SBI GK Questions 2026

Wings of Fire was written by the aerospace scientist and eleventh President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam, along with Arun Tiwari, and it traces his life from a modest childhood at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu to his work on the satellite launch vehicle and the missile programme.

Playing It My Way is the autobiography of the batsman Sachin Tendulkar, published in 2014 soon after he retired, and it was written with the sports writer Boria Majumdar.

The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972, and countries that join it nominate sites of outstanding universal value, which a committee then inscribes on the World Heritage List as cultural, natural or mixed sites.

UNESCO presents the King Sejong Literacy Prize and the Confucius Prize for Literacy every year on 8 September, the day it observes as International Literacy Day, and the prizes reward governments, organisations and individuals whose programmes have spread reading and writing.

The award has been given since 1954 by the refugee agency of the United Nations to a person, group or organisation that has served refugees, displaced people or those without a state.

The United Nations Population Award was instituted by the General Assembly in 1981 and first presented in 1983, when Indira Gandhi of India was one of the two individual laureates, honoured for India's early work on population policy.

Champions of the Earth was launched in 2005 by the United Nations Environment Programme, whose headquarters are at Nairobi in Kenya, and it recognises leaders from government, civil society and business whose work protects the environment, in categories such as policy leadership, entrepreneurial vision and science and innovation.

The prize was instituted by the General Assembly in 1966 and first awarded in 1968, which was observed as the International Year for Human Rights and marked twenty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The prize was created in 1995, a year that marked both the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations and the hundred and twenty fifth birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and it is named after Madanjeet Singh, the Indian artist, writer and diplomat who endowed it.

The UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was instituted in 1997 and honours a person or an organisation that has defended freedom of the press, often at great personal risk.

UNESCO is the specialised agency of the United Nations for education, the sciences, culture, communication and information, with its headquarters at Paris.

Biju Patnaik, the aviator and industrialist who later became Chief Minister of Odisha, gave the endowment in 1951 that allowed UNESCO to create the prize, and it was named after the ancient kingdom of Kalinga in that region, where the Mauryan emperor Ashoka fought the war that changed him.

The Kalinga Prize honours writers, editors, lecturers, film makers and broadcasters who explain science, research and technology to the general public, and it is awarded by UNESCO.

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has its headquarters at Place de Fontenoy in Paris, France. Its Constitution was signed in London in November 1945 and came into force in November 1946, and India was among the founding members.

The internet joins networks in every country through undersea cables, optical fibre on land and satellite links, all of them following the common TCP/IP rules, and no single organisation owns it, so it is rightly called the largest wide area network and a network of networks.

The Transmission Control Protocol first sets up a connection through a three-way handshake, then numbers every segment, waits for an acknowledgement for each and sends it again if none arrives, and finally hands the data to the application in the original order.

Full duplex means both ends can send and receive at the very same moment, and on a telephone call each speaker can talk while still hearing the other, so traffic flows in both directions together.

The registered jack numbered 45 is the eight-pin plastic plug crimped on the end of an unshielded twisted pair Ethernet cable, and it is what clicks into the network port of a computer, a switch or a router.

In a ring the machines form a closed loop and a small control frame called a token keeps circulating around it; only the computer holding the token may put data on the ring, and when it finishes it releases the token to the next machine.

The Media Access Control address is the permanent physical address written into the network interface card by its maker, and it is 48 bits long, shown to users as twelve hexadecimal digits in six pairs such as 00:1A:2B:3C:4D:5E. The first half identifies the manufacturer and the second half the particular…