State Exams GK Questions 2026

Leucoplasts are colourless plastids that store food: starch, oils and proteins. Plastids are found only in plant cells and some algae, and they are of three main kinds.

The war did not reduce support for conservative dictatorships; popular support for them actually grew after 1918. The First World War (1914–18) left Europe drained.

Clouds are grouped by height and shape into high, middle and low families, but stratus, nimbostratus and stratocumulus are low clouds, not high ones.

The First and Ninth Plans gave top priority to agriculture, and the Seventh Plan's slogan was food, work and productivity.

SONAR uses sound waves under water to find the distance and direction of objects. A SONAR set on a ship has a transmitter that sends out pulses of ultrasound and a detector that picks up their echo from the sea bed, a shoal of fish, a wreck or a submarine.

Rutherford's gold foil experiment showed that an atom's positive charge and almost all its mass sit in a tiny central nucleus.

AIDS is caused by HIV, a retrovirus whose genome is two copies of single-stranded RNA. After HIV enters a helper T-cell (CD4 cell), its enzyme reverse transcriptase copies the viral RNA into DNA, which is then built into the host cell's own DNA.

The Shamal is a hot, dry north-westerly wind that blows over Iraq and the Persian Gulf, the old land of Mesopotamia.

Its network of membrane tubes and sheets forms channels that carry materials, especially proteins, between parts of the cytoplasm and the nucleus.

By 1832 the British had marked out a large tract in the Rajmahal hills as Damin-i-koh and declared it the land of the Santhals.

The Reign of Terror (1793–94) was the period when revolutionary tribunals tried and guillotined people seen as enemies of the republic.

The Cabinet resolution that set up the Planning Commission in March 1950 named both aims.

Light from the bottom bends as it passes from water into air, so the bottom seems nearer than it really is.

The national conference on AI and Ayurveda was held under this title at ITRA Jamnagar alongside the institute's sixth Foundation Day.

The NABH-accredited hospital of ITRA Jamnagar has 300 beds, and over the past six years it has treated 27,520 patients in its inpatient department.

The Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda at Jamnagar is the first institute in the field of Ayurveda to be given the status of an Institute of National Importance, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated it to the nation on 15 October 2020.

The Interest Subsidy Scheme, one of the four verticals of PMAY-U 2.0, gives EWS, LIG and MIG families an interest subsidy of up to Rs 1.80 lakh on housing loans of up to Rs 25 lakh.

Of the houses cleared at this meeting, Uttar Pradesh received 73,182, the biggest single share among the 11 participating states.

At the 10th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee, held in New Delhi on 16 October 2026 under the chairmanship of Urban Development Secretary Satendra Singh, over 1.93 lakh additional houses were cleared under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban 2.0.

Both statements are true, but the Poona Pact was the result of Gandhi's fast, not the reason for it, so Statement II does not explain Statement I. British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the Communal Award in August 1932.