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State Exams GK Questions 2026

Static GK is the largest part of General Studies in every state exam, and most of it is national. Indian polity, history and the national movement, geography of India, the Indian economy and general science appear in the syllabus of UPPSC PCS and PET, BPSC and BSSC, RPSC and RSSB, MPPSC and MPESB, HPSC and HSSC, and DSSSB and Delhi Police. The level changes from exam to exam. PET sets its subjects at NCERT secondary and senior secondary level, BSSC asks matric-level science, and RPSC sets the RAS Prelims at Bachelor's degree standard. This page brings together GK24's topic-wise GK notes tagged for state exams. Each note covers one topic in English and Hindi, as short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting, and ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. Start with Polity, History and Geography, then move to the Economy and Science. GK24 does not have state GK sections. As guidance, use these notes for the national part and prepare your state's history, geography, culture, economy and schemes from state board textbooks, the state budget and economic survey, and the commission's past papers. After each note, take its topic quiz and mark what you got wrong.

State Exams GK Questions with Answers

Q3381.General ScienceEasy

The SI unit of stress is the

  1. A.Newton
  2. B.Joule
  3. C.Pascal
  4. D.Watt
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Correct answer: C. Pascal

Stress is the restoring force divided by the area over which it acts, so its unit is the newton per square metre, and that combination is given the special name pascal, the same unit used for pressure.

Q3382.General ScienceEasy

Hooke's law states that within the elastic limit

  1. A.Stress is directly proportional to strain
  2. B.Stress is inversely proportional to strain
  3. C.Strain is independent of stress
  4. D.Stress is proportional to the square of the strain
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Correct answer: A. Stress is directly proportional to strain

Hooke found that so long as a body is not strained beyond its elastic limit, the restoring force per unit area rises in step with the fractional deformation, and the constant ratio of the two is called the modulus of elasticity.

Q3384.RajasthanMedium

Bataan Ri Phulwari, the large collection of Rajasthani folk tales, was compiled by

  1. A.Komal Kothari
  2. B.Vijaydan Detha
  3. C.Chandra Prakash Deval
  4. D.Kanhaiyalal Sethia
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Correct answer: B. Vijaydan Detha

The correct answer is B, Vijaydan Detha, often called Bijji, who spent his life at Borunda in Jodhpur district gathering the oral tales of the countryside and retelling them in Rajasthani in the many volumes of Bataan Ri Phulwari; several of his stories became well known Hindi films.

Q3385.RajasthanMedium

Muhnot Nainsi, called the Abul Fazl of Rajasthan, is known for which work?

  1. A.Marwar Ra Pargana Ri Vigat
  2. B.Kanhadade Prabandh
  3. C.Bataan Ri Phulwari
  4. D.Dharti Dhoran Ri
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Correct answer: A. Marwar Ra Pargana Ri Vigat

Nainsi was the minister of Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar in the seventeenth century, and besides the Nainsi Ri Khyat he compiled this district by district record of the parganas of Marwar, with details of villages, revenue and families, which is why he is called the Abul Fazl of Rajasthan…

Q3387.RajasthanEasy

The Prithviraj Raso, the best known Rasau work connected with Rajasthan, was composed by

  1. A.Chand Bardai
  2. B.Padmanabh
  3. C.Jayanaka
  4. D.Muhnot Nainsi
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Correct answer: A. Chand Bardai

The correct answer is A, Chand Bardai, who is remembered as the court poet of Prithviraj Chauhan and the author of the Prithviraj Raso, the long martial epic that made the Rasau form famous, although historians treat many of its details and dates with caution because the text grew by…

Q3388.RajasthanHard

The Dingal classic Veli Krisan Rukmani Ri was written by

  1. A.Chand Bardai
  2. B.Prithviraj Rathore
  3. C.Narpati Nalha
  4. D.Suryamal Mishran
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Correct answer: B. Prithviraj Rathore

The correct answer is B, Prithviraj Rathore, a prince of the Bikaner house known in tradition as Peethal, who told the story of Krishna and Rukmini in Dingal verse; the poem is counted among the finest works in the language and is the one most often cited as a Dingal…

Q3389.RajasthanMedium

The Dingal style of Rajasthani poetry is associated with which class of poets?

