Defence GK Questions 2026

The equator crosses none of these three water bodies; in Africa it passes through Lake Victoria, not Lake Tanganyika.

The Madhesis belong to Nepal and the Rohingya to Myanmar, while the Kurds have nothing to do with Bangladesh. The Madhesis are the people of the Terai plains of southern Nepal, close to the Indian border, with strong ties of language and kinship to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Local self-government transfers power and functions to elected bodies of the people at the village, block, district and town levels.

Gandhi did campaign to end indentured labour, and the Congress was outlawed after the Salt Satyagraha, but he supported the recruitment resolution at the War Conference.

Copper smelting is a concern for its sulphur dioxide emissions and for heavy metals leaching from its slag, not for lethal carbon monoxide.

The 15 percent ceiling is in the Constitution, but the ranks of ministers are not.

Orangutans shape sticks into tools and use them to pull insects, honey and termites out of holes in trees and logs.

Groundnut, horse-gram and soybean are all legumes of the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae), the pea family. Members of the pea family bear their seeds in pods and carry root nodules in which Rhizobium bacteria fix atmospheric nitrogen.

Of the six countries listed, the Andes pass through Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, but not through Brazil or Paraguay.

Mallikarjun Mansur (1910–1992) of Dharwad was one of the leading Khayal singers of this gharana. The Jaipur-Atrauli gharana was founded by Ustad Alladiya Khan in the late nineteenth century.

This statement is wrong: the gravitational force between two bodies depends on their masses and on the distance between them.

Three parts of oxygen-16 and one part of oxygen-18 give an average of (3 × 16 + 1 × 18) ÷ 4 = 66 ÷ 4 = 16.5 u. Isotopes are atoms of the same element with the same atomic number but different mass numbers, because they have different numbers…

In boiling, bubbles of vapour form throughout the liquid; in evaporation, only molecules at the surface escape.

The All Parties Conference of 1928 set up a committee under Motilal Nehru, and its draft constitution is known as the Nehru Report.

Gypsum (calcium sulphate dihydrate) is not a raw material for glass; it is added to cement to slow down its setting.

Severability is a doctrine used by courts to interpret laws, not a writ. Under Article 32 the Supreme Court, and under Article 226 the High Courts, can issue five writs: habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto.

Bacteria turn the lactose in milk into lactic acid, a new substance, so souring is a chemical change that cannot be reversed.

One kilowatt-hour is the energy used by a 1 kW appliance running for one hour: 1000 W × 3600 s = 3.6 × 10⁶ J. The joule is too small for household bills, so electricity companies charge in kilowatt-hours, commonly called units.

The rocky planets are dense, the gas giants are light, and Saturn is the least dense planet of all. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System at about 5.5 g/cm³, with Venus close behind at about 5.2 g/cm³; both are made of rock and metal.

This is the thermite reaction, which is highly exothermic: it gives out so much heat that the iron formed comes out molten.