State Exams GK Questions 2026

This statement is incorrect because a Constitution Amendment Bill must be passed by each House of Parliament separately by the special majority, and Article 108 joint sittings do not apply to it.

A bicameral state legislature has two Houses: the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) and the Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad). Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh all have a Legislative Council, along with Maharashtra and Karnataka.

The Kushanas, who ruled a vast empire from Central Asia to the Ganga valley in the first centuries CE, presented their kings as god-like figures, and the clearest evidence of this comes from their coins and statues.

Mercury is small and very close to the Sun, so its weak gravity and the intense solar heat and wind have stripped away almost all gas; it has only a trace exosphere, which is why it is described as having no atmosphere.

The Union excise levied on petrol and diesel has three parts. Basic Excise Duty is an ordinary Union tax, so it goes into the divisible pool and a share of it reaches the states as recommended by the Finance Commission under Article 270.

Point Calimere, also called Kodiakkarai, lies in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, a state, where the Coromandel Coast turns west towards Palk Strait.

The National Institute of Disaster Management grew out of the National Centre for Disaster Management, set up in 1995 at the Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi, which was renamed NIDM in 2003.

The winter solstice of the Northern Hemisphere falls on about 22 December. On that day the Sun's rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun.

The India Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project was launched by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 2010 with World Bank support.

Archaeologists divide the Stone Age into the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods mainly by the kind of stone tools found and the way they were made.

The Karachi Session of March 1931, presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, passed the resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy.

Some Fundamental Rights are given only to citizens of India, while others are available to every person on Indian soil, including foreigners.

The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was founded in Pune in 1870 to act as a bridge between the government and the people and to put the grievances of the public, especially peasants, before the British authorities.

This statement is incorrect because the Speaker resigns by writing to the Deputy Speaker, not to the President.

This is the incorrect statement, because the Rajya Sabha does discuss a Money Bill. Under Article 109, a Money Bill is introduced only in the Lok Sabha and, after it is passed, it is sent to the Rajya Sabha.

Zonal Councils are statutory bodies set up under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, to promote cooperation among neighbouring states. There are five: Northern, Central, Eastern, Western and Southern.

The United Nations Security Council has fifteen members: five permanent members and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms.

The Suresh Tendulkar expert group, which reported to the Planning Commission in 2009, deliberately moved away from the old calorie-based poverty line.

A cumulonimbus cloud is the final stage of a growing cumulus cloud. On a hot day, rising warm air forms small fair-weather cumulus.

The correct answer is 3 October 2014, the day of the programme's opening episode, from which citizens were asked to buy at least one khadi product.