UPSC GK Questions 2026

INS Sudarshini belongs to the Indian Navy and is rigged with three masts, and her role is to train officers and sailors at sea rather than to fight.

In 5 seconds the sound travels to the mountain and back, a total of 340 × 5 = 1,700 m, so the mountain is half of that, 850 m or 0.85 km, away.

Ghiyasuddin Balban, who ruled from 1266 to 1287, broke the power of the Turkan-i-Chihalgani, the group of forty Turkish nobles.

Under Article 100, the Speaker or the person acting as such does not vote in the first instance, but has a casting vote when votes are equally divided.

The shortest rail route from Bengaluru reaches Delhi from the south through Agra and Mathura, which lie on the western side of the Yamuna, so the train never has to cross that river.

In the standard division of India's population history, the three decades from 1921 to 1951 are called the period of steady population growth.

In the Battle of Colachel in 1741, the forces of Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeated the Dutch East India Company.

Both are pure forms of carbon, but their atoms are arranged differently, which gives them opposite physical properties. Diamond and graphite are allotropes of carbon.

The mission's thematic area is Urban Planning, Green Cover and Biodiversity, because the mission is about cities, not villages.

Weight is the gravitational force with which the Earth pulls an object towards its centre. Weight is given by W = mg, where m is the mass and g is the acceleration due to gravity, about 9.8 m/s² near the Earth's surface.

The ploughed field at Kalibangan lies below the Harappan city and belongs to the Early Harappan (pre-Harappan) phase, about 2800 BCE.

CDMA is a channel access method that lets many mobile users share the same radio frequency band at the same time.

Statement 1 is false because tectonic earthquakes, not collapse earthquakes, are the most common type. Earthquakes are grouped by cause: tectonic (sliding of rocks along a fault), volcanic, collapse (the roofs of underground mines or caverns falling in), explosion (from nuclear or chemical blasts) and reservoir-induced.

The first three statements are true, while statement 4 is false because many earthquakes have their epicentre under the sea.

Thomson proposed in 1904 that an atom is a sphere of positive charge with electrons embedded in it, like plums in a pudding or seeds in a watermelon.

On a frictionless surface the person can move only by throwing something out in one direction, and a sneeze pushes air forward so the body recoils backward.

Guttation is the loss of water in the form of liquid droplets from the edges and tips of leaves. Guttation happens mostly at night or early in the morning, when the soil is moist and the air is humid, so transpiration is slow.

Pakyong Airport, near Gangtok in the Pakyong district of Sikkim, is the first and only airport of the state. The airport was built by the Airports Authority of India and inaugurated by the Prime Minister in September 2018, with commercial flights starting in October 2018.

In uniform circular motion the speed stays the same, but the direction of the velocity keeps changing, so the car is always accelerating and the direction of that acceleration keeps changing too.

He founded the Indian Society of Oriental Art in Calcutta in 1907 together with his brother Gaganendranath Tagore and E.B.