State Exams GK Questions 2026

In a uniform field the two poles of the magnet feel equal and opposite forces, which cancel each other.

A caterpillar feeds directly on green leaves, so it is a herbivore, which is what a primary consumer is. In a food chain energy flows from producers to consumers.

Momentum is a vector, and on bouncing the ball's direction of motion reverses at once, from downward to upward. Just before impact the ball moves down with velocity v, so its momentum is mv downward.

The Fifth Plan (1974–79) made removal of poverty, or Garibi Hatao, and self-reliance its main aims. Garibi Hatao was the slogan with which Indira Gandhi's Congress won the 1971 Lok Sabha election.

Friction acts only where two surfaces touch, while a magnet can push or pull an object across a gap. Forces are grouped by whether the bodies must touch.

The 35th Amendment of 1974 made Sikkim an "associate State" of the Indian Union. Sikkim had been an Indian protectorate under the Chogyal.

Each piece has a resistance of 10 ohm, and five equal 10-ohm resistors in parallel give 10 ÷ 5 = 2 ohm.

Land left uncultivated for more than one year but less than five years falls in this class of India's land-use records.

Slate is a metamorphic rock, formed when shale is changed by heat and pressure. Igneous rocks form when molten magma or lava cools and hardens.

Steel is an alloy of iron with a small amount of carbon, and carbon is a non-metal. Ordinary steel carries roughly 0.05 to 2 per cent carbon.

This law let the government imprison people suspected of political activity without trial for up to two years. Officially the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, it was passed in March 1919 on the advice of the Sedition Committee headed by Justice S.A.T.

One kelvin and one degree Celsius are the same size, so a rise of 30 K is also a rise of 30°C. The Kelvin and Celsius scales differ only in their starting point: T(K) = t(°C) + 273 (more exactly 273.15).

Work done by gravity depends only on the difference in potential between the two points, and here that difference is zero.

Only the gravitational field of a spherical body and the electrostatic field of a point charge fall off as 1/r².

The districts taken from Awadh and given to Shah Alam II were Kora and Allahabad, not Banaras. After the Battle of Buxar (1764), Robert Clive signed two treaties at Allahabad in August 1765.

Congress was represented by Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, its president, not by Sardar Patel. With Japan advancing in South-East Asia, the British War Cabinet sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India in March 1942, after he had persuaded it to accept a draft declaration.

In this 1992 case, also called the Mandal case, the Supreme Court held that the creamy layer must be kept out of OBC reservation.

Springs appear where groundwater meets a barrier or a surface outlet, which happens in jointed rocks, karst areas and tilted strata, but not commonly in dry regions.

Kautilya's daily time-table for the king does not include moving through the town in disguise; he learns about his people through spies instead.

India's net zero target announced at COP-26 is the year 2070, not 2047. At COP-26 in Glasgow in November 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced five commitments called the Panchamrit (five nectar elements).