UPSC GK Questions 2026

He took silver in the men's marathon in a national record time of 2:11:37, and that medal closed the long gap of 44 years since India had last stood on an Asian Games marathon podium.

She finished the Games with two gold and one silver, and her win in the individual women's trap event made her the first Indian woman to take gold in that shooting event at the Asian Games.

Athletes of the three Services returned from the Asian Games in Japan with 27 medals, broken up as 6 gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze, which is the best the defence forces have ever managed at the event.

The parietal (oxyntic) cells in the lining of the stomach secrete hydrochloric acid into the gastric juice. Hydrochloric acid makes the stomach strongly acidic, with a pH of roughly 1.5 to 3.5.

The nominal interest rate is simply the percentage by which the amount repaid exceeds the amount borrowed, with no adjustment for inflation.

Copper exposed to moist air slowly gains a green layer of basic copper carbonate, a form of cupric carbonate. Copper does not rust like iron, but it corrodes.

After 3 minutes 45 seconds the boy has completed seven and a half rounds, so he stands at the point exactly opposite his starting point.

Bile has no digestive enzymes at all; it only prepares fats for digestion by other enzymes. Bile is made by the liver, stored and concentrated in the gall bladder, and poured into the duodenum through the bile duct.

Carbon dioxide makes up about 96.5% of the atmosphere of Venus and about 95% of the atmosphere of Mars. The two neighbours of the Earth have atmospheres dominated by carbon dioxide, with nitrogen and argon making up most of the rest.

Halophytes are plants adapted to grow in soil or water with a high salt content. The word comes from the Greek 'halos', meaning salt.

A surface inversion makes the lower air stable, not unstable, and it usually breaks up a few hours after sunrise.

She became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in October 1963, the first woman to head a state government in India.

The reaction centre of a photosystem is a special chlorophyll a molecule, not a carotenoid. In photosynthesis, pigments are grouped into photosystems.

The NHRC can join court cases on human rights with the court's approval and can promote research, but statement 3 is wrong because it can act on its own.

Frogs, toads and salamanders react quickly to changes in water, air and temperature, which makes them the classic indicator animals.

Transcription is the step in which the genetic message of a gene is copied from one strand of DNA into a strand of RNA.

Going south from the Nepal border, the order is Dudhwa, Panna, Pench and then Indravati.

The balanced equation is Fe2O3 + 3CO → 2Fe + 3CO2, which has equal numbers of every atom on both sides.

Damin-i-koh was the tract in the Rajmahal hills that the British marked out in 1832 for settling the Santals. The Santals had moved into the Rajmahal hills area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, clearing forests and taking up settled farming.

PFMS is run by the office of the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.