UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Two liquids that mix completely but boil at clearly different temperatures can be separated by heating the mixture and condensing the vapour of the lower-boiling liquid first.

Sir Henry Lawrence, Chief Commissioner of Awadh, led a British force out of Lucknow and was defeated by the rebels at Chinhat on 30 June 1857.

PIL in India relaxes the rule of locus standi, so statement 1 is wrong, while statements 2 and 3 are correct.

Article 43A speaks of workers' participation in the management of industries, not of local self-government.

The 44th Amendment Act of 1978 removed the right to property from Part III, so it is no longer a fundamental right.

German is not an official language of the United Nations, while Arabic, Spanish and Chinese are. The UN has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Census 2011 sorted workers into four economic categories: cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry workers and other workers; domestic workers is not one of them.

Article 129 makes the Supreme Court a court of record and Article 215 does the same for every High Court, with power to punish for its contempt.

The NHRC is a statutory body set up on 12 October 1993 under this Act, which Parliament passed after an ordinance of September 1993.

Vichitrachitta, Chitrakarapuli and Chaityakari were titles (birudas) of the Pallava king Mahendravarman I, who ruled in the early seventh century.

He chaired the North-East Frontier (Assam) Tribal and Excluded Areas Sub-Committee, which is why it is known as the Bordoloi Committee.

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).

In a computed tomography machine the X-ray source turns around the patient while detectors record the radiation that passes through, and software then assembles those readings into cross-sectional pictures of the structures inside the body.

Building on its strength in high precision imaging, the firm has taken up the design, development and deployment of a diagnostic scanner, and the agreement with the Board will fund that effort through to commercial sale.

The Board sits within that department and finances Indian enterprises that are developing and commercialising home grown technology, which is why it was the body to sign an agreement for an indigenous computed tomography scanner.