Defence GK Questions 2026

A compound microscope uses two converging lenses, the objective and the eyepiece, to give a greatly magnified image of a tiny object.

The Tenth Schedule, known as the anti-defection law, sets out when a member of Parliament or a state legislature loses the seat for defection.

Tropical storms need the Coriolis force and upper-level divergence, but they need small, not high, variations in vertical wind speed.

Every book in the list is paired with its real author. Dayabhaga, written by Jimutavahana in Bengal in the twelfth century, is a work on Hindu law of inheritance; under it a son gets a share in family property only after the father's death.

A drought defined only by too little rain, badly spread over time and space, is a meteorological drought. Drought is usually classified by what runs short.

The two ends of a diameter split the ring into two equal halves of 10 Ω each, and these two halves are connected in parallel.

The field at the centre of a coil is proportional to the number of turns and inversely proportional to the radius, so doubling N and halving R makes it four times larger.

LIGO uses laser beams in long perpendicular arms to detect the tiny stretching of space caused by gravitational waves. LIGO has two detectors in the United States, at Hanford in Washington and Livingston in Louisiana, each with arms 4 km long.

The last Mughal emperor was exiled by the British to Rangoon in Burma, where he died in 1862. The rebels of 1857 proclaimed Bahadur Shah II the leader of the revolt.

Tradition holds that the saint Raidas, also called Ravidas, was the guru of Mirabai, the Rajput princess-poet devoted to Krishna.

Rutherford's gold foil experiment of 1911 showed that an atom's positive charge and almost all its mass sit in a tiny central nucleus.

Statement 1 is false because landslides happen mostly on steep slopes, and not only during rain. A landslide is the rapid downslope movement of rock, soil and debris under gravity.

Kalila wa Dimna is the Arabic version of the Panchatantra, named after two jackals, Karataka and Damanaka, who appear in its first book.

Power is the work done divided by the time taken, and here the work is the potential energy gained by the mass.

Histosols are the soil order made mostly of organic matter, such as peat and muck, rather than of mineral particles.

The Portuguese traveller Domingo Paes visited Vijayanagara during Krishnadeva Raya's reign and left this well-known description of him. Paes came to the city around 1520 and wrote a detailed account of its markets, palaces, festivals and army.

Garba of Gujarat was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2023. Garba is a devotional circle dance performed around a lamp or an image of the goddess, mainly during the nine nights of Navratri.

The rotation of the Earth and the length of the day change how much sunlight a place receives, while the spread of land and water changes only how that energy heats the surface.

Each characteristic in the list belongs to a different layer from the one it is paired with. Ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by the ozone layer, which lies in the stratosphere, roughly 15 to 35 km above the Earth.

All four are recognised processes by which a river wears away its bed and banks. Hydraulic action is the sheer force of moving water that loosens rock and forces air into cracks.