UPSC GK Questions 2026

Sudan, often called North Sudan after South Sudan separated in 2011, has no coast on the Mediterranean Sea. Sudan lies south of Egypt in north-east Africa.

Guru Arjan blessed the rebel prince Khusrau and also organised the community's finances through the masands. The first Sikh Gurus, from Guru Nanak onwards, were spiritual teachers who kept away from politics, and Akbar was friendly towards them.

Abdur Razzak wrote that roses were sold everywhere in Vijayanagara and that the people could not live without them. Abdur Razzak Samarqandi was an ambassador sent by the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh of Persia.

Wool is an animal fibre made mainly of the protein keratin. Polymers are giant molecules built from many small repeating units called monomers.

The British blended Indian and European forms to present themselves as the rightful rulers of India. Towards the beginning of the twentieth century a mixed style called Indo-Saracenic took shape in colonial cities.

The horizontal distance from one crest to the next, or from one trough to the next, is the wavelength. Ocean waves are mostly made by wind blowing over the sea surface.

The Asan Conservation Reserve lies in Dehradun district of Uttarakhand. The reserve is a stretch of the Asan river near its meeting with the Yamuna, where a barrage built in 1967 created a wetland.

In the Union Budget 2022-23, interest on past borrowing was the single largest item of revenue expenditure. Revenue expenditure is spending that creates no assets, such as salaries, pensions, interest, subsidies and grants.

The Saka era began in 78 CE, so year 72 of that era is 72 + 78 = 150 CE.

Sucralose is made from ordinary table sugar, sucrose, by changing its molecule. In making sucralose, three hydroxyl (OH) groups of the sucrose molecule are replaced by chlorine atoms.

Most Rajya Sabha members are chosen by MLAs, but no domicile is needed. Under Article 80, the Rajya Sabha can have at most 250 members: 12 nominated by the President and up to 238 representatives of the States and Union Territories.

Keynes made the paradox of thrift a central idea of his economics in the 1930s. The paradox says that what is wise for one household can hurt the whole economy.

Tripuri, the modern Tewar near Jabalpur, was the capital of the Kalachuris of Chedi, a dynasty whose strongest kings were Gangeyadeva and his son Karna in the eleventh century.

Sangram Shah, also called Aman Das, was the Gond ruler of Garha-Katanga in the first half of the sixteenth century and is said in tradition to have brought fifty-two garhs, or forts, under his authority, which is why the kingdom is sometimes described as a kingdom of fifty-two forts.

Asaf Khan, a commander serving Akbar, invaded Garha-Katanga in 1564. Rani Durgavati met him in the field, and when she was wounded by arrows and saw the battle turning, she took her own life rather than be captured.

Garha-Katanga, the Gond kingdom around Jabalpur and Mandla, was ruled by Rani Durgavati as regent for her young son Bir Narayan after the early death of her husband Dalpat Shah.

Sher Shah Suri died at Kalinjar in 1545 when a gunpowder explosion during the siege of the fort burned him fatally.

Prithviraj the Third of Ajmer and Delhi attacked the Chandela country in 1182 and defeated Paramardideva, also called Parmal, near Mahoba.

The Kandariya Mahadeva is the largest and the most fully developed temple at Khajuraho, dedicated to Shiva and generally attributed to the reign of Vidyadhara in the first half of the eleventh century.

The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti built the temples of Khajuraho between roughly the middle of the tenth and the middle of the eleventh century, in the Nagara style, with clustered spires rising over a shrine set on a high platform.