Defence GK Questions 2026

Cytokinins are the plant hormones whose main job is to promote cell division, or cytokinesis, which gives them their name.

THAAD, properly the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is a United States system built to shoot down ballistic missiles in the last, or terminal, phase of their flight.

The Indian part of the Indus basin covers all six, along with Chandigarh. The Indus rises near Lake Mansarovar in Tibet and enters India in Ladakh.

This is Article 20, and since the 44th Amendment of 1978 the enforcement of Articles 20 and 21 cannot be suspended even during a National Emergency.

The Kabini rises in the Wayanad district of Kerala and flows into Karnataka, where it joins the Kaveri near Tirumakudalu Narasipura.

The blind spot is the place where the optic nerve leaves the eye, and it has no rods or cones, so light falling there is not seen.

The financial cycle is the rise and fall of credit and asset prices, and the ratio of credit to GDP shows how far borrowing has run ahead of the economy.

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was passed by Parliament in 2006. Popularly called the Forest Rights Act, it recognises the rights of forest-dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers over the land they cultivate and the forest produce they use.

The inscription asks that a member own land and a house, but it sets the age limit at 35 to 70 years, not 30 to 60.

In 1799 the Nawab of Awadh presented an illustrated manuscript of the Badshah Nama to King George III of Britain, and it is now kept in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

The National Sports University is located in Imphal, Manipur, as provided first by the 2018 Ordinance and then by the National Sports University Act, 2018.

The Truman Doctrine pledged American support to countries resisting communist pressure, so as to stop the spread of Soviet influence.

The eye lens focuses light on the retina, the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye, where a real and inverted image is formed.

Article 14 guarantees equality before law to every person, and Article 15 forbids the State to discriminate on grounds of sex, among others.

Starlight is bent again and again as it passes through layers of air whose temperature and density keep changing, so the star seems to flicker in brightness and position.

The packet’s density is 800 g divided by 1,000 cm³, which is 0.8 g/cm³, less than the density of both liquids.

Arunachal Pradesh does not share a border with Bangladesh, so the 2015 land boundary settlement did not touch it.

Margaret Cousins was a founder of the Women’s Indian Association, but pairs 2 and 3 have their associates swapped. The Women’s Indian Association was founded at Adyar, Madras, in 1917 by Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins, Dorothy Jinarajadasa and others; it campaigned for women’s franchise and education.

Indian laterite soils are poor in organic matter, nitrogen, phosphate and calcium, while iron oxide and potash are present in excess.

For any position of a real object in front of a convex mirror, the image forms behind the mirror between P and F. A convex mirror bulges outward, and its focus and centre of curvature lie behind it.