Uttar Pradesh Previous Year GK Questions

The Eleventh Schedule was inserted by the Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, 1992 and lists twenty-nine subjects, from agriculture and minor irrigation to drinking water, rural housing, poverty alleviation and the public distribution system, which a State legislature may devolve on the panchayats under Article 243G. Option A is wrong because…

The Viceroy announced the formation of the interim national government on 24 August 1946, and the new Executive Council took office on 2 September 1946 with Jawaharlal Nehru as its Vice-President, which made him in effect the head of government.

Telangana adopted the Indian roller, known in Telugu as palapitta, as its state bird soon after the state was formed in 2014.

Criminal procedure is an entry of the Concurrent List, List III of the Seventh Schedule, along with criminal law and the law of evidence, which is why the code of criminal procedure has always been a central law that States may amend with the President's assent.

Article 3 deals only with territory that is already part of India.

Savarkar had founded a youth body called Mitra Mela at Nasik in 1899 and converted it into the Abhinav Bharat Society in 1904, which spread in Maharashtra and later had branches in London through India House.

Cache is a small quantity of very fast static RAM placed between the processor and main memory to hold the instructions and data most likely to be needed next, and of the options given it has the shortest access time; only the registers inside the processor itself are faster.

Read Only Memory is the permanent or non-volatile memory of a computer: its contents are written once and survive when the power is switched off, which is why the BIOS firmware that starts the machine and runs the power-on self-test is stored in it.

A microprocessor is named after the width of its data bus, that is, the number of bits it can carry in and out in a single operation.

Ajeya Warrior is the bilateral army exercise between India and the United Kingdom, held alternately in the two countries, in which the two armies train together in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations in a built-up and semi-urban setting.

Part II of the Constitution runs from Article 5 to Article 11.

Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution, which contains Articles 5 to 11. These provisions settle who became a citizen of India at the commencement of the Constitution on 26 January 1950 and, through Article 11, leave all later law on citizenship to Parliament.

Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the national flag at Gowalia Tank in Bombay on 9 August 1942, after the arrest of the senior leaders, and then went underground to direct the movement along with Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia, which earned her the name Heroine of the 1942 movement.

The brain is the organ that interprets pain, but its own tissue has no pain receptors, so cutting or pricking it causes no sensation; the covering membranes, the blood vessels and the scalp do have receptors, which is why a headache hurts.

It stands at Bodh Gaya in Bihar beside the Bodhi tree under which Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment, and the teaching he then carried to the world is tied to this spot; a shrine was first raised here in Ashoka's time and the tall brick temple that survives belongs to the…

Subhash Chandra Bose was elected president of the Indian National Congress at the Haripura session in Gujarat in 1938, where he set up a National Planning Committee under Jawaharlal Nehru.

Taking the four in the order they appear in history: Wood's Despatch came first, in 1854, and is called the Magna Carta of English education in India because it laid down a graded system of schools and universities.

Nyaya is the school of logic and holds that liberation follows from correct reasoning, so it pairs with logical thinking.

Ramanuja taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non dualism, in which souls and matter are real but exist as attributes of Brahman.

The savanna is a tropical grassland with tall coarse grass and scattered flat topped trees, and its wet season produces an enormous crop of grass.