State Exams GK Questions 2026

It was the first policy statement on science adopted by independent India, placed before Parliament during the prime ministership of Jawaharlal Nehru and shaped in large part by Homi Bhabha.

The Dr Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary lies on Chorao island in the Mandovi river near Panaji and is a stretch of mangrove forest and mudflat known for its herons, egrets, kingfishers and migratory waterbirds; it is named after the ornithologist Salim Ali, the author of the standard handbooks on Indian…

Goa covers about 3,702 square kilometres, less than any other state of the Union; in population too it is among the smallest, ahead only of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Sikkim at the census of 2011.

Mormugao harbour, a natural harbour on the Goan coast, stands at the mouth of the Zuari, the largest river of the state, with the town of Vasco da Gama beside it; the port was developed for the export of iron ore brought down by barge.

Goa has a single house, the Legislative Assembly, of forty seats, which is the floor the Constitution allows for a state assembly through the special provision made for Goa; the state also sends two members to the Lok Sabha, from North Goa and South Goa, and one to the Rajya…

In 1510 Albuquerque took Goa from the Adil Shahi rulers of Bijapur, and the city became the seat of Portuguese power in the East, the capital of the Estado da India, which it remained until 1961.

The Basilica of Bom Jesus, built at the end of the sixteenth century, holds the body of St Francis Xavier in a silver casket, and the relics are brought out for public veneration at an exposition held about once in ten years; his feast falls on 3 December.

The correct answer is C, the Seventy-first Amendment Act, passed in 1992, which added Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali to the Eighth Schedule, taking the number of scheduled languages from fifteen to eighteen.

The Dudhsagar Falls, a drop of roughly 310 metres in four tiers, are on the Mandovi river in the Western Ghats near the Goa and Karnataka border, inside the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary; the name means sea of milk, from the white sheet the water makes in the monsoon.

It is the single national park of Goa and lies within the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary on the border with Karnataka, in the belt of the Western Ghats where the Dudhsagar Falls also stand.

Panaji, also called Panjim, stands on the left bank of the Mandovi, known in Goa as the Mhadei, near the point where the river meets the Arabian Sea; Old Goa lies a short way upstream on the same river.

Indian air, land and naval forces moved into Goa, Daman and Diu from 17 to 19 December 1961 in Operation Vijay, and 19 December is observed as Goa Liberation Day.

On that day the Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act of 1987 came into force, Goa became the twenty-fifth state of the Union, and Daman and Diu continued as a separate union territory; 30 May is kept as Goa Statehood Day.

The nine storey Vijay Stambha was raised in 1448 by Rana Kumbha of Mewar to mark his victory over Mahmud Khilji of Malwa, and its storeys are covered with sculptured figures of gods and scenes, which is why it is also read as a gallery of Hindu iconography.

The Lotus Temple at Kalkaji in Delhi was completed in 1986 to a design by the architect Fariborz Sahba, and its twenty seven marble petals are grouped in threes to form nine sides with nine doors, since the Bahai houses of worship are always nine sided and open to people…

India Gate, 42 metres high, was designed by Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1931 as the All India War Memorial, carrying the names of soldiers who died in the First World War and the Third Anglo Afghan War.

The Howrah Bridge joins Kolkata with Howrah across the Hooghly, was opened to traffic in 1943, and is a riveted steel cantilever bridge built without nuts and bolts, which is the detail papers most often test.

The Bhupen Hazarika Setu, also called the Dhola Sadiya bridge, runs 9.15 kilometres over the Lohit, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, and joins Dhola in Assam with Sadiya towards Arunachal Pradesh; it was opened in 2017 and is the longest bridge over a river in India.

The bridge crosses the gorge of the Chenab in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on the Udhampur to Srinagar and Baramulla railway line, and its deck stands about 359 metres above the bed of the river, higher than the Eiffel Tower, which makes it the highest railway arch…

The statue of Thiruvalluvar stands on a small island off Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, beside the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, and its height of 133 feet was chosen to match the 133 chapters of the Tirukkural, the poet's work on ethics, wealth and love.