UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Defending President's Rule in the Constituent Assembly, Ambedkar said he hoped such Articles would never be called into operation and would remain a 'dead letter', used only as a last resort.

A dastak was a free pass that let the English East India Company move goods without paying internal customs duties.

In India's land-use records, land that can be farmed but has lain uncultivated for over five years is called culturable wasteland.

Antarctica is bigger than Europe and, because of its thick ice sheet, it stands higher on average than any other continent.

The National Commission for Women was created by an Act of Parliament, and that Act gives it both the review and the advisory roles named in the question.

The Preamble reads 'Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic', so 'socialist' comes before 'secular', while the order of ideals is justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

He travelled in the late thirteenth century, decades before the Vijayanagara Empire was founded in 1336, so he could not have described it.

As Governor-General he introduced the Permanent Settlement in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in 1793. Under the Permanent Settlement the zamindars were recognised as owners of the land and the revenue they had to pay the Company was fixed for ever.

Article 124(2) says that every Judge of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal.

The Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and is not subject to dissolution at all, by the President or anyone else.

The cervix is the narrow lower neck of the uterus and belongs to the female reproductive system. In the male, sperms are made in the testes, which lie in the scrotum outside the body because sperm formation needs a temperature a little lower than body temperature.

Sleet is a form of precipitation, frozen raindrops or a mix of rain and snow that falls from clouds, not a form of condensation.

Among the options it is the only vitamin made by bacteria; no plant or animal cell can make it, so bacteria, including those in the gut, are its source.

New York, with its urban agglomeration, became the first city to cross a population of 10 million, around 1950. A megacity is an urban agglomeration with more than 10 million people, the threshold used by the United Nations.

He painted The Last Supper on a wall of the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan between about 1495 and 1498.

Using v² = u² + 2as with u = 12 m/s, v = 0 and s = 45 m gives a = −144 ÷ 90 = −1.6 m/s².

The human brain has three main parts: the fore-brain, the mid-brain and the hind-brain. The hind-brain consists of the pons, the medulla and the cerebellum.

In the Table of Precedence the Vice President is second, the Prime Minister third, Governors within their States fourth, and the Speaker of the Lok Sabha sixth.

The mass of the solution is 20 g + 180 g = 200 g, and 20 g of salt in 200 g of solution is 10 per cent.

On the winter solstice the Sun is overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn, so the Northern Hemisphere has its shortest day and longest night.