UPSC GK Questions 2026

When oxygen runs short during hard exercise, muscle cells break glucose down anaerobically, and lactic acid is the by-product. In glycolysis, which takes place in the cytoplasm, one molecule of glucose splits into two molecules of pyruvate and yields a little ATP.

The Third Round Table Conference met in London in November 1932 without the Congress, and its work led to the Government of India Act, 1935.

Both statements are true, and the magnetic field set up by the current (Statement II) is exactly why the compass needle turns (Statement I).

The printed maximum retail price is the most a seller may charge, so it works as an upper limit, a price ceiling.

The terms of employment, such as regular jobs, fixed hours and legal protection, decide whether work belongs to the organized or the unorganized sector.

The pancreas pours amylase, trypsin and lipase into the duodenum in its juice, so all three classes of food are digested there.

Article 20(1) bars ex post facto criminal laws, so a legislature cannot make a criminal law apply retrospectively. Article 20 gives protection in respect of conviction for offences.

This statement is false: Saurashtra was a Gupta province after Chandragupta II defeated the Western Kshatrapas. Chandragupta II (Vikramaditya) ended the rule of the Shaka Western Kshatrapas in Gujarat and Malwa around the end of the fourth century, adding Saurashtra and the western ports to the empire.

In Keynes's consumption function, consumption rises as income rises, so the curve slopes upward.

Adam Smith used the "invisible hand" for the way free markets, guided by prices, turn private self-interest into a benefit for society.

Lymph is plasma that has leaked out of the capillaries, and red blood cells are too large to pass through the capillary walls.

First generation rights are civil and political rights, but solidarity rights are the third generation, not the second. The idea of three generations of human rights was put forward by the Czech-French jurist Karel Vasak in 1977, linked to the French slogan of liberty, equality and fraternity.

Since 2010 the UNDP measures the education dimension of the HDI with mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling.

Money must work as a medium of exchange, serve as a unit of account and be easy to divide; a higher value in other uses is not required.

Urea is the form in which the body gets rid of the nitrogen left over when amino acids from proteins are broken down.

Of the four States listed, Tamil Nadu has the most seats in the Rajya Sabha, 18. The Council of States (Rajya Sabha) is the upper house of Parliament.

Until now, athletes preparing for major international competitions trained at National Centres of Excellence, academies, private facilities and foreign venues.

The revised scheme substantially raised the financial support available for staging international tournaments in India, and a national sports federation can now be given up to this amount for one event.

The Government approved the continuation of the Scheme of Assistance to National Sports Federations for the five years from 2026-27 to 2030-31, which corresponds to the Sixteenth Finance Commission cycle, at this outlay, and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports then issued the operational guidelines along with revised norms…

The correct answer is Sangha Noottandile Akshara Mudrakal, the book released by the Vice-President at the festival in Kozhikode.