Defence GK Questions 2026

A glacier moving to the coast deepens its valley below the level of the sea; when the ice melts, salt water enters the deep U-shaped trough and leaves a long, narrow, steep-sided inlet, the fjord, of which the coasts of Norway, Chile, Greenland and New Zealand give the best examples.

Bara Shigri descends from the Pir Panjal and Great Himalayan slopes into the valley of the Chandra river, which joins the Bhaga at Tandi to form the Chandrabhaga or Chenab.

The Zemu glacier lies in North Sikkim at the eastern base of Kangchenjunga, the highest peak in India, and its meltwater reaches the Teesta river.

A glacier fills the whole floor of a valley and erodes its sides as well as its bed, so it widens and deepens the valley into a trough with a broad flat floor and steep straight walls, which in section looks like the letter U. Option A is wrong because…

A drumlin is a smooth oval mound of till, the unsorted debris left by ice, shaped like an inverted spoon with its steeper end facing the direction from which the glacier came; a group of drumlins produces what is called basket-of-eggs topography.

A cirque, also called a corrie, is the armchair-shaped hollow that a glacier scoops at the head of its valley by plucking and abrasion; when the ice melts, water collects in the rock basin and the small round lake so formed is a tarn.

The Pamir knot is the node where the Himalaya, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, the Kunlun and the Tian Shan ranges meet, and the Fedchenko glacier, running for roughly seventy-seven kilometres, is the longest glacier found anywhere outside the Arctic and the Antarctic.

Antarctica holds the greater part of the ice of the earth, so its outlet glaciers dwarf those of other continents.

The Gangotri glacier ends in a snout shaped like the mouth of a cow, which gives it the name Gaumukh, and the stream that issues from it is the Bhagirathi.

Its meltwater feeds the Nubra river, a tributary of the Shyok, which joins the Indus.

A quasi-federal constitution has the basic features of a federation but also a strong unitary bias, and the Indian Constitution is the best known example.

The bora is a cold, dry and often violent north-easterly wind that rushes down from the Dinaric Alps onto the eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, and it also reaches Trieste in Italy.

The English jurist John Austin developed legal positivism, the view that law is the command of the sovereign backed by a sanction, kept separate from questions of morality.

J is from Assam, which had a population density of 398 persons per square kilometre in Census 2011, far higher than the other three States.

Keynes argued that in a depression the government should spend more than it earns, even by borrowing, to revive demand and employment.

Mahishmati, an important city of ancient central India, stood on the Narmada and is usually identified with Maheshwar in present-day Madhya Pradesh, though some scholars place it at Mandhata (Omkareshwar).

The sour taste of tamarind comes from tartaric acid, not oxalic acid, so this statement is not correct. Many natural acids give foods their sour taste.

The lion is not found among the animals carved on Harappan seals, although the tiger appears on several of them.

Ellora has Buddhist, Hindu and Jain caves, and the Kailasa temple was carved out of a single rock, not built of stone blocks and bricks.

River terraces mark old valley floors and may be of bedrock or alluvium, but they are products of erosion, not deposition, so statement 3 is wrong.