SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama and a celebrated poet, was born at Urgelling monastery, a short way from the town of Tawang, which is why the Tawang valley holds so important a place in Tibetan Buddhism.

The McMahon Line was drawn at the Simla Convention of 1914 between British India and Tibet and is named after Sir Henry McMahon, then foreign secretary of the Government of India.

Namdapha lies in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh near the Myanmar border, is the largest national park in north-east India, and is famous as the one protected area said to hold four big cats: the tiger, the leopard, the snow leopard and the clouded leopard.

It makes the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh specially responsible for law and order in the state, a responsibility he discharges on his individual judgment after consulting the Council of Ministers, and it provides that the Legislative Assembly shall consist of not less than thirty members.

The Yarlung Tsangpo of Tibet turns round the Namcha Barwa massif and enters India in Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang, also written Dihang; in Assam, after it is joined by the Lohit and the Dibang near Sadiya, it takes the name Brahmaputra, and in Bangladesh it is the Jamuna.

Under the State of Arunachal Pradesh Act, 1986 the Union Territory became the twenty-fourth state of India on 20 February 1987, the same day on which Mizoram became the twenty-third state.

Itanagar stands in Papum Pare district at the foot of the hills and has been the seat of government since the territory was being readied for statehood.

The Pamir plateau, where the Himalaya, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, the Kunlun and the Tian Shan meet, carries an average elevation of several thousand metres and is therefore called the Roof of the World, a name sometimes extended to the Tibetan plateau.

The Kosi descends from Nepal carrying a very heavy silt load, builds up its own bed and shifts its channel across the north Bihar plain, flooding fresh stretches of farmland, which is why it is called the Sorrow of Bihar.

Kochi in Kerala, with its natural harbour and its long history as a spice port trading with the Arabs, the Chinese, the Portuguese and the Dutch, is called the Queen of the Arabian Sea.

Coimbatore grew into a centre of cotton spinning and textile machinery on the strength of the black cotton soil of the region and its hydroelectric power, so it took the southern version of the Manchester epithet.

Ireland is called the Emerald Isle because its heavy rainfall and mild Atlantic climate keep the countryside green all year, emerald being the green gemstone.

A cockpit was a pit where cockfights were staged, and Belgium received the name because its plains were the chosen battleground of European powers for centuries, Waterloo and the battles of the First World War among them.

Switzerland earned the name from its Alpine scenery, its lakes and the mountaineering and skiing resorts that drew European travellers from the nineteenth century onwards.

The annual flood of the Nile spread fertile silt over a narrow strip of desert and made settled agriculture and the Egyptian civilisation possible, which is why Egypt is called the Gift of the Nile.

A large part of Norway lies north of the Arctic Circle, and at such latitudes the sun does not set for weeks around the summer solstice, so it can be seen at midnight; this is the phenomenon behind the epithet.

Bhutan calls itself Druk Yul, which means the land of the thunder dragon, and the dragon appears on its national flag; the name is traced to the thunderstorms that roll through its Himalayan valleys.

Sualkuchi, a weaving town near Guwahati on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, is called the Manchester of Assam for its handloom weaving of Muga, the golden silk produced only in Assam, along with Pat and Eri silk.

Majuli is the state's great river island, long described as one of the largest in the world, and it is the centre of the sattra tradition founded by Srimanta Sankardeva, with the Raas Mahotsav among its best known festivals.

Deepor Beel is a permanent freshwater lake on the south-western edge of Guwahati, a former channel of the Brahmaputra, and it was designated a Ramsar site in 2002; it is an important resting place for migratory birds and for elephants moving between forest patches.