UPSC CAPF Previous Year GK Questions

Passed after the Revolt of 1857, this Act ended the rule of the East India Company and created the office of the Secretary of State for India.

The Dardic languages form a branch of the Indo-Aryan group, which is part of the Indo-European family. Dardic languages are spoken in the north-west of the subcontinent: in Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Chitral and parts of Afghanistan.

The Puranas call the Satavahana kings the Andhras or Andhra-bhrityas, so the dynasty is often named Andhra-Satavahana. The Satavahanas rose in the Deccan after the decline of the Mauryas and ruled from Pratishthana (Paithan) on the Godavari and later from Amaravati region.

Libya lies in North Africa, west of Egypt, and is separated from the Arabian Peninsula by Egypt and the Red Sea.

Saracenic, or Indo-Islamic, architecture is built on the true arch, the vault and dome, and lime mortar, while lintel and beam belong to the older Indian style.

The Indian Legion came first (1942), then the Azad Hind Government (October 1943), then the INA trials (November 1945) and finally the Bombay naval strike (February 1946).

The Telugu film-maker K. Viswanath received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2016, presented in May 2017. Kasinadhuni Viswanath was known for films built around Indian classical music and dance, above all Sankarabharanam (1980), as well as Sagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam.

Excavations at these two localities of modern Patna have uncovered the main remains of Mauryan Pataliputra. At Bulandibagh, digging in the early twentieth century exposed long lines of heavy wooden palisade, matching the Greek envoy Megasthenes' description of a city surrounded by a timber wall with towers and gates.

The OSCE has 57 participating states and works as a forum for dialogue on early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation, but it is neither a military body nor a maker of binding law.

Both statements are true, and black soil suits rain-fed farming precisely because it holds moisture for a long time. Black soil, or regur, formed from the weathering of Deccan basalt and is rich in clay, iron, lime and magnesium.

Vithalbhai Patel was a pro-changer: he backed entry into the legislative councils and joined the Swaraj Party. After the Non-Cooperation Movement was called off in 1922, Congress split over council entry.

Each description belongs to a different term or says the opposite of the real rule, so no pair is correct.

Earthquakes start deep in the Earth's crust, and a reef in shallow water can do nothing to stop or soften the ground shaking.

The prose romance Vasavadatta was written by Subandhu, not Kalidasa, so this pair is wrong. Subandhu's Vasavadatta, of about the sixth or seventh century, is famous for its ornate style full of puns and long compounds.

Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509-1529) of the Tuluva dynasty wrote the Amuktamalyada in Telugu.

The Descent of the Ganga is a huge open-air rock relief carved under the Pallavas at Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram) in Tamil Nadu.

Article 30(1) says that all minorities, whether based on religion or language, have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.

Temperature falls with height through the mesosphere and reaches the coldest values in the whole atmosphere, about minus 90 to minus 100 degrees Celsius, at its top.

The Deccan Traps, the vast lava plateau of the north-western peninsula, were laid down by eruptions at the close of the Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago.

A spit is a ridge of sand or shingle joined to the land at one end, with the other end running out into open water.