UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

The horizontal distance from one crest to the next, or from one trough to the next, is the wavelength. Ocean waves are mostly made by wind blowing over the sea surface.

The Asan Conservation Reserve lies in Dehradun district of Uttarakhand. The reserve is a stretch of the Asan river near its meeting with the Yamuna, where a barrage built in 1967 created a wetland.

In the Union Budget 2022-23, interest on past borrowing was the single largest item of revenue expenditure. Revenue expenditure is spending that creates no assets, such as salaries, pensions, interest, subsidies and grants.

The Saka era began in 78 CE, so year 72 of that era is 72 + 78 = 150 CE.

Sucralose is made from ordinary table sugar, sucrose, by changing its molecule. In making sucralose, three hydroxyl (OH) groups of the sucrose molecule are replaced by chlorine atoms.

Most Rajya Sabha members are chosen by MLAs, but no domicile is needed. Under Article 80, the Rajya Sabha can have at most 250 members: 12 nominated by the President and up to 238 representatives of the States and Union Territories.

Keynes made the paradox of thrift a central idea of his economics in the 1930s. The paradox says that what is wise for one household can hurt the whole economy.

This is a Directive Principle of State Policy under Article 51, a duty of the State, not a fundamental duty of citizens.

Urine is made in the kidneys, carried down by the ureters, stored in the bladder and passed out through the urethra.

Both articles protect certain laws from being struck down on the ground that they violate Article 14 or Article 19.

Under a fixed exchange rate, the government or central bank decides the rate and keeps it there by buying and selling currency.

Protochordates are marine chordates that have a notochord at some stage but never develop a backbone. The phylum Chordata is split into protochordates and vertebrates.

A mutation is a change in the sequence of the DNA or RNA that carries a virus's genes. A virus is made of genetic material, either DNA or RNA, inside a protein coat.

This body within the Department of Telecommunications is in charge of carrying out the Government's telecom policy. The Telecom Commission was set up in 1989 with administrative and financial powers to deal with all aspects of telecommunications, and in 2018 it was renamed the Digital Communications Commission.

As Chief Justice of India, he set up the Social Justice Bench of the Supreme Court in December 2014.

In both actions the central bank takes rupees from the public in exchange for an asset, so money in circulation falls.

Microbodies are small vesicles bounded by a single membrane, filled with enzymes that carry out particular metabolic reactions. The main microbodies are peroxisomes and glyoxysomes.

The work done against gravity is mgh = 50 × 10 × 8 = 4,000 J, and doing it in 10 s needs 4,000 ÷ 10 = 400 W. Power is the rate of doing work, P = W/t, and its SI unit is the watt (1 W = 1…

TB spreads through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks and others breathe in the tiny droplets carrying the bacteria.

All three statements describe hard water correctly. Statement 1 is correct: temporary hardness comes from dissolved bicarbonates, chiefly calcium bicarbonate (magnesium bicarbonate too).