SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Founded on 12 March 1954 with Jawaharlal Nehru as its first President, it is the national academy of letters, recognises twenty-four languages, the twenty-two of the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution together with English and Rajasthani, and gives the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Bhasha Samman and translation prizes.

Izzy, first shown as Whatizit, was the mascot of the Atlanta Games of 1996 and is remembered as the first Olympic mascot that was not an animal or a human figure but an abstract shape made with computer animation.

The first Winter Olympic Games were held at Chamonix in the French Alps in 1924, the same year as the Paris Summer Games, and were recognised afterwards as the first winter edition.

Beijing held the Summer Olympic Games of 2008 and the Winter Olympic Games of 2022, becoming the first city anywhere to host both, and its Winter mascot was the panda Bing Dwen Dwen.

Miraitowa, a blue chequered figure whose name joins the Japanese words for future and eternity, was the mascot of the Tokyo Olympic Games held in 2021 under the name Tokyo 2020.

Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, the first time the Games were held in Asia, and the edition is also remembered for the first use of satellite television to carry the Games abroad.

Beijing 2008 was the first Games to use a set of five mascots, called Fuwa, meaning good-luck dolls: Beibei a fish, Jingjing a panda, Huanhuan the Olympic flame, Yingying a Tibetan antelope and Nini a swallow, their first syllables together making a line of welcome.

London has held the Summer Olympic Games three times, in 1908, 1948 and 2012, and shares that record with Paris, which hosted in 1900, 1924 and 2024.

Misha, properly Mishka, was the bear chosen for the Moscow Games of 1980 and became the best known Olympic mascot of its time, partly because of its appearance at the closing ceremony.

Waldi, a dachshund in bright stripes, was the first mascot officially adopted by an Olympic Games, chosen because the dachshund is a German breed known for stamina.

The first modern Olympic Games were held at Athens in 1896, two years after Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee at Paris, and Greece was chosen because the ancient Games had been held at Olympia.

Firmware is program code written into a read-only or flash memory chip on a device, so it stays with the hardware even when the power is off; the BIOS or UEFI on a motherboard, which starts the machine and hands control to the operating system, is the example papers name…

A compiler reads the whole source program written in a high-level language, converts it into machine code in one pass of work and reports all the errors it finds together, after which the compiled program runs quickly without the translator being present.

Bharat Operating System Solutions is built on Debian GNU/Linux by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, the research organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology that is also known for the PARAM series of supercomputers; BOSS comes in versions for schools, for desktops and for servers, with…

The Linux kernel has been distributed under the GPL since its early versions, which is why anyone who ships a modified kernel must also make the modified source code available; this copyleft condition is the licence's defining feature.

Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project in 1983 to build a complete operating system made only of free software, and in 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation to support it; he also wrote the GNU General Public License, which carries the copyleft condition that a modified version must be…

Linus Torvalds, then a student in Finland, wrote the Linux kernel in 1991 and released it under the GNU General Public License, which is why Linux is the standard example of open source software in question papers.

Shareware follows the try before you buy model: the publisher lets anyone download and use the program for a trial period, or in a version with some features locked, and asks for payment or registration if the user wants to go on.

Freeware costs the user nothing, but the licence allows only use: the source code stays with the owner, so the program cannot be studied, modified or redistributed in a changed form.

A defragmenter is a classic utility: it rearranges the scattered pieces of files on a disk so that the drive can read them in fewer movements, which is housekeeping work rather than work the user set out to do.