CTET GK Questions 2026

An earthquake is the shaking of the ground when energy stored along a fault is suddenly released, and that shaking sets off further hazards.

The grooves cut into a sole grip the ground, so the foot does not slip while walking or running. Friction is the force that acts between two surfaces in contact and opposes motion between them.

A concave lens is a diverging lens, so for every position of a real object it forms an image that is virtual, erect and diminished.

Campos are the tropical grasslands of the Brazilian Highlands, so this is the only pair in the list that names a tropical grassland.

Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with how sound is produced, how it travels and how it is heard or absorbed.

Drosera, known as the sundew, is an insect-eating plant whose leaves are covered with stalked glands tipped with a shining drop of sticky fluid.

Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt won the Grammy Award in 1994 for the album A Meeting by the River, which he recorded with the American slide guitarist Ry Cooder in the world music category.

A monograph on this eminent modern Indian painter, known for his bold lines, vibrant colours and a distinctive fusion of traditional Indian and modern art, was released at the exhibition.

The Secretary of the Lalit Kala Akademi said the edition attracted more than six thousand entries, and from that pool two hundred and seventy artists were chosen through a jury that screened the work in two rounds.

The correct answer is the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's national academy of fine arts, which works under the Ministry of Culture and organises the National Exhibition of Art. At the sixty fifth edition the Union Minister of Culture and Tourism, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, was the Chief Guest and felicitated twenty…

The pulmonary artery is the one artery in the body that carries deoxygenated blood. It leaves the right ventricle and takes blood that has returned from the body's tissues to the lungs, where carbon dioxide is given up and fresh oxygen is picked up.

Animal tissues are grouped into four kinds — epithelial, muscular, connective and nervous — and areolar is not one of them, because it is only a type of connective tissue.

The alveoli are the tiny balloon-like air sacs at the ends of the smallest airways, and their thin walls are the surface where gases are exchanged.

The workshop highlighted the integration of spatial information with the Gram Panchayat Development Plan process, with the eGramSwaraj platform and with this index as a means of making planning evidence-based and oriented towards convergence between departments and schemes.

He attended the inaugural session as the Guest of Honour and used his remarks to call for a move away from sector-wise planning towards a spatial approach, with greater weight given to human and social capital and to the building of local economic clusters.

Participants at the workshop discussed the constitutional foundation of panchayati raj under this amendment and under Part IX of the Constitution, which together give village level bodies their status, and the deliberations moved on from there to activity mapping, financial resources, staffing, decision-making powers, Gram Sabha participation and institutional accountability.

The workshop on connecting people, places, resources and opportunities through stronger panchayats was an initiative under this mission, and it was conducted in collaboration with the state institute of panchayat and rural development of the Government of Assam.

That is the number of forest officers honoured at the fourth edition of the Eco Warrior Awards for exemplary contribution to environmental conservation, in addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award presented separately to a senior officer of the service.

The Special Projects Recognition at the fourth edition of the awards went to these two efforts for their contribution to the conservation of species and of habitat, the bustard project being the one running in Rajasthan.

It organises the Eco Warrior Awards and the Eco Warrior Conclave jointly with Indian Masterminds, and the fourth edition was held in New Delhi under the chairmanship of the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.