Defence GK Questions 2026

Article 191(1)(a) disqualifies a person who holds an office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State.

X-rays have wavelengths from about 0.01 nm to 10 nm, so 1 nm lies well inside the X-ray band. In the electromagnetic spectrum, wavelength decreases from radio waves through microwaves, infrared, visible light and ultraviolet to X-rays and gamma rays.

Dadabhai Naoroji founded it in London in 1866 to put the Indian point of view before the British public and Parliament.

The element with atomic number 8 is oxygen, which gains two electrons to complete its octet and forms sodium oxide, Na₂O. Oxygen's electrons are arranged as 2, 6, so it needs two more to reach the stable arrangement 2, 8 of neon.

Chemical energy is the energy stored in the bonds that link atoms together in molecules. When a chemical reaction breaks old bonds and forms new ones, this stored energy is released or absorbed.

This statement is wrong: soda glass is the soft glass, while pyrex is a hard borosilicate glass. Ordinary soda-lime glass is made from silica (sand), sodium carbonate and limestone; it softens at a fairly low temperature and is used for windows, bottles and tumblers.

Article 231 lets Parliament, by law, set up a common High Court for two or more States, or for two or more States and a Union Territory.

The exosphere, the outermost layer of the atmosphere, is made up mostly of the two lightest gases, hydrogen and helium.

It comes from the Directive Principles of State Policy, which no court can enforce. Article 39(a) asks the State to direct its policy towards securing that citizens, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of livelihood.

Crude petroleum is a mixture of hydrocarbons with different boiling points, and fractional distillation separates them. In a refinery, crude oil is heated to about 400 °C and its vapour enters a tall fractionating column that is hot at the bottom and cooler towards the top.

The Quaternary, the latest period of the Cenozoic era, is divided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene epochs. The Quaternary began about 2.58 million years ago.

Of all the sunlight that falls on their leaves, green plants fix only about one per cent as chemical energy in food.

Article 371A protects Naga religious and social practices, customary law and procedure, and land ownership, but says nothing about the State's boundaries.

Diagnostic laboratories spin blood samples in a centrifuge to separate the plasma or serum from the blood cells. In centrifugation a sample is rotated at high speed, so the denser particles are pushed to the bottom of the tube and the lighter liquid stays on top.

The 73rd Amendment gave panchayats constitutional status. The Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, 1992 came into force on 24 April 1993, the date now marked as National Panchayati Raj Day.

One pascal is defined as a force of one newton acting on an area of one square metre. Pressure is force per unit area, and its SI unit, named after the French scientist Blaise Pascal, is the pascal (Pa): 1 Pa = 1 N/m².

A floating body is stable only when its metacentre lies above its centre of gravity. When a floating body tilts slightly, its centre of buoyancy, the centre of the displaced liquid, shifts to one side.

Amit Shah, who holds the Home and Cooperation portfolio, chaired the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers Meeting in New Delhi and also led the Indian delegation to it.

Delegations of all member countries of BIMSTEC, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand, attended the first Home Ministers Meeting in New Delhi, so the membership of the grouping stands at seven.

At the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers Meeting the Union Home Minister said the proposed BIMSTEC Disaster Management Centre is planned at Jamnagar, which lies in Gujarat, and he asked member countries to take an active part in making the centre work.