Banking GK Questions 2026

Delhi hosted the nineteenth Commonwealth Games in 2010, the first and so far the only time India has held them.

Appu was the cheerful baby elephant created as the mascot of the ninth Asian Games, and the figure became so popular that an amusement park in Delhi was named after it.

The first Asian Games were held at the National Stadium in New Delhi in 1951, after Guru Dutt Sondhi of India proposed a games for the newly independent countries of Asia in place of the older Far Eastern Games.

A barcode must be presented squarely to a scanner, one item at a time, and a torn or dirty label fails.

A Bluetooth link does not stay on one frequency. Master and slave agree on a pseudo random sequence and jump together between the narrow channels of the 2.4 GHz band many hundreds of times a second.

Infrared communication, the old IrDA link of television remote controls and early mobile phones, uses light just beyond the red end of the visible spectrum.

WPA3 is the newest of the four and the strongest; it replaces the old pre shared key handshake with simultaneous authentication of equals, which resists offline guessing of the password, and it encrypts traffic even on an open network.

The technology is named after Harald Gormsson, the tenth century king of Denmark nicknamed Bluetooth, who brought the Danish tribes under one rule.

A FASTag is a battery free RFID sticker pasted on the inside of the windscreen. An overhead reader at the toll plaza energises it, reads the identity number, matches it with the linked prepaid wallet or bank account and debits the toll while the vehicle keeps moving.

A passive tag is only a chip and an antenna. When it enters the field of a reader, the incoming radio waves induce a current in the antenna, that current powers the chip for an instant, and the chip replies by modulating the reflected signal, a method called backscatter.

NFC is built on the high frequency band of radio frequency identification and uses magnetic induction between two loop antennas at 13.56 MHz, which is why the devices must be brought within about four centimetres of each other.

In a piconet one device acts as the master and sets the clock and the hopping sequence, and up to seven other devices can be active slaves at the same time, which makes eight devices in the piconet in all.

The 802.15 group of standards covers wireless personal area networks, and 802.15.1 is the one that was drawn from the Bluetooth specification; the technology itself is now developed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.

Wi-Fi operates in the unlicensed industrial, scientific and medical bands, and the two classic bands are 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, with 6 GHz added in the latest equipment.

Sukumar Ray wrote Abol Tabol, a collection of nonsense rhymes that is a landmark of Bengali children's writing, along with the story HaJaBaRaLa and the play Chalachittachanchari.

The cartoonist Shankar, famous for his political cartoons and for Shankar's Weekly, founded the Children's Book Trust in New Delhi in 1957 to publish good and affordable books for Indian children, and also started the Shankar's International Children's Competition for painting and writing as well as the doll museum in…

The race in which the slow tortoise beats the overconfident hare is one of the best known fables attributed to Aesop of ancient Greece, along with the fox and the grapes, the boy who cried wolf and the lion and the mouse.

Dodgson was a mathematician at Oxford who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass under the pen name Lewis Carroll, and the nonsense poem Jabberwocky belongs to the same world.

Anant Pai, known to generations of readers as Uncle Pai, began Amar Chitra Katha in 1967 after noticing that Indian children knew European fairy tales better than the stories of their own country, and in 1980 he launched the children's magazine Tinkle.

Ruskin Bond, who has lived in Mussoorie for most of his life, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for the collection Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra.