State Exams GK Questions 2026

Only a transverse wave, in which the vibrations are at right angles to the direction of travel, can have those vibrations restricted to a single plane by a Polaroid.

Inserting a plate of thickness t in one arm makes the light cross it twice, so the extra path introduced is twice the thickness times the quantity refractive index minus one.

By the Rayleigh criterion the smallest angle the eye can resolve is 1.22 times the wavelength divided by the diameter of the pupil, that is 1.22 multiplied by 500 nanometres and divided by 3 millimetres, which comes to about 2.03 times ten to the power minus four radian.

Brewster found that when unpolarised light falls on a transparent surface at one particular angle of incidence, called the polarising angle, the reflected light is completely plane polarised, and at that angle the refractive index of the surface equals the tangent of the polarising angle.

Patna University was set up on 1 October 1917 and is the oldest university in Bihar and among the oldest in the country; the oldest medical college of the state, Patna Medical College, followed in 1925.

Jairamdas Daulatram, a Congress leader and a member of the Constituent Assembly, was appointed the first Governor of Bihar after independence and later served as Governor of Assam and as a Union minister.

In the 2011 Census, Rohtas district, with its headquarters at Sasaram in the Patna division, recorded the highest literacy rate in Bihar, while Purnia recorded the lowest; the state average of about 61.8 per cent was the lowest among the states.

The Munger division, with its headquarters at Munger, has six districts: Munger, Jamui, Khagaria, Lakhisarai, Begusarai and Sheikhpura.

The Delhi Durbar of December 1911 announced the creation of a separate province, and it came into being on 22 March 1912 with its capital at Patna; the day is observed as Bihar Diwas.

Shri Krishna Sinha, remembered across the state as Shri Babu, was the first Chief Minister of Bihar and held the office for a long and formative period, during which the zamindari abolition legislation was taken up.

Arwal was carved out of Jehanabad district in 2001 and placed in the Magadh division. Its creation is important because Bihar was left with thirty-seven districts when Jharkhand was formed on 15 November 2000, and Arwal raised the number to the present thirty-eight.

Sheohar, a small district of the Tirhut division carved out of Sitamarhi, has the least area in the state and also the highest density of population, while Kaimur in the south-west has the lowest density.

West Champaran, whose headquarters is Bettiah and which lies in the Tirhut division along the border with Nepal, is the largest district of the state by area; the smallest by area is Sheohar, in the same division.

The Magadh division is administered from Gaya and contains the districts of Gaya, Jehanabad, Arwal, Nawada and Aurangabad.

The nine divisions are Patna, Magadh, Tirhut, Saran, Darbhanga, Kosi, Purnia, Bhagalpur and Munger, and the thirty-eight districts are distributed among them.

Thirteen hill districts were separated on 9 November 2000 to form the new state of Uttaranchal, which was renamed Uttarakhand in 2007, and Uttar Pradesh was left with seventy districts at that point.

The United Provinces were renamed Uttar Pradesh on 24 January 1950, two days before the Constitution came into force, and the state keeps that date as Uttar Pradesh Day.

Sarojini Naidu, the poet and Congress leader called the Nightingale of India, was appointed Governor of the United Provinces, soon renamed Uttar Pradesh, in 1947, which made her the first woman to hold a Governor's office in India.

Faizabad, both district and division, was renamed Ayodhya in 2018 after the ancient city within it; in the same year Allahabad became Prayagraj and the Mughalsarai railway junction in Chandauli was renamed after Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya.

It had the largest population of any district of the state at the 2011 census, counting both the city and its very large rural area.