State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Banas is not a tributary of the Luni; it flows east and joins the Chambal, which belongs to the Ganga basin.

The word fission is used in two sciences: in biology for splitting of a single-celled organism, and in physics for splitting of a heavy nucleus.

A disease that stays constantly present at a steady baseline level in a particular area, without being brought in from outside, is called endemic.

Acting as a check on democratic rule, especially when members are nominated or indirectly elected, is a criticism of second chambers, not one of their benefits.

Among the four states listed, Tamil Nadu has the most seats in the Council of States (Rajya Sabha), with 18.

The Satyashodhak Samaj came first in 1873, the Bardoli Satyagraha followed in 1928 and the Chipko Movement began in 1973.

In the Sangam poems of the early Tamil region, the ploughmen who worked the land were called uzhavar. The Sangam texts describe a rural society with clear groups.

The Kolkata Metro is run by Indian Railways as its own zone, the Metro Railway, with its headquarters in Kolkata.

Neutrons sit inside the nucleus with protons; it is the electrons that move around the nucleus. The neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932, and he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1935.

An avalanche is a sudden slide of snow, ice and debris down a mountain slope, a movement of material on the land surface, so it is grouped with terrestrial disasters.

Under the dadni system, European companies gave cash advances to weavers through middlemen to secure cloth for export. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the English, Dutch and French companies bought huge quantities of cotton and silk cloth in Bengal and other regions.

Maithili was added to the Eighth Schedule by the 92nd Amendment Act of 2003, along with Bodo, Dogri and Santali; this was the most recent addition to the list.

The Durand Line is the roughly 2,640 km boundary between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was fixed in 1893 by an agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan, to mark the limits of their spheres of influence.

Sir William Jones, a judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, founded the Asiatic Society in January 1784 and served as its first president until his death in 1794.

Going from east to west, the order is Kosi, Gandak, Ghaghara and Gomti. All four join the Ganga from the north.

Khasi, spoken mainly in Meghalaya, belongs to the Mon-Khmer group of the Austric (Austro-Asiatic) languages, along with its close relatives Pnar and War.

Defending President's Rule in the Constituent Assembly, Ambedkar said he hoped such Articles would never be called into operation and would remain a 'dead letter', used only as a last resort.

Iodine is a non-metal, yet its solid crystals have a shiny, metallic lustre, which makes it the standard exception taught in school chemistry.

The damage an earthquake does depends on how strongly the ground shakes and on what, and who, stands on it, not on the region's climate.

A dastak was a free pass that let the English East India Company move goods without paying internal customs duties.