Uttar Pradesh GK Questions 2026

The Lucknow gharana of Kathak took shape in the court of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh, who was himself a dancer and a composer of thumris under the pen name Akhtarpiya.

The correct answer is the Bloomberg Economy Forum 2026, on the sidelines of which the Union Minister spoke in an exclusive conversation about the peaceful character of India's nuclear programme and the power needs of an economy turning towards artificial intelligence.

The correct answer is Dr. Homi Bhabha, whom Dr. Jitendra Singh recalled as the architect of India's nuclear programme, saying that his vision continues to guide a journey built around peaceful application and national development.

The correct answer is 2070, the year Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh named for India's Net Zero emissions commitment while explaining why nuclear power matters to the country's energy plans.

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said the country's atomic ambitions have to be read against its longer development goals and its clean energy commitments, and named this figure as the nuclear power capacity India is targeting by 2047.

The Kajli or Kajliyan fair of Mahoba is held just after Raksha Bandhan and recalls the battle in which the Bundelkhand heroes Alha and Udal are said to have defended the town; the Alha ballads of the region are sung at it.

Bateshwar lies in Agra district on the Yamuna, where a long row of Shiva temples stands along the ghat; its Kartik Purnima fair is both a bathing fair and one of the biggest animal fairs of Uttar Pradesh, and the Jain tirtha of Shauripur is close by.

Dewa, in Barabanki district, holds the dargah of the Sufi saint Haji Waris Ali Shah, and its annual fair in Kartik draws a large crowd and a well-known mushaira, with Hindus and Muslims both taking part.

The Ramlila of Ramnagar, patronised by the Kashi Naresh, is staged across the town itself, with different localities standing for Ayodhya, Janakpur, Chitrakoot and Lanka, and it runs for about a month from Bhadrapada.

Dev Deepawali falls on the full moon of Kartik, fifteen days after Diwali, when lakhs of earthen lamps are lit on the steps of the Varanasi ghats and floated on the river; the Ganga Mahotsav of music and crafts closes on the same day.

The Nauchandi Mela of Meerut is held on the ground that holds both the Nauchandi Devi temple and the dargah of Bale Miyan, and it begins on the Sunday after Holi.

Lathmar Holi is played between Barsana, remembered as the village of Radha, and Nandgaon, remembered as the village of Krishna: the men of Nandgaon come to Barsana and the women of Barsana drive them back with sticks, which gives the festival its name.

The Magh Mela is held every year on the sands of the Sangam at Prayagraj, running from Paush Purnima to Mahashivratri, and pilgrims who live there through the month under a fixed discipline are called kalpvasis.

Maha Shivratri falls on the Chaturdashi of the dark half of Phalguna, which comes in February or March, and in Uttar Pradesh it is the closing bathing day of the Magh Mela at Prayagraj and the biggest night of the year at the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.

All four Kumbh sites hold a full Kumbh once in about twelve years, but only the two on the Ganga, Prayagraj and Haridwar, also hold an Ardh Kumbh at the halfway point of about six years.

The Kumbh Mela was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017, and it is the element most often quoted from India on that list along with Ramlila, Vedic chanting, Kutiyattam, Chhau, Yoga and Navroz.

Of the four Kumbh sites, Nashik and the neighbouring Trimbakeshwar stand on the Godavari, which rises at Trimbakeshwar itself; the Nashik Kumbh comes when both Jupiter and the Sun are in Leo.

Uttar Pradesh has three World Heritage Sites and all three are in Agra district: the Taj Mahal, built by Shah Jahan in white marble for Mumtaz Mahal; the Agra Fort, raised by Akbar in red sandstone on the Yamuna; and Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's planned capital with the Buland Darwaza, the…

Kushinagar, in the east of the state near Gorakhpur, was the capital of the Malla republic, and the Buddha died there under sal trees; the event is called mahaparinirvana.

Asaf-ud-Daula of Awadh had the Bara Imambara built at Lucknow in 1784 as a famine relief work, so that labourers could earn wages through a year of scarcity.