State Exams GK Questions 2026

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre there during his visit to Chennai earlier in the month, and he spoke about it in the 139th episode of Mann Ki Baat.

Mann Ki Baat is the monthly radio address of the Prime Minister, and the edition broadcast on 25 October 2026 was its 139th.

India recorded 114 medals at the 2026 edition of this competition, the largest haul the country has ever managed there, and the Games had just concluded when Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the contingent.

The contingent gathered a record 114 medals at the 2026 edition, which no earlier Indian team at the event had matched.

The Indian contingent of para-athletes closed the Asian Para Games 2026 with that number of medals, which is a record for the country at the event and the best-ever performance it has managed there.

The correct answer is Tamil Nadu, which accounts for 20 of the Ramsar Sites in the country, the highest for any State.

The treaty takes its name from Ramsar, the Iranian town where it was adopted on 2 February 1971, and it entered into force in 1975.

Sukhna Wetland lies in Chandigarh and is a rain-fed reservoir created in 1958 at the foot of the Shivalik hills; it shelters threatened species such as the Pallas's fish eagle, the common pochard and the black pond turtle, and migratory birds of the Central Asian Flyway winter there.

India reached this figure on 15 October 2026, when Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh were added to the list of Wetlands of International Importance.

Rubidium, an alkali metal like caesium, gives off electrons easily when light falls on it, so it is used in photoelectric cells.

Tooth enamel is made mainly of calcium phosphate in the form of a hard crystal called hydroxyapatite. Enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, harder even than bone.

In a recumbent fold the rock layers are pushed over so far that the fold lies on its side and its axial plane is almost horizontal.

The rebels wanted Hindus and Muslims to stand together against British rule. Proclamations issued in the name of Bahadur Shah Zafar called on everyone to join the fight, recalling the Mughal past when different communities had lived together.

Smallpox was caused by the variola virus, a large DNA virus of the pox family that spread from person to person through the air.

Wang Xuance, a Tang envoy who came to India several times in the seventh century, wrote an account called Records of the Travels to Middle India, of which only fragments survive.

After fertilisation the ovary of the flower grows into the fruit, and each ovule inside it develops into a seed.

Sylhet, then a Muslim-majority district of Assam, held a referendum in July 1947, and its people voted to join East Bengal, which became part of Pakistan.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 are true, but carbon never forms a quadruple, or tetra, bond between two carbon atoms.

Sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid react to form new substances, sodium chloride and water, so this is a chemical change.

In the DNA double helix, adenine on one strand always pairs with thymine on the other, and guanine always pairs with cytosine.