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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

Q5421.Science & TechnologyEasy

X-rays were discovered in 1895 by which scientist?

  1. A.Marie Curie
  2. B.Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
  3. C.Henri Becquerel
  4. D.Joseph John Thomson
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Correct answer: B. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

Working with a discharge tube at the University of Wurzburg in November 1895, Roentgen noticed that a screen coated with a fluorescent salt glowed even when the tube was covered, and he traced the effect to an unknown penetrating radiation that he called X-radiation.

Q5422.Indian PolityMedium

In Government of NCT of Delhi versus Union of India (2018), the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held that the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi

  1. A.may take decisions independently of the Council of Ministers on every subject
  2. B.has no independent decision-making power and is bound by the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers, except on reserved subjects and matters of discretion
  3. C.is the constitutional head of a full-fledged state
  4. D.can dissolve the Legislative Assembly on his own without reference to the President
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Correct answer: B. has no independent decision-making power and is bound by the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers, except on reserved subjects and matters of discretion

The five-judge Bench read Article 239AA as a scheme of representative government and held that the Lieutenant Governor has no independent decision-making power; he must act on the aid and advice of the elected Council of Ministers except on public order, police and land, and where a law requires him…

Q5425.Indian PolityHard

The category of Union Territories was created, and the classification of states into Parts A, B, C and D abolished, by which amendment?

  1. A.The 1st Amendment, 1951
  2. B.The 7th Amendment, 1956
  3. C.The 14th Amendment, 1962
  4. D.The 42nd Amendment, 1976
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Correct answer: B. The 7th Amendment, 1956

Acting on the report of the States Reorganisation Commission, Parliament passed the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 and the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, which ended the four-fold classification of Part A, B, C and D states and left a single class of states together with a new class called Union…

Q5426.Indian PolityHard

Which of the following Union Territories is not covered by the President's power to make regulations under Article 240?

  1. A.Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  2. B.Lakshadweep
  3. C.Chandigarh
  4. D.Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
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Correct answer: C. Chandigarh

Article 240(1) names the territories for which the President may make regulations for peace, progress and good government: the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and Puducherry, the last only while its assembly stands dissolved or suspended.

Q5427.Indian PolityMedium

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 came into force on which date, creating two Union Territories?

  1. A.5 August 2019
  2. B.9 August 2019
  3. C.31 October 2019
  4. D.26 January 2020
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Correct answer: C. 31 October 2019

The Act was passed in August 2019 but the appointed day on which the former state was reorganised into the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, with a legislative assembly, and the Union Territory of Ladakh, without one, was 31 October 2019.

Q5428.Indian PolityMedium

Article 239A, which allows Parliament to create a local legislature or Council of Ministers for a Union Territory, was inserted for which territory and by which amendment?

  1. A.Delhi, by the 69th Amendment of 1991
  2. B.Puducherry, by the 14th Amendment of 1962
  3. C.Lakshadweep, by the 7th Amendment of 1956
  4. D.Jammu and Kashmir, by the 103rd Amendment of 2019
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Correct answer: B. Puducherry, by the 14th Amendment of 1962

The Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Act, 1962 absorbed the former French settlements into India and inserted Article 239A so that Parliament could give such a territory a legislature and a Council of Ministers; Parliament then passed the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, under which the Puducherry assembly of thirty elected…

Q5429.Indian PolityEasy

Who functions as the Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh?

  1. A.The Governor of Punjab
  2. B.The Governor of Haryana
  3. C.The Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
  4. D.An officer of the Indian Administrative Service appointed by the Union Home Ministry
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Correct answer: A. The Governor of Punjab

Article 239(2) allows the President to appoint the Governor of a state as the administrator of an adjoining Union Territory, and under it the Governor of Punjab has been given additional charge as the Administrator of Chandigarh.

Q5431.Indian PolityMedium

Which three subjects of the State List are kept outside the legislative competence of the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi?

