Defence GK Questions 2026

In it Ashoka says plainly that he has been a lay follower (upasaka) of the Buddha. Minor Rock Edict 1 is found at places such as Maski, Brahmagiri, Rupnath, Sasaram and Gujarra.

The Philosophy of the Bomb was drafted by Bhagwati Charan Vohra of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, and Yashpal worked on it with him.

Nagara temples belong to north India, but their shikhara is curvilinear, not pyramidal. The Nagara style spread over the land between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas, from Gujarat and Rajasthan to Odisha.

The so-called lead of a pencil is a mix of graphite and clay; it contains no lead metal. Graphite is a crystalline form, or allotrope, of carbon.

A liquid has no shape of its own, so it must be measured inside a vessel that expands at the same time.

G has the same value everywhere in the universe, for any two masses. The relation is Newton's law of universal gravitation: every two bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

The Kelvin and Fahrenheit scales read the same at about 574.25, which is about 301 degrees Celsius. The scales are linked by K = C + 273 and F = (9/5)C + 32.

The lens of the human eye is a converging (convex) lens, not a diverging one, so statement A is not correct.

The rod becomes negative because it gains electrons from the wool. When two materials are rubbed together, only electrons move, because they are the loosely held outer particles of atoms.

This is the Clausius statement of the second law. Rudolf Clausius stated that heat cannot by itself pass from a colder body to a hotter one; work must be done to make it do so.

Jharkhand has railway divisions such as Ranchi and Dhanbad, but no zonal headquarters. Indian Railways is organised into zones, each headed by a General Manager, and every zone is split into divisions.

Bats send out ultrasonic squeaks and listen for the echoes to locate obstacles and prey. This method is called echolocation.

The Dhanbad-Jamshedpur region is known for coal, iron and steel, not cotton textiles. Cotton mills grew where raw cotton, a humid climate, capital, cheap power and markets came together.

A rainbow forms when raindrops split white sunlight into its seven colours. When sunlight enters a raindrop, it is refracted, and because each colour bends by a different amount, the colours spread apart.

All four areas are recognised as the major coral reef areas of India. India's coral reefs lie in four main regions.

He belonged to the Suhrawardi order, not the Chishti order. Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya founded the Suhrawardi order in India at Multan in the thirteenth century.

Under the Subsidiary Alliance the British promised to protect the ally from internal threats as well as external ones, so B was not a feature.

Ibn Battuta lived at the court of Muhammad bin Tughlaq and described his reign at first hand. Ibn Battuta, a traveller from Tangier in Morocco, reached India in 1333.

No such prophecy is recorded among the causes of the revolt. Rumours and prophecies spread fast in the months before May 1857 and stirred fear and anger.

Washing soda is the crystalline form of sodium carbonate, Na2CO3·10H2O, sodium carbonate decahydrate. Sodium carbonate is made from common salt by the Solvay (ammonia-soda) process.