UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Part IV holds the Directive Principles of State Policy, which no court can enforce but which the State must apply in making laws.

Each statement places the hills in the wrong range. Statement 1 is wrong: Amarkantak, the source of the Narmada and the Son, lies in the Maikal hills where the Vindhya and Satpura ranges meet.

Water vapour thins out quickly with height, but it is most plentiful in the warm tropics, not at the poles.

The Pallava king who ruled in the early 7th century took these titles, and they appear in the inscriptions of the cave temples he cut.

In early Buddhist art the Buddha was not shown in human form, and an empty seat stood for him seated in meditation.

Amber, blue and green boxes are the categories in which the WTO Agreement on Agriculture classifies farm subsidies. The Agreement on Agriculture came out of the Uruguay Round and took effect with the WTO in 1995.

A relief panel from the stupa at Kanganahalli in Karnataka shows a king with his queens and carries the label 'Raya Asoko' (Ranyo Ashoka), making it the only known portrait of Ashoka named in an inscription.

Printing new money adds fresh purchasing power to the economy without any matching rise in goods, so it pushes prices up the most.

South-eastern Cameroon lies inside the drainage area of the Congo river, and the country is one of the six nations that share the Congo Basin rainforest.

The araghatta was a water-lifting wheel that carried a chain or ring of pots down into a well and brought them up full.

The equation v = u + at has the form y = c + mx, so the graph is a straight line that cuts the velocity axis at u and has slope a. On a velocity-time graph, time is on the x-axis and velocity on the y-axis.

The apical meristem at the tip of the stem and root makes new cells that increase the plant's length, so damage to it stops growth in length.

Marsilea is a water fern, a pteridophyte, and pteridophytes are the first land plants with true vascular tissues, xylem and phloem.

The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin launched the world's first Five Year Plan in 1928. The first Soviet plan, for 1928 to 1932, set targets for rapid industrial growth and collectivised agriculture, with the state deciding what to produce.

An LED is a p-n junction diode that gives out light when current flows through it in the forward direction.

Groundwater is fed by rain that soaks into the ground, so how far a place lies from the coast does not by itself decide how much groundwater it has.

By Coulomb's law the force F = kq₁q₂/r² comes out positive, meaning repulsive, whenever the two charges have the same sign.

The English East India Company was chartered in 1600 and the Dutch company in 1602, and Vasco da Gama landed near Calicut in May 1498.

To see one's full image in a plane mirror, the mirror must be at least half the person's height: half of 1·5 m is 0·75 m. Light from Sita's feet must reflect from the mirror into her eyes, and so must light from the top of her head.

Physics recognises four fundamental forces: gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear, and the question lists all four. Every other force we meet is a form of these.