  1. A.Public health, education and local government
  2. B.Public order, police and land
  3. C.Police, prisons and agriculture
  4. D.Land, water and electricity
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Correct answer: B. Public order, police and land

Article 239AA(3)(a) lets the Delhi assembly make laws on the State List and the Concurrent List as they apply to the territory, but excludes Entries 1, 2 and 18 of the State List, which are public order, police and land, along with Entries 64, 65 and 66 so far as…

Q5432.Indian PolityEasy

Article 239AA, which gives the National Capital Territory of Delhi its special status, was inserted by which Constitutional Amendment Act?

  1. A.The 14th Amendment, 1962
  2. B.The 61st Amendment, 1988
  3. C.The 69th Amendment, 1991
  4. D.The 74th Amendment, 1992
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Correct answer: C. The 69th Amendment, 1991

The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991 inserted Articles 239AA and 239AB, renamed the Union Territory of Delhi as the National Capital Territory of Delhi and provided it with a Legislative Assembly and a Council of Ministers.

Q5434.Indian HistoryMedium

Which of the following statements about the women members of the Constituent Assembly of India is correct?

  1. A.Begum Aizaz Rasul was its only Muslim woman member
  2. B.Sarojini Naidu was its only woman member
  3. C.No woman was a member of the Assembly
  4. D.Sucheta Kriplani chaired the Drafting Committee
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Correct answer: A. Begum Aizaz Rasul was its only Muslim woman member

Fifteen women were members of the Constituent Assembly, and Begum Aizaz Rasul was the only Muslim woman among them; Dakshayani Velayudhan was its only Dalit woman member.

Q5435.Indian HistoryHard

Rani Gaidinliu, who was imprisoned by the British from 1932 to 1947, was associated with which movement?

  1. A.The Heraka movement of the Naga hills, begun by Haipou Jadonang
  2. B.The Ulgulan of Birsa Munda
  3. C.The Santhal rebellion
  4. D.The Bardoli satyagraha
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Correct answer: A. The Heraka movement of the Naga hills, begun by Haipou Jadonang

Gaidinliu, a Rongmei Naga, joined her cousin Haipou Jadonang's Heraka movement, which combined religious revival with resistance to British rule, and took over its leadership after he was hanged in 1931.

Q5438.Indian HistoryHard

The Bharat Stree Mahamandal, regarded as the first all-India women's organisation, was founded in 1910 by

  1. A.Pandita Ramabai
  2. B.Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
  3. C.Margaret Cousins
  4. D.Ramabai Ranade
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Correct answer: B. Sarala Devi Chaudhurani

A niece of Rabindranath Tagore, she set up the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in 1910 to work for the education of women across provinces and classes, and it is counted as the first women's organisation of all-India reach.

Q5439.Indian HistoryEasy

Begum Hazrat Mahal led the revolt of 1857 in which region, in the name of her son Birjis Qadr?

  1. A.Jhansi
  2. B.Awadh, with Lucknow as its centre
  3. C.Bareilly
  4. D.Kanpur
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Correct answer: B. Awadh, with Lucknow as its centre

After the annexation of Awadh in 1856 and the exile of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Begum Hazrat Mahal proclaimed her young son Birjis Qadr as the ruler and led the rising at Lucknow; when the city fell she withdrew and finally took refuge in Nepal.

Q5440.Indian HistoryMedium

Matangini Hazra, who was shot dead in September 1942 while carrying the national flag, belonged to which place?

  1. A.Gohpur in Assam
  2. B.Tamluk in Midnapore
  3. C.Barisal in East Bengal
  4. D.Chauri Chaura in the United Provinces
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Correct answer: B. Tamluk in Midnapore

Matangini Hazra, then more than seventy years old, was leading a procession of volunteers towards the Tamluk police station on 29 September 1942 when the police fired; she kept holding the tricolour and chanting Vande Mataram as she fell.

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