State Exams GK Questions 2026

Mehrgarh, on the Bolan river in the Kachi plain of Baluchistan, is the earliest known farming village in the Indian subcontinent, occupied from about 7000 BCE.

A brand is the name, term, sign, symbol or design a seller gives a product so that buyers can tell it apart from everything else on the shelf.

When the British left in 1947, India had, besides the provinces under direct British rule, about 565 princely states whose rulers had accepted British paramountcy.

An echo is the sound heard when a wave is reflected from a distant obstacle and comes back, so in the time measured the sound covers the distance to the cliff and then the same distance back again.

Plant tissues are first divided into meristematic tissue, whose cells keep dividing, and permanent tissue, whose cells have stopped dividing and have taken a fixed shape and job.

The middle ear holds three tiny bones, the smallest in the human body, called the malleus, the incus and the stapes, which in everyday English are the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup.

The force on a current-carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field is found with Fleming's left-hand rule.

Sound is a mechanical wave: it travels only when the particles of a medium push against their neighbours, so the closer and more tightly bound those particles are, the faster the disturbance is passed on.

Electrical energy is power multiplied by time, so the unit follows directly from the units you put in. The oven is rated 2500 W, which is 2500 divided by 1000, that is 2.5 kilowatts.

A unisexual flower carries only one kind of reproductive organ, either stamens or a pistil, while a bisexual flower carries both.

Power is the work done divided by the time taken, and here the work is the potential energy the boy gains while climbing the staircase.

A microphone is a transducer: sound waves strike a thin diaphragm, the diaphragm vibrates, and that mechanical vibration is turned into a varying electric signal.

At sunset the Sun is close to the horizon, so its light travels through a much thicker layer of atmosphere before it reaches the eye.

Fly ash is the fine, powdery residue that rises with the flue gases when pulverised coal is burnt to raise steam in a coal-fired power station.

The correct answer is Monika Juma, named as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, met by the minister to discuss cooperation against narcotics and organised crime and stronger legal and judicial partnerships.

The correct answer is the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, the three laws the minister described as built around technology, faster justice, forensic investigation and digital-first procedures.

The correct answer is Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, where the Congress is being held and where the Indian minister also met the UAE Justice Minister on the sidelines.

The announcement notes that with the valley complete, the drive has now reached the northern, western, eastern and central regions of the country, so the next stop continues a mapped spread rather than a random choice.

Tangdhar lies in a sensitive sector along the Line of Control, and taking cataract, glaucoma and retinal surgery there meant working below ground, where 220 operations were completed over two days.

The correct answer is 364, the total across the two mega camps of the valley.