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Uttar Pradesh GK Questions 2026

Static GK is the larger share of General Studies in both exams. The PCS Prelims General Studies-I paper covers the history of India and the national movement, Indian and world geography, polity and governance, economic and social development, environment and general science, with special reference to Uttar Pradesh. The Mains adds four national General Studies papers and two papers on Uttar Pradesh alone. PET 2026 gives 5 marks each to Indian History, the National Movement, Geography, the Economy, the Constitution and Public Administration, and General Science, set at NCERT secondary and senior secondary level. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes, written as short facts and tables in English and Hindi so a topic can be revised in one sitting. The notes cover national GK; GK24 does not yet have a separate Uttar Pradesh GK section. As guidance, use them for the national part of both exams and add UP history, culture, geography, economy and schemes from the state government's own publications for General Studies-V and VI. Read a topic, solve its quiz, then check the previous-year questions to see how it is asked.

Uttar Pradesh GK Questions with Answers

Q261.Science & TechnologyMedium

Shri S. Krishnan, who delivered the keynote address at the Tech Conclave, holds which post?

  1. A.Director General, STPI
  2. B.Director, IIT (BHU)
  3. C.Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  4. D.Chief Executive Officer, Uttar Pradesh Startup Mission
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Correct answer: C. Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Shri S. Krishnan spoke in that capacity, holding that artificial intelligence can make health care easier to reach, strengthen clinical decision-making and improve the delivery of services, particularly for communities with little access to health facilities.

Q262.Science & TechnologyEasy

Which organisation, working under MeitY, held the Tech Conclave on AI for Health and Assistive Technologies with CIIE, IIT (BHU)?

  1. A.National Informatics Centre
  2. B.Software Technology Parks of India
  3. C.Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
  4. D.Education and Research Network
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Correct answer: B. Software Technology Parks of India

It is a science and technology organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and it held the conclave on AI for Health and Assistive Technologies jointly with the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship of IIT (BHU) on the institute's campus at Varanasi.

Q263.Uttar PradeshAsked in: SSC CGL · 16 Aug 2021, Shift 3Medium

Who among the following was one of the leaders who were instrumental in convincing Mahatma Gandhi about the need to start a non-cooperation movement in support of the Khilafat?

  1. A.Shaukat Ali
  2. B.Mohammad Ali Jinnah
  3. C.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  4. D.Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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Correct answer: A. Shaukat Ali

Shaukat Ali and his brother Muhammad Ali, the Ali brothers of Rampur in the United Provinces, led the Khilafat agitation and met Mahatma Gandhi to argue that the Khilafat cause and swaraj should be fought together.

Q264.Uttar PradeshAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 7 March 2019, Shift 1Easy

In which year did the Khilafat Movement start?

  1. A.1922
  2. B.1923
  3. C.1919
  4. D.1921
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Correct answer: C. 1919

After the defeat of Turkey in the First World War, Indian Muslims feared for the position of the Sultan of Turkey as Khalifa, and an All India Khilafat Committee was formed in 1919, holding its first conference at Delhi in November of that year.

Q265.Uttar PradeshMedium

Who became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963, the first woman to head a state government in India?

  1. A.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  2. B.Sucheta Kripalani
  3. C.Aruna Asaf Ali
  4. D.Sarojini Naidu
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Correct answer: B. Sucheta Kripalani

A Congress leader who had taken part in the Quit India movement, she became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963 and was the first woman to hold that office in any Indian state, which is how the question is usually framed.

Q268.Uttar PradeshMedium

The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was an agreement between which two bodies?

  1. A.The Congress and the Hindu Mahasabha
  2. B.The Congress and the Muslim League
  3. C.The Muslim League and the British government
  4. D.The Congress and the Khilafat Committee
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Correct answer: B. The Congress and the Muslim League

At their sessions held at Lucknow in 1916 the two bodies agreed on a joint scheme of reforms, with the Congress accepting separate electorates for Muslims, and the Moderates and Extremists of the Congress came together again in the same session.

Q269.Uttar PradeshMedium

Chandra Shekhar Azad died fighting the police on 27 February 1931 at which place?

  1. A.Kakori, near Lucknow
  2. B.Alfred Park, Allahabad
  3. C.Lahore Central Jail
  4. D.Chauri Chaura, Gorakhpur
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Correct answer: B. Alfred Park, Allahabad

Azad had rebuilt the revolutionary party as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association after the Kakori trial, and on 27 February 1931 he was surrounded by the police in Alfred Park at Allahabad and died there fighting.

Q270.Uttar PradeshMedium

Banaras Hindu University was founded in 1916 by which leader?

  1. A.Madan Mohan Malaviya
  2. B.Motilal Nehru
  3. C.Purushottam Das Tandon
  4. D.Annie Besant
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Correct answer: A. Madan Mohan Malaviya

Malaviya, a Congress leader from Allahabad, founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916 and served as its head for many years; the university remains the largest institution the national movement created in the province.

Q271.Uttar PradeshMedium

Who led the Kakori train action of 9 August 1925?

  1. A.Chandra Shekhar Azad
  2. B.Ram Prasad Bismil
  3. C.Bhagat Singh
  4. D.Sachindra Nath Sanyal
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Correct answer: B. Ram Prasad Bismil

The Hindustan Republican Association, organised at Kanpur in 1924, needed funds for arms, and Bismil planned and led the stopping of a train carrying government money near Kakori, outside Lucknow, on 9 August 1925.

Q277.Uttar PradeshHard

On what ground did Lord Dalhousie annex Awadh in 1856, a step that deepened the discontent of 1857?

  1. A.The Doctrine of Lapse
  2. B.Alleged misgovernment
  3. C.Failure to pay the subsidy
  4. D.Escheat for want of heirs
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Correct answer: B. Alleged misgovernment

Awadh had been a loyal ally of the Company for decades and had an heir, so the Doctrine of Lapse could not be applied; Dalhousie therefore annexed it in 1856 on the plea that it was badly governed, and Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was pensioned off and exiled to Calcutta.