Teaching GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is Kozhikode, the city in Kerala where Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the festival and where he also released a book and gave away an award.

Alongside the purse, every awardee receives a Tamrapatra, the copper plaque that carries the citation, and an Angavastram, the ceremonial shawl presented at the function.

The correct answer is 106 young artists, drawn from music, dance and drama, who will be given the award for the two years taken together at the New Delhi ceremony.

The correct answer is the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the national academy for music, dance and drama, which created the Yuva Puraskar in 2006 for artists up to the age of 40 and has conferred it every year since at a ceremony reserved for young performers.

By origin, resources are either biotic, which come from living things, or abiotic, which come from non-living things. Biotic resources are obtained from the biosphere and have life: plants, animals, fish, livestock and human beings.

Gypsum was identified there and also in the Tiruchirappalli Badlands, a semi-arid geological and palaeoclimatic terrain in Tamil Nadu, and both places therefore qualify as Martian analogue sites for the study of past water activity.

The laser Raman spectrometer used for the work is supported under the DST-FIST programme at that department, and the research team was led by Dr. Sajin Kumar K. S., who is the Project Coordinator of DST-FIST.

At Neyveli the mineral forms from marcasite in the lignite substratum through sulphide oxidation, and it records short-lived wet, acidic and oxidising conditions of the kind believed to have produced sulphates on Mars.

The corpus is listed there as the SPICOR TTS 3.0 Sourashtra Corpus and offers more than 28 hours of gender-balanced Sourashtra speech data developed at IISc Bengaluru, with content in both the Sourashtra and the Tamil script.

The models built by BHASHINI and IISc Bengaluru use this architecture and generate Sourashtra speech directly from written text.

The release describes Sourashtra as a minority Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu, which makes it unusual: it is an Indo-Aryan tongue surviving inside a state whose major language, Tamil, is Dravidian.

The Digital India BHASHINI Division, which works under the Digital India Corporation in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, built the models jointly with IISc Bengaluru, and the speech corpus used for training was developed at the institute SPIRE Lab.

Sexual reproduction mixes the genes of two parents, so the young differ from each other and from their parents, and variation helps a species survive changing conditions.

Pulling the hands back stretches the time in which the ball stops, so its deceleration and the force on the hands become smaller.

Red, green and blue are the primary colours of light because mixing them in different proportions produces all other colours.

A body sinks when its weight is greater than the buoyant force of the water it displaces, which happens when it is denser than water.

The Sahariya live in Sheopur, Shivpuri, Morena and Gwalior in the north of the state, a dry, ravine-cut forest country, and they also extend into the Baran district of Rajasthan.

In 2011 Scheduled Tribes were roughly a fifth of the state's people, and because Madhya Pradesh is large, that share gave it the biggest tribal population of any state in India in absolute numbers.

Jangarh Singh Shyam was a Pardhan Gond artist from Patangarh in Dindori district who moved his community's wall painting onto paper and canvas, filling animal, tree and spirit forms with fine dots and lines.

Indore, the commercial capital of the state, had the largest population of any district in 2011 and continues to be the largest urban centre, while Harda had the smallest district population.