State Exams GK Questions 2026

India's literacy rate at independence in 1947 is put at about 12 per cent. Colonial education reached only a thin urban layer, and the figure for women was far lower, around six per cent.

Ranmale is a folk theatre of Goa, performed mainly in the Sattari and Sanguem areas. It is staged at night in the open during the Shigmo festival and around Holi, in front of a village temple.

Lead and mercury are in fact the poorest conductors of heat among the metals, so calling them the best is wrong.

Jog Falls is in the Shivamogga district of Karnataka. The Sharavathi river drops about 253 metres here in four separate streams known as Raja, Rani, Rocket and Roarer, which makes Jog one of the highest plunge waterfalls in India.

The Bahmani buildings at Gulbarga belong to the Deccan or Provincial style of Indo-Islamic architecture. When the Bahmani sultanate broke away from Delhi in 1347 it developed its own manner, blending Persian and Turkish ideas brought by architects from Iran with local craft and stone.

The Representation of the People Act was passed in 1951, before the first general election. Parliament made two laws under Articles 327 and 328.

Epithelium covers the body and lines its organs, so it is the protective tissue. It forms the outer layer of the skin, the lining of the mouth, stomach, intestine, blood vessels and kidney tubules.

Silk comes from the cocoon spun by the caterpillar of a moth. The common silk moth is Bombyx mori, and rearing it is called sericulture.

Tholu Bommalata is the leather shadow puppet theatre of Andhra Pradesh. The name means the dance of leather dolls.

Calaverite is gold telluride, with the formula AuTe2. It is one of the very few minerals in which gold occurs chemically combined rather than as the free metal, because gold is a noble metal that usually resists reaction.

The Narmada Bachao Andolan grew up against the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada. The movement began in 1985 under Medha Patkar, with Baba Amte and others joining later.

He founded ISKCON in New York in 1966. Born Abhay Charan De in Calcutta in 1896, he sailed to the United States at the age of sixty-nine with a few rupees and a trunk of books, and began chanting the Hare Krishna mantra in a park in Manhattan.

It lays down the composition of a state's Legislative Council. Under Article 171 the Council cannot have more than one third of the strength of the Legislative Assembly and never fewer than forty members.

The 1983 Cricket World Cup was hosted by England, and the final was played at Lord's in London. India, led by Kapil Dev, beat the West Indies by 43 runs in that final on 25 June 1983, scoring only 183 and then bowling the holders out for 140.

CFCs release chlorine in the stratosphere, and that chlorine destroys ozone. CFCs were used as refrigerants, in aerosol sprays and in foam.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India regulates the securities market and protects investors. SEBI was set up as a non-statutory body in 1988 and was given statutory powers by the SEBI Act of 1992, passed after the Harshad Mehta scam exposed how weak market supervision was.

Muga silk is produced only in Assam and is the state's best known textile. It comes from the semi-domesticated silkworm Antheraea assamensis, which feeds on som and soalu leaves in the Brahmaputra valley.

It was started in Calcutta in 1780 and was the first printed newspaper in India. James Augustus Hicky brought it out as a weekly and called it the Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser.

Barium compounds such as barium nitrate give fireworks and signal flares a bright green flame. The colour comes from a flame test.

Gulbarga was renamed Ahsanabad and made the first capital of the Bahmani kingdom. The Bahmani sultanate was founded in 1347 by Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah, also called Hasan Gangu, after Deccan nobles revolted against Muhammad bin Tughlaq.