Defence GK Questions 2026

The World Meteorological Organization has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The WMO is a specialised agency of the United Nations for weather, climate, water resources and related sciences.

This fifth-century Sanskrit inscription from Mandasor in western Madhya Pradesh tells how a guild of silk weavers migrated from Lata (south Gujarat) to Dashapura and built a temple of the Sun.

Renaissance humanists did not condemn wealth, power and glory; they saw them as worthy human aims, so this statement is the one that is not true.

The mascot of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in Russia, was a wolf named Zabivaka, a Russian word meaning "the one who scores".

The Fifth Schedule covers Scheduled Areas in every State except Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, whose tribal areas come under the Sixth Schedule instead.

The force exerted by light depends on how much light falls on the surface, so with the same intensity, half the area receives half the light and feels half the force.

A batholith is a huge mass of magma that cools and hardens deep inside the crust, usually as granite, and takes the form of large domes.

Particles in a colloid are large enough to scatter a beam of light, which makes the path of the beam visible.

All five are tropical cyclones of the North Indian Ocean, named from the list kept by the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones.

Refractive index is the ratio of the speed of light in air to its speed in the medium, so the speed in glass is c divided by 3/2, which is (2/3)c. The absolute refractive index of a medium is n = c/v, where c is the speed of light in…

It separates the liquid outer core from the solid inner core at a depth of about 5,150 km, making it the deepest of the four boundaries.

The ten non-permanent seats are shared by region as statement 1 says, but only five of them are filled each year, not six.

Tobacco, a New World plant brought to India by the Portuguese, first reached the Deccan and then spread to northern India in the early seventeenth century.

The Kabini is a tributary of the Kaveri and the Manjra is a tributary of the Godavari, so only pairs 2 and 3 are correct.

The English naturalist published this book in London on 24 November 1859, setting out his theory of evolution by natural selection.

The Great Bath was surrounded by rooms, and a large well in one of the rooms on its eastern side supplied the water for the tank.

In 1913 the English physicist Henry Moseley showed that atomic number, not atomic mass, is the fundamental property of an element.

The College of Military Engineering stands at Dapodi in Pune, Maharashtra, and is the main training institution of the Indian Army's Corps of Engineers.

Pinaka and Smerch are both multi-barrel rocket launchers used by the Indian Army's artillery. Pinaka was developed by DRDO, with the Armament Research and Development Establishment at Pune as the lead laboratory, and is named after the bow of Lord Shiva.

Project 75 India, or P-75I, is the Indian Navy's plan to build six advanced conventional diesel-electric submarines in India. Its key requirement is Air Independent Propulsion, which lets a conventional submarine stay submerged for much longer without surfacing to charge its batteries.