1925 demanded that the lower castes be allowed to use the public roads around the Mahadeva temple there.

The Communal Award announced by Ramsay MacDonald in August 1932 gave the depressed classes separate electorates.

The SNDP Yogam was founded in 1903 in Travancore under his inspiration, with Dr Palpu as the organiser and the poet Kumaran Asan as its first secretary, to work for the Ezhava community through schools, temples open to all and the slogan of one caste, one religion and one God…

In March 1927 Ambedkar led thousands of people to the Chavdar tank at Mahad in the Kolaba district of Bombay Presidency and drank its water, asserting that a public tank opened by a municipal resolution belonged to every citizen.

Omprakash Valmiki published Joothan in 1997, and it is the best known Dalit autobiography in Hindi; the title refers to the leftover food that upper-caste households gave to Dalit families, and the book records humiliation in school, in the village and at work.

The fourfold varna order of classical texts consists of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra.

He founded the Satyashodhak Samaj, or Truth Seekers Society, at Pune in 1873, the same year in which his book Gulamgiri appeared.

The Pamir, mostly in Tajikistan, is the knot where the Himalaya, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Kunlun and Tien Shan meet, and its height and position earned it this name, which is also used for the plateau of Tibet.

Enclosed by the Himalaya in the south, the Karakoram and Kunlun in the north-west and the Chinese mountains in the east, it averages well over four thousand metres and is called the roof of the world along with the Pamir; the Indus, the Sutlej, the Brahmaputra, the Yangtze and the…