State Exams GK Questions 2026

The enzyme breaks the β-lactam ring that gives penicillin its power. Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 from the mould Penicillium notatum.

In an insulator the electrons are tightly bound to their atoms, so there are almost no free electrons to carry a current.

Zinc gives up electrons more readily than iron, so it corrodes first and keeps the iron safe. Coating iron or steel with a thin layer of zinc is called galvanisation.

An ECG records the electrical signals that make the heart muscle contract with each beat. Each heartbeat starts at the sino-atrial (SA) node, the natural pacemaker in the right atrium.

An echo is sound that bounces back from a hard surface such as a wall, cliff or hill and reaches our ears again.

Both stress and pressure are force per unit area, so both are measured in newton per square metre, or pascal (Pa).

A step-up transformer raises an alternating voltage, using more turns in its secondary coil than in its primary. A transformer works on electromagnetic induction and only with alternating current.

She won Miss Universe in 1994, becoming the first Indian to do so, but she never held the Miss World title.

For an object between F and P, the image forms behind the mirror, not at infinity. When an object is placed between the pole and the principal focus of a concave mirror, the reflected rays spread out and never meet in front of the mirror.

It comes from the rise and fall of sea tides, a renewable source that is not among the traditional fuels.

Heat makes the copper wire expand a little, and a longer pendulum swings a little more slowly. The time period of a simple pendulum is T = 2π√(L/g), so it grows with the square root of the length.

This is the law of conservation of energy: energy only changes from one form to another. In any isolated system the total energy stays the same.

Veer Baal Diwas is observed on 26 December to honour the martyrdom of the two youngest sons of Guru Gobind Singh.

This reverses the truth: a voltmeter has a very high resistance and an ammeter a very low one. An ammeter measures the current flowing through a circuit, so it is placed in series and the whole current passes through it.

In the Kachchh city stretch, which takes in Gandhidham and Bhuj, its average download speed was measured at 231.92 Mbps on 5G and 4G. Airtel came next at 177.25 Mbps on the same technologies, so option A is wrong on the ranking though the operator did well.

That is a commercial measure of what an operator earns from each subscriber, and it has no place in a drive test, which looks only at the quality of service experienced on the ground.

The drive test also covered the highway running from Bhuj to Bhachau, and all of it lay within the Gujarat licensed service area.

It conducts Independent Drive Tests to check, on the ground, the real-time quality of voice and data services offered by telecom service providers, and publishes the findings so that consumers know what to expect and operators have reason to improve.

The campaign was implemented from 2 October 2026 and closes on 31 October 2026, and the Railways reported crossing several of its targets as that closing date drew near.

As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Railway Board he took part in Rail Jan Samvaad at New Delhi on 22 October 2026 and met stakeholders there, while the Secretary of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances attended the same programme at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in…