IBPS GK Questions 2026

Jharkhand was created by the Bihar Reorganisation Act of 2000, and the fifteenth of November was deliberately named as the appointed day because it is the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, the tribal leader of the Munda community who led the Ulgulan, or great tumult, against colonial land policy and…

The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014 carved Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh and named the second of June 2014 as the appointed day; Hyderabad was to serve as the common capital of both states for a period fixed by the Act.

The Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966 divided the then state of Punjab on a linguistic basis with effect from the first of November 1966: the Hindi speaking southern districts became the new state of Haryana, the hill areas were transferred to Himachal Pradesh, and the city of Chandigarh was made…

MeghRaj is the name given to the Government of India Cloud, usually shortened to GI Cloud, under which government departments obtain their computing and storage from a common set of government managed data centres rather than each building its own.

The three terms sit one inside the other like circles. Artificial intelligence is the whole field of making machines behave intelligently, and it includes approaches that use no learning at all, such as rule based expert systems and search algorithms.

A classical computer stores information in bits, each of which must be either zero or one at a given moment.

Entries on a blockchain are grouped into blocks, and every block carries the cryptographic hash, a short fixed length fingerprint, of the block immediately before it.

An RFID system has a tag carrying a tiny chip and an antenna, and a reader that sends out radio waves; the tag answers with its stored identity, so an object can be recognised without being seen or touched and without a line of sight, unlike a barcode that must…

The British technologist Kevin Ashton used the phrase Internet of Things in 1999 while working on radio frequency identification tags for tracking goods through a supply chain; his point was that if every object could report its own position and state, the internet would no longer depend on people typing…

A hypervisor is a piece of software, also called a virtual machine monitor, that divides one physical server into several virtual machines; it is the tool that makes cloud computing possible, not a way of deploying a cloud.

In this model the provider runs the finished application on its own servers and the user simply opens it in a browser, managing nothing but the data and a few settings; a web mailbox, an online office suite and a hosted customer records system all work this way.

Alan Turing proposed in 1950 that instead of arguing about what thinking means, we should set a practical trial: a human questioner communicates in writing with an unseen machine and an unseen person, and if the questioner cannot reliably tell which is which, the machine is said to have passed.

The American computer scientist John McCarthy used the phrase artificial intelligence in the proposal for the Dartmouth conference of 1956, the meeting generally treated as the birth of the subject as a separate field, and he is therefore called the father of artificial intelligence; he also created the programming language…

The Special Olympics was founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver and holds its own World Games on its own calendar, separate from both the Olympics and the Paralympics.

Goalball is played by two teams of three, all of them wearing eyeshades so that every player competes on the same footing, and the ball has bells inside it so that it can be tracked by sound; the hall must therefore stay silent while play is on.

Avani Lekhara won the ten metre air rifle standing event in the SH1 class at the Tokyo Games, becoming the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic gold, and she took a second medal at the same Games in the fifty metre rifle three positions event.

Jhajharia lost the use of his left arm as a child and competes in the F46 class; he won gold at the Athens Games of 2004 and again at Rio in 2016, becoming the first Indian with two Paralympic golds, and he later added a silver at Tokyo.

The correct answer is B, Deepa Malik, who won a silver medal in the shot put at the Rio Games of 2016 and so became the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic medal of any colour; she has since received the Khel Ratna, the highest sporting award of the…

An army man wounded by bullets in the war of 1965, he took to swimming during his recovery and won the fifty metre freestyle event at the Heidelberg Games of 1972 in a world record time, giving India its first Paralympic gold medal, which remained the country’s only one for…

The motto was adopted along with the emblem of three Agitos, the red, blue and green curved shapes that sweep around a central point; agito is Latin for I move, and together the symbol and the motto stand for movement and for athletes converging from every direction.