SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Kutiyattam is performed in temple theatres called kuttampalam, uses the Sanskrit drama repertoire, and is counted among the oldest living theatre traditions in the world; UNESCO recognised it as a Masterpiece in 2001 and it moved to the Representative List in 2008.

Garba, the ritual and devotional dance performed during Navaratri around an earthen lamp in honour of the goddess, was inscribed at the eighteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee held in Botswana in December 2023.

The name means the four limbs, standing for the four divisions of the ancient army, elephants, chariots, cavalry and infantry, which survive as the bishop, the rook, the knight and the pawn of the modern board.

The correct answer is B, Sri Lanka, which declared volleyball its national sport in 1991.

The correct answer is A, Manipur, where the horseback game sagol kangjei was played and from which British planters and officers took up the modern form; the earliest clubs of the modern game were founded at Silchar and Calcutta.

British officers stationed there are credited with adding coloured balls to the existing game of black pool in 1875, and the new game took the name snooker, then army slang for a first-year cadet.

The correct answer is B, Argentina, which declared pato its national sport in 1953; the game is played by riders who must carry a handled ball and throw it through a vertical ring.

Jigoro Kano founded judo in 1882 at the Kodokan in Tokyo, building a grappling sport of throws and holds out of the older jujitsu, and judo entered the Olympic programme at the Tokyo Games.

The shuttle-and-racket game was played at Poona, now Pune, where British officers took it up; it was long known simply as Poona, and they carried it home where its rules were later settled.

The National Sports of Canada Act of 1994 names lacrosse as the national summer sport and ice hockey as the national winter sport, which makes Canada one of the few countries whose national games rest on a statute rather than on custom.

The correct answer is B, Bhutan, where archery is the official national sport and village tournaments with song and dance are part of festival life.

Morgan, working in Holyoke in the United States, designed volleyball as a gentler indoor game than the newly invented basketball, and a team plays six players on court.

Naismith, a physical education instructor in Springfield in the United States, devised basketball in 1891 as an indoor game for the winter months, using two peach baskets fixed above the floor; a team plays five players on court.

CERT-In works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and is the national nodal agency for collecting, analysing and issuing alerts on cyber security incidents such as intrusions, phishing campaigns and malware outbreaks; it was given statutory backing by Section 70B of the Information Technology Act.

VLSI is the technique of placing a very large number of transistors on a single silicon chip, and it made the microprocessor possible; the microprocessor in turn defines the fourth generation of computers, just as the integrated circuit defines the third, the transistor the second and the vacuum tube the…

C-DAC is a research and development organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and developed the PARAM series of supercomputers, India's own high performance computing line.

The row of numerals printed at the foot of a cheque is set in magnetic ink, and a MICR reader senses the magnetic pattern rather than the shape of the figures, so the code is read correctly even when the cheque is stamped or soiled.

BASIC was designed as a teaching language with simple English-like statements, which is the reason the word Beginner appears in its name.

The family runs in a clear order: ROM is fixed when made, PROM is written once by the user, EPROM can be erased by exposing the chip to ultraviolet light, and EEPROM can be erased and rewritten by an electrical signal without removing it from the circuit.

The correct answer is B, SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which carries a message from the sender's programme to the mail server and onward between servers.