State Exams GK Questions 2026

When the sepoys at Bareilly rose on 31 May 1857, Khan Bahadur Khan, a grandson of the Rohilla chief Hafiz Rahmat Khan, took charge of the town and of much of Rohilkhand.

The Ghadar Party was formed in 1913 by Indian immigrants on the Pacific coast of the USA and Canada, most of them Punjabi Sikh farmers and workers.

The Hathigumpha or ‘elephant cave’ inscription is carved in the Udayagiri hills near Bhubaneswar in Odisha and is the main record of Kharavela, the Jain king of Kalinga of the Mahameghavahana (Chedi) dynasty, who ruled around the first century BCE.

On 13 April 1919, General Dyer’s troops fired on an unarmed crowd at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, killing hundreds.

Jones, a judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta and a scholar of many languages, founded the Asiatic Society on 15 January 1784 to study the history, languages and culture of Asia.

The Pali text Milindapanho, ‘The Questions of King Milinda’, records a long question-and-answer session between the Buddhist monk Nagasena and King Milinda.

C. Rajagopalachari, known as C.R. or Rajaji, drew up the formula in 1944 to end the Congress–League deadlock over Pakistan.

Kharosthi was written from right to left, like the Aramaic script from which it grew. It was the script of Gandhara in the north-west, now in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and was used roughly from the third century BCE to the third century CE, mostly for Prakrit.

Valmiki National Park and Bhimbandh Wildlife Sanctuary are both in Bihar, while the other two are in other States. Valmiki National Park, with its tiger reserve, lies in West Champaran district in the far north-west of Bihar, along the Nepal border, where it adjoins Nepal's Chitwan National Park.

Carbon dioxide, water vapour and CFCs are all greenhouse gases, because each of them traps the heat that the Earth gives off and warms the lower atmosphere.

The liver needs vitamin K to make prothrombin and other clotting factors, so without it blood takes much longer to clot.

Milk contains very little vitamin C, and what little there is gets destroyed further when milk is boiled. Milk is otherwise called a nearly complete food: it gives calcium and phosphorus for bones and teeth, good-quality protein, mainly casein, the sugar lactose, fat, and vitamins A, B2 and B12.

Each stoma is surrounded by two guard cells, and the pore opens or closes as these cells gain or lose water.

Aluminium oxide and zinc oxide behave like a base with acids and like an acid with bases, so both are amphoteric.

Money from National Savings Certificates belongs to the savers, not the government, so under Article 266(2) it is credited to the Public Account.

Fiscal policy is the government's use of taxation and public spending, so taxes are its main tool. In India, fiscal policy is run by the Union Government through the Ministry of Finance, and the Union Budget is its yearly statement.

Neither the Kosi division nor the Magadh division touches the Ganga, while every other division named in the options does.

The Sargasso Sea lies in the middle of the North Atlantic and is the only sea in the world with no coastline.

Piedmont swamp soil is found only in the north-western part of West Champaran, at the foot of the Someshwar hills.

The Lilajan and the Mohana meet a few kilometres below Bodh Gaya, and from there the combined stream is called the Phalgu.