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UPSC GK Questions 2026

Static general knowledge is the larger part of every UPSC general studies paper. The notices name the same areas again and again: the history of India and the national movement, Indian and world geography, polity and the Constitution, the economy and social development, and general science with environment and ecology. The balance shifts from exam to exam. NDA puts about half of its General Knowledge part on Physics, Chemistry and General Science. CSE favours polity, modern history, environment and the economy. CAPF adds security and human rights, and CDS spreads its questions across polity, history, geography, the economy and school science.

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UPSC GK Questions with Answers

Q8681.Indian PolityMedium

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 came into force on which date, creating two Union Territories?

  1. A.5 August 2019
  2. B.9 August 2019
  3. C.31 October 2019
  4. D.26 January 2020
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Correct answer: C. 31 October 2019

The Act was passed in August 2019 but the appointed day on which the former state was reorganised into the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, with a legislative assembly, and the Union Territory of Ladakh, without one, was 31 October 2019.

Q8682.Indian PolityMedium

Article 239A, which allows Parliament to create a local legislature or Council of Ministers for a Union Territory, was inserted for which territory and by which amendment?

  1. A.Delhi, by the 69th Amendment of 1991
  2. B.Puducherry, by the 14th Amendment of 1962
  3. C.Lakshadweep, by the 7th Amendment of 1956
  4. D.Jammu and Kashmir, by the 103rd Amendment of 2019
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Correct answer: B. Puducherry, by the 14th Amendment of 1962

The Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Act, 1962 absorbed the former French settlements into India and inserted Article 239A so that Parliament could give such a territory a legislature and a Council of Ministers; Parliament then passed the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, under which the Puducherry assembly of thirty elected…

Q8683.Indian PolityEasy

Who functions as the Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh?

  1. A.The Governor of Punjab
  2. B.The Governor of Haryana
  3. C.The Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
  4. D.An officer of the Indian Administrative Service appointed by the Union Home Ministry
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Correct answer: A. The Governor of Punjab

Article 239(2) allows the President to appoint the Governor of a state as the administrator of an adjoining Union Territory, and under it the Governor of Punjab has been given additional charge as the Administrator of Chandigarh.

Q8685.Indian PolityMedium

Which three subjects of the State List are kept outside the legislative competence of the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi?

  1. A.Public health, education and local government
  2. B.Public order, police and land
  3. C.Police, prisons and agriculture
  4. D.Land, water and electricity
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Correct answer: B. Public order, police and land

Article 239AA(3)(a) lets the Delhi assembly make laws on the State List and the Concurrent List as they apply to the territory, but excludes Entries 1, 2 and 18 of the State List, which are public order, police and land, along with Entries 64, 65 and 66 so far as…

Q8686.Indian PolityEasy

Article 239AA, which gives the National Capital Territory of Delhi its special status, was inserted by which Constitutional Amendment Act?

  1. A.The 14th Amendment, 1962
  2. B.The 61st Amendment, 1988
  3. C.The 69th Amendment, 1991
  4. D.The 74th Amendment, 1992
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Correct answer: C. The 69th Amendment, 1991

The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991 inserted Articles 239AA and 239AB, renamed the Union Territory of Delhi as the National Capital Territory of Delhi and provided it with a Legislative Assembly and a Council of Ministers.

Q8688.Indian HistoryMedium

Which of the following statements about the women members of the Constituent Assembly of India is correct?

  1. A.Begum Aizaz Rasul was its only Muslim woman member
  2. B.Sarojini Naidu was its only woman member
  3. C.No woman was a member of the Assembly
  4. D.Sucheta Kriplani chaired the Drafting Committee
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Correct answer: A. Begum Aizaz Rasul was its only Muslim woman member

Fifteen women were members of the Constituent Assembly, and Begum Aizaz Rasul was the only Muslim woman among them; Dakshayani Velayudhan was its only Dalit woman member.

Q8689.Indian HistoryHard

Rani Gaidinliu, who was imprisoned by the British from 1932 to 1947, was associated with which movement?

  1. A.The Heraka movement of the Naga hills, begun by Haipou Jadonang
  2. B.The Ulgulan of Birsa Munda
  3. C.The Santhal rebellion
  4. D.The Bardoli satyagraha
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Correct answer: A. The Heraka movement of the Naga hills, begun by Haipou Jadonang

Gaidinliu, a Rongmei Naga, joined her cousin Haipou Jadonang's Heraka movement, which combined religious revival with resistance to British rule, and took over its leadership after he was hanged in 1931.

Q8692.Indian HistoryHard

The Bharat Stree Mahamandal, regarded as the first all-India women's organisation, was founded in 1910 by

  1. A.Pandita Ramabai
  2. B.Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
  3. C.Margaret Cousins
  4. D.Ramabai Ranade
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Correct answer: B. Sarala Devi Chaudhurani

A niece of Rabindranath Tagore, she set up the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in 1910 to work for the education of women across provinces and classes, and it is counted as the first women's organisation of all-India reach.

Q8693.Indian HistoryEasy

Begum Hazrat Mahal led the revolt of 1857 in which region, in the name of her son Birjis Qadr?

  1. A.Jhansi
  2. B.Awadh, with Lucknow as its centre
  3. C.Bareilly
  4. D.Kanpur
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Correct answer: B. Awadh, with Lucknow as its centre

After the annexation of Awadh in 1856 and the exile of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Begum Hazrat Mahal proclaimed her young son Birjis Qadr as the ruler and led the rising at Lucknow; when the city fell she withdrew and finally took refuge in Nepal.

Q8694.Indian HistoryMedium

Matangini Hazra, who was shot dead in September 1942 while carrying the national flag, belonged to which place?

  1. A.Gohpur in Assam
  2. B.Tamluk in Midnapore
  3. C.Barisal in East Bengal
  4. D.Chauri Chaura in the United Provinces
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Correct answer: B. Tamluk in Midnapore

Matangini Hazra, then more than seventy years old, was leading a procession of volunteers towards the Tamluk police station on 29 September 1942 when the police fired; she kept holding the tricolour and chanting Vande Mataram as she fell.

Q8697.Indian HistoryEasy

Who hoisted the Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay on 9 August 1942?

  1. A.Usha Mehta
  2. B.Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
  3. C.Aruna Asaf Ali
  4. D.Sucheta Kriplani
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Correct answer: C. Aruna Asaf Ali

With Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee arrested in the early hours of 9 August 1942, she hoisted the flag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, the ground where the Quit India resolution had been passed the previous evening, and then went underground to direct the movement.

Q8698.Indian HistoryAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · 2020Hard

In the context of Indian history, the Rakhmabai case of 1884 revolved around
1. women's right to gain an education
2. age of consent
3. restitution of conjugal rights
Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  1. A.1 and 2 only
  2. B.2 and 3 only
  3. C.1 and 3 only
  4. D.1, 2 and 3
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Correct answer: B. 2 and 3 only

Rakhmabai had been married as a child and refused to join her husband's household as an adult; he went to court for the restitution of conjugal rights, so statement 3 is part of the case.

Q8700.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan scheme, an eligible unorganised worker receives a monthly pension after the age of sixty of

  1. A.One thousand rupees
  2. B.Two thousand rupees
  3. C.Three thousand rupees
  4. D.Five thousand rupees
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Correct answer: C. Three thousand rupees

The scheme, launched in 2019, is open to an unorganised worker between eighteen and forty years of age with a monthly income up to fifteen thousand rupees, and gives an assured monthly pension of three thousand rupees after sixty on a matching contribution, the worker and the government each paying…

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