Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

When the ray makes 90 degrees with the surface it is travelling along the normal, so the angle of incidence measured from the normal is zero and the ray goes straight on without bending.

A URL is the address of a web resource: it says where the resource sits on the network and, through the scheme written in front, how it is to be fetched.

In a web address the part before the colon and the two slashes names the protocol, so http, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the set of rules by which a browser asks a server for a page and the server answers.

Tarun Bharat Sangh works on water conservation, and its base is at Bhikampura in Alwar district of Rajasthan.

Newcastle disease is called Ranikhet disease in India because the first serious outbreak in the country was reported from Ranikhet in the Kumaon hills, while the name Newcastle comes from Newcastle upon Tyne in England, where it was identified in 1926.

Capra hircus is the scientific name of the domestic goat, in which Capra is the genus and hircus the species, written in the two-word form that Carl Linnaeus gave to biology.

Bakelite is a thermosetting polymer, made by condensing phenol with formaldehyde, and once it has set under heat its chains are cross-linked, so it cannot be melted and moulded again.

A catalytic poison is a substance that lowers or destroys the activity of a catalyst, usually because it sticks firmly to the active surface and leaves no room for the reactants.

A suspension is a heterogeneous mixture because the particles of the solute are large enough to be seen, they do not dissolve, they settle when the mixture is left standing and they can be separated by filtering.

Chemical equilibrium is a dynamic state: both reactions go on, but at the same speed, so no net change is seen.

The earthworm is called the farmer's friend because its work keeps soil fit for crops. As it burrows it loosens the soil and lets air and water reach the roots, and the castings it leaves behind are rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, so the topsoil is steadily renewed.

A price index measures how the price of a commodity or of a basket of goods has moved between a base period and the current period, so the price of wheat over the years is read from a price index.

Net investment is gross investment minus depreciation, that is, the addition to the stock of capital left after making good the wear and tear of existing machines, buildings and equipment.

Sem is the local word for waterlogging with salt, and it hurts Sriganganagar and Hanumangarh the most because these districts lie in the command area of the Gang Canal and the Indira Gandhi Canal.

The engineer Kanwar Sain conceived the plan in 1948 of carrying the surplus water of the Sutlej and the Beas into the Thar desert, and the canal was taken up on his design.

Tube wells irrigate the largest share of the net irrigated area of Rajasthan, and groundwater drawn through tube wells and wells together waters the greater part of the state's fields.

Census 2011 put the rural sex ratio at 949 females per thousand males and the urban sex ratio at 929, while the figure for the country as a whole was 943, the highest since 1951.

The Roaring Forties are the strong westerly winds of the southern hemisphere between about 40 and 50 degrees south. They blow with such force because there is almost no land in that belt to slow them down, so sailing ships once used them on the route to Australia.

Mawat is the local name in Rajasthan and the neighbouring plains for the light winter rain brought by western disturbances.

Smallest to largest, Europe covers about 10.2 million square kilometres, Antarctica about 14 million, South America about 17.8 million and North America about 24.7 million.