State Exams GK Questions 2026

The reverse repo rate is the rate at which the Reserve Bank of India borrows from commercial banks, that is, the rate it pays banks for parking their surplus money with it for a short term.

Phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine and argon all sit in the third period of the periodic table, so their electrons fill the same three shells.

The National Film Awards are organised by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which handles films, broadcasting and the press.

Overgrazing is a cause of soil degradation, not a way to conserve soil, so it is the option that does not belong.

The law of variable proportions divides short run production into three stages. In stage one, increasing returns, both total and marginal product rise because the fixed factor is still under used.

Nagabhata I founded the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty in the middle of the eighth century, with his power centred on Avanti and Ujjain in western India.

The Ali brothers, Maulana Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, led the Khilafat Movement that began in 1919. Its demand was that the British restore the position of the Ottoman Sultan, the Caliph, whose empire had been broken up after the First World War by the Treaty of Sevres.

Group 15, the nitrogen family, holds nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth. Only nitrogen and phosphorus are non-metals; arsenic and antimony are metalloids and bismuth is a metal, so the group has exactly two non-metallic elements.

The blackbuck, called Krishna Jinka in Telugu, is the state animal of Andhra Pradesh. It is an antelope of open grassland and scrub; the male turns dark brown to black with age and carries long spiral horns, while the female stays fawn coloured and usually hornless.

A pH of 11.6 means the soil is strongly alkaline, so it has to be treated with something acidic, and aluminium sulphate is the only acidic compound in the list.

The marginal product of a variable factor first rises, reaches a peak and then falls, so the curve traced out is an inverted U. This is the law of variable proportions at work.

Akbar founded Din-i-Ilahi in 1582, a small spiritual order that he built out of ideas drawn from several faiths.

The municipal council there collects 300 to 350 kg of sanitary waste a day from hospitals, clinics, households and other premises, placed red bins inside public toilets, and worked with women residents to form awareness groups that carried the message through residential areas.

The structure built by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation at Sector 14, Koparkhairane, uses 426 square metres of recycled plastic sheeting, which includes 5.3 metric tonnes of single-use plastic, and the builders also reused 85 repurposed computer keyboards and 284 kg of scrap metal.

It holds three Indian-style and two Western-style commodes, a sanitary napkin vending machine and an incinerator for menstrual hygiene, and a dedicated space where mothers can feed babies and change nappies, while its sensor lights run on solar power the facility itself generates.

The correct answer is 2 October 2014, the date from which the mission counts the twelve years it now completes.

The host state added a specific claim worth remembering: its Additional Chief Secretary for Finance said West Bengal has for the first time mapped its budget to the goal level of the Goals and has built the exercise into its Integrated Financial Management System.

The guide was taken up at the workshop as a working framework for aligning state budgets with the Goals, and the presence of the national auditor among its authors is the detail that gives the question its edge: tagging expenditure is not only a planning exercise but also one that…

Alongside these participants, the workshop drew senior officials from NITI Aayog, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the Controller General of Accounts, the Department of Public Enterprises and the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, as well as the United…

The correct answer is the State Support Mission, the initiative under which NITI Aayog works with states on planning and budgeting, and under which this workshop was held with the Government of West Bengal and technical support from the United Nations Development Programme.