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Agniveer GK Questions 2026

Static GK is the larger half of the General Knowledge section in the Agniveer exams. The Army's syllabus asks about India and its neighbouring countries, especially History, Culture, Geography and who's who, and adds abbreviations, terminology, the Indian Armed Forces, continents and sub-continents, inventions and discoveries, the Constitution of India, international organisations, and books and authors. General Science is a separate subject of 15 questions in General Duty and Tradesmen: school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology, with the human body, cells and tissues, plants and animals, and common epidemics named in the syllabus. The Army says questions may come from outside the list, but within the CBSE syllabus, so school textbooks set the level. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for Agniveer, written as short facts and tables in English and Hindi, so that a topic can be revised in one sitting. Start with Indian History, Geography and Indian Polity for the General Knowledge section, then the General Science notes, and add Sports GK, Awards and Honours and Books and Authors. After each topic, solve its quiz on this site to check what stayed in memory, and come back to the notes you got wrong.

Agniveer GK Questions with Answers

Q42.DefenceMedium

Which of the following was named by the IAF as a critical technology area for unmanned and autonomous systems?

  1. A.Resilient navigation
  2. B.Hypersonic glide vehicles
  3. C.Nuclear propulsion for aircraft
  4. D.Satellite launch vehicles
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Correct answer: A. Resilient navigation

At the outreach the Air Force listed four areas needing focused attention: indigenous propulsion, autonomous software, resilient navigation and standardised interfaces, all of them meant to cut dependence on external sources and strengthen the domestic defence ecosystem.

Q43.DefenceMedium

Who chaired the Indian Air Force's Industry Outreach Programme on unmanned and autonomous systems held on 21 October 2026?

  1. A.The Chief of Air Staff
  2. B.The Director General (Weapon Systems), Air Headquarters
  3. C.The Defence Secretary
  4. D.The Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation
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Correct answer: B. The Director General (Weapon Systems), Air Headquarters

Around 100 representatives of drone companies and allied industry partners attended, which the Air Force treated as a measure of its growing engagement with the unmanned ecosystem in the country.

Q44.DefenceMedium

At which event was the IAF Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Roadmap released?

  1. A.Aero India 2026 at Bengaluru
  2. B.IAF Dronathon 2026 at Pokhran
  3. C.DefExpo 2026 at Gandhinagar
  4. D.Exercise Vayu Shakti at Jaisalmer
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Correct answer: B. IAF Dronathon 2026 at Pokhran

The roadmap was released there on 14 September 2026, and the Industry Outreach Programme of 21 October 2026 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi was built on it, with the roadmap booklet distributed to industry partners on that day.

Q45.Static GKAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2024, GS Paper IEasy

Operations undertaken by the Army towards upliftment of the local population in remote areas to include addressing of their basic needs is called :

  1. A.Operation Sankalp
  2. B.Operation Maitri
  3. C.Operation Sadbhavana
  4. D.Operation Madad
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Correct answer: C. Operation Sadbhavana

Sadbhavana, meaning goodwill, is the Indian Army's civic action programme for people in remote and troubled areas. It began in the late 1990s in Jammu and Kashmir and was later taken to Ladakh and the North-East.

Q46.Static GKHard

Which of the following statements about birthplaces is correct?

  1. A.Lal Bahadur Shastri was born at Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh
  2. B.Lala Lajpat Rai was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra
  3. C.Sarojini Naidu was born at Chennai
  4. D.Maharana Pratap was born at Chittorgarh
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Correct answer: A. Lal Bahadur Shastri was born at Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh

Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Varanasi region of Uttar Pradesh, a town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar; he shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi, which is why both are remembered on 2 October.

Q50.Static GKMedium

The physicist C. V. Raman, the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize in science, was born in which present-day state?

  1. A.Kerala
  2. B.Andhra Pradesh
  3. C.Tamil Nadu
  4. D.Karnataka
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Correct answer: C. Tamil Nadu

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the discovery announced on 28 February 1928 that is remembered every year as National Science Day.

Q51.Static GKHard

Which pair of leaders was born in the same city?

  1. A.Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi
  2. B.Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel
  3. C.Tilak and Gokhale
  4. D.Vivekananda and Tagore
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Correct answer: A. Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi

Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and his daughter Indira Gandhi on 19 November 1917, both at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in the family home that Motilal Nehru named Anand Bhavan.

Q57.Static GKAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2024, GS Paper IMedium

Which of the following is/are correctly matched in terms of equivalent rank in the three services of Indian Defence forces ?

Army — Airforce — Navy

1. Brigadier — Air Commodore — Commodore

2. Major General — Air Vice Marshal — Vice Admiral

3. Major — Squadron Leader — Lieutenant Commander

4. Lieutenant Colonel — Group Captain — Captain

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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

Rows 1 and 3 give matching ranks, while rows 2 and 4 each pair ranks of different levels.

Q60.General ScienceHard

What is the scientific name of turmeric?

  1. A.Curcuma longa
  2. B.Piper nigrum
  3. C.Zingiber officinale
  4. D.Allium sativum
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Correct answer: A. Curcuma longa

Turmeric is Curcuma longa, a rhizome of the ginger family whose yellow colour comes from curcumin, and it is well known in the intellectual property story in which a United States patent on the use of turmeric for wound healing was revoked after India produced evidence of traditional knowledge.