UPSC GK Questions 2026

The focus, also called the hypocentre, is the point inside the earth where the energy of an earthquake is first released and from where its waves start.

The Lekhapaddhati is a collection of model legal and administrative documents from Gujarat, compiled around the thirteenth century. The text gives sample forms of documents that scribes used: land grants, sale deeds, loan bonds, mortgage papers, treaties between kings, and letters of appointment.

Where evapotranspiration is much greater than rainfall, water moves upward in the soil and calcium carbonate builds up near the surface.

Bhanumati is Chakrapanidatta's commentary on the Sushruta Samhita, the classical Indian text on surgery. Chakrapanidatta was a physician of eleventh-century Bengal, in the time of the Pala kings.

The Palar and the Pennar rise on the Karnataka plateau and flow east into the Bay of Bengal, while the Periyar and the Kalinadi flow west into the Arabian Sea.

These are the words of the Nobel committee's citation for Jimmy Carter, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

In his famous Railway Minute of 1853, Governor-General Lord Dalhousie argued for a network of trunk railway lines, stressing their value for moving troops quickly.

The Luddites demanded a minimum wage and the right to form trade unions, while they opposed machinery that took away their work.

Olympe de Gouges wrote this in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791. Olympe de Gouges was a French writer and one of the most active women of the French Revolution.

The Venetian merchant Nicolo de Conti visited Vijayanagara around 1420, during the reign of Deva Raya I. Conti travelled widely in Asia and later told his story to the papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini, who wrote it down in Latin.

The Karachi session of March 1931 adopted the resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Programme, which gave the State this role.

The Pacific Plate is one of the seven major lithospheric plates and the largest of them all. The earth's lithosphere is broken into rigid plates that move over the softer asthenosphere.

With an average density of about 5.51 grams per cubic centimetre, Earth is the densest planet of the solar system.

Jyotirao Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in Pune on 24 September 1873. The Samaj worked for the rights of the lower castes, women and peasants, and rejected the authority of priests and the caste hierarchy.

Ibn Battuta, who served under Muhammad bin Tughlaq, described a two-part postal system in which statements 1, 2 and 4 hold.

Kanaklata Barua was shot dead on 20 September 1942 while leading a procession during the Quit India Movement in Assam.

Kaveri is the turbofan aero-engine developed by the Gas Turbine Research Establishment of DRDO in Bengaluru. The Kaveri project began in the late 1980s to power the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas.

Both statements match the standard description of these two millets in Indian geography. Bajra (pearl millet) is a hardy crop of dry areas.

Both statements describe the 1905 Revolution in Russia correctly. On 22 January 1905 (9 January by the old Russian calendar), workers led by Father Gapon marched peacefully to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg with a petition to the Tsar.

Shortughai lay close to the Badakhshan mines of north-eastern Afghanistan, the best-known ancient source of the blue stone lapis lazuli.