  1. A.Bhat poets of eastern Rajasthan
  2. B.Charan poets of western Rajasthan
  3. C.Jain scholars of Jalore
  4. D.Court painters of Mewar
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Correct answer: B. Charan poets of western Rajasthan

Dingal is the literary style built on Marwari, and the Charans used it for heroic verse on battle, honour and self sacrifice, sung in a loud rolling metre; the Veli Krisan Rukmani Ri of Prithviraj Rathore is a celebrated example.

Q3390.RajasthanEasy

Which is the most widely spoken dialect of Rajasthani?

  1. A.Mewari
  2. B.Dhundhari
  3. C.Marwari
  4. D.Mewati
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Correct answer: C. Marwari

It is the speech of Jodhpur, Pali, Nagaur, Barmer and Jalore, that is of the largest region of the state, and the Dingal poetry of the Charan poets was composed in it; its speakers also carried it across India with the trading communities of Marwar.

Q3394.Indian PolityMedium

Which statement about the doctrine of eclipse is correct?

  1. A.It applies equally to pre-Constitution and post-Constitution laws that violate Fundamental Rights
  2. B.It applies to pre-Constitution laws, which remain dormant and may revive if the constitutional bar is removed
  3. C.It permits a court to strike down only the offending part of a statute
  4. D.It allows a citizen to give up a Fundamental Right voluntarily
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Correct answer: B. It applies to pre-Constitution laws, which remain dormant and may revive if the constitutional bar is removed

Article 13(1) makes a pre-Constitution law void only to the extent of its inconsistency with the Fundamental Rights, so the Supreme Court in Bhikaji Narain Dhakras, 1955, held that such a law is not erased but merely eclipsed, staying unenforceable until the shadow is lifted, after which it revives.

Q3395.Indian PolityHard

The doctrine of prospective overruling was applied for the first time in India in which case?

  1. A.I. C. Golaknath versus State of Punjab, 1967
  2. B.Maneka Gandhi versus Union of India, 1978
  3. C.Indira Sawhney versus Union of India, 1992
  4. D.S. R. Bommai versus Union of India, 1994
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Correct answer: A. I. C. Golaknath versus State of Punjab, 1967

An eleven judge bench held by six to five that Parliament cannot abridge Fundamental Rights by amendment, but the Court did not want to unsettle the land reform amendments already acted upon, so it declared that its ruling would operate only for the future.

Q3396.Indian PolityEasy

The basic structure doctrine was laid down by the Supreme Court in which case?

  1. A.Shankari Prasad versus Union of India, 1951
  2. B.Sajjan Singh versus State of Rajasthan, 1965
  3. C.Kesavananda Bharati versus State of Kerala, 1973
  4. D.Minerva Mills versus Union of India, 1980
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Correct answer: C. Kesavananda Bharati versus State of Kerala, 1973

A bench of thirteen judges held by a majority of seven to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution under Article 368 but cannot destroy or damage its basic structure or essential features.

Q3399.Indian PolityHard

The doctrine of pith and substance was applied by the Privy Council in which of the following cases?

  1. A.Shankari Prasad versus Union of India
  2. B.Prafulla Kumar Mukherjee versus Bank of Commerce, Khulna
  3. C.Golaknath versus State of Punjab
  4. D.Kesavananda Bharati versus State of Kerala
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Correct answer: B. Prafulla Kumar Mukherjee versus Bank of Commerce, Khulna

The Bengal Money Lenders Act of 1940 limited the interest and the amount recoverable by money lenders, a provincial subject, but it also affected promissory notes, which belonged to the central list.

Q3400.Indian PolityMedium

The doctrine of territorial nexus is drawn from which provision of the Constitution?

  1. A.Article 13(1)
  2. B.Article 245(2)
  3. C.Article 254(2)
  4. D.Article 368
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Correct answer: B. Article 245(2)

That clause says that no law made by Parliament shall be deemed invalid on the ground that it would have extra-territorial operation, and the courts have built on it the rule that a State law too may apply to an object or person outside the State if there is a…

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