State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Truman Doctrine pledged American support to countries resisting communist pressure, so as to stop the spread of Soviet influence.

The eye lens focuses light on the retina, the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye, where a real and inverted image is formed.

Article 14 guarantees equality before law to every person, and Article 15 forbids the State to discriminate on grounds of sex, among others.

Starlight is bent again and again as it passes through layers of air whose temperature and density keep changing, so the star seems to flicker in brightness and position.

Arunachal Pradesh does not share a border with Bangladesh, so the 2015 land boundary settlement did not touch it.

Margaret Cousins was a founder of the Women’s Indian Association, but pairs 2 and 3 have their associates swapped. The Women’s Indian Association was founded at Adyar, Madras, in 1917 by Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins, Dorothy Jinarajadasa and others; it campaigned for women’s franchise and education.

Indian laterite soils are poor in organic matter, nitrogen, phosphate and calcium, while iron oxide and potash are present in excess.

The World Meteorological Organization has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The WMO is a specialised agency of the United Nations for weather, climate, water resources and related sciences.

This fifth-century Sanskrit inscription from Mandasor in western Madhya Pradesh tells how a guild of silk weavers migrated from Lata (south Gujarat) to Dashapura and built a temple of the Sun.

Renaissance humanists did not condemn wealth, power and glory; they saw them as worthy human aims, so this statement is the one that is not true.

The Fifth Schedule covers Scheduled Areas in every State except Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, whose tribal areas come under the Sixth Schedule instead.

A batholith is a huge mass of magma that cools and hardens deep inside the crust, usually as granite, and takes the form of large domes.

Particles in a colloid are large enough to scatter a beam of light, which makes the path of the beam visible.

All five are tropical cyclones of the North Indian Ocean, named from the list kept by the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones.

Refractive index is the ratio of the speed of light in air to its speed in the medium, so the speed in glass is c divided by 3/2, which is (2/3)c. The absolute refractive index of a medium is n = c/v, where c is the speed of light in…

It separates the liquid outer core from the solid inner core at a depth of about 5,150 km, making it the deepest of the four boundaries.

The ten non-permanent seats are shared by region as statement 1 says, but only five of them are filled each year, not six.

Tobacco, a New World plant brought to India by the Portuguese, first reached the Deccan and then spread to northern India in the early seventeenth century.

The Kabini is a tributary of the Kaveri and the Manjra is a tributary of the Godavari, so only pairs 2 and 3 are correct.

The English naturalist published this book in London on 24 November 1859, setting out his theory of evolution by natural selection.