Static GK carries most of the General Knowledge marks in the defence exams, and science carries the largest share of it. In NDA & NA, Physics, Chemistry and General Science are about half of the 400 marks of Part B, and History, the freedom movement and Geography are about 20% each, as per the notice. In the CDS (II) 2026 General Knowledge paper, GK24 counted about 37 science questions, about 20 each on Polity and History, about 15 on Geography and environment and about 10 on the Economy; this count is guidance, not an official break-up. The Army's Agniveer CEE gives 15 of its 50 General Duty questions to General Knowledge and 15 to General Science, which covers cells, the human body, plants and animals and common epidemics. Its GK list names history, culture and geography of India and its neighbours, the Constitution, inventions and discoveries, books and authors, and the Indian Armed Forces. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes and GK questions tagged for NDA, CDS and Agniveer, in English and Hindi: General Science, Indian History, Art and Culture, Indian Polity, Geography, Indian Economy and Static GK. Read one topic at a sitting, then solve its questions and the previous-year questions of your exam to see what stayed with you.
Oryza sativa is the scientific name of which crop?
Rice is Oryza sativa, a member of the grass family, and the epithet sativa, meaning cultivated or sown, marks it as a crop raised by farmers rather than a wild species.
Read the full explanation →Panthera tigris is the scientific name of which animal?
Panthera tigris is the tiger, the national animal of India, and the Bengal tiger found in the country is its subspecies Panthera tigris tigris, a three part name that illustrates trinomial nomenclature.
Read the full explanation →What is the scientific name of the mango?
The mango belongs to the genus Mangifera and the species epithet indica marks its Indian origin; it is also the national fruit of India, which is why this name appears in both science and static general knowledge papers.
Read the full explanation →The system of binomial nomenclature was given by which scientist?
The Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus introduced the two part naming of organisms in Systema Naturae and applied it to the plant kingdom in Species Plantarum, and because he also built the ranked system of classification he is called the father of taxonomy.
Read the full explanation →In the electoral college that elects the President of India, which of the following do not have a vote?
Article 54 confines the electoral college to elected members, so the twelve members nominated to the Rajya Sabha and any nominated members of an Assembly take no part in the presidential election; they do, however, vote in the election of the Vice-President under Article 66, which is the point the…
Read the full explanation →Which Vice-President of India served two full terms of five years each in the second half of the twentieth century and later?
He was Vice-President from 11 August 2007 to 10 August 2017, two consecutive full terms, and is the only person after Dr. S. Radhakrishnan to achieve that.
Read the full explanation →Who is the only Vice-President of India to have died while in office?
He became Vice-President on 21 August 1997 and died on 27 July 2002, a few days before his term was to end, the only holder of the office to die in harness.
Read the full explanation →Under the Constitution of India, the Vice-President is the ex-officio Chairman of which body?
Article 64 provides that the Vice-President shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Council of States, that is the Rajya Sabha, and shall hold no other office of profit; when he acts as President he does not perform the duties of Chairman and draws no salary as Chairman.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first woman to hold the office of President of India?
She was the twelfth President of India and held office from 2007 to 2012, the first woman to do so, having earlier served as Governor of Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →Who was the only President of India to be elected unopposed?
In 1977 every other nomination was rejected and he was declared elected unopposed, the only President of India chosen in that manner.
Read the full explanation →The oath of office to the President of India is administered by which authority?
Article 60 provides that the President shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation in the presence of the Chief Justice of India, or in his absence the senior-most Judge of the Supreme Court available.
Read the full explanation →Which article of the Constitution of India provides for the election of the President?
Article 54 says the President shall be elected by an electoral college consisting of the elected members of both Houses of Parliament and the elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States, the Assemblies of Delhi and Puducherry having been added by the Seventieth Amendment.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first person to discharge the functions of the President of India as acting President?
When Dr. Zakir Husain died on 3 May 1969, Shri V. V. Giri was the Vice-President, and under Article 65 the Vice-President discharges the functions of the President during such a vacancy.
Read the full explanation →Which President of India was the first to die while in office?
He took office in May 1967 and died on 3 May 1969, which gave him the shortest tenure of any President of India and made him the first to die in office.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Vice-President of India?
He held the office of Vice-President from 13 May 1952 to 12 May 1962, two full terms, and then served as the second President of India from 1962 to 1967.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first President of India?
He was sworn in on 26 January 1950, the day the Constitution came into force, and held the office until 13 May 1962.
Read the full explanation →The title Chhatrapati is associated with which ruler, and in which year was it assumed?
He was crowned at the Raigad fort in 1674 with the title Chhatrapati, the ceremony being performed by the scholar Gaga Bhatt, and he governed with a council of eight ministers, the Ashta Pradhan, whose head carried the title Peshwa.
Read the full explanation →The Vijayanagara ruler Krishnadevaraya is popularly known by which title?
Krishnadevaraya of the Tuluva dynasty was himself the author of the Telugu work Amuktamalyada and patronised the Ashtadiggajas, the eight great poets of his court, which earned him the names Andhra Bhoja and Abhinava Bhoja after the legendary king Bhoja of Dhar.
Read the full explanation →Which Chola ruler assumed the title Gangaikonda Chola?
He sent an army to the north that reached the Ganga, and in memory of the campaign he took the title Gangaikonda Chola and built a new capital called Gangaikondacholapuram; his naval expedition against the Srivijaya kingdom earned him Kadaram Kondan.
Read the full explanation →Which Mughal emperor took the regnal title Alamgir?
On his accession in 1658 he took the title Alamgir, conqueror of the world, and because he lived austerely and copied the Quran he was also called Zinda Pir, the living saint.
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