State Exams GK Questions 2026

Reducing manganese dioxide with aluminium, 3MnO₂ + 4Al → 3Mn + 2Al₂O₃, gives out a large amount of heat. This method of reducing a metal oxide with aluminium powder is called aluminothermy, or the Goldschmidt thermite process.

A freely falling object moves with a uniform acceleration, the acceleration due to gravity, g, about 9.8 m/s² near the Earth's surface.

A large part of the energy is lost at every trophic level, so after four or five links too little is left to support another level.

The CAG audits spending from the Consolidated Fund and of bodies substantially financed by government, but has no control over the release of money from the fund.

Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal came into effect on 16 October 1905, years before the other three events. Curzon announced the partition in July 1905, claiming it was for administrative convenience, but it was widely seen as a way to divide Hindus and Muslims and weaken Bengali nationalism.

The Indigo Revolt (1859–60) of Bengal's peasants against European indigo planters won strong support from the Bengali intelligentsia, press and missionaries.

In aerobic tissues, where oxygen is available, glucose is broken down completely into carbon dioxide, water and energy. Aerobic respiration begins with glycolysis in the cytoplasm, which gives pyruvate.

Sodium reacts vigorously with cold water to form sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas: 2Na + 2H₂O → 2NaOH + H₂.

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) used in refrigerators, air conditioners, aerosol sprays and foams were the main cause of ozone depletion in the twentieth century.

The order is plasmid (1952), DNA double helix (1953), DNA fingerprinting (1984) and the cloning of Dolly (1996). Joshua Lederberg coined the word "plasmid" in 1952 for genetic material that lives outside the chromosome; plasmids later became the main vectors of genetic engineering.

The Code on Wages, 2019 was passed by Parliament, received the President's assent and was notified in the Gazette of India on 8 August 2019.

Article 263 lets the President set up an Inter-State Council by order whenever it appears that public interest would be served by it.

Insulin is a protein (peptide) hormone made in the human body by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas.

The Election Commission first used VVPAT machines with EVMs in the by-election to Noksen in Tuensang district, Nagaland, in September 2013.

After fertilisation, each ovule grows into a seed, and the ovary that holds the ovules grows into the fruit. In flowering plants, a pollen tube carries two male gametes to the ovule.

Gold is a noble metal at the bottom of the reactivity series, so it does not react with oxygen, water or ordinary acids.

Biogas is mostly methane, usually about 50 to 75 percent, and it is the methane that burns with a clean blue flame and no smoke.

JP argued for a "partyless democracy" in which representatives would be chosen by the people directly, without competing political parties.

In photosynthesis, green plants take carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water, using sunlight, to make carbohydrates such as glucose.

On 13 April 1919 troops fired without any warning on an unarmed crowd in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, on the orders of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer.