UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Punjab has the highest share of Scheduled Castes in its population among the States, about 31.9 per cent in Census 2011.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct; statement 3 is wrong because two indifference curves can never cut each other. An indifference curve shows the combinations of two goods that give a consumer the same satisfaction.

Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, was a devoted follower of the Naqshbandi saint Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar. The Naqshbandi order was the leading Sufi silsila of Central Asia, and Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar (died 1490) of Samarkand was its most powerful leader in the fifteenth century.

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, launched on 25 December 2000, is the oldest of the four schemes. PMGSY was started to give all-weather road connectivity to unconnected rural habitations, and it is fully centrally sponsored.

The Satapatra series (Shatapatre, "a hundred letters") was written by Gopal Hari Deshmukh, known as Lokahitawadi. Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823-1892) was an early social reformer of Maharashtra.

The Prati Sarkar, a parallel government of the Quit India period, was set up in Satara district of Maharashtra. During the Quit India Movement that began in August 1942, people in some areas threw off British authority and ran their own governments.

The Indian federation was not formed by an agreement among the States, so "the federating units consented to form a union" is not a feature of Indian federalism.

Andal was a woman Alvar, a Vaishnava saint devoted to Vishnu, not a Nayanar. The Bhakti movement in Tamil Nadu grew between about the sixth and ninth centuries through two groups of poet-saints: the 63 Nayanars, devotees of Shiva, and the 12 Alvars, devotees of Vishnu.

. In the Rig Veda, Sinivali is a goddess invoked for fertility and the gift of children.

Statements 1 and 2 describe the scheme correctly, while statement 3 does not, because the scheme is targeted at poor and vulnerable families rather than every citizen.

Mission Indradhanush is the Union Health Ministry's drive to fully immunise children and pregnant women against vaccine-preventable diseases. The mission was launched on 25 December 2014 to reach children who had missed their routine vaccines or had received them only partly, especially in districts with low coverage.

India is not a member of the G7; it attends some summits only as an invited guest country. The Group of Seven is an informal grouping of seven major advanced economies: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada.

Kampala lies almost on the equator, where a point on the Earth's surface moves the longest distance in each rotation and so has the greatest linear speed.

Koppen placed the Ganga plain of northern India under Cwg, a monsoon type with dry winters.

All three statements are correct: Krishnadevaraya fought the Gajapati ruler of Orissa early in his reign, took Raichur from Ismail Adil Khan in 1520 and restored the Bahmani Sultan Mahmud Shah.

Only statement 1 is correct; statement 2 has the two layers the wrong way round. Sleet is precipitation in the form of frozen raindrops and refrozen melted snow-water.

In the hills of Uttarakhand the river is called the Kali (or Mahakali); it takes the name Sarda (Sharda) only after it reaches the plains.

The Mohorovicic discontinuity, or Moho, is the boundary between the crust and the mantle, where seismic waves suddenly speed up.

. Mica is an excellent electrical insulator that withstands high voltage and heat, so it is used mainly in the electrical and electronic industries.

The Rowlatt Act (March 1919) came first, then the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (April 1919), the All-India Khilafat Conference in Delhi (November 1919) and finally the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920).