State Exams GK Questions 2026

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which came into force in 1970, required every agency of the American federal government to prepare a statement of the environmental effects of any major action it proposed, and that requirement is taken as the beginning of environmental impact assessment as a legal…

The BNC connector is the bayonet-fitting plug that is pushed on and given a quarter turn to lock, and it terminates a coaxial cable, the cable with a central copper conductor, an insulating layer, a braided metal shield and an outer jacket.

The RJ-11 is the small modular connector at the end of a telephone cord, with four or six positions and usually two or four contacts, and it was also used to join a dial-up or ADSL modem to the telephone line.

Fibre carries data as pulses of light travelling through a glass or plastic core by total internal reflection, and since no electric current flows in it, an external electromagnetic field cannot induce noise in the signal.

The correct answer is B, 480 megabits per second, the speed known as high speed in the USB 2.0 specification.

LPT stands for line print terminal, the name by which the operating system knew the parallel port, which used a twenty-five-pin DB-25 connector on the computer and a thirty-six-pin Centronics connector at the printer end.

A computer with PS/2 ports has two six-pin mini-DIN sockets that are identical in shape, so they are distinguished by colour: purple for the keyboard and green for the mouse.

Unshielded twisted pair cable has no metal foil or braid around its pairs, so it resists electromagnetic interference less well than shielded twisted pair, not better; the only protection it has is the twisting of each pair, which cancels much of the noise picked up by the two wires.

The High-Definition Multimedia Interface carries high-definition digital video and multi-channel digital audio in the same cable, which is why one HDMI lead is enough to join a computer to a television or a projector.

The Video Graphics Array connector is a D-shaped plug with fifteen pins in three rows of five, usually coloured blue, and it carries an analogue video signal only, so a separate cable is needed for sound.

The standard first appeared in 1996 and was meant to replace the many different ports of an older computer with one socket for every kind of peripheral.

The RJ-45 connector is properly called 8P8C, meaning eight positions and eight contacts, and it is crimped on to the four twisted pairs of a network cable, one contact for each of the eight wires.

Article 100(3) of the Constitution lays down that the quorum to constitute a sitting of either House shall be one-tenth of the total number of members of that House, and the presiding officer is counted in that one-tenth.

A policy cut motion asks that the amount of the demand be reduced to one rupee, which amounts to a complete rejection of the policy underlying the demand, and the member who moves it may propose an alternative policy.

The calling attention motion is an Indian innovation in parliamentary procedure and has been in use since 1954. A member calls the attention of a minister to a matter of urgent public importance and the minister makes a statement on it, after which members may seek clarifications.

A censure motion has to set out the specific charge against the minister or ministers it names, whereas a no-confidence motion need state no ground whatever.

The first no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha after independence was moved in August 1963 by Acharya J. B. Kripalani against the government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, in the atmosphere that followed the war of 1962, and the motion was defeated.

A no-confidence motion against the Council of Ministers is moved in the Lok Sabha under Rule 198 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Lok Sabha.

The rules provide that once the Speaker admits an adjournment motion, the House must give it not less than two hours and thirty minutes of discussion, so that a matter grave enough to set aside the listed business is actually examined.

The adjournment motion is admitted in the Lok Sabha alone, because it carries an element of censure against the government and only the Lok Sabha can censure the Council of Ministers under the collective responsibility laid down in Article 75.