Defence GK Questions 2026

The magnetic force depends on the sine of the angle between velocity and field, and sin 90° is the largest value.

The RBI brought in the Standing Deposit Facility in April 2022 and made its rate the new floor of the policy corridor.

L4 lies on Earth's orbit 60° ahead of the Earth, so it is as far from the Sun as from the Earth.

All three statements describe the Ghadar Movement correctly. The Ghadar Party was formed in 1913 on the Pacific coast of the USA by Indian immigrants, mostly Punjabi Sikh farmers and workers, with its headquarters, the Yugantar Ashram, in San Francisco.

UNIX was designed from the start as a time-sharing system, so this statement is false. UNIX was developed at Bell Labs from 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

Kerala was narrowly ahead of Jharkhand in Census 2011, and Assam was clearly ahead of Punjab. Census 2011 counted about 3.34 crore people in Kerala, 3.30 crore in Jharkhand, 3.12 crore in Assam and 2.77 crore in Punjab.

The number of protons in the nucleus defines an element, and no two elements share it. The atomic number (Z) is the number of protons in an atom's nucleus, and in a neutral atom it also equals the number of electrons, which decide chemical behaviour.

A transformer heats up because of energy lost inside it: heat from current in the windings and hysteresis loss in the iron core.

Both statements are true, and the airborne spread of the TB bacterium is exactly why crowded places raise the risk.

A true fruit is a ripened ovary and nothing else. After fertilisation, the ovary of a flower develops into the fruit, its wall becomes the pericarp and the ovules inside become seeds.

In a free market, prices are set by buyers and sellers, not by the government. The price mechanism is how a market economy answers the basic questions of what to produce, how much and for whom.

The English physician showed in 1796 that deliberate inoculation could protect a person against smallpox. Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had caught the mild disease cowpox did not get smallpox.

The ryotwari system was meant to do the opposite: it bypassed the zamindars and dealt with the peasant directly. The ryotwari settlement was worked out by Alexander Read and Thomas Munro and introduced in the Madras Presidency in 1820, and later extended to the Bombay Presidency.

This statement is wrong, because the Gauhati High Court has permanent benches outside Guwahati. The Gauhati High Court at Guwahati is the common High Court for Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

In Köppen's scheme it stands for a hot desert climate with its little rain in summer, which fits western Rajasthan.

The Alvars were devotees of Vishnu, not of the goddess Shakti, so this pair is wrong. The Bhakti movement began in Tamil Nadu between the sixth and ninth centuries with two groups of poet-saints.

Mission Shakti was India's first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test. On 27 March 2019 DRDO fired a ground-launched interceptor from Dr. A.P.J.

By Archimedes' principle, the buoyant force equals the weight of the water displaced by the sphere. A fully immersed body displaces its own volume of water, here 2 × 10⁻⁴ m³.

Statement 4 is wrong because adhiyars and bargadars were both sharecroppers who worked the land of the jotedars. After the Permanent Settlement of 1793 by Lord Cornwallis, the Company tried to tame the zamindars: their troops were disbanded, their customs duties abolished and their courts placed under Company collectors.

Flash memory is erased electrically, not by ultraviolet light, so this is not one of its features. Flash memory is a type of EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory) that can erase and rewrite whole blocks at a time, which makes it fast.