IBPS GK Questions 2026

CAS was established in 1984 at the initiative of the International Olympic Committee, whose own headquarters is in the same city, and it also keeps branch offices at Sydney and New York besides sitting in ad hoc divisions at the Olympic Games.

NADA was set up on 24 November 2005 as a registered society under that ministry, and it plans and carries out sample collection, manages results and runs education programmes so that sport in India is practised without doping.

WADA was created on 10 November 1999, a year after the Festina affair of the 1998 Tour de France, in which a team car carrying banned drugs exposed how organised doping had become and pushed the Olympic movement and governments to build a joint agency.

WADA began work in 1999 from Lausanne and then moved its headquarters to Montreal, where the agency has remained; Lausanne continues as its European office.

Linux treats upper and lower case as different, so a file named Report is not the same as report, and it is built as a multi-user, multitasking system in which several accounts can work at once with separate permissions and a login.

Writing a command followed by two greater-than signs and a file name appends the output to the end of that file and keeps whatever was already in it, which is how log files are built up.

The command rmdir deletes a directory only if nothing is left inside it and prints an error such as directory not empty otherwise, which makes it a safe way to clear away empty folders.

The name is read as eight dot three: up to eight characters for the name, a dot, and up to three for the extension, as in LETTER.TXT or AUTOEXEC.BAT, with spaces and certain punctuation marks not allowed.

The command ps, short for process status, prints a list of processes with their process identification numbers, the terminal they belong to, the processor time used and the command that started each one.

A question mark in a file specification matches any single character in that position, so the command DIR FILE?.TXT lists FILE1.TXT and FILEA.TXT but not FILE12.TXT.

In the numeric form of chmod each of the three digits stands for one set of users, in the order owner, group and others, and each digit is the sum of read as 4, write as 2 and execute as 1.

Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, wrote a free kernel for personal computers and released it in 1991 under the GNU General Public Licence, which allowed anyone to study, change and redistribute it.

The cat command, short for concatenate, writes the contents of one or more files to the standard output, which is normally the screen, and so does the work of TYPE in MS-DOS.

The name stands for print working directory, and the command prints the complete path of the directory in which the shell is placed at that moment, counted from the root directory written as a single forward slash.

An internal command is written into the command interpreter COMMAND.COM and is loaded into memory along with the operating system, so it can be used even when no separate program file is present on the disk.

The correct answer is B, Xuanzang, who travelled overland through Central Asia in the seventh century, spent years in India in the reign of Harshavardhana, studied at the monastery of Nalanda under Silabhadra, and carried manuscripts back to China, where he translated them and left the fullest foreign account of…

The name is the Thai form of Ayodhya, the city of Rama in the Ramayana, and it fits a court whose epic was the Ramakien and whose kings bore the title Rama.

It was translated into Pahlavi in the Persian empire and from that version into Arabic as Kalila wa Dimna, the two names being those of the jackals of the stories, and from Arabic it passed into Persian, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Latin and then into the languages of Europe.

The correct answer is C, Kanishka, the Kushan ruler who called the fourth Buddhist council in Kashmir and under whose empire, stretching from the Gangetic plain into Central Asia, Mahayana Buddhism and the Gandhara and Mathura styles of sculpture travelled up the trade routes to Khotan, Kucha and Dunhuang.

The correct answer is B, Bodhidharma, remembered in tradition as a prince of the Pallava country in south India who travelled to China and taught a path resting on meditation rather than on scripture; the school he founded is Chan in Chinese and Zen in Japanese, and legend attaches him…