Agniveer GK Questions 2026

Calcium oxychloride (CaOCl2) is bleaching powder, and the chlorine it releases removes colour from cotton and linen in the textile industry.

In this food chain grass is the producer, the impala is the herbivore and the hyena is the predator that keeps the impala population in check.

Under Section 22 of the RBI Act, 1934, the Reserve Bank has the sole right to issue banknotes in India.

The First Five Year Plan (1951–56) gave top priority to agriculture, irrigation and power, because India faced food shortages after Partition and needed to feed its people first.

Western disturbances are low-pressure systems that start over the Mediterranean Sea and are carried east towards India by the westerly jet stream in winter.

In its upper course a river flows fast down steep slopes, so it cuts downward into the rock more than it spreads sideways.

The Nilgiri Hills, the 'Blue Mountains', rise where the borders of these three states meet, at the junction of the Western and Eastern Ghats.

Both are in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya and each gets well over 1,080 cm of rain in a year.

He was Bimbisara's son and took the throne of Magadha after him in the Haryanka dynasty. Bimbisara, a contemporary of the Buddha, built Magadha's power through marriage alliances and the conquest of Anga, with Rajagriha as his capital.

The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976 changed so many parts of the Constitution that it is called the 'Mini Constitution'. It was passed during the Emergency under Indira Gandhi's government on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee.

It gives every High Court the power to issue writs within its territory. A High Court can issue the five writs, habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto, not only to enforce Fundamental Rights but also 'for any other purpose', that is, for ordinary legal rights.

All three are Indian football tournaments. The Durand Cup, first played in 1888 and named after Sir Mortimer Durand, then Foreign Secretary of British India, is Asia's oldest football tournament and is still organised with the help of the armed forces.

It was the first working satellite of the Indian National Satellite (INSAT) system, carried to orbit by the US Space Shuttle Challenger in August 1983.

One ampere is the current that flows when one coulomb of charge passes a point in a circuit in one second.

The symbol of potassium is K, from its Latin name kalium; Po is the symbol of polonium, the radioactive element discovered by Marie Curie in 1898 and named after Poland.

Its chemical name is sodium hydrogen carbonate and its formula is NaHCO3. It is a mild, non-corrosive base made by the Solvay process, in which brine is treated with ammonia and carbon dioxide.

Both pairs are wrong. Amyloplasts store starch, a carbohydrate, and aleuroplasts store proteins; oils and fats are stored by elaioplasts.

Ammonia is NH3, so one nitrogen atom of mass 14 is joined to three hydrogen atoms of mass 1 each, giving 14: 3 by mass.

This is Kirchhoff's first law, the current law or junction rule, which he stated in 1845. It says the total current entering a junction equals the total current leaving it, because charge cannot pile up or vanish at a point.

That is exactly what the Indian monsoon is. The word monsoon comes from the Arabic mausim, meaning season, and describes winds that reverse direction with the season.