Easy Level – GK Questions

Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO₃). It is widely used in baking and as an antacid.

The water vascular system helps echinoderms in movement, food capture and other physiological functions.

The discovery of electrons, protons and neutrons proved that atoms are divisible.

In logistic growth, the growth rate decreases as the population approaches the carrying capacity.

Pascal's law states that pressure applied to a confined fluid is transmitted equally in all directions, which is the principle behind hydraulic systems.

The successive differences are +20, +16, +12, +8, following a decrease of 4 each time. The next difference is +4, so the next term is 92.

After arranging the digits in ascending order, two digits remain in their original positions.

KMG does not follow the same alphabetical relationship as the other three letter clusters.

The Villoo C. Poonawalla Pune Derby (Gr. 1) is the highlight of the season and carries a rich purse of ₹1 crore, making it the most coveted race. The race is scheduled for October 11, 2026. Such questions on major sporting events and their prize money are common in government exams.

India scored 122 runs for the loss of 3 wickets at lunch on the opening day of the one-off Women's Test against England on July 10, 2026. Smriti Mandhana remained unbeaten on 56, with significant contributions from Jemimah Rodrigues (35) and Harmanpreet Kaur (14 not out).

Xbox launched its cloud gaming service with servers in Mumbai and Chennai, enabling users to access their game libraries from multiple devices. However, according to Xbox's global head Asha Sharma, while these moves created meaningful value, they did not grow at the expected pace.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy stated that the next Assembly elections in Telangana are likely to be held in May or June 2029, instead of December 2028. This shift in schedule is attributed to the proposed delimitation exercise that would increase the number of Assembly constituencies from 119 to 182.

The student organizations demanded immediate resolution of delayed scholarship and fee reimbursement dues, regulation of private school fees, recruitment of teachers, improved infrastructure, and timely supply of educational materials. They also opposed the restructuring of schools under 'Young India Schools' and 'International Schools' initiatives.

Director Prof. Santanu Bhattacharya stated in his annual report that the external research funding from agencies like the DST, DBT, ICMR and Anusandhan National Research Foundation surged to ₹41 crore during the academic year 2025-26. This funding supports research activities at the institute.

District Collector Pavankumar G. Giriyappanavar addressed the students at YiP 3.0 organized at Kumaraguru campus in Coimbatore. He exhorted students to cultivate traits of listening, empathy, and mutual respect to become effective future leaders.

The Australia-India relationship has evolved from the simplistic 'three Cs' (Cricket, Curry and Commonwealth) to a more meaningful 'four Ds': Democracy, Defence, Diaspora and Dosti. This shift reflects a decade of institution-building and deeper engagement between the two nations.

Nabanna, described as Bengal's 'Neelbari' (blue edifice), is the blue and white secretariat of West Bengal that came to embody Mamata Banerjee's aesthetic and political imprint. This is in contrast to the century-old red edifice of Lal Bari, the Writers' Building, which was the seat of Bengal's colonial and postcolonial bureaucracy.

Sushant Sachdeva of the University of Toronto received the Infosys Prize 2025 in Engineering and Computer Science for his advances in mathematical optimisation, particularly developing near-linear-time algorithms for flow networks and linear programs. His results have been described as producing "absurdly fast" algorithms because they approach what theorists consider the theoretical limit of speed for these problems.

Anjana Badrinarayanan at NCBS Bengaluru received the Infosys Prize 2025 in Life Sciences for her work on DNA damage repair, particularly for discovering novel mitochondrial DNA damage response pathways. She is the only winner in the 2025 Infosys Prize cohort who is based in India.

Neena Gupta is a mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. In 2014, she proved a striking negative answer to the Zariski Cancellation Problem in positive characteristic — a problem in algebraic geometry that had remained open since 1949. The Infosys Prize 2024 (presented at a ceremony on 11 January 2025 in Bengaluru) formally recognised this work alongside her broader contributions to commutative algebra.