Defence GK Questions 2026

The English East India Company built Fort St. George at Madras (Madraspatnam) in 1639 to 1644, and the city of Madras, now Chennai, grew around it.

The nine-square black granite platform with a diya at the centre, set in a lotus pattern, describes Sadaiv Atal, the memorial of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi.

When the Bengal National College was set up in Calcutta in 1906, Aurobindo Ghosh left his post in Baroda to become its first principal.

A galvanometer detects whether a small electric current is flowing in a circuit and shows its direction. A moving-coil galvanometer has a coil placed between the poles of a magnet.

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's umbrella programme for developing national highways and road corridors.

Reverberation is the persistence of sound in a hall after the source has stopped, caused by repeated reflections from the walls, ceiling and floor.

Weathering, mass wasting, erosion and transportation together wear down and strip away the earth's surface, and this combined work is called denudation.

Services that create, rearrange and interpret new and existing ideas, interpret data and evaluate new technologies are classed as quinary activities.

The First Plan (1951 to 1956) gave agriculture, community development and irrigation about a third of its outlay, the highest share in any Indian plan.

Varuna is the naval exercise between India and France, not between India and the USA. India and France began their bilateral naval exercises in 1983, and the series was named Varuna in 2001; it has since been held regularly in the Indian Ocean and off the French coast.

This goes against the conservation of charge: the total charge of an isolated system always stays the same. Electric charge has three basic properties.

These two organelles carry their own circular DNA and their own small (70S) ribosomes, so they can make some of their own proteins.

The Constitution gives the Speaker no power to adjourn both Houses sine die, and the power to summon and prorogue the Houses belongs to the President.

Statement I is wrong: raising regional issues and aspirations is a normal and legitimate part of democratic politics, not something outside it.

This statement is false: enzymes are mostly proteins, but most proteins are not enzymes. Proteins do many jobs in the body.

Nehru moved the resolution on the National Flag in the Constituent Assembly on 22 July 1947, and the Assembly adopted it the same day.

The Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976 added the words 'socialist' and 'secular' to the Preamble, along with 'integrity'. The 42nd Amendment was passed during the Emergency, under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and is often called a 'mini-Constitution' because it changed so many provisions.

The voluntary union of a maiden and her lover is the Gandharva marriage, which is the sixth of the eight forms listed in the Manusmriti.

Under ijarah only the ijaradar's payment to the state was fixed; what he collected from the peasant was not, so the peasant faced rising and arbitrary demands.

Of the four, X-rays lie farthest towards the short-wavelength, high-energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum. All electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light in vacuum but differ in wavelength.