UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Satavahana kings prefixed their mother's name to their own, as in Gautamiputra Satakarni, "son of Gautami", and Vasishthiputra Pulumavi, "son of Vasishthi".

The Punchhi Commission recommended that the President should decide on a State bill reserved by the Governor within six months.

In this case the Delhi High Court held in 2009 that Section 377, in so far as it criminalised consensual sex between adults in private, violated Articles 21, 14 and 15.

This is the fluid mosaic model of the cell membrane given by Singer and Nicolson in 1972. Each phospholipid has a water-loving (hydrophilic) phosphate head and two water-fearing (hydrophobic) fatty acid tails.

Banks can create credit only from money deposited with them, so when people keep more cash at home, less is lent and re-lent, and the multiplier falls.

Avantivarman founded the Utpala dynasty around 855 CE and is remembered for peaceful rule focused on the welfare of his people, and his minister Suyya carried out famous drainage and irrigation works.

Dalton held that the atom is the smallest, indivisible particle of matter, so his theory cannot explain particles inside the atom.

The Richter scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake, which reflects the energy released at its source, not its intensity.

Surge pricing is a form of dynamic pricing in which the price moves up when demand rises faster than the available supply.

Venkatachaliah. The National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution was set up by the Union government in February 2000 under Justice M.N.

Both statements repeat the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The Court, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, sits at the Peace Palace in The Hague and has fifteen judges elected for nine-year terms, with one-third of the seats falling vacant every three years.

The antariya was the lower garment of ancient India, a long piece of cotton or fine fabric wrapped around the hips and legs and tucked in, much like the later dhoti.

Aurei (singular aureus) were the gold coins of the Roman Empire, and large numbers of them reached India in payment for Indian goods.

The remark comes from Abbé Jean-Antoine Dubois, a French Catholic missionary who lived in south India, mostly in Mysore, from 1792 to 1823.

The allegorical picture of Jahangir embracing Shah Abbas of Persia, painted around 1618 and now in the Freer Gallery in Washington, is the work of Abul Hasan.

Faizi, Akbar's poet laureate and the elder brother of Abul Fazl, translated the Lilavati into Persian in 1587. The Lilavati is the arithmetic part of the Siddhanta Shiromani, written by the mathematician Bhaskaracharya (Bhaskara II) in the twelfth century, and it covers numbers, fractions, progressions and measurement.

It is a later Mahayana Buddhist text of ritual and prophecy, not a work of Ashvaghosha. Ashvaghosha was a Buddhist poet, dramatist and philosopher of the first–second century CE, linked by tradition to the court of the Kushana king Kanishka.

All three statements are correct. The Special Marriage Act, 1954 lets any two Indians marry by civil registration whatever their religion, without either partner having to convert, so it is the law that covers inter-religious marriages.

Article 1 of the Draft Constitution described India as a 'Union of States', and the same words survive in Article 1 of the Constitution today.

Jaugada is in Odisha, not Karnataka, so only pairs 2 and 3 are right. Jaugada, in Ganjam district of Odisha, is one of the two places, with Dhauli, that carry Ashoka's Separate Kalinga Edicts.