State Exams GK Questions 2026

Carbon dioxide makes up about 96.5% of the atmosphere of Venus and about 95% of the atmosphere of Mars. The two neighbours of the Earth have atmospheres dominated by carbon dioxide, with nitrogen and argon making up most of the rest.

A surface inversion makes the lower air stable, not unstable, and it usually breaks up a few hours after sunrise.

She became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in October 1963, the first woman to head a state government in India.

The reaction centre of a photosystem is a special chlorophyll a molecule, not a carotenoid. In photosynthesis, pigments are grouped into photosystems.

The NHRC can join court cases on human rights with the court's approval and can promote research, but statement 3 is wrong because it can act on its own.

Frogs, toads and salamanders react quickly to changes in water, air and temperature, which makes them the classic indicator animals.

Going south from the Nepal border, the order is Dudhwa, Panna, Pench and then Indravati.

Damin-i-koh was the tract in the Rajmahal hills that the British marked out in 1832 for settling the Santals. The Santals had moved into the Rajmahal hills area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, clearing forests and taking up settled farming.

PFMS is run by the office of the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.

Collateral is an asset that the borrower pledges to the lender as security until the loan is repaid. When a bank lends money it wants protection against default.

In an isotonic solution the concentration outside the cell equals that inside, so there is no net movement of water.

The movement was a non-violent withdrawal of cooperation, not an attempt to seize the government's machinery. The Non-Cooperation Movement was approved at the Calcutta special session in September 1920 and confirmed at the Nagpur session in December 1920.

Xerophytes live where water is scarce, so they have few stomata to cut down water loss. Xerophytes are plants of deserts and dry habitats, such as cacti, Opuntia, Calotropis and Acacia.

Gondi, spoken by the Gond tribal community of central India, has not been included in the Eighth Schedule. The Eighth Schedule lists the languages recognised by the Constitution, and Articles 344 and 351 link it to the development of Hindi.

The Latin phrase habeas corpus literally means 'you may have the body', and the writ protects personal liberty. Under Article 32 the Supreme Court, and under Article 226 the High Courts, can issue five writs.

Speaking to the officers, the minister pointed to initiatives that draw citizens into conservation work, and named this tree-planting drive alongside MISHTI, the Aravalli Green Wall and Nagar Van Yojana while listing India's gains in forest and tree cover, carbon sequestration, woodland and wetland conservation and the restoration of landscapes.

The course has that many participants, and the officers have come from eighteen different State cadres, which is why the ministry described the group as carrying a mix of field and policy experience ranging from wildlife conservation governance to climate-resilient forestry, habitat restoration and the working of environmental policy.

The correct answer is the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, abbreviated as IGNFA, which is conducting the nineteenth Phase-III course from the twelfth of October to the sixth of November in 2026 for sixty-eight officers drawn from eighteen cadres.

The ministry recorded the presence of exactly six elected representatives at the programmes, and gave their break-up as a single Member of Parliament together with five Members of Legislative Assemblies.

The parliaments and the melas were organised as a part of this campaign, and specifically under the leg of it called the 100 Weeks Campaign, with the stated aim of turning young people into active workers against substance abuse in their own localities.