Defence GK Questions 2026

Weber's ideal type describes bureaucracy through its structure and the conduct of its officials, not through class domination. Max Weber, the German sociologist, described the ideal type of bureaucracy as the most rational form of administration under legal-rational authority.

The Public Accounts Committee is constituted afresh every year, so each member's term is one year. The PAC was first set up in 1921 under the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms.

An alloy is made by melting and mixing its components, which keep their own properties and are not joined in a fixed ratio by chemical bonds.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, but NOTA does not apply to the presidential election. The Election Commission conducts the election under Article 324 and the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952.

Brine is a concentrated solution of sodium chloride, common salt, in water. Brine is the starting point of the chlor-alkali process: passing electricity through it gives sodium hydroxide, chlorine gas and hydrogen gas, which is why the process is named after chlorine and alkali.

An LED is a semiconductor p–n junction diode that gives out light when current flows through it in the forward direction.

Air masses form under calm, stable, anticyclonic (high-pressure) conditions, not in cyclones. An air mass is a huge body of air with nearly uniform temperature and humidity across it.

Average velocity is total displacement divided by time, and the car ends where it started, so its displacement is zero.

Koneru Humpy, from Andhra Pradesh, is one of India's greatest chess players and among the strongest women players in the world.

When red and green light are added together, the eye sees yellow. Red, green and blue are the primary colours of light.

The Constitution makes itself supreme, not any one organ; it balances parliamentary sovereignty with judicial review. India took a middle path between the British idea of parliamentary sovereignty and the American idea of judicial supremacy.

Outside a long straight wire, the field is B = μ₀I/(2πr), so doubling the distance halves the field. This result follows from Ampère's circuital law, or from the Biot–Savart law applied to a long wire.

Sugar dissolves in water as whole, neutral molecules and releases no ions, so its solution does not conduct electricity. A solution conducts only when it contains free ions that can carry charge between the electrodes.

Prokaryotic cells, such as bacteria, have no true nucleus; their DNA lies free in the cytoplasm in a region called the nucleoid.

Naseem-Al-Bahr, Arabic for "sea breeze", is the bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of Oman.

While collecting nectar, a honey-bee carries pollen from one flower to the stigma of another, which lets the plant form seeds.

The date just east of the line is one day behind the date just west of it, but the line runs through the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic.

In Sufism a murid is the disciple who follows a spiritual master, called the pir or shaikh. Sufi orders, or silsilas, such as the Chishti and Suhrawardi, grew around a master and his disciples living in a khanqah (hospice).

Heating weakens the attraction between the molecules of a liquid, so its surface pulls less tightly. Surface tension arises because molecules at the surface are pulled inward by their neighbours, making the surface behave like a stretched skin.

For any real object, a convex mirror forms a virtual, erect and smaller image behind the mirror, between the pole and the focus.