State Exams GK Questions 2026

Vitamin D helps the intestine absorb calcium and phosphorus, so without it the bones of a growing child stay soft and bend, giving bow legs, a pigeon chest and a large forehead; this disease is rickets.

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in the USA, detected gravitational waves for the first time in September 2015 (announced in February 2016), and such waves were predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1916.

Milk of magnesia is a white suspension of magnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH)2, in water, and its milky look gives it the name.

Galvanisation is the coating of iron or steel with a thin layer of zinc so that the iron underneath does not rust.

The name of a rowing event tells you both the size of the crew and the way the oars are held: sculling means each rower works a pair of oars, and double means the boat carries two of them.

What the Prime Minister called noteworthy was not the single silver alone but the run behind it: medals at three Asian Games one after another, a record of turning up at the top of the sport over many years rather than in one good season.

Sanda is the full-contact fighting format of wushu and its bouts are decided in weight categories, which is why the weight appears in the name of the event itself.

The money came from the disposal of files, obsolete material and scrap during the month-long drive held from 2 to 31 October 2025.

The campaign is run in two clearly separated stages, and a question of this kind usually turns on telling them apart.

It runs the special campaign across the Government, lays down the parameters against which each office identifies its pending matters, issues the guidelines that offices follow, and takes the reporting of achievements on the campaign portal.

This is the feature that sets the platform apart from a conventional news agency, because a small newspaper can run a national or international story under its own masthead without attributing it to the broadcaster.

Free access has been stretched in steps rather than granted once and for all, which is exactly what makes this a favourite question.

PBSHABD is its free news feed, and the very name carries the parent body in it, since it expands to Prasar Bharati - Shared Audio-Visuals for Broadcast and Dissemination.

The support is deliberately paid month by month over the same six months that now make up the minimum placement period, so that the money helps a candidate stay in a new job and a new city rather than arriving as one lump sum.

The Ministry of Rural Development started the scheme on that date to give placement-linked skill training to youth of 15 to 35 years from poor rural households, and the scheme is marking its twelfth anniversary this year.

Under the earlier design of the scheme a placement counted only when the trained candidate held continuous employment for at least three months, so option A states the old rule and not the present one.

A lactometer floats in milk and shows its relative density. Pure milk is denser than water, so adding water lowers the density and the instrument sinks deeper, which reveals the adulteration.

The horsepower is an older practical unit of power that survives in the rating of engines, pumps and motors, and it equals about 746 watts.

The mole is the chemist's counting unit: one mole of any substance contains the Avogadro number of particles, about six followed by twenty-three zeros, whether those particles are atoms, molecules or ions.

A barometer measures the pressure of the atmosphere, traditionally by balancing it against a column of mercury. It is also used for forecasting weather, because a sudden drop in pressure signals an approaching storm, and for finding altitude, since pressure falls as one rises.