UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Pairs I and II are correct; pairs III and IV are wrong. Part V (Articles 52 to 151) deals with the Union: the President, the Vice-President, the Council of Ministers, Parliament, the Supreme Court and the Comptroller and Auditor-General.

Gauge conversion, electrification of tracks and automatic signalling have all been part of the modernisation of Indian Railways. Gauge conversion: under Project Unigauge, started in 1992, metre-gauge and narrow-gauge lines have been steadily converted to broad gauge (1,676 mm) so that trains can run through without transhipment.

Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah of Faizabad was among the rebel leaders who defeated the British force of Henry Lawrence at Chinhat near Lucknow on 30 June 1857.

The Second Plan (1956–61) was built on the model prepared by the statistician P. C. Mahalanobis, which gave priority to heavy and basic industries.

The six freedoms of Article 19, such as speech and expression, assembly and movement, are guaranteed only to citizens of India.

Sacred groves are patches of forest protected by local communities for religious reasons, so they conserve biodiversity instead of reducing it.

The word nimbus means rain cloud: these dark, thick clouds bring steady rain or snow. Nimbus clouds form at low to middle heights and are so dense that sunlight hardly passes through them, which is why they look dark grey or black.

The plateau is part of the ancient Gondwana landmass, so it is a rigid, stable block worn down by long erosion.

The Hastyayurveda, an ancient Sanskrit treatise on the care and medicine of elephants, is traditionally ascribed to the sage Palakapya.

This Spanish conquistador overthrew the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under Spain between 1519 and 1521. Cortés landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, allied with peoples hostile to the Aztecs such as the Tlaxcalans, and reached the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, where the ruler Moctezuma II received him.

Pairs I, II and IV are correct; pair III is wrong because Part X deals with the Scheduled and Tribal Areas.

The Kailasanatha temple of Kanchi is a structural temple built of stone blocks, not a temple cut out of solid rock, so statement I is wrong.

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were adopted at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995.

In his closing speech to the Constituent Assembly on 25 November 1949, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar warned that on 26 January 1950 India was going to enter into a life of contradictions.

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India was set up on 1 October 2016 under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.

Cumulonimbus clouds form by strong convection, grow into huge cauliflower-like towers with flat anvil-shaped tops, and are the only clouds that bring hail, thunder and lightning.

Rajaraja I allowed and encouraged the Sailendra king of Srivijaya, Sri Mara Vijayottungavarman, to build a Buddhist vihara at Nagapattinam on the Chola coast.

The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 defines the Eastern Rivers as the Sutlej, the Beas and the Ravi, and the Western Rivers as the Indus, the Jhelum and the Chenab.

The Tashkent Agreement was signed on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan to end the war of 1965.

Prithivimahadevi, Dharmamahadevi, Dandimahadevi and Vakulamahadevi were queens of the Bhauma-Kara dynasty of Odisha, which is known for several women ruling in their own right.