Railway GK Questions 2026

A skiff is a light and fast sailing boat driven by the wind in its sails and handled by a crew of two, so every skiff class event belongs to sailing.

The two sailed together in the women's skiff event at the Asian Games and finished third for the bronze medal, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name while noting that they had bettered India's previous performance in the event.

That is precisely what the word mixed means in the name of the event: a country is represented by a male and a female archer who shoot as one unit, their scores being added together, which is why the Indian silver in this event is credited to Dhiraj Bommadevara and…

Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod finished second in the recurve mixed team event, and the Prime Minister noted that the pair had given the country its first ever silver in this event at the Asian Games.

The two shot together in the recurve mixed team event at the Asian Games and finished with the silver medal, which is India's first in that event at these Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name.

Recurve is one of the two bow types used in competitive archery, the other being the compound bow, and the recurve bow is the one used in Olympic archery, so a recurve team event is always an archery event.

India had never taken the gold in this archery event at the Asian Games before, and Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti ended that wait, which is why the Prime Minister described the win as historic and as a landmark for the sport.

The three of them shot together in the women's recurve team event at the Asian Games and brought India the gold medal, the country's first ever in that event, and the Prime Minister congratulated all three by name.

Article 165 of the Constitution provides for an Advocate General for each state as the first law officer of that state.

The Himalayas are the youngest mountains in India. They are fold mountains, thrown up where the Indian plate pushed into the Eurasian plate and crumpled the sediments of the old Tethys Sea between them.

The reverse repo rate is the rate at which the Reserve Bank of India borrows from commercial banks, that is, the rate it pays banks for parking their surplus money with it for a short term.

Phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine and argon all sit in the third period of the periodic table, so their electrons fill the same three shells.

The National Film Awards are organised by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which handles films, broadcasting and the press.

Overgrazing is a cause of soil degradation, not a way to conserve soil, so it is the option that does not belong.

The law of variable proportions divides short run production into three stages. In stage one, increasing returns, both total and marginal product rise because the fixed factor is still under used.

Nagabhata I founded the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty in the middle of the eighth century, with his power centred on Avanti and Ujjain in western India.

The Ali brothers, Maulana Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, led the Khilafat Movement that began in 1919. Its demand was that the British restore the position of the Ottoman Sultan, the Caliph, whose empire had been broken up after the First World War by the Treaty of Sevres.

Group 15, the nitrogen family, holds nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth. Only nitrogen and phosphorus are non-metals; arsenic and antimony are metalloids and bismuth is a metal, so the group has exactly two non-metallic elements.

The blackbuck, called Krishna Jinka in Telugu, is the state animal of Andhra Pradesh. It is an antelope of open grassland and scrub; the male turns dark brown to black with age and carries long spiral horns, while the female stays fawn coloured and usually hornless.

A pH of 11.6 means the soil is strongly alkaline, so it has to be treated with something acidic, and aluminium sulphate is the only acidic compound in the list.