UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Its Abhimanch and Sammukh auditoriums are among the venues, along with Kamani Auditorium, LTG Auditorium and Meghdoot Theatre, and its Director, Chittaranjan Tripathy, designed and directed the opening play Samudra Manthan.

The correct answer is Shared Stories, Shared Futures, the theme under which the three-day festival opened at the National School of Drama in New Delhi and runs from 12 to 14 October 2026.

Its field staff visit selected markets and villages on a weekly roster, covering 1,407 urban markets, including online markets, and 1,465 villages spread across all states and union territories; the response rate in September 2026 was 100 per cent in both the rural and the urban sample.

The correct answer is onion, which topped the list of key items by inflation rate for the month, with prices roughly doubling over the year.

The correct answer is 5.54 per cent, the provisional year-on-year rate for September 2026 measured against September 2025 at the all-India combined level.

The campaign is to be organised across all states from 22 October to 30 November 2026, and the minister asked state governments and the authorities concerned to take part actively so that it reaches farmers.

The scheme was designed for one hundred districts selected on three measures: low agricultural productivity, low cropping intensity and limited disbursement of agricultural credit.

The correct answer is Gaya in Bihar, which secured first position among the best-performing districts when the scheme completed its first year.

The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951 inserted the Ninth Schedule along with Article 31B. Courts had begun striking down zamindari abolition and other land reform laws for violating the right to property.

Platelets, or thrombocytes, gather at a cut and start the process that forms a clot and stops bleeding. Platelets are tiny cell fragments without a nucleus, broken off from large cells called megakaryocytes in the bone marrow.

Most Ashokan inscriptions are in Brahmi, and the script already shows regional differences in the shapes of its letters. Ashoka's edicts were written mostly in Prakrit, in the Brahmi script, which James Prinsep deciphered in 1837-38.

Glass is made by melting silica sand with fluxes and stabilisers, and this option lists the standard batch. Silica, from pure sand, forms the glassy network.

The Central Vigilance Commission was created in 1964 by a government resolution, on the advice of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption headed by K. Santhanam.

Scattering acts on incoming short-wave sunlight, while the heat the Earth gives back as long-wave energy reaches the air by conduction, convection and radiation.

A monopoly's marginal revenue curve lies below its average revenue curve, not above it. A monopolist faces the whole market's downward-sloping demand curve, which is its average revenue curve.

Chemical messengers called neurotransmitters are released from the nerve endings, the tips of the axon, into the synapse. A nerve impulse travels from the dendrites through the cell body and along the axon as an electrical signal.

Baking soda, sodium hydrogen carbonate, is a mild base, so a small amount shifts fresh milk, whose pH is about 6.6, slightly above 7.

Ethyne, C2H2, has its two carbon atoms joined by a triple bond, each carbon also holding one hydrogen. Carbon has a valency of four.

The whole point of comparative advantage is that a country gains from trade even when it has no absolute advantage in any good.

The orange economy is another name for the creative economy. The term was popularised by a 2013 Inter-American Development Bank book, and orange was chosen because it is often linked with culture and creativity.