State Exams GK Questions 2026

A frame of snooker begins with fifteen red balls arranged in a triangle behind the pink, each worth one point.

Connell showed in the field that on the intertidal rocks of the Scottish coast the larger and faster-growing barnacle Balanus physically crowds out the smaller Chathamalus wherever the two settle together, so that Chathamalus survives only higher up the shore where Balanus cannot tolerate the exposure.

In a mycorrhiza the threads of a fungus grow around or inside the fine roots of a plant and greatly extend the surface from which minerals, especially phosphorus, can be absorbed from the soil.

Brood parasitism is the habit of laying eggs in the nest of another species and letting the host bird incubate them and feed the young.

In amensalism one species is harmed while the other neither gains nor loses, a pattern written as minus and zero.

Rhizobium lives inside the nodules on the roots of legumes such as gram, pea, groundnut and arhar. The bacterium converts atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, a form the plant can absorb and build into proteins, while the plant supplies the bacterium with shelter and with sugars made in photosynthesis.

Robert Paine removed the predatory starfish Pisaster from rocky intertidal pools and found that within a short time the mussels it had been eating took over the rock surface and crowded out other animals, so that more than ten invertebrate species were lost from the pools.

The Russian ecologist G. F. Gause worked with cultures of Paramecium and concluded that when two species need exactly the same limited resource in the same space, one of them is always eliminated in the long run; this is the competitive exclusion principle, also called Gause's principle.

Prickly pear cactus was taken to Australia in the nineteenth century and spread uncontrollably over grazing land because no local animal fed on it.

The egret walks beside grazing cattle and feeds on the grasshoppers and other insects flushed out of the grass by the cattle's hooves.

Cuscuta, known as dodder or amarbel, is a flowering plant that has lost its chlorophyll and its leaves and cannot make its own food.

A lichen is a close partnership between an alga and a fungus in which both partners gain. The alga prepares carbohydrates by photosynthesis and shares them with the fungus, while the fungus absorbs and holds water and minerals and anchors the pair to bare rock or tree bark.

Tata Consultancy Services was set up in 1968 as a division of the Tata group to provide management consultancy and data processing, and its registered office and headquarters have remained in Mumbai, the home city of the group.

The two left a research centre in California and founded Adobe in 1982 at San Jose, naming it after a creek near Warnock's home.

Alibaba was started in 1999 by Jack Ma, a former English teacher, in his apartment in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, and the company has kept its headquarters in that city.

Faqir Chand Kohli was the first general manager and later deputy chairman of Tata Consultancy Services, and he is credited with creating the model on which Indian software exports grew, namely training engineering graduates in programming and selling their services to clients abroad.

Google reorganised its businesses in 2015 and placed them under a new holding company named Alphabet Inc. Google continued as the subsidiary running search, advertising, Android, Chrome, Maps and YouTube, while separate ventures such as the self-driving car company and the life sciences company were made direct subsidiaries of Alphabet.

Robert Noyce, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, and Gordon Moore, who gave the observation known as Moore's law that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years, left an earlier firm and founded Intel in 1968.

Shiv Nadar and a group of colleagues left their jobs at an electronics firm and set up Hindustan Computers Limited, shortened to HCL, in 1976 to design and sell Indian-made microcomputers.

The company was registered in 1945 by M. H. Hasham Premji and made vanaspati cooking oil and laundry soap at Amalner in Maharashtra.