Railway GK Questions 2026

The pituitary gland sends out hormones that order the thyroid and the adrenal glands to release their own hormones. The pituitary is a pea-sized gland attached to the base of the brain, and it is called the master gland because it controls several other endocrine glands.

The rough strip of a safety matchbox is coated with powdered glass and a little red phosphorus, while the head of the matchstick carries antimony trisulphide and potassium chlorate.

Both events are real steps in the reorganisation of states on the basis of language, but the division of Punjab in 1966 cannot be the reason for what happened to Bombay six years earlier.

The ward member, the Panchayat President and the ward councillor are all chosen by voters, but the Secretary is an appointed official.

The ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution come from the French Revolution of 1789, whose famous slogan was made of these three words.

These three provisions keep judges free from pressure by the other organs of government, while the oath given by the President is only a formality.

Andhra Pradesh lies on the east coast of India, so its shoreline faces the Bay of Bengal. Its coast runs from the border of Odisha in the north to Tamil Nadu in the south, and the Godavari and Krishna rivers build rich deltas on it before entering the sea.

Land and sea breezes blow over a small coastal area and change direction every day, so they are local winds.

Mount Kilimanjaro and Fujiyama were both built up by volcanic eruptions, while the Alps were formed by folding. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the highest mountain in Africa, and Fujiyama, or Mount Fuji, is the highest mountain in Japan.

This statement is wrong on both counts: the Act was passed in 1878, and it was meant to silence newspapers that criticised the Government, not to support it.

Under Akbar, each province was divided into revenue circles, each with its own schedule of revenue rates for individual crops, and this system was called zabt.

Phule saw the condition of India's 'lower' castes as a form of slavery, so he dedicated his book to the Americans who had fought to free slaves.

Article 21 protects life and personal liberty, and the Supreme Court reads 'life' as a life with dignity, not mere survival.

Water transport needs no track or road to be built, and a ship or barge can carry huge loads on little fuel, so the cost per tonne is the lowest.

Places east of Greenwich are ahead in time, and every degree of longitude adds 4 minutes. The Earth turns through 360° in 24 hours, so it covers 15° in one hour, or 1° in 4 minutes.

Vertical rays pour the Sun's energy onto a small area, so this zone gets the most heat.

Together these two gases make up about 99 percent of the air around the Earth. Nitrogen alone is about 78 percent of the atmosphere and oxygen about 21 percent.

These hills in the north-west of the subcontinent, now in Pakistan, are among the places where people first began to grow wheat and barley.

This is the untrue statement, because the HSRA was founded at Firozeshah Kotla in Delhi, not at Amritsar. In 1928 Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and other young revolutionaries met at the Firozeshah Kotla ground in Delhi and turned the Hindustan Republican Association into the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.

The 1929 Act fixed these as the lowest ages at which men and women could marry. It is also called the Sarda Act, after Har Bilas Sarda, who moved the bill in the Central Legislative Assembly.