Defence GK Questions 2026

Bangabhaban in Dhaka is the official residence of the President of Bangladesh. The name itself carries the clue, since Banga is the old name of the Bengal region, and the building served earlier as the residence of the governor of East Bengal.

The Potala Palace rises above Lhasa, the chief city of Tibet, and was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from the seventeenth century.

The Danish architect Jorn Utzon won the competition for the Sydney Opera House, whose shell shaped roofs stand on Bennelong Point in Sydney harbour.

Big Ben is strictly the name of the large bell hung in the clock tower at the northern end of the Palace of Westminster.

This large hall on the western side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing is where the National People's Congress, China's legislature, holds its sessions, and where state ceremonies and receptions for visiting leaders are held.

Casa Rosada, the Pink House, stands on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and is the office and ceremonial seat of the President of Argentina.

Lutyens was the chief architect of imperial New Delhi and designed the Viceroy's House, built between 1912 and 1929 on Raisina Hill.

The Pentagon stands at Arlington in Virginia, across the Potomac river from Washington D.C., and houses the American defence department along with the headquarters of its armed services.

Number 10 Downing Street has been the London house and the working office of the British Prime Minister since the eighteenth century, and the cabinet meets in it.

The Elysee Palace in Paris has been the official residence and working office of the President of the French Republic since the middle of the nineteenth century, and the French Prime Minister, who is the head of government, works separately from the Hotel Matignon.

Canning read the Queen's Proclamation at a durbar at Allahabad on 1 November 1858.

Campbell, the Commander in Chief, had already relieved the Residency at the end of 1857 and returned with a large force to retake Lucknow in March 1858, after which the rebel hold on Awadh and Rohilkhand was broken.

Awadh had been a loyal ally of the Company for decades and had an heir, so the Doctrine of Lapse could not be applied; Dalhousie therefore annexed it in 1856 on the plea that it was badly governed, and Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was pensioned off and exiled to Calcutta.

Known as the Maulvi of Faizabad, he had been preaching against Company rule before 1857 and was in prison when the revolt broke out.

He was a grandson of the Rohilla chief Hafiz Rahmat Khan and had served as a judicial officer under the Company before the revolt.

After Hugh Rose took the fort of Jhansi in April 1858 the Rani escaped, joined Tatya Tope, and with him seized Gwalior from the Scindia's forces.

Begum Hazrat Mahal, a wife of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, had her young son Birjis Qadr proclaimed Nawab of Awadh in 1857 and led the resistance at Lucknow, where the British were besieged in the Residency and the Chief Commissioner Henry Lawrence was killed.

Dhondu Pant, known as Nana Saheb, was the adopted son of the last Peshwa Baji Rao II, and the Company had refused him his father's pension and titles under the Doctrine of Lapse.

Mangal Pandey came from Nagwa village in Ballia district of eastern Uttar Pradesh and served in the 34th Native Infantry.

On 10 May 1857 the sepoys of the 3rd Light Cavalry at Meerut rose in revolt, released the comrades who had been imprisoned for refusing the greased cartridge, killed their officers and marched on Delhi the next day, where they proclaimed Bahadur Shah Zafar emperor of Hindustan.