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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

Q6901.Indian HistoryAsked in: UPSC CAPF · 23 July 2017Medium

Which among the following was NOT the recommendation of the Nehru Report?

  1. A.Dominion Status
  2. B.Separate Electorate
  3. C.Unitary and Democratic Centre
  4. D.Adult Suffrage.
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Correct answer: B. Separate Electorate

The Nehru Report of August 1928 was the draft constitution prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference under Motilal Nehru, with Tej Bahadur Sapru, Subhas Chandra Bose and others, as Indians’ answer to Lord Birkenhead’s taunt that they could not agree on a constitution of their own.

Q6903.GeographyAsked in: UPSC CAPF · 7 Aug 2022Easy

Which one of the following statements is correct with reference to normal lapse rate?

  1. A.Temperature is highest at ground level and decreases with increasing altitude.
  2. B.Temperature is lowest at ground level and increases with increasing altitude.
  3. C.Temperature remains stable with increasing altitude.
  4. D.Temperature first increases with increasing altitude and gradually starts decreasing.
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Correct answer: A. Temperature is highest at ground level and decreases with increasing altitude.

In the troposphere the air is warmed mainly from below: the earth absorbs incoming short-wave insolation and then heats the layer of air touching it by conduction, radiation and convection.

Q6905.GeographyAsked in: UPSC CAPF · 12 Aug 2018Medium

Arabian Sea records higher salinity than the Bay of Bengal because

  1. A.Arabian Sea exhibits high rate of evaporation and low influx of fresh water
  2. B.Arabian Sea has shallow water
  3. C.Arabian Sea has more enclosed land
  4. D.Arabian Sea receives more rainfall
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Correct answer: A. Arabian Sea exhibits high rate of evaporation and low influx of fresh water

Salinity rises where water leaves as vapour and falls where fresh water is added.

Q6906.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC CAPF · 12 July 2015Medium

The Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) of India can be removed from office only by the :

  1. A.President on the advice of the Union Cabinet.
  2. B.Chief justice of the Supreme Court.
  3. C.President of India after an address in both Houses of Parliament.
  4. D.President on the advice of Chief Justice of India.
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Correct answer: C. President of India after an address in both Houses of Parliament.

Under Article 148 the Comptroller and Auditor-General is appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal, but can be removed only in the same manner and on the same grounds as a judge of the Supreme Court.

Q6907.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC CAPF · 12 Aug 2018Medium

The federal systems of India and the USA are different in all the following respects, except

  1. A.State's equal representation in the Upper House
  2. B.Dual citizenship
  3. C.Dual system of Courts separate from each other
  4. D.Dual Government
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Correct answer: D. Dual Government

A dual government, one at the centre and one in the units, is the common feature of every federation, so India and the USA do not differ on this point.

Q6909.Science & TechnologyEasy

An AI system that can perform only one specific task, such as filtering spam, is called:

  1. A.Artificial general intelligence
  2. B.Artificial narrow intelligence
  3. C.Artificial super intelligence
  4. D.Theory of mind AI
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Correct answer: B. Artificial narrow intelligence

It is trained for a single defined task and cannot transfer that skill to another; every system working today, from spam filters and voice assistants to chess engines and face recognition, is narrow AI.

Q6910.Science & TechnologyMedium

In the name of the GPT family of language models, GPT stands for:

  1. A.General Processing Technology
  2. B.Generative Pre-trained Transformer
  3. C.Graphical Pattern Trainer
  4. D.Global Predictive Tool
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Correct answer: B. Generative Pre-trained Transformer

Each word carries meaning: generative, because the model produces new text rather than only sorting what it is shown; pre-trained, because it first learns general language from a very large body of text before being adapted to particular tasks; and transformer, the neural network architecture, built on an attention mechanism…

Q6911.Science & TechnologyMedium

India’s National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, with the slogan “AI for All”, was released by which body?

  1. A.Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  2. B.NITI Aayog
  3. C.Reserve Bank of India
  4. D.University Grants Commission
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Correct answer: B. NITI Aayog

The correct answer is B, NITI Aayog, which published the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in June 2018 under the slogan AI for All, and identified five priority sectors: healthcare, agriculture, education, smart cities and infrastructure, and smart mobility and transportation.

Q6912.Science & TechnologyEasy

Which computer program defeated the Go champion Lee Sedol in 2016?

  1. A.Deep Blue
  2. B.Watson
  3. C.AlphaGo
  4. D.ELIZA
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Correct answer: C. AlphaGo

The correct answer is C, AlphaGo, built by DeepMind, which beat the South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol in a five-game match in 2016; the victory mattered because Go has far more possible positions than chess, so brute-force search alone cannot win and the program relied on deep neural networks…

Q6913.Science & TechnologyHard

The IndiaAI Mission is implemented by which body?

  1. A.NITI Aayog
  2. B.IndiaAI Independent Business Division under Digital India Corporation
  3. C.Defence Research and Development Organisation
  4. D.Indian Space Research Organisation
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Correct answer: B. IndiaAI Independent Business Division under Digital India Corporation

The Cabinet decision of 7 March 2024 named this division as the implementing agency for all seven components of the mission.

Q6915.Science & TechnologyMedium

The IndiaAI Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet with a budget outlay of about:

  1. A.Rs 10,372 crore
  2. B.Rs 76,000 crore
  3. C.Rs 1,500 crore
  4. D.Rs 25,000 crore
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Correct answer: A. Rs 10,372 crore

The Union Cabinet approved the IndiaAI Mission on 7 March 2024 with an outlay of 10,371.92 crore rupees, to be spent across its seven components, and the mission is run by the IndiaAI Independent Business Division under the Digital India Corporation in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

Q6916.Science & TechnologyEasy

Which type of machine learning is trained on labelled data?

  1. A.Unsupervised learning
  2. B.Reinforcement learning
  3. C.Supervised learning
  4. D.Transfer learning
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Correct answer: C. Supervised learning

Here every training example carries the right answer, its label, and the model learns the mapping from input to label, which is how spam filters, handwriting readers and credit-scoring models are built.

Q6918.Science & TechnologyEasy

Who coined the term “artificial intelligence”?

  1. A.Alan Turing
  2. B.John McCarthy
  3. C.Marvin Minsky
  4. D.Joseph Weizenbaum
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Correct answer: B. John McCarthy

He coined the phrase artificial intelligence in the proposal for a summer research workshop held at Dartmouth College in 1956, and that conference is treated as the moment the subject was founded; McCarthy also created the LISP programming language and is commonly called the father of artificial intelligence.

Q6919.Science & TechnologyMedium

When the temperature of a pure semiconductor is raised, its electrical resistance:

  1. A.Increases
  2. B.Decreases
  3. C.Remains unchanged
  4. D.First increases and then becomes zero
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Correct answer: B. Decreases

Heating a semiconductor gives more electrons enough energy to cross the forbidden gap into the conduction band, and each one that crosses leaves a hole behind, so the number of charge carriers rises sharply and the resistance falls; a semiconductor therefore has a negative temperature coefficient of resistance.

Q6920.Science & TechnologyHard

The Semi-Conductor Laboratory, the government-owned chip fabrication facility that serves ISRO and DRDO, is located at:

  1. A.Mohali
  2. B.Hyderabad
  3. C.Bengaluru
  4. D.Pune
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Correct answer: A. Mohali

The Semi-Conductor Laboratory at Mohali in Punjab works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and is India's own fabrication unit, producing chips at an older process node for strategic users such as the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Defence Research and Development Organisation rather than for the…

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