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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

Q6603.Indian HistoryHard

The memoir Bandi Jivan, widely read by young revolutionaries, was written by

  1. A.Ram Prasad Bismil
  2. B.Sachindra Nath Sanyal
  3. C.Bhagat Singh
  4. D.Ashfaqullah Khan
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Correct answer: B. Sachindra Nath Sanyal

Sanyal, a founder of the Hindustan Republican Association and the author of its manifesto The Revolutionary, wrote Bandi Jivan, an account of prison life and revolutionary faith that circulated widely among the youth of the 1920s. Option A is wrong because Ram Prasad Bismil is remembered for his autobiography written…

Q6604.Indian HistoryMedium

The Chittagong Armoury Raid of 18 April 1930 was led by

  1. A.Surya Sen
  2. B.Pulin Behari Das
  3. C.Barindra Kumar Ghosh
  4. D.Jatindra Nath Das
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Correct answer: A. Surya Sen

A schoolteacher known as Masterda, Surya Sen led the Indian Republican Army in a raid on the armoury at Chittagong in April 1930, hoisted the national flag and declared a provisional government before the group took to the hills.

Q6605.Indian HistoryEasy

Who threw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 and courted arrest?

  1. A.Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt
  2. B.Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev
  3. C.Chandra Shekhar Azad and Rajguru
  4. D.Surya Sen and Kalpana Dutta
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Correct answer: A. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt

The two threw low-intensity bombs into the empty benches of the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 while the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill were being pushed through, shouted slogans, threw leaflets and refused to escape, so that the trial could be used to explain their…

Q6606.Indian HistoryHard

The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was formed in 1928 at a meeting held at

  1. A.Kanpur
  2. B.Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi
  3. C.Lahore
  4. D.Chittagong
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Correct answer: B. Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi

Revolutionaries from the United Provinces, Punjab and elsewhere met at the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in September 1928 and reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, adding socialism to its aim of independence; Chandra Shekhar Azad became its commander in chief.

Q6607.Indian HistoryHard

Madan Lal Dhingra is remembered for shooting, in London in 1909,

  1. A.Lord Hardinge
  2. B.Curzon Wyllie
  3. C.the magistrate Kingsford
  4. D.General Dyer
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Correct answer: B. Curzon Wyllie

Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie was a political aide to the Secretary of State for India, and Madan Lal Dhingra, who belonged to the India House circle of Shyamji Krishna Varma, shot him at a meeting in London in 1909 and was hanged the same year.

Q6608.Indian HistoryMedium

The Kakori action of 9 August 1925, in which a train carrying government money was looted, was carried out by

  1. A.the Hindustan Republican Association
  2. B.the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
  3. C.the Ghadar Party
  4. D.the Anushilan Samiti
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Correct answer: A. the Hindustan Republican Association

The HRA had been founded at Kanpur in 1924 by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Ram Prasad Bismil, and it needed money for arms, so its members stopped a train near Kakori in the United Provinces and took the government treasury it carried.

Q6617.GeographyEasy

Itanagar is the capital of which State?

  1. A.Mizoram
  2. B.Manipur
  3. C.Arunachal Pradesh
  4. D.Nagaland
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Correct answer: C. Arunachal Pradesh

Itanagar, named after the Ita fort in the area, became the capital when Arunachal Pradesh was a Union territory and continued as the capital after it became a State in 1987.

Q6619.GeographyEasy

The McMahon Line is the boundary between

  1. A.India and Pakistan
  2. B.India and China
  3. C.India and Nepal
  4. D.Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Correct answer: B. India and China

The McMahon Line was drawn at the Simla Convention of 1914 and is the boundary India recognises with China in the eastern sector, running along the crest of the hills north of Arunachal Pradesh.

Q6620.GeographyEasy

Which Indian State has the longest coastline?

  1. A.Tamil Nadu
  2. B.Andhra Pradesh
  3. C.Gujarat
  4. D.Maharashtra
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Correct answer: C. Gujarat

Gujarat has the longest coastline of any Indian State, because its shore runs along the Gulf of Kachchh, the Saurashtra peninsula and the Gulf of Khambhat, which gives it a deeply indented outline and many ports, including Kandla and Mundra.

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