Defence GK Questions 2026

Covaxin is an inactivated virus vaccine and Sputnik V is a viral vector vaccine, but Covishield is a viral vector vaccine, not an mRNA vaccine.

This Harappan city in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, is known above all for its water management, with large cisterns and reservoirs in both the citadel and the lower town.

A place at 90° E is six hours ahead of Greenwich, so 10:00 a.m. GMT becomes 4:00 p.m.

Statements 1 and 3 describe the Industrial Revolution correctly, but it began in Britain, not Germany. The Industrial Revolution turned largely rural, farming societies into urban ones where most people worked in factories, mines and workshops, which is what statement 1 says.

It is a form of physical, or mechanical, weathering: the rock breaks into pieces but its chemical make-up does not change.

Sponges are the members of phylum Porifera, a name that means "pore bearers", because their bodies are full of tiny pores called ostia.

It is an entry of the Concurrent List, not the State List, so both Parliament and the state legislatures can make laws on it.

The English economic historian Arnold Toynbee first used the term in English in his lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England.

The Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in October 1765 to protest against the Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament that year.

An antecedent river is older than the uplift it now cuts across. The Indus, the Sutlej and the Brahmaputra rise beyond the main Himalayan range, north of it in Tibet.

A canyon is a deep valley whose sides fall in steep, step-like slopes. Both gorges and canyons are cut by rivers, mostly in the youthful stage.

Sclerenchyma cells are dead at maturity, with thick walls hardened by lignin. Sclerenchyma is the tissue that makes plants hard and stiff.

A field of many drumlins lying side by side looks like eggs packed in a basket, so it is called basket-of-eggs topography.

For a straight wire, the right-hand thumb rule links the current to the circular field lines around it. Hold the wire in the right hand with the thumb along the current; the curled fingers then show the direction of the magnetic field lines, which form concentric circles around the wire.

In March 1927 Dr Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha to assert the right of the depressed classes to draw water from the public Chavdar tank at Mahad.

The two western Union Territories were joined into a single Union Territory from 26 January 2020. Parliament passed the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act in December 2019, and the merger took effect on 26 January 2020.

Sound needs a material medium to travel, and in air its particles vibrate back and forth along the direction the wave moves.

In a metal, the outer electrons of the atoms are not tied to any one atom and drift through the lattice when a voltage is applied, carrying the current.

Cultural cooperation is not one of the five principles of Panchsheel. Panchsheel, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, was set out in the agreement on trade and intercourse between India and the Tibet region of China, signed on 29 April 1954 by Jawaharlal Nehru's government and Zhou Enlai's. The five…

Easy credit from banks and a good transport network were both among the reasons Britain became the first country to industrialise.