Defence GK Questions 2026

The English geologist William Lowthian Green put forward the Tetrahedral Hypothesis in 1875 to explain how continents and ocean basins are arranged.

In Census 2011, a person aged seven and above who could both read and write with understanding in any language was counted as literate.

Adipocytes are the fat cells of adipose tissue, a loose connective tissue that stores fat in animals. Adipose tissue lies mainly beneath the skin and around organs such as the kidneys and heart.

Seeds are carried away from the parent plant by wind, water and animals, but fungi play no part in seed dispersal.

The science journalist Gobind Behari Lal won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1937, the first person of Indian origin to receive it.

Chhattisgarh lies in the heart of the country and is surrounded only by other Indian States. Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in November 2000.

The Nyishi are the largest tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, living mainly in its central and western hill districts. The Nyishi live in districts such as Papum Pare, Kurung Kumey, Kra Daadi, East Kameng and Lower Subansiri, with smaller groups in the bordering parts of Assam.

Locke argued that a government is legitimate only when it rests on the consent of the governed, the idea of government by consent.

Ramaswamy Naicker. E.V.

Supplying resources, sustaining life and providing aesthetic services are all functions of the environment. The environment is the total of all the living and non-living things around us.

All four of them, M.A. Ayyangar, G.S.

Thyroxine is an iodine-containing hormone, so the thyroid gland cannot make it without iodine from the diet. The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland in the neck.

Mitochondria carry out respiration, chloroplasts photosynthesis, ribosomes make proteins and the rough endoplasmic reticulum transports them. Mitochondria are called the powerhouse of the cell because aerobic respiration in them releases energy as ATP.

This follows the order of these metals in the reactivity series, and hydrochloric acid reacts fastest with the metal highest in it.

UNESCO has never won a Nobel Prize, while the other three UN bodies have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Several parts of the United Nations family have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Guntupalle Buddhist caves lie in the Eluru region of Andhra Pradesh, in the old West Godavari district. Guntupalle is one of the oldest Buddhist sites of the Andhra country, dating back to around the 2nd century BCE.

The GII measures gender gaps in reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market, and its value runs from 0 to 1.

Among the four States listed, only Assam and Nagaland touch Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh is the largest State of the North-East by area.

Inter-State quarantine is a Union subject, listed with inter-State migration in entry 81 of the Union List. The Seventh Schedule divides legislative subjects into the Union List, the State List and the Concurrent List.

British rule pushed Indian farmers to grow crops for sale and export rather than for their own food. Heavy land revenue had to be paid in cash, so peasants turned to cash crops such as indigo, cotton, jute, opium, tea and sugarcane, which fed British industry and trade.