UPSC GK Questions 2026

When the Supreme Court began in 1950, Article 124(1) provided for a Chief Justice of India and not more than seven other judges, eight in all, "until Parliament by law prescribes a larger number".

The final figures of Census 2011 put the child sex ratio, counted for the age group 0 to 6 years, at 919 females per 1000 males.

Article 148 of the Constitution provides for one Comptroller and Auditor General of India, so the office is held by a single person and not by a panel.

The 1915 session of the Indian National Congress, held at Bombay, was presided over by Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, later Lord Sinha of Raipur.

Debendranath Tagore founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha in Calcutta in 1839 to study the Upanishads and Vedanta and to spread the rational religion that Rammohun Roy had preached.

Statement 3 is wrong because the Kaleshwaram project is built on the Godavari, not the Krishna. The scheme takes its name from Kaleshwaram in Telangana, near the point where the Pranhita joins the Godavari, and it was inaugurated in June 2019, which makes statement 1 correct.

The Santhal rebellion, called the Hool, was led by the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu.

Kolathunadu, Valluvanad and Thekkumkoor were small medieval kingdoms, or swaroopams, of Kerala.

Section 8(1) of the Indian Independence Act, 1947 gave the Constituent Assembly of each new Dominion the powers of its legislature.

Only a transverse wave can be polarised, so the polarisation of light proves that its vibrations are at right angles to the direction of travel.

A nuclear reactor splits heavy atoms; it burns no fuel, so it releases no carbon dioxide and needs no equipment to cut such emissions.

It is a sea level canal: the Mediterranean and the Red Sea stand at almost the same height, so ships sail straight through without being raised or lowered.

Bacteria are prokaryotes, so their DNA lies free in the cytoplasm instead of being packed inside a nucleus. The single circular chromosome sits in a region of the cytoplasm called the nucleoid, which has no nuclear membrane around it.

The Ilbert Bill of 1883 sought to remove the rule that European British subjects could be tried only by European judges.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar founded Abhinav Bharat at Nashik in 1904, together with his brother Ganesh. It grew out of an earlier group called Mitra Mela and took its name from Mazzini’s Young Italy, whose biography Savarkar translated into Marathi.

Baking soda is sodium hydrogen carbonate, NaHCO3, a mild base made by the Solvay process from brine, ammonia and carbon dioxide.

Melting means breaking the particles free of the forces holding them in a fixed lattice, so a higher melting point means stronger forces of attraction.

Asia takes the largest share of India’s exports, close to half of the total, far ahead of any other continent.

Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1935. He bombarded beryllium with alpha particles and found that the radiation given off was not affected by electric or magnetic fields, yet could knock protons out of paraffin.

Bryophytes live on land but still need water to complete reproduction, so they are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom.