UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Manu Bhaker comes from Goria village in Jhajjar district. At the Paris Olympics of 2024 she won a bronze in the women's 10 metre air pistol and a second bronze in the 10 metre air pistol mixed team event, becoming the first Indian to win two medals at a single…

The wrestler from Mokhra in Rohtak district won the bronze medal in the 58 kilogram freestyle class at the Rio Olympics of 2016 and became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal.

The boxer from Kaluwas in Bhiwani district won a bronze medal in the middleweight class at the Beijing Olympics of 2008, the first Olympic medal in boxing for India.

Neeraj Chopra was born on 24 December 1997 at Khandra village in Panipat district.

Chaudhary Devi Lal, born on 25 September 1914 at Teja Khera in Sirsa district and known across the state as Tau, served as Chief Minister of Haryana and became Deputy Prime Minister of India in the government formed in 1989, holding that office into 1991.

When Haryana was carved out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, he became the first Chief Minister of the new state.

The ruler of Rewari raised troops, took over the administration of his territory during the Revolt and met the British in battle at Nasibpur near Narnaul on 16 November 1857.

Sir Chhotu Ram was born at Garhi Sampla in Rohtak district on 24 November 1881.

She took office in 1997 and was the first woman to head the government of Bihar. The question is usually set alongside the other state firsts, so the three names that follow are worth keeping apart from hers.

Bhikhari Thakur of Kutubpur in Saran district wrote and performed plays and songs in Bhojpuri, and his Bidesia, the story of a woman left behind by a husband who migrates for work, is still staged today; the title given to him recognises that he wrote for the stage as much…

Born on 24 January 1924 at Pitaunjhia in Samastipur district, a village now named Karpoori Gram, he was called Jannayak, served as Chief Minister of Bihar and as a leader of the backward classes, and the Bharat Ratna was conferred on him in 2024, long after his death in 1988.

Born at Aurahi Hingna in Araria district, Renu published Maila Anchal in 1954, and the novel, set in a village of the Purnia region, began the anchalik or regional school of Hindi fiction.

Dinkar, born on 23 September 1908 at Simaria in Begusarai district, was given the Jnanpith Award in 1972 for Urvashi, a long poem on love and renunciation.

Bismillah Khan was born there on 21 March 1916, moved to Varanasi as a boy and turned the shehnai, until then an instrument of ceremonies, into a concert instrument.

An indigo cultivator of Champaran, he followed Gandhi from one meeting to another, including the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916, until Gandhi agreed to come and see the condition of the tenants for himself.

The zamindar of Jagdishpur in the Shahabad tract, now Bhojpur district, took command of the sepoys at Arrah when he was nearly eighty, fought the British through 1857 and died in 1858 soon after recovering his estate.

Born on 11 October 1902 at Sitabdiara on the border of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, he escaped from Hazaribagh jail during the Quit India movement, built the socialist movement after independence and in 1974 gave the call for Sampoorna Kranti, or Total Revolution, which became the centre of the agitation…

Called Bihar Kesari, he headed the provincial government from 1946 and continued as the first Chief Minister of Bihar until 1961.

Rajendra Prasad was born there on 3 December 1884, worked with Gandhi during the Champaran inquiry of 1917, presided over the Constituent Assembly from December 1946 and became the first President of India in January 1950.

When the Central Government declares an association unlawful under the UAPA, the notification does not stand on the Government's word alone: it must be referred to a Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal constituted of one person who is a sitting judge of a High Court, and the Tribunal decides within six…