State Exams GK Questions 2026

The institute is a laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and studies the physics, chemistry, biology and geology of the seas around India, with regional centres at Kochi, Visakhapatnam and Mumbai.

The institute works on dryland farming, sand dune stabilisation, agroforestry and the management of grazing land in the arid west of the country, and it comes under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

The institute is the country's main centre for research and training in dairy science, covering animal breeding, milk production and dairy technology, and it works under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research; Karnal also holds the Central Soil Salinity Research Institute.

The institute began in 1905 at Pusa in Bihar, and after the Bihar earthquake of 1934 damaged its buildings it was shifted to Delhi, where the campus is still called Pusa; it is the country's leading agricultural research and teaching institute and was central to the Green Revolution.

The centre was set up in 1971 and is the country's main laboratory for the second stage of the nuclear programme, in which plutonium from spent fuel is used in fast breeder reactors; the Fast Breeder Test Reactor and the prototype fast breeder project are both at Kalpakkam.

The spaceport lies on an island on the Bay of Bengal coast, chosen because launches to the east pass over the sea and because its nearness to the equator helps eastward launches; it is named after Satish Dhawan, a former chairman of ISRO.

The centre began in 1954 as the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay and was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in memory of Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the architect of India's atomic programme; the research reactors Apsara, Cirus and Dhruva are all on this campus.

He won the British Open ten times in a row and went unbeaten in competitive play for over five years from 1981, a run of hundreds of consecutive match wins that is often called the longest winning streak in any professional sport.

The Czechoslovak runner won all three distance events at those Games, and the marathon was the first he had ever run; no athlete has repeated the treble.

The German driver won his first two championships with Benetton in 1994 and 1995, moved to Ferrari and won five consecutive titles from 2000 to 2004, giving him seven in all.

The fight took place in October 1974 at Kinshasa, then the capital of Zaire and today the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is how the bout came to be called the Rumble in the Jungle.

At the Montreal Olympics, the fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci was awarded a perfect score of 10 on the uneven bars, the first such mark in Olympic gymnastics; the scoreboards of the day could not display it and showed 1.00 instead.

Bradman played 52 Test matches between 1928 and 1948 and scored 6,996 runs with 29 centuries, leaving him with an average of 99.94, a figure no batter has approached since.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville in the United States, he won the light heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, took the world heavyweight title from Sonny Liston in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali soon afterwards.

The American swimmer competed at five Olympic Games and finished with 28 medals, of which 23 are gold, far ahead of anyone else in any sport.

At the World Athletics Championships held in Berlin in August 2009, Usain Bolt of Jamaica lowered his own world records to 9.58 seconds over 100 metres and 19.19 seconds over 200 metres, the two fastest times ever recorded.

The Brazilian forward, whose full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was part of the Brazil squads that won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970, and no other player has three winners' medals.

Founded in 1883, it is India's oldest conservation body, it works from Mumbai, and besides the popular magazine Hornbill it publishes a scientific journal and runs long-running bird and wildlife surveys; Salim Ali, the country's best known ornithologist, was associated with it for decades.

It was signed on 2 February 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar, which is why the treaty is always called the Ramsar Convention and why 2 February is kept as World Wetlands Day.

The Convention on Biological Diversity was opened for signature at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and came into force in 1993; its secretariat works from Montreal, and its two protocols are the Cartagena Protocol on biosafety and the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair sharing…