State Exams GK Questions 2026

On 14 September 1949 the Constituent Assembly decided that Hindi written in the Devanagari script would be an official language of the Union, a decision that later became Article 343 of the Constitution, and that date is kept every year as Hindi Diwas.

He was a philosopher and a teacher who became the first Vice President and the second President of India, and when his students wished to celebrate his birthday he asked that the day be kept for teachers instead.

Holding the Ctrl key and clicking anywhere inside a sentence selects that whole sentence, from its first letter to the full stop that ends it, and the selected sentence can then be deleted, moved or formatted in one action.

The Format Painter is the paintbrush shaped button in the Clipboard group of the Home tab.

With a word or a phrase selected, Ctrl + K opens the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, where the selected text can be linked to a web address, to another file, to a place inside the same document such as a heading or a bookmark, or to an email address.

With the cursor on a word, Shift + F7 opens the thesaurus pane, which lists synonyms and, for many words, antonyms, and lets the chosen word be inserted in place of the original.

The ribbon, a strip of tabs each divided into groups of related commands, was introduced across Microsoft Office in the 2007 release and took the place of the drop down menu bar and the floating toolbars used until then.

The Table of Contents command is the first group of the References tab.

A page break ends the current page at the position of the cursor and pushes everything after it to the top of the next page, so that a new chapter or a new heading always begins on a fresh page even if the matter above it is later edited.

Pressing F7 opens the spelling and grammar checker, which moves through the document word by word, marks a word it does not find in its dictionary and offers a list of suggestions, with the choice of ignoring the word once, ignoring it everywhere or adding it to the dictionary.

Justified alignment stretches the spaces between the words of every full line so that the text touches both the left and the right margin and the paragraph looks like a rectangle.

The Mailings tab holds Start Mail Merge, Select Recipients, Insert Merge Field, Preview Results and Finish and Merge, along with the Envelopes and Labels commands.

From Word 2007 onwards a document is saved by default in the Office Open XML format, whose extension is.docx. The format stores the document as compressed XML parts, which makes the file smaller and easier for a damaged file to be recovered from than the older binary format.

A new blank document in Microsoft Word 2016 opens in the Calibri font at a size of 11 points, and the same pair of defaults is used from Word 2007 through Word 2019.

The Nobel Peace Prize of 2014 was shared by Kailash Satyarthi, who has worked for decades against child labour and founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, and Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for the right of girls to go to school.

Tomb of Sand is Daisy Rockwell's English translation of Ret Samadhi, a Hindi novel by Geetanjali Shree about an eighty year old woman who, after the death of her husband, travels to Pakistan to face the memories of Partition.

Amartya Sen was awarded the prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, among them his work on social choice, on poverty and on the causes of famines.

It won the Booker Prize in 2006, and Kiran Desai was at the time the youngest woman to have won the award.

The book is told as a set of letters written by Balram Halwai, a driver who rises from a poor village to become a businessman in Bangalore, and it was later made into a film.

It was later chosen as the Booker of Bookers in 1993 and again as the Best of the Booker in 2008, the only novel to be honoured in that way twice.