CTET GK Questions 2026

After the annexation of Awadh in 1856 and the exile of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Begum Hazrat Mahal proclaimed her young son Birjis Qadr as the ruler and led the rising at Lucknow; when the city fell she withdrew and finally took refuge in Nepal.

Matangini Hazra, then more than seventy years old, was leading a procession of volunteers towards the Tamluk police station on 29 September 1942 when the police fired; she kept holding the tricolour and chanting Vande Mataram as she fell.

A doctor practising in Singapore, she was given command of the women's regiment that Subhas Chandra Bose announced in July 1943 and named after Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi.

She led a party of revolutionaries of Surya Sen's Chittagong group against the Pahartali European Club on 23 September 1932 and swallowed cyanide to avoid capture, becoming the first woman martyr of Bengal's armed revolutionary movement.

With Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee arrested in the early hours of 9 August 1942, she hoisted the flag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, the ground where the Quit India resolution had been passed the previous evening, and then went underground to direct the movement.

Rakhmabai had been married as a child and refused to join her husband's household as an adult; he went to court for the restitution of conjugal rights, so statement 3 is part of the case.

She presided over the Kanpur session of the Congress in 1925 and was the first Indian woman to hold the office; she is also remembered as the Nightingale of India and as the leader of the Dharasana salt satyagraha of May 1930.

The correct answer is A, Aspergillus niger, a fungus grown on a sugar medium to make most of the world's citric acid, which is used in soft drinks, food and medicines.

The short, sharp heating kills the disease-causing and most spoilage microbes while leaving the taste and most of the food value of the milk unchanged, which is exactly what boiling does not do.

A virus has heredity and mutates like a living thing, yet it has no cell, no metabolism and no means of reproduction of its own; outside a host it is an inert particle that can even be crystallised, as W. M. Stanley showed with the tobacco mosaic virus in 1935…

It spreads through droplets in the air, chiefly attacks the lungs, and is treated with a long and uninterrupted course of several antibiotics.

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae ferments the sugars of the dough into ethanol and carbon dioxide, and the gas, trapped in the gluten, makes the dough rise and leaves the bread spongy; the alcohol evaporates during baking.

Fungi are eukaryotes with a true nucleus, and their wall is built of chitin, the same tough polysaccharide that forms the exoskeleton of insects and crustaceans.

It lives in a symbiotic relationship inside the nodules on the roots of gram, pea, groundnut and other legumes, converting atmospheric nitrogen into compounds the plant can absorb while drawing its food from the plant.

The correct answer is B, measles, a viral disease spread by droplets, which is why it is prevented by vaccination and not treated with antibiotics.

It is the target of penicillin, which blocks its formation, and the amount of it in the wall is what makes a bacterium stain Gram-positive or Gram-negative.

Malaria is caused by the protozoan parasite Plasmodium, of which several species infect human beings, and it is transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito, the male feeding on plant juices.

He noticed that a mould of the genus Penicillium growing by accident on a culture plate had stopped the growth of Staphylococcus around it, and Howard Florey and Ernst Chain later turned that observation into a usable drug, the three sharing the Nobel Prize.

This bacterium ferments the lactose of milk into lactic acid, and the acid makes the milk protein coagulate, which is why a spoonful of old curd added to warm milk sets the whole vessel.

Its salivary glands secrete hirudin, an anticoagulant that keeps the host's blood flowing while the leech feeds, and the same property made leeches a part of old medical practice and a subject of modern research on blood thinners.