State Exams GK Questions 2026

The United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction honours people and institutions that work to reduce the risk of disasters.

X-rays are electromagnetic waves with no electric charge, so electric fields cannot deflect them. X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for it.

Leh lies in the rain shadow of the Great Himalaya and gets only about 100 mm of precipitation a year, making it one of the driest places in India.

A. V. Thakkar, known as Thakkar Bapa, founded the Bhil Seva Mandal in 1922 to work for the Bhil tribals of the Panchmahal district of Gujarat.

Energy shrinks sharply at each step of a food chain, so after a few levels too little is left to support another level of consumers.

This is a double displacement (precipitation) reaction, in which no element gains oxygen or loses electrons. When the two solutions are mixed, the ions swap partners: BaCl2 + Na2SO4 → BaSO4 + 2NaCl.

The sound travels to the cliff and back in 5 s, so it covers 340 × 5 = 1,700 m in all, and the cliff is half of that, 850 m away.

Slaked lime is calcium hydroxide applied as a watery solution, and it takes up carbon dioxide gas from the air to form solid calcium carbonate and water.

The telescope sits near the second Lagrange point (L2), about 1.5 million km from Earth, and goes round the Sun along with the Earth.

Dissolved salts make sea water less compressible, so sound travels faster in it, about 1,530 m/s at 25 °C, than in pure or drinking water.

This is the savanna (Sudan type) climate: hot all year, with a short rainy summer and a long dry season.

Erok Sim is a sowing festival of the Santhals, and Sangken is the Buddhist new-year water festival of Arunachal Pradesh.

The pulmonary veins bring oxygen-rich blood from the lungs straight into the left atrium. The human heart has four chambers and works as two pumps.

The merger was made by an Act of Parliament and the Bombay High Court still has jurisdiction, but the merged UT has two Lok Sabha seats, not three.

Coal-based thermal plants produce the largest share of India's electricity, roughly three-fourths of the power generated. A thermal power plant burns a fuel, mostly coal and to a smaller extent gas or lignite, to boil water into steam that turns a turbine.

HIV spreads through body fluids such as blood, so a transfusion of infected blood passes the virus directly into the bloodstream.

Argon is an inert gas, so it does not react with the white-hot tungsten filament and slows its evaporation, which makes the bulb last longer.

Magnesium is above hydrogen in the reactivity series, so it displaces hydrogen from the acid: Mg + 2HCl → MgCl2 + H2.

The Limitation Law of 1859 was meant to stop debts from piling up over many years. In the Deccan, ryots borrowed from moneylenders (sahukars) and signed bonds.

Pitch is how high or low a sound seems to the ear, and it depends on the frequency of vibration: the higher the frequency, the higher the pitch.