Rajasthan GK Questions 2026

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.

The Pushkar valley in Ajmer district is the rose belt of Rajasthan, and its desi gulab is grown on a large scale for processing rather than for cut flowers.

Both temples belong to the Gurjara-Pratihara style, the western Indian form of the Nagara tradition that grew under Pratihara rule between the eighth and the eleventh centuries.

On 4 July 1776 the Second Continental Congress, meeting at Philadelphia, adopted the Declaration of Independence, by which thirteen colonies broke away from British rule.

Bloody Sunday took place in Saint Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, on 22 January 1905, when troops fired on a peaceful procession of workers.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement met at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, in September 1961, and twenty-five countries took part.

Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, announced his partition plan on 3 June 1947, which is why it is also called the June Third Plan.

Bhulabhai Desai led the defence at the Red Fort trials of the Indian National Army officers, and his argument that the soldiers of a recognised army were fighting for their country's freedom turned the trials into a public cause.

The Liberal leader Tej Bahadur Sapru, working with M. R. Jayakar, brought Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin to the table and is remembered as the mediator of the pact.

Article 243G allows a state legislature to endow Panchayats with the powers and authority they need to work as institutions of self-government.

Parliament frames a charge, takes evidence and gives the President a hearing, so the two Houses act like a court even though they are law-making bodies.

The recovery programme is a joint effort of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Rajasthan Forest Department and the Wildlife Institute of India, with technical collaboration from the International Fund for Houbara Conservation and funding support from National CAMPA.

The bird is the State bird of Rajasthan, and the Chief Minister called the day of its rewilding a day of pride for the whole State, noting that the species is part of the cultural heritage of the Thar and has been brought back from the brink of extinction.

The two captive-bred birds were moved from a soft-release facility at this park in the Thar desert, with the Union Environment Minister present at the site and the Chief Minister of Rajasthan joining by video conference during Wildlife Week 2026.

The bureau deliberately took its programmes into the licensed poppy-growing tracts of Rajasthan, holding meetings for cultivators in Kota, Jhalawar, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Pratapgarh and Udaipur districts, including villages such as Mangrol and one near Babrikhda in Jhalrapatan tehsil.

The student session at the University of Kota was organised by CBN Kota under this campaign, with Deputy Narcotics Commissioner Naresh Bundel as chief guest and the university Registrar Murlidhar Pratihar present; participants ended the session by taking the Nasha Mukti Pledge.

The release on the Rajasthan Unit’s anti-addiction programmes was issued under the Ministry of Finance, which is the parent ministry of the Central Bureau of Narcotics; the bureau licenses and supervises legal opium poppy cultivation.

National Anti-Drug Addiction Day falls on 2 October, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and the Central Bureau of Narcotics tied its Rajasthan programmes to Gandhi’s message of self-discipline and social responsibility.