State Exams GK Questions 2026

Article 66(3) of the Constitution says a person may be elected Vice-President only if he or she is a citizen of India, has completed 35 years of age and is qualified for election as a member of the Council of States, that is the Rajya Sabha.

The Moplahs, or Mappilas, were Muslim cultivators of the Malabar region of northern Kerala, and their long struggle against the jenmi landlords grew into the Malabar or Moplah rebellion of 1921.

The Loo is the strong, dry and very hot wind that blows over the plains of north and north-west India during the day in May and June.

The International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, was founded at Vienna in 1923 and moved its headquarters to Lyon in France in 1989, where its general secretariat works today.

SAARC was founded by the declaration signed at Dhaka in December 1985 by seven countries, and Afghanistan joined later as the eighth member.

The International Atomic Energy Agency was set up in 1957 and works from Vienna in Austria.

The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in 1945 and works from Rome in Italy. It leads international work on food production, nutrition and rural development, publishes the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, and observes World Food Day on 16 October, the date of its founding.

The International Labour Organization was created in 1919 by Part Thirteen of the Treaty of Versailles, at the end of the First World War, as part of the League of Nations system.

The World Health Organization works from Geneva in Switzerland. Its constitution came into force on 7 April 1948, which is why that date is observed every year as World Health Day, and its governing body, the World Health Assembly, meets in Geneva each May.

The Index of Economic Freedom has been published by this research organisation based at Washington DC since 1995, and it scores countries on matters such as property rights, tax burden, government spending, trade freedom and business regulation.

It is the world authority on chemical nomenclature, so it approves the names and symbols of newly discovered elements, standardises the naming of compounds and maintains the recommended values of atomic weights.

The United Nations works in six official languages, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Of the four names in the list, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese are all official, so only German, the second item, is not.

The conference held in 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States set up two twin institutions, the International Monetary Fund to keep exchange rates orderly and help countries facing balance of payments difficulty, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to lend for reconstruction and…

The Asian Development Bank was founded in 1966 to lend for development in Asia and the Pacific and has its headquarters at Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was founded in 1946 and works from Paris in France.

An Indian Air Force pilot, Rakesh Sharma flew to the Soviet space station Salyut 7 aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in April 1984 as part of a joint mission and spent about a week in orbit, carrying out experiments in biology and remote sensing.

Launched by NASA in 1977, Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and Saturn, then continued outward and has since crossed into interstellar space, making it the farthest human-made object from the earth.

The Chinese mission Chang'e 4 landed on the far side of the Moon in January 2019, the first spacecraft ever to do so, and released the rover Yutu-2.

JAXA stands for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, formed in 2003 by merging three earlier Japanese space bodies, with its headquarters at Tokyo.

The European Space Agency was founded in 1975 by a group of European countries that decided to pool their space work, and its headquarters is in Paris.