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.
Which of the following fuels has the highest calorific value?
Its calorific value is about 150 kilojoules per gram, the highest of any known fuel, roughly three times that of petrol, and its only combustion product is water vapour, which makes it a clean fuel as well.
Read the full explanation →Which is the hottest zone of a candle flame?
In this zone the supply of air is unrestricted, so combustion is complete and all the carbon of the fuel is converted to carbon dioxide, releasing the maximum heat.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following foods has the highest per gram calorific value?
Calorific value is the heat released on completely burning one gram of a substance, and among the four foods listed ghee has the highest, because it is almost entirely fat.
Read the full explanation →When the heat released by a substance is higher than the heat required for the ignition of the substance, then which of the given combustion occurs?
In spontaneous combustion a substance catches fire by itself, without any external flame being brought near it.
Read the full explanation →Which pair of parliamentary committees is popularly described as the twin sisters of financial control?
The Public Accounts Committee and the Estimates Committee are called the twin sisters of financial control because together they cover both ends of the spending cycle.
Read the full explanation →The salaries and allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha are
Article 97 provides that the salaries and allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People and of the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States shall be such as Parliament may by law determine, and these are charged on the Consolidated…
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, often called the Father of the Lok Sabha?
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was the Speaker of the Constituent Assembly when it sat as a legislature and then became the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha in 1952, which is why he is remembered as the Father of the Lok Sabha; many of the conventions of the chair were laid…
Read the full explanation →Under which Schedule of the Constitution does the Speaker decide questions of disqualification of members on the ground of defection?
The Tenth Schedule, inserted by the Fifty-second Amendment Act of 1985, carries the anti-defection provisions, and Paragraph 6 of that Schedule says that a question of disqualification on the ground of defection shall be decided by the Chairman or the Speaker of the House concerned, whose decision is final.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about the chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee is correct?
The chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from among the Lok Sabha members of the committee, and since 1967 the settled convention has been to appoint a member belonging to the Opposition, which strengthens the committee as an instrument of accountability.
Read the full explanation →How many members does each Departmentally Related Standing Committee of Parliament have?
Each Departmentally Related Standing Committee has thirty-one members, of whom twenty-one are nominated by the Speaker from the Lok Sabha and ten by the Chairman from the Rajya Sabha.
Read the full explanation →The Estimates Committee of Parliament was constituted in 1950 on the recommendation of which person?
The Estimates Committee was set up in 1950 on the suggestion of John Mathai, who was then the Union Finance Minister, and it consists of thirty members, all elected from the Lok Sabha; the Rajya Sabha has no representation on it.
Read the full explanation →What is the total membership of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament?
The Public Accounts Committee has twenty-two members, fifteen elected by the Lok Sabha and seven by the Rajya Sabha, each by proportional representation through the single transferable vote, for a term of one year.
Read the full explanation →The Speaker of the Lok Sabha exercises a vote in which situation?
Article 100(1) provides that the Speaker or the person acting as Speaker shall not vote in the first instance, but shall have and exercise a casting vote in the case of an equality of votes.
Read the full explanation →What happens to the office of the Speaker when the Lok Sabha is dissolved?
The proviso to Article 94 states that the Speaker shall not vacate office on the dissolution of the House of the People but shall continue to hold it until immediately before the first meeting of the next Lok Sabha.
Read the full explanation →The Speaker of the Lok Sabha can be removed from office by a resolution of the House passed by which majority?
Article 94(c) says the Speaker or Deputy Speaker may be removed from office by a resolution of the House of the People passed by a majority of all the then members of the House, and the proviso requires fourteen days notice of the intention to move such a resolution.
Read the full explanation →Under which Article of the Constitution does the Lok Sabha choose a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker from among its members?
Article 93 of the Constitution provides that the House of the People shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the House to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker, and that whenever either office becomes vacant the House shall choose another member to fill it.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following pairs of treaty and Maratha chief is correctly matched?
Holkar was defeated at Mahidpur in the Third Anglo-Maratha War and signed the Treaty of Mandasor in 1818, accepting British control over his foreign relations.
Read the full explanation →After his surrender in 1818, the last Peshwa Baji Rao II was pensioned off and settled at
Baji Rao II surrendered to the British in June 1818 at the close of the Third Anglo-Maratha War and was removed from the Deccan altogether, being granted a pension and a residence at Bithur in the Ganga plain.
Read the full explanation →The Battle of Assaye of 1803, won by Arthur Wellesley, was fought during which war?
After the Treaty of Bassein of December 1802, Scindia and the Bhonsle of Nagpur took the field against the Company.
Read the full explanation →Hyder Ali of Mysore died in December 1782 during which war?
Hyder Ali led Mysore into that war in 1780, defeated a British force at Pollilur the same year and died of a carbuncle in December 1782 while the war was still being fought.
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