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Defence GK Questions 2026

Static GK carries most of the General Knowledge marks in the defence exams, and science carries the largest share of it. In NDA & NA, Physics, Chemistry and General Science are about half of the 400 marks of Part B, and History, the freedom movement and Geography are about 20% each, as per the notice. In the CDS (II) 2026 General Knowledge paper, GK24 counted about 37 science questions, about 20 each on Polity and History, about 15 on Geography and environment and about 10 on the Economy; this count is guidance, not an official break-up. The Army's Agniveer CEE gives 15 of its 50 General Duty questions to General Knowledge and 15 to General Science, which covers cells, the human body, plants and animals and common epidemics. Its GK list names history, culture and geography of India and its neighbours, the Constitution, inventions and discoveries, books and authors, and the Indian Armed Forces. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes and GK questions tagged for NDA, CDS and Agniveer, in English and Hindi: General Science, Indian History, Art and Culture, Indian Polity, Geography, Indian Economy and Static GK. Read one topic at a sitting, then solve its questions and the previous-year questions of your exam to see what stayed with you.

Defence GK Questions with Answers

Q5161.General ScienceEasy

How many bones are there in the body of an adult human being?

  1. A.186
  2. B.206
  3. C.280
  4. D.300
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Correct answer: B. 206

The adult skeleton has eighty bones in the axial part, that is the skull with the ear ossicles and hyoid, the vertebral column, the ribs and the sternum, and one hundred and twenty-six in the appendicular part, that is the limbs with the pectoral and pelvic girdles, making two hundred…

Q5162.General ScienceAsked in: SSC CGL · 10 June 2019, Shift 3Easy

How many canine teeth does an adult human have?

  1. A.3
  2. B.8
  3. C.2
  4. D.4
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Correct answer: D. 4

An adult set of thirty-two permanent teeth has eight incisors for cutting, four canines for tearing, eight premolars and twelve molars for grinding, so there is one canine on each side of each jaw.

Q5163.General ScienceAsked in: RRB JE · 25 May 2019, Shift 3Medium

Which is the longest muscle in the body?

  1. A.Soleus
  2. B.Gracilis
  3. C.Trapezius
  4. D.Sartorius
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Correct answer: D. Sartorius

It is a thin, strap-like muscle that runs across the front of the thigh from the hip bone to the inner side of the knee, and because it crosses two joints it is the longest muscle of the human body; it helps in bending the hip and the knee and…

Q5164.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2018, GATEasy

Which one of the following has maximum inertia ?

  1. A.An atom
  2. B.A molecule
  3. C.A one-rupee coin
  4. D.A cricket ball
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Correct answer: D. A cricket ball

Inertia depends only on mass, and a cricket ball is the heaviest of the four. Inertia is the tendency of a body to stay at rest or keep moving uniformly in a straight line unless a force acts on it; this is Newton's first law.

Q5166.GeographyAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2019, GATEasy

Spring tides refer to

  1. A.greatest difference in the sea level at high and low tides
  2. B.lowest difference in the sea level at high and low tides
  3. C.no difference in the sea level at high and low tides
  4. D.counteraction of gravitational pull of the Sun to that of Moon
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Correct answer: A. greatest difference in the sea level at high and low tides

Spring tides have the highest high tides and the lowest low tides, so the tidal range is at its greatest.

Q5168.Indian PolityAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2020, GATMedium

Which one of the following Directive Principles was inserted by the Constitution (42nd Amendment) Act, 1976?

  1. A.The State shall minimise inequalities in income
  2. B.Equal justice and free legal aid
  3. C.Promotion of co-operative societies
  4. D.Provision for early childhood care
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Correct answer: B. Equal justice and free legal aid

Article 39A, which directs the State to secure equal justice and provide free legal aid, was added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976.

Q5171.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2022, GATMedium

The electric field lines from an isolated positively charged conducting sphere are

  1. A.tangential to the conducting surface
  2. B.at right angles to the conducting surface and towards the centre of the sphere
  3. C.at any angle to the conducting surface
  4. D.at right angles to the conducting surface and outwards from the centre of the sphere
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Correct answer: D. at right angles to the conducting surface and outwards from the centre of the sphere

Field lines always leave a conductor normal to its surface, and for a positive charge they point away from it.

Q5173.GeographyAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2023, GATMedium

Which of the following statements is/are correct ? 1. Hypocenter is the point on the surface of the Earth, nearest to the focus. 2. Velocity of earthquake waves is higher in denser materials. 3. P waves move faster and are the first to arrive at the surface of the Earth. Select the correct answer using the code given below :

  1. A.1 and 2
  2. B.2 and 3
  3. C.1 and 3
  4. D.3 only
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Correct answer: B. 2 and 3

Statement 1 describes the epicentre, not the hypocentre; statements 2 and 3 are correct. The hypocentre, or focus, is the point inside the Earth where the energy of an earthquake is released.

Q5175.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2024, GATMedium

The human eye is like a camera that has a lens with:

  1. A.fixed focal length and fixed aperture size.
  2. B.variable focal length and fixed aperture size.
  3. C.fixed focal length and variable aperture size.
  4. D.variable focal length and variable aperture size.
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Correct answer: D. variable focal length and variable aperture size.

The eye changes the focal length of its lens to focus and changes the size of its pupil to control the light.

Q5177.Indian HistoryAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2025, GATMedium

Which one of the following statements about the Bhoodan Movement is correct ?

  1. A.The target was to get one-sixth of cultivable land in India as donation
  2. B.It was approved through a Central Government Act
  3. C.It was ensured that the donated land was free from all litigation
  4. D.The first donation of land was in Bihar
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Correct answer: A. The target was to get one-sixth of cultivable land in India as donation

Vinoba Bhave asked every landowner to treat him as a son and give him a son's share, one-sixth of the land, for the landless.

Q5178.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-II 2025, GATMedium

Which one of the following statements for the work done by gravity on a body is NOT correct ?

  1. A.Work done is independent of the path followed by the body
  2. B.Work done depends only on the vertical distance separating the initial and the final position of the body
  3. C.Work done depends on the path followed by the body
  4. D.Work done is zero if the body is displaced horizontally to the force of gravity
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Correct answer: C. Work done depends on the path followed by the body

Gravity is a conservative force, so the work it does never depends on the path. The work done by gravity on a body of mass m is mgh, where h is the vertical height between the start and the end.

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