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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

Q6803.GeographyMedium

The literacy rate of India as per Census 2011 was

  1. A.64.83 per cent
  2. B.74.04 per cent
  3. C.77.70 per cent
  4. D.82.14 per cent
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Correct answer: B. 74.04 per cent

Census 2011 recorded an overall literacy rate of 74.04 per cent, made up of 82.14 per cent among males and 65.46 per cent among females, the gap of nearly seventeen percentage points being a favourite point for questions.

Q6804.GeographyMedium

What was the sex ratio of India according to Census 2011?

  1. A.927 females per 1,000 males
  2. B.933 females per 1,000 males
  3. C.940 females per 1,000 males
  4. D.943 females per 1,000 males
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Correct answer: D. 943 females per 1,000 males

Census 2011 recorded an overall sex ratio of 943, an improvement over 933 in 2001, while the child sex ratio in the age group of nought to six years fell to 919 girls per 1,000 boys, the lowest recorded since independence.

Q6807.GeographyAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 30 Jan 2023, Shift 4Easy

Which state has the lowest sex ratio as per the Census 2011?

  1. A.Maharashtra
  2. B.Rajasthan
  3. C.Bihar
  4. D.Haryana
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Correct answer: D. Haryana

In Census 2011 Haryana recorded a sex ratio of 879 females per 1,000 males, the lowest among all the states of India, against the national figure of 943; among the union territories the lowest was Daman and Diu.

Q6808.Indian HistoryMedium

The drain theory, explaining Indian poverty as the outflow of wealth to England, was put forward in which book?

  1. A.Poverty and Un-British Rule in India by Dadabhai Naoroji
  2. B.A Nation in Making by Surendranath Banerjea
  3. C.Gita Rahasya by Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  4. D.Young India by Lala Lajpat Rai
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Correct answer: A. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India by Dadabhai Naoroji

The Grand Old Man of India argued in it that a steady drain of wealth, through home charges, pensions paid in England, interest on sterling debt and the profits of British firms, was the real cause of Indian poverty, and the argument became the Moderates' strongest weapon.

Q6809.Indian HistoryMedium

The Servants of India Society was founded in 1905 by which leader?

  1. A.Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  2. B.M. G. Ranade
  3. C.Pherozeshah Mehta
  4. D.Dinshaw Wacha
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Correct answer: A. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

He founded the Servants of India Society at Poona in 1905 to train men who would give their lives to public service on a modest allowance, and he worked through the Imperial Legislative Council on the budget, on primary education and on the conditions of indentured labour.

Q6811.Indian HistoryMedium

At which session did the Indian National Congress split into Moderates and Extremists in 1907?

  1. A.Calcutta
  2. B.Surat
  3. C.Lucknow
  4. D.Nagpur
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Correct answer: B. Surat

The session of December 1907 on the bank of the Tapti broke up in disorder when the two groups could not agree on the president or on how far the Swadeshi and boycott resolutions of the previous year should be pushed; Rashbehari Ghosh was declared president and the Extremists were…

Q6812.Indian HistoryEasy

Who gave the slogan 'Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it'?

  1. A.Bipin Chandra Pal
  2. B.Lala Lajpat Rai
  3. C.Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  4. D.Aurobindo Ghose
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Correct answer: C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

He edited Kesari in Marathi and Maratha in English, used the Ganapati festival from 1893 and the Shivaji festival from 1895 to take politics to the streets, was sentenced in 1908 to six years of transportation at Mandalay, where he wrote Gita Rahasya, and founded his Home Rule League in…

Q6814.Indian HistoryAsked in: Delhi · 1 Oct 2021, Shift 2Easy

Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?

  1. A.Kasturba Gandhi
  2. B.Sarojini Naidu
  3. C.Annie Besant
  4. D.Aruna Asaf Ali
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Correct answer: C. Annie Besant

The Irish-born theosophist, who had made India her home and led the Theosophical Society from Adyar, presided over the Calcutta session of the Congress in 1917, the year in which the Government interned her for her Home Rule agitation.

Q6815.Indian HistoryAsked in: Delhi · 19 April 2021, Shift 1Medium

In which session of the Indian National Congress was Vande Mataram sung for the first time?

  1. A.1896
  2. B.1899
  3. C.1898
  4. D.1897
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Correct answer: A. 1896

Vande Mataram, written in Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and included in his novel Anandamath, was sung for the first time at a Congress session at the Calcutta session of 1896, and Rabindranath Tagore himself set the tune and sang it.

Q6816.Indian HistoryAsked in: SSC CGL · 13 Dec 2022, Shift 4Medium

How many delegates attended the first session of Congress in 1885?

  1. A.62
  2. B.78
  3. C.68
  4. D.72
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Correct answer: D. 72

The first session of the Indian National Congress met at the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay from 28 to 31 December 1885 and was attended by 72 delegates, most of them lawyers, journalists, teachers and merchants drawn from the presidency towns, with W. C. Bonnerjee presiding.

Q6817.Indian HistoryAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 5 March 2019, Shift 2Easy

Which British retired Civil Service Officer took the initiative to convene the first meeting of the Indian National Union?

  1. A.John Morley
  2. B.Edwin Montagu
  3. C.Allan Octavian Hume
  4. D.Gilbert Elliot
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Correct answer: C. Allan Octavian Hume

A retired officer of the Indian Civil Service who had served in the North-Western Provinces, Hume issued an appeal to the graduates of Calcutta University in 1883, organised the body he called the Indian National Union, and brought its first session together at Bombay in December 1885, where it took…

Q6818.General ScienceMedium

Which is the longest nerve in the human body?

  1. A.Vagus nerve
  2. B.Optic nerve
  3. C.Sciatic nerve
  4. D.Trigeminal nerve
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Correct answer: C. Sciatic nerve

It is formed from the roots of the lower spine, passes through the buttock and runs down the back of the thigh to the leg and foot, and its compression by a slipped disc causes the pain called sciatica.

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