State Exams GK Questions 2026

P waves are the fastest earthquake waves and reach a seismograph first, and they are longitudinal, while S waves are transverse.

The patches of evergreen temperate forest in the high valleys of the Nilgiri, Anaimalai and Palani hills of the Western Ghats are called sholas.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012–17) aimed at 4 per cent growth in agriculture, not 5 per cent. The Twelfth Plan, titled Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, was the last five-year plan; after it the Planning Commission was replaced by NITI Aayog in 2015.

An alloy of sodium and potassium, called NaK, stays liquid at room temperature and carries heat away from the core of some nuclear reactors.

Among the gases listed, carbon dioxide is present in by far the largest amount, about 0.04 per cent of the air, which is roughly two hundred times the amount of methane.

Most places have two high tides a day, and because the moon rises about 52 minutes later each day, each high tide comes about 12 hours 26 minutes after the last.

In Köppen's code, C means a warm temperate climate, f means rain in all seasons with no dry season, and a means a hot summer.

The mistral is a cold, dry northerly wind that blows from the Alps down the Rhone valley of France to the Mediterranean coast.

Ziyarat means a visit to a sacred place, and in India it came to mean the pilgrimage to the dargah of a sufi saint to seek blessings.

An allele is one of the alternative forms of the same gene, found at the same place on a pair of matching chromosomes.

It was set up in 1992 under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990, so it is a statutory body, not a constitutional one.

Lysosomes are small sacs bound by a membrane that are filled with digestive enzymes able to break down almost any material in the cell.

In a crash a sensor fires an igniter, and sodium azide breaks down almost instantly into sodium and a large volume of nitrogen gas that fills the bag.

Kerosene and petrol mix completely with each other, and their boiling points are close, so they are separated by fractional distillation.

The Tsangpo enters India as the Dihang and the Godavari has the second largest basin, but the Chambal and Betwa join the Yamuna, not the Ganga.

Diamond is an allotrope of carbon, made of carbon atoms alone and nothing else. In diamond each carbon atom is joined to four other carbon atoms by strong covalent bonds, forming a rigid three-dimensional network.

Oxygen in the air reacts with the fats and oils, and the food turns rancid, with a bad smell and taste.

Feldspar makes up about half of the earth's crust and is light cream to salmon pink in colour, but magnesium is not its common element.

When sandstone, made mostly of quartz grains, is put under great heat and pressure, the grains fuse together and the rock turns into quartzite.

The volcanoes of Hawaii, such as Mauna Loa and Kilauea, are broad, gently sloping cones built by runny basaltic lava.