Defence GK Questions 2026

By the Treaty of Deogaon (December 1803), Raghuji Bhonsle II of Nagpur ceded Cuttack, that is coastal Orissa including Balasore, to the East India Company.

At Mat, a village near Mathura, the Kushanas had a dynastic shrine (devakula) where life-size statues of their kings were found.

The pituitary releases FSH and LH, and the ovary responds with estrogen and progesterone; together these hormones run the cycle.

Only pair I is correct; pairs II, III and IV each give a goal the theme of the next goal.

Pairs I and II are correct; pairs III and IV are wrong. Part V (Articles 52 to 151) deals with the Union: the President, the Vice-President, the Council of Ministers, Parliament, the Supreme Court and the Comptroller and Auditor-General.

Valency is the combining capacity of an atom, and it is decided by the valence electrons it gains, loses or shares to complete its outer shell.

Gauge conversion, electrification of tracks and automatic signalling have all been part of the modernisation of Indian Railways. Gauge conversion: under Project Unigauge, started in 1992, metre-gauge and narrow-gauge lines have been steadily converted to broad gauge (1,676 mm) so that trains can run through without transhipment.

Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah of Faizabad was among the rebel leaders who defeated the British force of Henry Lawrence at Chinhat near Lucknow on 30 June 1857.

The Second Plan (1956–61) was built on the model prepared by the statistician P. C. Mahalanobis, which gave priority to heavy and basic industries.

The six freedoms of Article 19, such as speech and expression, assembly and movement, are guaranteed only to citizens of India.

Sacred groves are patches of forest protected by local communities for religious reasons, so they conserve biodiversity instead of reducing it.

The word nimbus means rain cloud: these dark, thick clouds bring steady rain or snow. Nimbus clouds form at low to middle heights and are so dense that sunlight hardly passes through them, which is why they look dark grey or black.

Estrogen, made mainly by the ovaries, brings about the female secondary sexual characters at puberty. At puberty the pituitary releases FSH and LH, which stimulate the ovaries to secrete estrogen.

The plateau is part of the ancient Gondwana landmass, so it is a rigid, stable block worn down by long erosion.

The Hastyayurveda, an ancient Sanskrit treatise on the care and medicine of elephants, is traditionally ascribed to the sage Palakapya.

This Spanish conquistador overthrew the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under Spain between 1519 and 1521. Cortés landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, allied with peoples hostile to the Aztecs such as the Tlaxcalans, and reached the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, where the ruler Moctezuma II received him.

Rearranging Newton's law of gravitation gives G = F r² / (m₁ m₂), so its unit is newton × metre² ÷ kilogram².

The thyroid gland needs iodine to make thyroxine, so iodized salt keeps this hormone in supply. Thyroxine (T4) contains four iodine atoms in each molecule, and the thyroid cannot make it without iodine from food.

Pairs I, II and IV are correct; pair III is wrong because Part X deals with the Scheduled and Tribal Areas.

The Kailasanatha temple of Kanchi is a structural temple built of stone blocks, not a temple cut out of solid rock, so statement I is wrong.