UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

At the point where total utility is highest, marginal utility is zero but average utility is still positive, so the two cannot be equal.

All four belong to the First Anglo-Maratha War: Surat (1775), Purandar (1776), Wadgaon (1779) and Salbai (1782). In 1775 the Bombay government signed the Treaty of Surat with Raghunathrao, promising to put him in power as Peshwa in return for Salsette and Bassein.

Radical socialism is a European political tradition, chiefly French, and is not one of the strands of socialism that grew in India.

Narrow money, M1, is currency held by the public plus net demand deposits with commercial banks, the most liquid forms of money.

Train 18, India's first indigenous semi-high-speed train set, was named Vande Bharat Express in January 2019. Train 18 was designed and built by the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai and got its name because it was planned for 2018.

By Ohm's law the heater's resistance is 40 V divided by 2 A, which is 20 ohms, so at 140 V it draws 140 divided by 20, or 7 A. Ohm's law states that, at constant temperature, the current through a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference across…

Both statements swap the two scales: octane number rates petrol, cetane number rates diesel, and their reference fuels are the other way round.

Personal Income is the part of National Income that actually reaches households, plus the transfers they receive. National Income counts all factor incomes earned in the economy, but not all of it is paid out to people.

Satavahana kings carried names taken from their mothers, yet the throne usually passed from father to son. A metronymic is a name derived from the mother.

Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected the permanent President of the Constituent Assembly on 11 December 1946 and presided over it until the Constitution was adopted.

In long-sightedness (hypermetropia) the eye cannot see nearby objects clearly because their image is formed behind the retina.

Biofuel and hydropower are renewable because nature replaces them within a human lifetime, while fossil fuels and uranium are not.

Very heavy rainfall, high and steady temperature, humidity above 75 per cent and trees that stay green all year are the marks of tropical wet evergreen forests.

The Indian Independence Act did not lay down any Constitution for India; it left the making of the Constitution entirely to the Constituent Assemblies of the new Dominions.

All four statements correctly describe Gandhi's method of Satyagraha. Gandhi first used Satyagraha in South Africa, beginning in 1906 in the Transvaal against the law forcing Indians to register and carry passes.

The Speaker takes no separate oath for the office, while statements 1 and 3 are false.

The Heron is an unmanned aerial vehicle built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and India has bought it for its armed forces.

The splitting of white light into its seven component colours by a prism is called dispersion. White light is a mixture of colours, and glass bends each colour by a different amount because its refractive index depends on wavelength.

EDTA is a hexadentate ligand: one EDTA ion binds a metal ion through six donor atoms, so it forms complexes with coordination number 6.

Ordinary plastics are non-biodegradable, so bacteria and fungi cannot break them down in any useful length of time. Most plastics, such as polyethylene, polypropylene and PVC, are long synthetic polymers made from petroleum.