Defence GK Questions 2026

Lord Wellesley founded the College of Fort William at Calcutta in 1800 to train young British civil servants of the East India Company.

Temperate cyclones are carried from west to east by the westerlies, while tropical cyclones generally move from east to west with the trade winds.

These were the four great needs of the people that the Guomindang set out to meet, following the ideas of Sun Yat-sen.

Voting in 1937 was limited by property and education, and the Congress won an absolute majority in five provinces, while statements 2 and 4 are false.

The Constitution (Thirty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1975 made Sikkim a full State of the Indian Union. Sikkim had been an Indian protectorate since 1950.

The Chambal valley is the best-known Indian example of land destroyed by intensive gully erosion, which has carved it into deep ravines.

As Surveyor General of India he thanked Dr. Jitendra Singh for his guidance in advancing geospatial reforms, said the National Geospatial Policy 2022 had laid the foundation for an open, innovation-driven ecosystem, and added that government, industry and academia would have to work together to turn geospatial potential into economic…

Speaking on industry's role in taking the sector forward, the Minister explained each word: enabling is meant to build confidence, investing is meant to develop capability, and adopting geospatial solutions is what generates economic growth.

The workshop on Government and Industry Synergy for Geospatial Transformation, held in New Delhi on the theme of co-creating the geospatial economy for Viksit Bharat 2047, was organised by the Survey of India under that department.

Richard Arkwright's water frame, patented in 1769, was a spinning machine driven by water power that spun strong cotton thread.

The Salt March drew wide notice in the American and European press, brought women into the national movement in large numbers, and made the British see that they had to share more power with Indians.

Kamakshi Natarajan founded the weekly Indian Social Reformer at Madras in 1890 and edited it for decades, moving it to Bombay soon after.

The Attorney General is not a whole-time counsel of the Government; he is not barred from private legal practice, so statement 3 is the only incorrect one.

Liver cells turn the toxic ammonia released from the breakdown of amino acids into urea through the ornithine cycle, also called the urea cycle.

In the Maratha villages of the Deccan, an upari was a tenant who cultivated land without any hereditary right to it.

It places Group Captain below Wing Commander, but in the Indian Air Force a Wing Commander ranks below a Group Captain.

Light passes through the condenser to the specimen, is picked up by the objective lens, travels up the body tube and reaches the eye through the eyepiece.

The Southern Naval Command has its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala, and it is the Navy's training command.

In his study of the Mughal agrarian system, Habib argued that the Mughal State did not merely protect the exploiting classes but was itself the main instrument for taking the peasants' surplus.

The Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the 4,000 sacred verses of Tamil Vaishnavism, is the work of the twelve Alvars, gathered into one collection in the 10th century.