UPSC CAPF Previous Year GK Questions

On the night of 2-3 December 1984, methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal.

Seasons happen only because the Earth's axis is tilted to the plane of its orbit. The Earth's equatorial plane is inclined at about 23.5 degrees to the plane of its orbit, so its axis makes an angle of about 66.5 degrees with that plane.

PAHAL is the direct benefit transfer scheme for subsidy on cooking gas (LPG). PAHAL stands for Pratyaksh Hanstantrit Labh, meaning direct transferred benefit.

The thunder arrived 6 seconds after the flash, and sound covers 320 m every second, so the distance is 320 × 6 = 1920 m. Lightning and thunder are produced at the same moment.

Mercury in water causes Minamata disease, and excess nitrate causes blue baby syndrome.

In early nineteenth-century Calcutta, lotteries paid for town improvement, and the fear of disease pushed the British towards planning. After Lord Wellesley's Minute of 1803 on the need for town planning in Calcutta, many committees were set up to improve the city.

Sudan, often called North Sudan after South Sudan separated in 2011, has no coast on the Mediterranean Sea. Sudan lies south of Egypt in north-east Africa.

Guru Arjan blessed the rebel prince Khusrau and also organised the community's finances through the masands. The first Sikh Gurus, from Guru Nanak onwards, were spiritual teachers who kept away from politics, and Akbar was friendly towards them.

Abdur Razzak wrote that roses were sold everywhere in Vijayanagara and that the people could not live without them. Abdur Razzak Samarqandi was an ambassador sent by the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh of Persia.

Wool is an animal fibre made mainly of the protein keratin. Polymers are giant molecules built from many small repeating units called monomers.

The British blended Indian and European forms to present themselves as the rightful rulers of India. Towards the beginning of the twentieth century a mixed style called Indo-Saracenic took shape in colonial cities.

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.

Nomadic Elephant is the bilateral army exercise held by India and Mongolia. The exercise began in 2004 and is held by turns in India and Mongolia, the venue alternating between the two countries.

Both statements are true, but the Poona Pact was the result of Gandhi's fast, not the reason for it, so Statement II does not explain Statement I. British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the Communal Award in August 1932.