UPSC GK Questions 2026

The ten non-permanent seats are shared by region as statement 1 says, but only five of them are filled each year, not six.

Tobacco, a New World plant brought to India by the Portuguese, first reached the Deccan and then spread to northern India in the early seventeenth century.

The Kabini is a tributary of the Kaveri and the Manjra is a tributary of the Godavari, so only pairs 2 and 3 are correct.

The Great Bath was surrounded by rooms, and a large well in one of the rooms on its eastern side supplied the water for the tank.

The College of Military Engineering stands at Dapodi in Pune, Maharashtra, and is the main training institution of the Indian Army's Corps of Engineers.

Pinaka and Smerch are both multi-barrel rocket launchers used by the Indian Army's artillery. Pinaka was developed by DRDO, with the Armament Research and Development Establishment at Pune as the lead laboratory, and is named after the bow of Lord Shiva.

Project 75 India, or P-75I, is the Indian Navy's plan to build six advanced conventional diesel-electric submarines in India. Its key requirement is Air Independent Propulsion, which lets a conventional submarine stay submerged for much longer without surfacing to charge its batteries.

The 103rd Amendment Act, 2019 allowed reservation of up to 10 percent for the Economically Weaker Sections in educational institutions and in government jobs.

Relative humidity compares the water vapour actually present in the air with the most the air could hold at that temperature, so both figures are needed.

Parts of all three states drain into the Ganga through its tributaries. The Ganga basin is the largest river basin of India, covering about a quarter of the country's area.

In Census 2011, Scheduled Tribes made up about 94.4 percent of Mizoram's population, the highest share among all the states.

The Eight Degree Channel runs roughly along the 8 degree north latitude in the Arabian Sea and separates Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, from the Maldives.

In Keynes's theory the level of employment in an economy is fixed by effective demand, the level of total spending at which aggregate demand equals aggregate supply.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Africa's coasts as traders, and their trading posts began the long story of European colonisation of the continent.

Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution, Articles 5 to 11, and any citizenship law, including the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, falls under it.

Article 21A, the right to education, was inserted by the Constitution (Eighty-sixth) Amendment Act, 2002, not by the Eighty-fifth.

All three features describe alluvial soil, the most widespread soil of India. Alluvial soil is deposited by rivers such as the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra, and also lines the eastern coastal deltas.

Mission Indradhanush aims to raise full immunisation coverage among children, and it also covers pregnant women. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched it on 25 December 2014 to reach children who had been left out or only partly vaccinated under the routine Universal Immunisation Programme.

S-waves are not less destructive; their side-to-side shaking does more damage to buildings and overpasses than P-waves do. S-waves, or secondary waves, are transverse body waves: they move the ground at right angles to the direction in which they travel.

All three statements describe the weapons correctly. HAMMER, short for Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range, is a French precision-guided air-to-ground bomb kit made by Safran; India bought it to arm its Rafale jets, which can strike targets tens of kilometres away with it.