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UPSC GK Questions 2026

Static general knowledge is the larger part of every UPSC general studies paper. The notices name the same areas again and again: the history of India and the national movement, Indian and world geography, polity and the Constitution, the economy and social development, and general science with environment and ecology. The balance shifts from exam to exam. NDA puts about half of its General Knowledge part on Physics, Chemistry and General Science. CSE favours polity, modern history, environment and the economy. CAPF adds security and human rights, and CDS spreads its questions across polity, history, geography, the economy and school science.

GK24's GK notes are written topic by topic in English and Hindi, as short, fact-first chapters that are easy to revise. They cover Indian Polity, Indian History, Geography, Indian Economy, General Science, Environment and Ecology, Art and Culture, Computer, and the fact lists of awards, sports, books and days. A new chapter is added in each subject as the series grows. Each note carries practice questions, and those that have appeared in an exam say which exam and year. Start with Polity and modern history, then Geography, the Economy and Science. Read a note, take its topic quiz, and come back to it in your monthly revision.

UPSC GK Questions with Answers

Q4261.Awards & HonoursAsked in: UPSC CAPF · CAPF 2021, Paper IHard

Which one of the following films has won the Best Film Award in Environment Conservation category at the 67th National Film Awards, 2021?

  1. A.Jonaki Porua
  2. B.Wild Karnataka
  3. C.Water Burial
  4. D.Ronuwa—Who Never Surrender
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Correct answer: C. Water Burial

This film in the Monpa language won the award for the Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation at the 67th National Film Awards, announced in March 2021 for films of 2019.

Q4262.Environment & EcologyAsked in: UPSC CAPF · CAPF 2024, Paper IHard

Which of the following statements about CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms) is/are correct?

1. These are an emerging set of trade policy tools to allow movement of carbon-intensive economic activity from a jurisdiction having less stringent climate policy to a jurisdiction having stringent climate policy

2. These are meant to increase the environmental effectiveness of climate policies

Select the answer using the code given below:

  1. A.1 only
  2. B.2 only
  3. C.Both 1 and 2
  4. D.Neither 1 nor 2
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Correct answer: B. 2 only

A carbon border adjustment exists to stop carbon-intensive activity from moving out of a strict jurisdiction, not to help it move, and its aim is to make climate policy work better.

Q4263.Computer AwarenessAsked in: UPSC CAPF · CAPF 2025, Paper IEasy

1 gigabyte in binary system is equivalent to

  1. A.1000 kilobytes
  2. B.1024 megabytes
  3. C.1200 megabytes
  4. D.10000 kilobytes
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Correct answer: B. 1024 megabytes

In the binary system every step up the ladder of memory units is a factor of 2 raised to 10, that is 1024, so one gigabyte holds 1024 megabytes.

Q4264.General ScienceAsked in: UPSC CAPF · CAPF 2026, Paper IEasy

A uniform current-carrying narrow solenoid produces

  1. A.uniform magnetic field inside the solenoid
  2. B.uniform magnetic field outside the solenoid
  3. C.magnetic field with straight field lines in all the regions
  4. D.magnetic field with oscillating nature
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Correct answer: A. uniform magnetic field inside the solenoid

Inside a long, narrow solenoid the field lines run straight and parallel and are evenly spaced, which is the picture of a uniform field.

Q4268.Madhya PradeshHard

Who received the first Sahitya Akademi Award given in Hindi?

  1. A.Bhavani Prasad Mishra
  2. B.Makhanlal Chaturvedi
  3. C.Harishankar Parsai
  4. D.Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
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Correct answer: B. Makhanlal Chaturvedi

Born at Babai in the present Narmadapuram district, he was a poet of the freedom movement as well as an editor, and he is widely remembered for Pushp ki Abhilasha, in which a flower asks not to be offered to a deity but to be strewn on the path along…

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