State Exams GK Questions 2026

A quasi-federal constitution has the basic features of a federation but also a strong unitary bias, and the Indian Constitution is the best known example.

The bora is a cold, dry and often violent north-easterly wind that rushes down from the Dinaric Alps onto the eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, and it also reaches Trieste in Italy.

The English jurist John Austin developed legal positivism, the view that law is the command of the sovereign backed by a sanction, kept separate from questions of morality.

J is from Assam, which had a population density of 398 persons per square kilometre in Census 2011, far higher than the other three States.

Keynes argued that in a depression the government should spend more than it earns, even by borrowing, to revive demand and employment.

Mahishmati, an important city of ancient central India, stood on the Narmada and is usually identified with Maheshwar in present-day Madhya Pradesh, though some scholars place it at Mandhata (Omkareshwar).

The sour taste of tamarind comes from tartaric acid, not oxalic acid, so this statement is not correct. Many natural acids give foods their sour taste.

The lion is not found among the animals carved on Harappan seals, although the tiger appears on several of them.

Ellora has Buddhist, Hindu and Jain caves, and the Kailasa temple was carved out of a single rock, not built of stone blocks and bricks.

River terraces mark old valley floors and may be of bedrock or alluvium, but they are products of erosion, not deposition, so statement 3 is wrong.

The molar mass of sodium-23 is 23 g, so 46 g is exactly 2 moles, and 2 moles contain twice the Avogadro number of atoms.

In this reaction water accepts a proton (H⁺) from the hydrogen sulphate ion and becomes the hydronium ion, H₃O⁺, and a proton acceptor is a base.

The flying fish is a bony fish with a backbone, gills, scales and fins, so it belongs to the class of fishes; it only glides over the water on its large, wing-like pectoral fins.

Xylem carries water together with the minerals dissolved in it from the roots to the stem and leaves, so blocking it stops both.

The UN General Assembly set aside 15 October as the International Day of Rural Women in December 2007, and it was first observed in 2008.

The Fifth Schedule expressly gives the Governor this power. Under the Fifth Schedule, the Governor of a State with Scheduled Areas may make regulations for the peace and good government of those areas.

In 1221 Chenghiz Khan chased the Khwarizmian prince Jalal-ud-din Mangbarni up to the Indus but turned back without crossing it.

India sells more goods to the United States than it buys from it, and the USA has been the country with which India runs its largest trade surplus.

Article 14 says that the State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.

Adolescents are seen as a youthful population with high potential, but in 2011 they were about one-fifth of India's people, and males outnumbered females among them.