Defence GK Questions 2026

In 1967 the Supreme Court held that Parliament could not amend Part III to take away or abridge any Fundamental Right.

Lipases split fats into fatty acids and glycerol. Fat digestion happens mainly in the small intestine.

He got the title Vidyasagar from the Sanskrit College, Calcutta, and he argued for widow remarriage precisely on the basis of the scriptures.

Bauxite is a mixture of hydrated aluminium oxides and hydroxides, not a silicate, and it is the main ore of aluminium.

A single-celled organism has no organs at all; the one cell takes in food through its surface or by forming temporary structures.

A lower CRR means banks must park less money with the RBI, so they have more to lend, and lending creates more money.

A healthy young human ear can hear sounds with frequencies from about 20 hertz to about 20,000 hertz. Frequency is the number of vibrations per second, measured in hertz, and our ears sense it as pitch.

The G20 was formed in 1999, not 2001, as a forum of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. The Group of Twenty was set up in 1999 after the Asian financial crisis, so that finance ministers and central bank governors of major developed and emerging economies could meet regularly.

A muscle contracts when calcium ions are released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, and it relaxes when they are pumped back into it.

The bombs thrown in the Central Legislative Assembly were meant to make a noise and be heard, not to kill anyone.

Tropolone is aromatic, but its seven-membered ring is made only of carbon atoms, so it is not heterocyclic. A heterocyclic compound has at least one atom other than carbon, such as oxygen, sulphur or nitrogen, inside its ring.

Breaking down carbohydrates to release energy is respiration, which happens in the cytoplasm and mitochondria, not a job of chlorophyll.

Her return is earned outside India, so it is not in India's GDP, but it is earned by an Indian resident, so it counts in India's national income.

Biogas is mostly methane, with carbon dioxide as the second gas and only small amounts of nitrogen and others. Biogas forms when cattle dung, kitchen waste or crop residue is broken down by anaerobic bacteria, that is, without air, inside a digester.

The Special Drawing Facility is short-term, secured lending to States, but it is cheaper than the repo rate and comes before ordinary WMA, not after it.

Red blood cells far outnumber both platelets and white blood cells. A microlitre of healthy adult blood holds about 4.5 to 5.5 million red blood cells, about 1.5 to 4.5 lakh platelets and only about 4,000 to 11,000 white blood cells.

When the two mix, they release a rush of carbon dioxide that pushes water out onto the fire. In a soda-acid extinguisher a small bottle of dilute sulphuric acid sits inside a cylinder filled with a solution of sodium hydrogencarbonate (baking soda, NaHCO3).

Natural chlorine is a mixture of two isotopes, and their weighted average is about 35.5 u. Chlorine has two stable isotopes: chlorine-35, which makes up about 75 per cent of natural chlorine, and chlorine-37, about 25 per cent.

Nuclear power runs on uranium and thorium, mined minerals whose stock is finite, so it is a non-renewable source even though it is low in carbon.

Guard cells are specialised epidermal cells that surround each stoma on the surface of a leaf. Each stoma is a tiny pore bordered by two guard cells, which are bean-shaped in most plants and dumb-bell shaped in grasses.