Railway GK Questions 2026

Under Article 171, the Governor nominates one-sixth of the members of a State Legislative Council. These members must have special knowledge or practical experience in literature, science, art, the co-operative movement or social service.

It gives every High Court the power to issue writs within its territory. A High Court can issue the five writs, habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto, not only to enforce Fundamental Rights but also 'for any other purpose', that is, for ordinary legal rights.

All three are Indian football tournaments. The Durand Cup, first played in 1888 and named after Sir Mortimer Durand, then Foreign Secretary of British India, is Asia's oldest football tournament and is still organised with the help of the armed forces.

Bharatanatyam grew out of Sadir Attam, also called Dasiattam, the temple dance performed by devadasis in Tamil Nadu. In the early 19th century the Tanjore Quartet, four brothers at the Thanjavur court, arranged its items into the order still followed in a recital.

The German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined the word 'Oekologie' in 1866 in his book Generelle Morphologie der Organismen.

It means the layering of an ecosystem from top to bottom, with each layer holding its own set of species.

It was the first working satellite of the Indian National Satellite (INSAT) system, carried to orbit by the US Space Shuttle Challenger in August 1983.

The Hirakud dam stands on the Mahanadi near Sambalpur in Odisha. Completed in 1957, it was among the first big multipurpose river valley projects after Independence, built to control the Mahanadi's floods and to give irrigation and hydroelectric power.

China's capital hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008 and the Winter Olympics in 2022, which made it the first city ever to stage both.

One ampere is the current that flows when one coulomb of charge passes a point in a circuit in one second.

The symbol of potassium is K, from its Latin name kalium; Po is the symbol of polonium, the radioactive element discovered by Marie Curie in 1898 and named after Poland.

Its chemical name is sodium hydrogen carbonate and its formula is NaHCO3. It is a mild, non-corrosive base made by the Solvay process, in which brine is treated with ammonia and carbon dioxide.

Both pairs are wrong. Amyloplasts store starch, a carbohydrate, and aleuroplasts store proteins; oils and fats are stored by elaioplasts.

Ammonia is NH3, so one nitrogen atom of mass 14 is joined to three hydrogen atoms of mass 1 each, giving 14: 3 by mass.

This is Kirchhoff's first law, the current law or junction rule, which he stated in 1845. It says the total current entering a junction equals the total current leaving it, because charge cannot pile up or vanish at a point.

Kshitish Chandra Neogy chaired the First Finance Commission, set up by the President in November 1951, which gave its report in 1952 for the period 1952 to 1957.

In a progressive tax the rate rises as income rises, so each extra rupee is taxed at a higher rate than the rupees before it.

The Second Five-Year Plan, 1956 to 1961, moved the focus from farming to rapid industrialisation, especially heavy and basic industries.

A stalagmite is a column of calcium carbonate that rises from the floor of a limestone cave. Rainwater with dissolved carbon dioxide slowly dissolves limestone and carries it as calcium bicarbonate.

This is the overall literacy rate the Census of 2011 reported for India, the figure used in textbooks and exam papers.