Uttar Pradesh GK Questions 2026

Protecting monuments and places of national importance is not a fundamental duty; it is a directive principle under Article 49, which asks the State to protect monuments and objects of artistic or historic interest declared to be of national importance.

A galvanometer detects whether a current is flowing in a circuit and shows its direction, because its needle moves to one side or the other about a central zero.

The Banking Ombudsman is a senior officer appointed by the Reserve Bank of India to hear and settle customer complaints about deficiency in banking service.

Sucheta Kripalani became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on 2 October 1963 and held the office till 1967, which made her the first woman to head any state government in India.

Computer memory is counted in powers of two because a binary machine addresses memory in twos, so each step up the ladder is 1024 of the unit below it, not 1000.

A conservative force is one whose work depends only on the starting and the finishing point, not on the path taken, and whose work around any closed path is zero.

After attaining enlightenment, the Buddha walked to Sarnath near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and gave his first sermon there to the five ascetics who had once been his companions.

A computer works on binary digital signals, and an output device turns the processed result into a form a person can see, hear or hold: a monitor shows it as a picture, a printer puts it on paper, a speaker turns it into sound and a plotter draws it.

This law makes the right to work a legal guarantee: every rural household whose adult members are willing to do unskilled manual work is entitled to at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year.

The Preamble states the aims and the source of authority of the Constitution, but it gives no right and imposes no duty that a court can enforce, so no one can go to court merely on the strength of the Preamble.

The Attorney General of India is dealt with in Article 76, which falls in Part V of the Constitution, the part on the Union, and not in Part XIII.

The Indian Institute of Pulses Research works at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh and is one of the institutes of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

MS Word is a word processor made by Microsoft, and any program written to do a particular job for the user is application software.

The National Green Tribunal was set up on 18 October 2010 under the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010. It is a special court for cases about environmental protection, forests and other natural resources, and it is required to dispose of an application within six months.

Khabar Lahriya was started in 2002 in the Chitrakoot region of Uttar Pradesh, which lies in the Bundelkhand belt.

The name comes from the katha or story that the wandering storytellers of northern India told through gesture, and the form took its present shape in the temples of Braj and the courts of Lucknow and Jaipur.

He led the government of the United Provinces before independence and continued as the first Chief Minister of the state after it, staying in office through the renaming of 1950.

Uttar Pradesh is one of the few states where the High Court does not sit in the capital: its principal seat is at Prayagraj and it has a bench at Lucknow, an arrangement that goes back to the merger of the courts of Agra and Oudh.

The deep alluvial soil of the Ganga plain, the canal network of the western districts and a long growing season have made the state the leading producer of sugarcane in the country, and its western belt around Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur holds a large share of the sugar mills.

He raised the funds and pushed through the legislation for Banaras Hindu University, which was founded at Varanasi in 1916 and became one of the largest residential universities in Asia.