CTET GK Questions 2026

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was born on 15 September 1861 in Mysore state, and he is remembered for the Krishna Raja Sagara dam, the block system of irrigation gates and his years as Diwan of Mysore.

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, was born on 14 November 1889, and because of his affection for children, who called him Chacha Nehru, the date was adopted as Children's Day or Bal Diwas.

Dr Radhakrishnan, philosopher, professor and the second President of India, was born on 5 September 1888. When students wished to celebrate his birthday in 1962, he suggested that the day be kept for teachers instead, and it has been Teachers' Day ever since.

Swami Vivekananda was born on 12 January 1863 at Kolkata, and the Government of India declared his birthday National Youth Day in 1984, first observed in 1985, because his writings and his address at the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893 are held up as a model for young…

A revision of this agreement between India and France is currently under way and the two ministers took it up during their talks.

During the bilateral meeting, French institutions were asked to look at opening branch campuses in India, and that financial and business hub was named as one suitable location.

Philippe Baptiste holds that combined portfolio in France, which is why his talks in New Delhi with the Union Minister for Education covered universities, research collaboration and innovation together.

The Eskimos, who call themselves Inuit, live in the polar region, that is the Arctic lands of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska and eastern Siberia.

Mulching means covering the bare soil between plants with a layer of organic matter such as straw, dry leaves, husk or grass clippings.

Dendrites and the axon are the two kinds of processes that grow out of a neuron, the nerve cell that carries messages through the body.

India showcased it at the Rome session as a whole-of-government and whole-of-society initiative, and reported that more than 3.5 billion saplings have been planted under it.

India reaffirmed this commitment at the forestry session in Rome and reported that 21.76 million hectares have already been brought under restoration, which shows how much of the pledge has been covered.

India gave this pair of figures in its statement at the 28th session of the FAO Committee on Forestry in Rome, while describing the steady growth of its forest resources.

The Lancet is wrong because the study was not carried in it, although it is among the best known medical journals and therefore a tempting distractor.

Participants were randomly assigned to receive either this standardised aqueous extract or a matching placebo, and the assignment was double-blind, meaning neither the participants nor the assessors knew which arm a person belonged to.

The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial enrolled that many apparently healthy adults between eighteen and seventy years of age, each of whom had already received a first, second or booster dose of the COVISHIELD vaccine, across seven study sites in India.

Mulching means covering the bare ground between plants with straw, dry leaves or crop waste, so that the soil holds moisture and raindrops cannot beat the topsoil loose.

Marble is a metamorphic rock, formed when limestone is changed deep inside the earth by great heat and pressure; the Taj Mahal is built of it.

Coniferous forests grow in the cold northern belt of Asia, Europe and North America and are made of softwood evergreen trees such as pine, fir and spruce, whose light wood is used for paper and furniture.

Human beings are ureotelic, which means the main nitrogen waste they pass out is urea. When the body breaks down extra amino acids, ammonia is produced, and ammonia is highly poisonous even in small amounts.