UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Kushana gold coins were struck on the same weight standard as the Roman aureus of the time, not on a different one, because the dynasty traded briskly with the Roman world and found it convenient to match that standard.

The Nizam Shahis ruled from Ahmadnagar, founded by Malik Ahmad in 1490, while Bijapur belonged to the Adil Shahis of Yusuf Adil Shah.

The Royal Indian Navy mutiny began on 18 February 1946, when the ratings of HMIS Talwar in Bombay went on a hunger strike against bad food and racial insults.

The Kolkata port, now named Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, stands on the Hooghly river about 200 kilometres inland from the Bay of Bengal, which makes it the only riverine major port in the country.

Chin Qilich Khan, better remembered by his title Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah, was a Mughal noble appointed governor of the Deccan by Muhammad Shah.

An alkene has a carbon-carbon double bond, and adding hydrogen across that bond turns it into the corresponding alkane.

Article 371G sits in Part XXI of the Constitution, which holds temporary, transitional and special provisions, and was inserted by the 53rd Amendment Act, 1986, when Mizoram was made a full state.

The Nehru Report of August 1928 was the draft constitution prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference under Motilal Nehru, with Tej Bahadur Sapru, Subhas Chandra Bose and others, as Indians’ answer to Lord Birkenhead’s taunt that they could not agree on a constitution of their own.

In intercropping two or more crops are grown together on the same field at the same time, but sown in a definite pattern of rows, such as a few rows of soyabean between rows of maize, or bajra with lobia.

Nitrogen makes up about 78 per cent of the atmosphere, yet it is not a greenhouse gas. A molecule traps heat only if it can absorb outgoing infrared radiation, and that needs vibrations which change the spread of electric charge in the molecule.

Price elasticity of demand is the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price. If the elasticity is zero, the numerator is zero: buyers take the same quantity however the price moves.

This mosque stands inside the Purana Qila in Delhi and was built by Sher Shah Suri around 1541, during the Sur interregnum that interrupted Mughal rule, so it belongs to a period before Shah Jahan was born.

When electricity is passed through a sealed tube holding neon at low pressure, the gas atoms are excited and give out a bright orange-red glow, which is why advertising signs are still called neon signs.

In the troposphere the air is warmed mainly from below: the earth absorbs incoming short-wave insolation and then heats the layer of air touching it by conduction, radiation and convection.

The National Green Tribunal was set up by the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010, and started work on 18 October 2010 with its principal bench at New Delhi.

Goods and Services Tax is collected by the state where the goods or services are finally consumed, not by the state that produced them.

Salinity rises where water leaves as vapour and falls where fresh water is added.

Under Article 148 the Comptroller and Auditor-General is appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal, but can be removed only in the same manner and on the same grounds as a judge of the Supreme Court.

Emerald is the deep green variety of the mineral beryl, a beryllium aluminium silicate, so beryllium is part of its very formula.

A dual government, one at the centre and one in the units, is the common feature of every federation, so India and the USA do not differ on this point.