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.
Who among the following is the first Indian woman to win a medal in the Olympics ?
She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first Olympic medal by an Indian woman.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army of independent India?
General K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army on 15 January 1949. He succeeded General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British chief, and the day he took charge is celebrated every year as Army Day on 15 January.
Read the full explanation →The Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) launched in 2015-16 by the Central Government is aimed to :
PKVY was started to help farmers shift to chemical-free, organic cultivation. Paramparagat means traditional, and the scheme revives traditional, low-input farming.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is NOT found in a prokaryotic cell ?
A prokaryotic cell has no true nucleus, so its genetic material is not wrapped in a nuclear membrane. Bacteria and cyanobacteria are prokaryotes.
Read the full explanation →Renowned classical singer Prabha Atre, who passed away recently, was an exponent of which one of the following Gharanas?
Prabha Atre was trained in and sang in the Kirana style of Hindustani classical music. Prabha Atre (1932-2024) of Pune learned from Sureshbabu Mane and Hirabai Barodekar, both disciples of Abdul Karim Khan, the founder of the Kirana gharana.
Read the full explanation →"Nirbhaya Fund", a non-lapsable corpus fund, which is to be utilized for the projects specifically designed to improve the safety and security of women is administered by :
The Nirbhaya Fund is a non-lapsable corpus administered by the Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance. The fund was announced in the Union Budget of 2013-14 with an initial corpus of 1,000 crore rupees, after the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape case that shocked the country.
Read the full explanation →The practice of reducing the size of a product while maintaining its sticker price is called :
When a company quietly cuts the quantity in a pack but keeps the same price, the buyer pays more per unit; this hidden price rise is shrinkflation.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is associated to Schizophrenia ?
Hallucinations, most often hearing voices that others cannot hear, are a core symptom of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which a person loses touch with reality.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements with regard to the speech of Mahatma Gandhi at the opening of the Banaras Hindu University are correct? 1. He charged the Indian elite with a lack of concern for the labouring poor. 2. He asserted that our salvation can come only through the farmers. 3. He highlighted the plight of the untouchables. 4. He promised to take up the cause of the mill owners of Ahmedabad. Select the correct answer using the code given below.
At the opening of Banaras Hindu University in February 1916, Gandhi criticised the elite for ignoring the poor and said India's salvation lay with its farmers.
Read the full explanation →In the 10th Mandala of the Rigveda, which one of the following hymns reflects upon the marriage ceremonies?
The Surya Sukta (Rigveda X.85) describes the wedding of Surya, daughter of the Sun, and is the source of the Vedic marriage rites.
Read the full explanation →'Tejas' is the name of which one of the following?
Tejas is India's indigenous single-engine light combat aircraft built for the Indian Air Force. The Light Combat Aircraft programme was started in the 1980s to replace the ageing MiG-21 fleet.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following organisms is dependent on saprophytic mode of nutrition?
Agaricus is a mushroom, a fungus that feeds on dead and decaying organic matter, which is the saprophytic mode of nutrition.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the latest addition to the AYUSH group of health care system?
Sowa-Rigpa, the traditional Tibetan system of medicine, was the last system to be officially recognised and added to AYUSH. AYUSH stands for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about phloem is correct?
Phloem carries the sugars made in the leaves to every part of the plant that needs food. Phloem is a complex permanent tissue made of four kinds of cells: sieve tubes, companion cells, phloem parenchyma and phloem fibres.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the oldest football tournament of Asia ?
First held in 1888, it is the oldest football tournament in Asia and one of the oldest in the world.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is known as "Payyoli Express"?
The sprinter from Payyoli in Kerala's Kozhikode district earned the nickname Payyoli Express for her speed on the track.
Read the full explanation →Which one among the following educational institutions established under the Union Ministry of Culture is promoting to preserve, protect and promote Lord Buddha's teaching and value of love, compassion and non-violence for developing good moral values and practices ?
It is a deemed university under the Union Ministry of Culture devoted to Pali language and Buddhist studies.
Read the full explanation →The Sanikatta Salt Works, known for Salt Satyagraha, is located in :
Sanikatta lies near Gokarna in the Uttara Kannada district of coastal Karnataka. Sanikatta is one of the oldest traditional salt pans on the west coast, where sea water is let into the fields at the mouth of the Aghanashini river and dried by the sun.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is involved in light independent reactions of photosynthesis?
The Calvin cycle fixes carbon dioxide into sugar without needing light directly, so it forms the light-independent (dark) reactions. Photosynthesis happens in two stages inside the chloroplast.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements regarding the Constituent Assembly of India is/are correct? 1. The Assembly was elected indirectly by the members of the Provincial Legislative Assemblies. 2. The elections were held on the basis of Universal Adult Franchise. 3. The scheme of election was laid down by the Cabinet Delegation. 4. The distribution of seats was done on the basis of the Mountbatten Plan. Select the correct answer using the code given below.
The Constituent Assembly was chosen indirectly by the provincial assemblies under a scheme drawn up by the Cabinet Mission of 1946.
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