State Exams GK Questions 2026

The 56 K rating of a modem means it can transfer data at up to 56 kilobits per second, so the figure describes speed, not size.

An ATM set up, owned and operated by a non-bank company registered under the Companies Act is called a white label ATM, because it carries no bank's logo.

In a packet switched network a packet meets four kinds of delay at every router on its path, and transmission, processing and queuing delays are three of them.

The ones complement of a binary number is found by simply inverting every bit, turning each 0 into 1 and each 1 into 0.

Bacteria are grouped by shape, and bacilli are the rod-shaped ones; the Latin word bacillus itself means a small rod or stick.

Patachitra is the traditional cloth-scroll painting of Odisha, closely tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri. The word comes from pata, meaning cloth, and chitra, meaning picture.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for its eighth session in 1953, becoming the first Indian and the first woman in the world to hold that office.

Thrust is the force acting perpendicular to a surface, and the thrust acting on unit area of that surface is called pressure, so pressure = thrust ÷ area.

The Ryder Cup is a team golf tournament, played between teams representing the United States and Europe. It began in 1927 and is named after Samuel Ryder, the English seed merchant who donated the trophy.

Computer storage is counted in powers of two, so each step up the ladder multiplies by 1024, and one gigabyte equals 1024 megabytes.

Work done in moving a charge through a potential difference is W = Q × V, so W = 2 × 12 = 24 joule.

Maharishi Gautama, also called Akshapada Gautama, founded the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy and wrote its basic text, the Nyaya Sutra.

The tomb of Sher Shah Suri stands at Sasaram in the Rohtas district of Bihar, the town where he grew up.

The Second Anglo-Mysore War ran from 1780 to 1784. It began when the English took Mahe, a French port inside Haidar Ali's territory, and he answered by attacking the Carnatic.

In MS Word 365 the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + I switches the document to print preview and, pressed again, brings you back to the normal view.

Use the third equation of motion, which links velocity and distance without needing time: v squared equals u squared plus 2as.

The Dashavatara Temple stands at Deogarh in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the Betwa, and was built of stone around the sixth century in the late Gupta period.

Robert Clive signed the two Treaties of Allahabad in August 1765, the year after the English won the Battle of Buxar.

Article 168 provides for the constitution of Legislatures in the states. It says every state shall have a Legislature made up of the Governor and either one House or two Houses.

A joystick is an input device with a stick fixed in a base that can be tilted in several directions, and the movement of the stick moves an image or a pointer on the screen in the same direction.