Defence GK Questions 2026

Monopolistic competition is a market with many sellers whose products are close substitutes but not exactly the same, such as different brands of soap, toothpaste or restaurant meals.

The Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up in October 1920 at Pratapgarh by Baba Ramchandra, Gauri Shankar Misra, Jawaharlal Nehru and others, to unite the tenants of Awadh against high rents, illegal cesses and eviction by taluqdars.

Debendranath (Devendranath) Tagore founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha in Calcutta in 1839 to spread the monotheistic ideas of Raja Rammohan Roy and the study of the Upanishads.

Al-Biruni, a scholar from Khwarizm in Central Asia, came to India in the train of Mahmud of Ghazni in the early eleventh century.

Pithoragarh lies in the Kumaon Himalaya of Uttarakhand, close to the borders of Nepal and Tibet, in the most earthquake-prone belt of the country.

A pingo is a dome-shaped hill with a core of ice, found in regions of permafrost such as the Arctic tundra of Canada, Alaska and Siberia.

The French writer Dominique Lapierre wrote The City of Joy, published in 1985.

A fully (perfectly) elastic supply curve is a horizontal line: sellers will supply any quantity at one fixed price and nothing below it.

A person with myopia sees nearby objects clearly but finds distant objects blurred, which is why the defect is called near-sightedness or short-sightedness.

Among the four thinkers listed, Machiavelli is the one who wrote a work called The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), published in Florence in 1521.

The mass of one mole of any substance, expressed in grams, is by definition its molar mass. One mole contains the Avogadro number of particles, about 6.022 × 10 23, so the molar mass links the mass we can weigh to the number of atoms or molecules present.

Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution (Articles 5 to 11), not among the Fundamental Rights in Part III.

A fuse must carry the normal current, so it must conduct, and it must melt quickly when the current becomes too large.

Tungsten is used for the filament because it has the highest melting point of all metals, about 3,422°C, and can glow white-hot without melting.

The Mahanavami Dibba is a massive stone platform in the royal centre of Hampi, the Vijayanagara capital, with its base covered in relief carvings.

The average atomic mass is the weighted mean of the isotope masses, taking each in proportion to how common it is.

A rapid rush of snow and ice down a steep mountain slope, dangerous to skiers and climbers, is an avalanche.

The Moroccan traveller described the two kinds of post he saw in India under Muhammad bin Tughlaq: the uluq, run by royal horses, and the dawa, run by runners on foot.

The friction between the blocks is the only force that drags the top block along, and its largest possible value is μ times the normal force from the top block.

The North-South and East-West corridors of the National Highways Development Project intersect at Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh. The North-South corridor runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari, and the East-West corridor from Silchar in Assam to Porbandar in Gujarat.