UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Debendranath (Devendranath) Tagore founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha in Calcutta in 1839 to spread the monotheistic ideas of Raja Rammohan Roy and the study of the Upanishads.

Al-Biruni, a scholar from Khwarizm in Central Asia, came to India in the train of Mahmud of Ghazni in the early eleventh century.

Pithoragarh lies in the Kumaon Himalaya of Uttarakhand, close to the borders of Nepal and Tibet, in the most earthquake-prone belt of the country.

A pingo is a dome-shaped hill with a core of ice, found in regions of permafrost such as the Arctic tundra of Canada, Alaska and Siberia.

The French writer Dominique Lapierre wrote The City of Joy, published in 1985.

A fully (perfectly) elastic supply curve is a horizontal line: sellers will supply any quantity at one fixed price and nothing below it.

A person with myopia sees nearby objects clearly but finds distant objects blurred, which is why the defect is called near-sightedness or short-sightedness.

Among the four thinkers listed, Machiavelli is the one who wrote a work called The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), published in Florence in 1521.

The mass of one mole of any substance, expressed in grams, is by definition its molar mass. One mole contains the Avogadro number of particles, about 6.022 × 10 23, so the molar mass links the mass we can weigh to the number of atoms or molecules present.

Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveller from Tangier, reached India in 1333. Muhammad bin Tughluq, impressed by his learning, made him the qazi (judge) of Delhi, a post he held for several years.

After years of travel, Guru Nanak (1469-1539) settled at Kartarpur on the banks of the Ravi and set up a centre there.

Buddhist texts such as the Anguttara Nikaya list sixteen mahajanapadas in the sixth century BC. Most were monarchies, but a few were ganas or sanghas, states ruled by an assembly of clan chiefs rather than a single king.

M1, called narrow money, is the most liquid measure of money supply in India. It is made up of currency with the public, demand deposits with banks, and other deposits with the Reserve Bank of India.

A sphygmomanometer has an inflatable cuff wrapped around the upper arm, a rubber bulb to pump air into it, and a gauge, traditionally a column of mercury.

When an electric current is passed through brine, a concentrated aqueous solution of sodium chloride, the salt decomposes. Chlorine gas is given off at the anode and hydrogen gas at the cathode, while sodium hydroxide is left in the solution near the cathode.

The National Water Academy is the training wing of the Central Water Commission, which works under the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti.

RNA is usually single-stranded and its sugar, ribose, carries an extra hydroxyl group, which makes the molecule more reactive and easier to break or alter than double-stranded DNA.

Article 323A, added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, lets Parliament by law set up administrative tribunals for the Union and for each state or group of states to decide disputes on recruitment and service conditions of public servants.

Siyar-ul-Mutakherin, meaning 'Review of Modern Times', was written in Persian by Syed Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai and completed around 1781.

The question asks which statement is not correct. The Azamgarh Proclamation was issued in August 1857 in the name of the rebels, and is usually linked with Firoz Shah, a prince of the Mughal family.