UPSC GK Questions 2026

Satavahana kings carried names taken from their mothers, yet the throne usually passed from father to son. A metronymic is a name derived from the mother.

Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected the permanent President of the Constituent Assembly on 11 December 1946 and presided over it until the Constitution was adopted.

In long-sightedness (hypermetropia) the eye cannot see nearby objects clearly because their image is formed behind the retina.

Biofuel and hydropower are renewable because nature replaces them within a human lifetime, while fossil fuels and uranium are not.

Very heavy rainfall, high and steady temperature, humidity above 75 per cent and trees that stay green all year are the marks of tropical wet evergreen forests.

The Indian Independence Act did not lay down any Constitution for India; it left the making of the Constitution entirely to the Constituent Assemblies of the new Dominions.

All four statements correctly describe Gandhi's method of Satyagraha. Gandhi first used Satyagraha in South Africa, beginning in 1906 in the Transvaal against the law forcing Indians to register and carry passes.

The Speaker takes no separate oath for the office, while statements 1 and 3 are false.

The Heron is an unmanned aerial vehicle built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and India has bought it for its armed forces.

The splitting of white light into its seven component colours by a prism is called dispersion. White light is a mixture of colours, and glass bends each colour by a different amount because its refractive index depends on wavelength.

EDTA is a hexadentate ligand: one EDTA ion binds a metal ion through six donor atoms, so it forms complexes with coordination number 6.

Ordinary plastics are non-biodegradable, so bacteria and fungi cannot break them down in any useful length of time. Most plastics, such as polyethylene, polypropylene and PVC, are long synthetic polymers made from petroleum.

The pardoning power is exactly the power by which the sovereign, acting through the President, can set aside or soften the result of its own courts' judgment, so saying it is never exercised against the judicial mandate is wrong.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 are true, while statement 4 is false because the Arya Samaj grew far larger than the Brahmo Samaj.

The Public Accounts Committee has 22 members: 15 elected by the Lok Sabha and 7 by the Rajya Sabha.

Ajeya Warrior is the joint company-level exercise of the Indian Army and the British Army, held once every two years, alternately in India and the United Kingdom.

A refrigerator moves heat from a cold space to a warmer room, which never happens on its own, and the second law explains what it takes to make it happen.

The Uttar Pradesh government launched the One District One Product programme in January 2018, picking one traditional product for every district and backing it with credit, design, packaging, skill and marketing support so that the craft could be sold outside its own market.

Gulabi Meenakari is the pink enamelling of Varanasi, in which a rose-pink colour is fired into engraved silver or gold to make birds, flowers and small figures, and it survives with a handful of families in the city.

Bhadohi is called the carpet city and is the largest carpet weaving cluster in India, with looms spread through the neighbouring parts of Mirzapur, Varanasi and Sant Ravidas Nagar.