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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

Q7381.SportsEasy

Who became the first Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in the Trap event at the Asian Games?

  1. A.Manu Bhaker
  2. B.Neeru Dhanda
  3. C.Rahi Sarnobat
  4. D.Shreyasi Singh
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Correct answer: B. Neeru Dhanda

She has become the first Indian woman ever to win an individual gold medal in the Trap event at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated her on the achievement, praising her exceptional accuracy and composure and calling it a historic moment for the country.

Q7382.DefenceHard

Operation Southern Readiness, held at Kochi during India's command of Combined Task Force-154, involved personnel from how many countries?

  1. A.27
  2. B.18
  3. C.36
  4. D.41
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Correct answer: A. 27

Operation Southern Readiness was conducted at Kochi while the Indian Navy held command of Combined Task Force-154 under the Combined Maritime Forces, and it brought together 276 personnel drawn from twenty-seven countries, along with 76 facilitators and subject-matter experts and four international organisations.

Q7383.DefenceMedium

Under which operation did the Indian Navy ensure safe transit of Indian-flagged merchant vessels through the Strait of Hormuz?

  1. A.Operation Southern Readiness
  2. B.Operation Urja Suraksha
  3. C.Operation Sankalp
  4. D.Lokayan-26
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Correct answer: B. Operation Urja Suraksha

The Raksha Mantri called it an outstanding achievement that Indian-flagged merchant vessels, LPG tankers in particular, were given safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz under this operation during the crisis in West Asia.

Q7385.General ScienceAsked in: Rajasthan · RPSC 2nd Grade Science - 2015 Official PMedium

Which hormone is administered to a person suffering from a marked fall in blood pressure?

  1. A.insulin
  2. B.adrenaline
  3. C.thyroxine
  4. D.vasopressin
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Correct answer: B. adrenaline

Adrenaline, also called epinephrine, is made by the medulla of the adrenal gland and is the body's emergency hormone; it makes the heart beat faster and stronger and narrows the small blood vessels, so blood pressure rises within seconds.

Q7387.Static GKAsked in: RRB NTPC · 31 July 2021, Shift 1Easy

What is the name of the intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries?

  1. A.The International Military Collaboration
  2. B.The World Militia Organization
  3. C.The International Military Fund
  4. D.The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Correct answer: D. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NATO is the military alliance of European and North American states, formed by the North Atlantic Treaty signed at Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve founding members, and its membership has grown in rounds since then.

Q7388.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · Nov 2015 (Advt. 22/2014Hard

A cylinder of mass m rolls down an inclined plane from a height h above a horizontal level. If the velocity of the axis of the cylinder is v when it reaches the lower level, then

  1. A.v = gh
  2. B.v = mgh
  3. C.v = √(2gh)
  4. D.v < √(2gh)
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Correct answer: D. v < √(2gh)

A body that slides down a smooth slope turns all of its potential energy mgh into translational kinetic energy and reaches the bottom with a speed equal to the square root of 2gh.

Q7389.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · 25 Mar 2022Medium

If a wire is placed parallel to the lines of force in a magnetic field and a current flows in the wire, then

  1. A.the wire will experience a force in the direction of the magnetic field
  2. B.the wire will not experience any force at all
  3. C.the wire will experience a force in the direction opposite to the field
  4. D.it will experience a force in the direction perpendicular to the lines of force
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Correct answer: B. the wire will not experience any force at all

The force on a current carrying conductor kept in a magnetic field is given by F equal to B I L sin theta, where theta is the angle between the direction of the current and the direction of the field.

Q7390.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · Nov 2015 (Advt. 22/2014Medium

The linear momentum of a system of rigid bodies will be conserved, if

  1. A.the system is in a gravitational field
  2. B.no external forces act on the system
  3. C.kinetic energy is conserved
  4. D.none of the above
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Correct answer: B. no external forces act on the system

The law of conservation of linear momentum follows straight from Newton's second law: the rate of change of the momentum of a system equals the net external force acting on it, so when that force is zero the total momentum stays the same in size and in direction.

Q7391.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · Nov 2015 (Advt. 22/2014Medium

In C.G.S unit, dynamic viscosity is expressed as:

  1. A.Poise
  2. B.Pa-s
  3. C.Stoke
  4. D.None of the above
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Correct answer: A. Poise

Dynamic viscosity measures how strongly a fluid resists flowing, and in the centimetre gram second system it is measured in poise, a unit named after the French physician Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, who studied the flow of blood in narrow tubes.

Q7392.Indian PolityAsked in: Bihar · 30 Sept, 2023Easy

In which case(s) did the Supreme Court of India give for the first time the doctrine of 'basic structure' of the Constitution?

  1. A.Golaknath vs. State of Punjab
  2. B.Kesavananda Bharati vs. State of Kerala
  3. C.Minerva Mills vs. Union of India
  4. D.Both (1) and (2)
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Correct answer: B. Kesavananda Bharati vs. State of Kerala

In this case of 1973 a bench of thirteen judges, the largest the Supreme Court has ever assembled, held by seven votes to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution but may not damage or destroy its basic structure.

Q7393.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · Nov 2015 (Advt. 22/2014Easy

To take the longest possible jump, an athlete should make an angle of _____

  1. A.90 degree with the ground
  2. B.60 degree with the ground
  3. C.45 degree with the ground
  4. D.30 degree with the ground
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Correct answer: C. 45 degree with the ground

Once the athlete's feet leave the ground they move as a projectile, and the horizontal distance covered, called the range, is given by R equal to u squared into sin 2 theta divided by g. The range is largest when sin 2 theta has its greatest value of one, which…

Q7397.Science & TechnologyMedium

The Integrated Test Range used for testing Indian missiles is located at:

  1. A.Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh
  2. B.Chandipur, Odisha
  3. C.Thumba, Kerala
  4. D.Pokhran, Rajasthan
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Correct answer: B. Chandipur, Odisha

The Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, on the Odisha coast near Balasore, is the main missile testing facility of the DRDO, and many launches are also made from Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Island off the same coast, which was earlier called Wheeler Island.

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