Defence GK Questions 2026

In a wheelbarrow the wheel acts as the fulcrum, the load sits in the tray between the wheel and the hands, and the effort is applied at the handles, which is the arrangement of a second class lever; because the effort arm is always longer than the load arm, its…

A lever is a rigid bar turning about a fulcrum, and by the principle of moments the load multiplied by the load arm equals the effort multiplied by the effort arm, so a long effort arm lets a small effort balance a large load; this is the simplest way of…

Velocity ratio is defined as the distance moved by the effort divided by the distance moved by the load in the same interval of time, and because it depends only on the design of the machine it does not change with friction, unlike the mechanical advantage.

The velocity ratio is the distance moved by the effort divided by the distance moved by the load, that is ten divided by two point five, which is four.

Mechanical advantage is defined as the load divided by the effort, so the load is the mechanical advantage multiplied by the effort, that is three multiplied by fifteen, which gives forty-five units.

Mallorca belongs to Spain, Normandy to France and Sardinia to Italy, so every pair in the question is wrong. Mallorca, also spelt Majorca, is the largest of the Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean and part of Spain; its capital is Palma.

To contest a Lok Sabha seat, a person must be a citizen and an elector, but the name can be on the roll of any constituency in the country.

Besides location, GPS satellites broadcast extremely precise time, and mobile networks, banks and power grids all depend on that timing.

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.

Botswana is rich in diamonds, Chile in lithium and Indonesia in nickel. Botswana is one of the world's leading producers of diamonds by value; the Jwaneng and Orapa mines, run with De Beers, turned it from one of the poorest countries at independence in 1966 into a middle-income one.

Puthukkuli shawls come from Tamil Nadu, but Sujni embroidery belongs to Bihar and Uppada Jamdani saris to Andhra Pradesh.

All three statements about coal, its ash and its emissions are correct. When coal burns in a power station, the leftover fly ash and bottom ash carry toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium and chromium, which can leach into groundwater from ash ponds.

Constant heat and heavy rain make decomposition fastest there, and climbers and epiphytes are its typical plant forms. Tropical rain forests lie near the equator, in the Amazon, the Congo basin and South-East Asia, with temperatures around 27°C and rain in every month.

Parishishtaparvan and Trishashtilakshana Mahapurana are Jaina works, while Nettipakarana and Avadanashataka are Buddhist.

P waves are the fastest seismic waves and reach a seismograph first, and they move particles along the direction of travel, while S waves move them at right angles to it.

The Chief of Defence Staff is the permanent chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the principal military adviser to the Defence Minister, but does not command the three Service Chiefs.

Periyar launched the Self-Respect Movement in the Madras Presidency in 1925 to fight caste discrimination and Brahmin dominance. Periyar had left the Congress after he felt it did little for non-Brahmins.

Lebanon and Syria have coastlines on the eastern Mediterranean; Jordan and Iraq do not. The eastern shore of the Mediterranean, called the Levant coast, runs from Turkey in the north through Syria, Lebanon and Israel to the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

Under President's Rule, Article 356(1)(b) lets the President declare that the powers of the State Legislature shall be exercisable by or under the authority of Parliament.

Nagarhole, Sathyamangalam and Wayanad all drain into the Cauvery system, while Papikonda lies on the Godavari. Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka is bounded by the Kabini river, a major tributary of the Cauvery.