State Exams GK Questions 2026

A canyon is a deep valley whose sides fall in steep, step-like slopes. Both gorges and canyons are cut by rivers, mostly in the youthful stage.

Sclerenchyma cells are dead at maturity, with thick walls hardened by lignin. Sclerenchyma is the tissue that makes plants hard and stiff.

A field of many drumlins lying side by side looks like eggs packed in a basket, so it is called basket-of-eggs topography.

For a straight wire, the right-hand thumb rule links the current to the circular field lines around it. Hold the wire in the right hand with the thumb along the current; the curled fingers then show the direction of the magnetic field lines, which form concentric circles around the wire.

In March 1927 Dr Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha to assert the right of the depressed classes to draw water from the public Chavdar tank at Mahad.

The two western Union Territories were joined into a single Union Territory from 26 January 2020. Parliament passed the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act in December 2019, and the merger took effect on 26 January 2020.

Sound needs a material medium to travel, and in air its particles vibrate back and forth along the direction the wave moves.

In a metal, the outer electrons of the atoms are not tied to any one atom and drift through the lattice when a voltage is applied, carrying the current.

Cultural cooperation is not one of the five principles of Panchsheel. Panchsheel, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, was set out in the agreement on trade and intercourse between India and the Tibet region of China, signed on 29 April 1954 by Jawaharlal Nehru's government and Zhou Enlai's. The five…

Easy credit from banks and a good transport network were both among the reasons Britain became the first country to industrialise.

The Lahore session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, adopted Purna Swaraj, complete independence, as the Congress goal.

A compound microscope magnifies more when both its lenses have short focal lengths. In a compound microscope the objective forms a real, enlarged image, and the eyepiece magnifies it further like a simple magnifier.

The Anglo-Indian teacher of Hindu College, Calcutta, inspired the radical student group known as Young Bengal in the late 1820s. Derozio taught at Hindu College from 1826 to 1831.

Ramanuja, the eleventh-twelfth century teacher of Sriperumbudur, taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non-dualism. Vishishtadvaita holds that Brahman is the only reality, but souls and matter are real parts of Brahman, as the body is to the soul, and that devotion to Vishnu leads to liberation.

The Polar Front Theory explains how temperate or extra-tropical cyclones are born and grow. The theory was put forward by the Norwegian meteorologists Vilhelm and Jacob Bjerknes around the end of the First World War.

Stalactites, stalagmites and pillars form inside limestone caves from minerals left behind by water seeping underground. Rainwater with dissolved carbon dioxide dissolves limestone and hollows out caves; this is called karst topography.

This statement is false: biogas is an excellent fuel with a high heating capacity. Biogas is mostly methane, about 50 to 75 percent, with carbon dioxide and small amounts of other gases.

Sayyid Ahmad Khan founded the college at Aligarh, and he drew support for it from people of every faith. Sayyid Ahmad Khan started the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh in 1875 to give Indian Muslims a modern, Western-style education alongside Islamic learning; it became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.

Cinnabar is mercury sulphide, HgS, the chief ore from which mercury is obtained. Cinnabar is a bright red mineral.

He founded the Khudai Khidmatgar movement among the Pathans of the North-West Frontier Province in 1929. The Khudai Khidmatgars, meaning Servants of God, were a non-violent volunteer body pledged to social reform and to the freedom struggle.