State Exams GK Questions 2026

These four early communists were convicted in the Cawnpore (Kanpur) Bolshevik Conspiracy Case of 1924 and sentenced to four years in jail.

The Harappan script has never been deciphered, so no one can say what it refers to; the name Meluhha comes from Mesopotamian texts, not from Harappan writing.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu worshipped God in a personal form, as Krishna, so he belonged to the Saguna school of Bhakti, not the Nirguna school.

India's land-use records follow a nine-fold classification, and 'marginal land' is not one of its classes.

A change in a good's own price, with everything else fixed, moves the buyer up or down the same demand curve.

The two statements are reversed: the Estimates Committee is a standing committee, and the Railway Convention Committee is an ad hoc committee.

Both were killed in 1942 during the Quit India Movement, Matangini Hazra in Bengal and Lakshman Naik in Odisha. The Quit India Movement began after the Congress passed the Quit India resolution in Bombay on 8 August 1942, with Gandhi's call of 'Do or Die'.

Cropping intensity is gross cropped area divided by net sown area, usually shown as a percentage, and it tells how many times the same land is cropped in a year.

Tamil Nadu's decadal growth rose from about 11.7 per cent in 1991–2001 to about 15.6 per cent in 2001–2011, while the other three states slowed down.

The law of demand assumes buyers are not swayed by imitating others; the demonstration effect is in fact one of its exceptions.

Expressed as women per men, Asia has a low sex ratio, because several of its large countries have fewer women than men.

As its name says, it is subsistence farming, where the family grows food mainly for its own use, not for sale.

Petrol is one of the petroleum products kept out of GST for now, so it still bears central excise duty and state VAT.

All three statements describe India's two coasts correctly: the west is high, rocky and erosional, the east is low and depositional.

The manjaniq was a siege engine that hurled heavy stones at fort walls and defenders. The word comes from Arabic and is related to the Greek and Latin words that also gave English the term mangonel.

The Kalaram temple stands at Panchavati in Nashik, Maharashtra, where Dr B. R. Ambedkar led the famous temple entry satyagraha.

He was honoured at the Dushanbe event for his contribution to Hindi literature and education, including a detailed study of philology, and he is described as the first recipient of the Padma Shri from Tajikistan, which is the detail most likely to be asked.

The Defence Minister used this comparison in Dushanbe to show how far India has moved towards a less-paper and less-cash economy, and he described the country as a global hub for real-time digital payments.

Rajnath Singh said India has signed free trade agreements with that many countries, and he singled out the agreements with the United Kingdom and the European Union, which are expected to remove tariffs on 99 per cent of Indian exports to those two markets.

Speaking to the Indian diaspora in Dushanbe on 20 October 2026, the Defence Minister said defence exports had touched that record level, and in the same breath he put defence production at Rs 1.80 lakh crore, so the two figures are best learnt as a pair because an examiner can…