Defence GK Questions 2026

Guru Arjan blessed the rebel prince Khusrau and also organised the community's finances through the masands. The first Sikh Gurus, from Guru Nanak onwards, were spiritual teachers who kept away from politics, and Akbar was friendly towards them.

Abdur Razzak wrote that roses were sold everywhere in Vijayanagara and that the people could not live without them. Abdur Razzak Samarqandi was an ambassador sent by the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh of Persia.

Wool is an animal fibre made mainly of the protein keratin. Polymers are giant molecules built from many small repeating units called monomers.

The British blended Indian and European forms to present themselves as the rightful rulers of India. Towards the beginning of the twentieth century a mixed style called Indo-Saracenic took shape in colonial cities.

The horizontal distance from one crest to the next, or from one trough to the next, is the wavelength. Ocean waves are mostly made by wind blowing over the sea surface.

The Asan Conservation Reserve lies in Dehradun district of Uttarakhand. The reserve is a stretch of the Asan river near its meeting with the Yamuna, where a barrage built in 1967 created a wetland.

In the Union Budget 2022-23, interest on past borrowing was the single largest item of revenue expenditure. Revenue expenditure is spending that creates no assets, such as salaries, pensions, interest, subsidies and grants.

The Saka era began in 78 CE, so year 72 of that era is 72 + 78 = 150 CE.

Sucralose is made from ordinary table sugar, sucrose, by changing its molecule. In making sucralose, three hydroxyl (OH) groups of the sucrose molecule are replaced by chlorine atoms.

Most Rajya Sabha members are chosen by MLAs, but no domicile is needed. Under Article 80, the Rajya Sabha can have at most 250 members: 12 nominated by the President and up to 238 representatives of the States and Union Territories.

Keynes made the paradox of thrift a central idea of his economics in the 1930s. The paradox says that what is wise for one household can hurt the whole economy.

Arjan Singh led the Indian Air Force during the 1965 war and was raised to the five star rank of Marshal of the Indian Air Force in 2002, the only officer of the Air Force ever to hold it.

Army Day marks the day in 1949 when Lieutenant General K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander in Chief of the Indian Army from the last British holder of the post.

The Indian Naval Academy stands on the coast at Ezhimala in Kannur district of Kerala and is the basic training establishment for officer cadets of the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard.

The motto is taken from the Bhagavad Gita and is translated as touch the sky with glory.

The Garhwal Rifles has its regimental centre at Lansdowne, a cantonment town in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, and the regiment carries the motto Yudhaya Krit Nishchay.

The Madras Regiment traces its raising to 1758 and is accepted as the senior most and oldest infantry regiment of the Indian Army.

In the common ladder of the three services the Army Brigadier, the Navy Commodore and the Air Force Air Commodore occupy the same step.

The three services keep parallel ladders so that officers of equal standing can work together. At that level the Army has a Colonel, the Navy a Captain and the Air Force a Group Captain.

Article 53 of the Constitution vests the supreme command of the defence forces of the Union in the President, to be exercised in accordance with law.