UPSC CAPF Previous Year GK Questions

The Chagos Archipelago lies in the central Indian Ocean, not in the North Pacific. The Chagos Islands lie south of the Maldives, roughly 500 km away, and include Diego Garcia, the site of a major military base.

The Vitthala temple stands in Hampi, the ruined capital of the Vijayanagara Empire in present-day Karnataka. The temple is dedicated to Vitthala, a form of Vishnu, and was built mainly in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with major additions under Krishnadevaraya.

In parts of the dry west, arid soils hold so much salt that common salt is made by evaporating the saline water.

CCE is not the name of any pottery tradition; the other three are standard pottery types of early India. Archaeologists date and group early Indian sites by the pottery found in their layers.

He was President when Parliament passed the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1986, and he did not give it his assent.

Lingayats bury their dead and opposed child marriage while accepting widow remarriage, but they rejected the caste system and ideas of pollution.

All four statements are true of tropical rain forests. These forests grow near the Equator, in the Amazon, the Congo basin and South-East Asia, with heavy rain and high heat all year.

Climate Neutral Now takes its aim from the Paris Agreement, but the target it works towards is a climate-neutral world by the middle of the century, not by 2030.

Of the sectors listed, only Power and Energy and Banking and Financial Services are among the critical sectors named by NCIIPC.

A GIS needs data, hardware, software and people working together; methods are usually named as the fifth component. A Geographic Information System captures, stores, analyses and displays information tied to locations on the Earth.

Industrial corridors are linear development belts built along a transport spine to speed up industrial growth, but they do not link all State capitals.

The President of India has no place in NITI Aayog's Governing Council, which is a forum of the Prime Minister and the heads of the States and Union Territories.

Kandariya Mahadeva is the largest and finest temple of the Khajuraho group in Madhya Pradesh. The temple was built around 1025–1050 CE under the Chandela rulers, traditionally credited to Vidyadhara.

Caves, arches, stacks and stumps are erosional landforms carved by sea waves on rocky coasts. Waves attack a headland from both sides and wear away the weaker rock along cracks.

Action for Climate Empowerment is the UNFCCC's own name for its work on climate education and public awareness, and it covers the Paris Agreement too.

A raster stores the world as a grid of cells, which is simple and matches satellite images, and its cell size sets its resolution.

Israel has land borders with all four countries named in the question. Israel lies on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, usually about 88 parts copper to 12 parts tin. Adding tin makes copper harder, stronger and easier to cast, and bronze also resists corrosion well.

The Kiratarjuniya, a Sanskrit epic poem of the sixth century, was written by Bharavi. The Kiratarjuniya tells, in 18 cantos, a story from the Vana Parva of the Mahabharata: Arjuna performs penance to win divine weapons, and Shiva tests him by appearing as a Kirata, a mountain hunter.

A famine is marked by widespread deaths from starvation and from epidemics, which spread through contaminated water, rotting food and bodies weakened by hunger.