UPSC GK Questions 2026

The mass of one mole of any substance, expressed in grams, is by definition its molar mass. One mole contains the Avogadro number of particles, about 6.022 × 10 23, so the molar mass links the mass we can weigh to the number of atoms or molecules present.

Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution (Articles 5 to 11), not among the Fundamental Rights in Part III.

The Mahanavami Dibba is a massive stone platform in the royal centre of Hampi, the Vijayanagara capital, with its base covered in relief carvings.

The average atomic mass is the weighted mean of the isotope masses, taking each in proportion to how common it is.

A rapid rush of snow and ice down a steep mountain slope, dangerous to skiers and climbers, is an avalanche.

The Moroccan traveller described the two kinds of post he saw in India under Muhammad bin Tughlaq: the uluq, run by royal horses, and the dawa, run by runners on foot.

The friction between the blocks is the only force that drags the top block along, and its largest possible value is μ times the normal force from the top block.

The North-South and East-West corridors of the National Highways Development Project intersect at Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh. The North-South corridor runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari, and the East-West corridor from Silchar in Assam to Porbandar in Gujarat.

A compound microscope uses two converging lenses, the objective and the eyepiece, to give a greatly magnified image of a tiny object.

The Tenth Schedule, known as the anti-defection law, sets out when a member of Parliament or a state legislature loses the seat for defection.

Tropical storms need the Coriolis force and upper-level divergence, but they need small, not high, variations in vertical wind speed.

Every book in the list is paired with its real author. Dayabhaga, written by Jimutavahana in Bengal in the twelfth century, is a work on Hindu law of inheritance; under it a son gets a share in family property only after the father's death.

A drought defined only by too little rain, badly spread over time and space, is a meteorological drought. Drought is usually classified by what runs short.

The two ends of a diameter split the ring into two equal halves of 10 Ω each, and these two halves are connected in parallel.

The field at the centre of a coil is proportional to the number of turns and inversely proportional to the radius, so doubling N and halving R makes it four times larger.

LIGO uses laser beams in long perpendicular arms to detect the tiny stretching of space caused by gravitational waves. LIGO has two detectors in the United States, at Hanford in Washington and Livingston in Louisiana, each with arms 4 km long.

The last Mughal emperor was exiled by the British to Rangoon in Burma, where he died in 1862. The rebels of 1857 proclaimed Bahadur Shah II the leader of the revolt.

Tradition holds that the saint Raidas, also called Ravidas, was the guru of Mirabai, the Rajput princess-poet devoted to Krishna.

Rutherford's gold foil experiment of 1911 showed that an atom's positive charge and almost all its mass sit in a tiny central nucleus.

Statement 1 is false because landslides happen mostly on steep slopes, and not only during rain. A landslide is the rapid downslope movement of rock, soil and debris under gravity.