State Exams GK Questions 2026

Le Corbusier is counted as a French architect. He was born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in Switzerland in 1887, settled in Paris, took French citizenship in 1930 and worked from France for the rest of his life.

Crown gall is caused by the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which enters through a wound near the base, or crown, of the stem and makes the plant grow rough tumour-like swellings there.

The pulmonary artery is the one artery in the body that carries deoxygenated blood. It leaves the right ventricle and takes blood that has returned from the body's tissues to the lungs, where carbon dioxide is given up and fresh oxygen is picked up.

Mizoram is a full state, not a Union Territory. It was carved out of Assam as a Union Territory in 1972, and after the Mizo Accord of 1986 it became a state on 20 February 1987 under the 53rd Constitutional Amendment, on the same day as Arunachal Pradesh.

Animal tissues are grouped into four kinds — epithelial, muscular, connective and nervous — and areolar is not one of them, because it is only a type of connective tissue.

A wet chemical extinguisher sprays a fine mist of a potassium salt solution — usually potassium acetate, potassium citrate or potassium carbonate — so potassium is the working element inside it.

The domestic goat is treated as a subspecies of the wild goat, so its name carries three parts — the genus Capra, the species aegagrus and the subspecies hircus.

Article 226 gives every High Court the power to issue writs for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights. The five writs are habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto.

The alveoli are the tiny balloon-like air sacs at the ends of the smallest airways, and their thin walls are the surface where gases are exchanged.

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, has four members — India, the United States, Japan and Australia — and Indonesia is not one of them.

A Council of Ministers is a body made up of ministers, so it comes into being only once each of them has been sworn in.

In a database such as Microsoft Access, the view that shows a table as rows and columns, looking like a spreadsheet grid, is called Datasheet view.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in The Social Contract (1762) that the English people are free only during the election of members of Parliament, and are slaves once the election is over.

Pressure counted from a perfect vacuum as the zero point is called absolute pressure. A perfect vacuum holds no gas and exerts no pressure, so it is the true zero of any pressure scale.

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is the oldest arm of the World Bank Group and the body people mean when they say 'World Bank'.

India's Standard Meridian, 82°30′E, crosses five states on its way south. Indian Standard Time is fixed by the local time of this meridian, which passes close to Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, so IST is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

The workshop highlighted the integration of spatial information with the Gram Panchayat Development Plan process, with the eGramSwaraj platform and with this index as a means of making planning evidence-based and oriented towards convergence between departments and schemes.

He attended the inaugural session as the Guest of Honour and used his remarks to call for a move away from sector-wise planning towards a spatial approach, with greater weight given to human and social capital and to the building of local economic clusters.

Participants at the workshop discussed the constitutional foundation of panchayati raj under this amendment and under Part IX of the Constitution, which together give village level bodies their status, and the deliberations moved on from there to activity mapping, financial resources, staffing, decision-making powers, Gram Sabha participation and institutional accountability.

The workshop on connecting people, places, resources and opportunities through stronger panchayats was an initiative under this mission, and it was conducted in collaboration with the state institute of panchayat and rural development of the Government of Assam.