State Exams GK Questions 2026

Triclosan is an antibacterial and antifungal agent added mainly to personal-care products. It has been used in antibacterial soaps, hand washes, toothpastes, deodorants, shaving creams, mouthwashes and cosmetics, and sometimes in kitchen items and textiles to stop the growth of germs.

Only Gandhi Sagar is matched with its correct State, so three of the four pairs are wrong. Gandhi Sagar is the first of the Chambal valley dams, built in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, so pair 2 is correct.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, while statement 3 is wrong. Article 355 says it is the duty of the Union to protect every State against external aggression and internal disturbance and to ensure that its government runs according to the Constitution, so statement 1 is correct.

Both schemes, launched in November 2015, aimed to put idle household gold to work and to cut the demand for imported gold; neither was about foreign investment.

The Chambal River holds the largest wild population of gharials in the world and is protected as the National Chambal Sanctuary.

The Sarkaria Commission on Centre-State relations laid down these qualities for choosing a Governor. The Commission was set up by the Union Government in 1983 under Justice R.S.

Bisphenol A is the main building block from which polycarbonate plastic is made. Polycarbonate is a hard, clear and shatter-resistant plastic once widely used for reusable water bottles, baby feeding bottles, food containers, CDs and spectacle lenses.

NFTs are unique blockchain tokens that can represent an asset, but being non-fungible they cannot be swapped one-for-one like money.

The 2011 Census found that about 49% of Indian households used firewood as their main fuel for cooking, which rounds to half.

The Janata government set up the Ashok Mehta Committee in December 1977 to suggest how to revive the weakening Panchayati Raj institutions.

The 44th Amendment of 1978 added a proviso to Article 74(1) letting the President ask the Council of Ministers to reconsider its advice once.

In October 2023 UNESCO added Gwalior to its Creative Cities Network as a City of Music.

Sulphur dioxide is an air pollutant, not one of the greenhouse gases; in fact the sulphate particles it forms reflect sunlight and have a slight cooling effect.

The Majjhima Nikaya is part of the Pali Canon, the Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism. The Tipitaka has three baskets: the Vinaya Pitaka on rules for monks and nuns, the Sutta Pitaka on the Buddha's discourses, and the Abhidhamma Pitaka on philosophy.

The NCSM is an autonomous society of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It was formed in 1978 to take over the science museums then run by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and its headquarters is in Kolkata.

Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule, in Gujarati in 1909. He wrote it in about ten days on board the ship Kildonan Castle while returning from London to South Africa.

Article 48A directs the State to protect it, and Article 51A(g) makes it a duty of every citizen. Both provisions were added by the 42nd Amendment of 1976.

The Ramsar Convention is the treaty for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. It was signed on 2 February 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the Caspian Sea and came into force in 1975, which makes it one of the oldest global environmental agreements.

Under Article 243H it is the State Legislature, not the Centre, that may by law let a Panchayat levy, collect and keep taxes, duties, tolls and fees.

The novel by French writer David Diop, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis, won the International Booker Prize in 2021.