Railway GK Questions 2026

It is a movable flap in the rear wing which a driver may open in marked zones of the circuit when close enough to the car in front; opening the flap cuts air resistance, raises the top speed and makes overtaking easier.

It is one of the best known one-day classics, famous for its cobbled roads and for the nickname the Hell of the North, but a single day race can never be a Grand Tour.

Points are awarded at the top of each categorised climb, and the rider leading that classification wears the white jersey with red dots, which is why the best climbers of a generation are remembered by this jersey.

The yellow jersey, called the maillot jaune in French, is worn by the rider with the lowest cumulative time over all the stages completed so far, and whoever wears it after the final stage in Paris wins the race.

The race was started by Henri Desgrange, the editor of the sports newspaper L Auto, which hoped to raise its circulation by organising a long bicycle race around France, and it has been run almost every July since then except during the two World Wars.

The driver from Coimbatore made his Formula One debut with the Jordan team in 2005 and so became the first Indian to compete in the championship, returning later with another team.

The FIA was founded in 1904 and is based in Paris, and besides running the Formula One World Championship and the World Rally Championship it also works on road safety and on the regulation of motoring clubs across the world.

The blue flag is shown to a slower driver, usually one who is about to be lapped, and ignoring it repeatedly brings a penalty, because the leaders must not be held up by backmarkers.

The circuit in Uttar Pradesh hosted the Indian Grand Prix three times, in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull won on each occasion before the race was dropped from the calendar.

The first Formula One World Championship season opened with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 13 May 1950, and Giuseppe Farina of Italy, driving an Alfa Romeo, became the first world champion at the end of that season.

Section 51 of the Act prescribes this enhanced punishment, along with a fine, for offences against animals given the highest protection, and the amendment of 2022 raised the monetary penalties further.

Article 252 allows Parliament to legislate on a State subject for two or more States when the legislatures of those States pass resolutions asking it to do so, and the law then applies to those States and to any other State that adopts it later.

The peacock is the national bird of India and was placed in Schedule I, the group given the highest protection, so it could never be treated as vermin.

The amendment of 1991 inserted Chapter IVA into the Act and created the Central Zoo Authority, which lays down standards for housing and upkeep of animals, recognises or derecognises zoos and regulates the exchange of animals between them.

That amendment inserted Section 36A for conservation reserves, usually declared on government land next to a national park or sanctuary, and Section 36C for community reserves, declared on private or community land where people volunteer to protect wildlife.

The National Board for Wild Life was created by the amendment of 2002 under Section 5A of the Act as the apex advisory body on wildlife, and the Prime Minister chairs it.

Section 35 empowers the State Government to declare an area of adequate ecological or zoological importance as a national park, where no grazing is permitted and no rights of any person are allowed to continue.

In the restructured Act the plant schedule moved from the old Schedule VI to the new Schedule III, and it still protects a short list of species such as the blue vanda, the pitcher plant and other threatened orchids and cycads, whose uprooting and trade are controlled.

The amendment of 2022 rationalised the schedules of the parent Act: Schedule I now lists animals given the highest protection, Schedule II lists animals with a lesser degree of protection, Schedule III lists specified plants and Schedule IV lists specimens figuring in the appendices of the Convention on International Trade…

The Wild Life (Protection) Act received the assent of the President on 9 September 1972 and remains the principal wildlife law of the country, covering hunting, protected areas, trade in animal articles and the schedules of protected species.