State Exams GK Questions 2026

Shah Jahan began his new capital on the Yamuna in that year, shifting the court from Agra, and it took shape as the walled city of Shahjahanabad with the Red Fort, the Jama Masjid and the avenue of Chandni Chowk.

The correct answer is B, Sikandar Lodi, the second ruler of the Lodi dynasty, who founded Agra on the Yamuna in 1504 and made it his capital so that he could keep a closer watch on the chiefs of the east and the Rajputs of the south.

The correct answer is B, Harihara and Bukka, the two brothers of the Sangama family who founded both the city and the empire of Vijayanagara on the Tungabhadra in 1336; its ruins at Hampi in Karnataka are a World Heritage Site.

The correct answer is A, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the founder of the Tata group, after whom the steel town built by his company on the Subarnarekha in the first years of the twentieth century is named; it is also called Tatanagar, which remains the name of its railway station.

The correct answer is B, Francis Day and Andrew Cogan, officers of the English East India Company who in 1639 obtained a strip of coast from the local ruler and built Fort St George, around which the town of Madras grew.

The correct answer is C, Guru Ram Das, the fourth Guru, who founded the city in 1577 around the sacred tank he had excavated; the settlement was first called Ramdaspur after him and later took the name Amritsar, meaning the pool of nectar.

The correct answer is B, Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, the founder of the Tughlaq dynasty, who built the massive sloping walls of Tughlaqabad in the early fourteenth century and whose own tomb stands just outside it.

The correct answer is A, Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat, who founded the city on the Sabarmati in 1411 and gave it his own name; the Jama Masjid, the Teen Darwaza and the Bhadra fort belong to his time.

He began the city near Agra in 1571, named it the city of victory after his success in Gujarat, and filled it with the Buland Darwaza, the Panch Mahal, the Diwan-i-Khas and the tomb of Shaikh Salim Chishti; the court left it within about fifteen years, by tradition because its…

The fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda founded the new city on the Musi in 1591 because the fortress of Golconda had grown too crowded, and he built the Charminar at its centre; accounts of the founding also mention the name Bhagyanagar.

The Kachhwaha ruler of Amber shifted his capital from the hills down to the plain in 1727 and had the new city laid out by Vidyadhar Bhattacharya on a grid of nine rectangular blocks with wide straight streets, which makes Jaipur the first planned city of modern India; the same…

The correct answer is B, seven metres, which is why a handball penalty is often simply called a seven-metre throw.

Under the rally point system, in which every rally gives a point to one side or the other whoever served, the first four sets of a match are played to twenty-five points and must be won by a margin of at least two, so a set can run to 26-24…

The correct answer is B, two halves of thirty minutes each, making an hour of play with an interval between the halves.

The shot clock gives the attacking side twenty-four seconds from gaining control of the ball to release a shot that touches the ring, and failure to do so hands possession to the opponents.

The libero is a defensive specialist introduced to make long rallies possible: the player wears a shirt of a different colour, plays only in the back row, may be replaced freely without counting against the team's substitutions, and may not serve in most competitions, block, or attack a ball lying…

The correct answer is C, Tokyo in 1964, where both the men's and the women's events were held, the hosts winning the women's gold.

It runs the World Championship, the Volleyball Nations League and the beach volleyball circuit.

The correct answer is C, seven, that is six court players and one goalkeeper, with further players available as substitutes.

The gallery railing in the Springfield gymnasium from which James Naismith hung his peach baskets in 1891 happened to be ten feet above the floor, and the height has stayed the same ever since for men and women alike.