State Exams GK Questions 2026

Article 198 lays down the special procedure for Money Bills in a State: such a Bill cannot be introduced in the Legislative Council, and it may be introduced in the Legislative Assembly only on the recommendation of the Governor.

When the Legislative Assembly passes an ordinary Bill and sends it to the Legislative Council, the Council may hold it up for a maximum of three months the first time.

Article 189 provides that the quorum to constitute a meeting of a House of the Legislature of a State shall be ten members or one-tenth of the total number of members of the House, whichever is greater.

Article 173 lays down the qualifications for membership of a State Legislature: the person must be a citizen of India, must make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before a person authorised by the Election Commission, and must be at least 25 years of age for a seat in the…

Article 171 divides a Legislative Council into five parts. One-third of the members are elected by electorates of local bodies such as municipalities and district boards, one-twelfth by graduates of three years standing, one-twelfth by teachers of not lower than secondary school standard with three years standing, and one-third by…

Article 170 says the Legislative Assembly of each State shall consist of not more than 500 and not less than 60 members, chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies in the State.

It empowers Parliament to abolish an existing Legislative Council or to create one in a State that does not have it, provided the Legislative Assembly of that State first passes a resolution by a majority of its total membership and by not less than two-thirds of the members present and…

The Danes acquired Serampore on the Hooghly in 1755 and named it after their king, and the town later became famous as the base of the Baptist missionaries William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward, who printed books in many Indian languages there.

He reached India in 1615 as the accredited ambassador of James I and stayed until 1619, travelling with the Mughal court and obtaining a farman that allowed the English to trade and to set up factories in several parts of the empire.

Portugal gave Bombay to Charles II of England in 1661 as part of the dowry when he married the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza, and in 1668 the King transferred the islands to the East India Company on an annual rent of ten pounds.

Wandiwash, fought in January 1760 during the Third Carnatic War, saw Sir Eyre Coote defeat the Comte de Lally, and the French never recovered their position in India.

She granted the charter on 31 December 1600 to a body formally called the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, giving it an exclusive right for fifteen years to trade east of the Cape of Good Hope.

He obtained the site from the ruler of Bijapur and founded Pondicherry in 1674, and it became the headquarters of the French in India, holding that position until 1954.

The Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, usually called the Dutch East India Company, was created in 1602 when the States General of the Netherlands merged several competing trading ventures and gave the new body a monopoly of eastern trade.

He reached India in 1505 as the first Portuguese Governor and held the office until 1509.

After the Battle of Buxar in October 1764, Robert Clive concluded the Treaty of Allahabad with the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II in 1765, and the emperor granted the Company the Diwani, the right to collect the revenue of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha.

The churches and convents of Old Goa, built after Albuquerque took the city in 1510 and inscribed on the World Heritage list, follow the styles that Portugal itself was using: the ornate late Gothic Manueline manner and, from the late sixteenth century, the Baroque.

Machilipatnam, also written as Masulipatnam, was the first Dutch factory in India, opened in 1605, and the English and the French also traded there; it was never a Portuguese possession.

A Portuguese fleet under Lourenco de Almeida, son of the first Portuguese Governor in India, was driven to the coast of Ceylon in 1505, and the Portuguese soon made a treaty with the ruler of Kotte and built a fort at Colombo.

Capital goods are machines, plant and equipment that are bought not to be consumed but to produce other goods, and a firm orders them only when it expects demand to grow enough to justify adding capacity.