Defence GK Questions 2026

The Gini coefficient is the standard single number used to show how unequally income or wealth is shared among the people of a country.

The 86th Amendment of 2002 added this as the eleventh fundamental duty, clause (k) of Article 51A, placing it on parents and guardians.

The Guptas are famous for their gold coins, not copper ones; their copper issues were few, so the statement that most of their coins were copper is not correct.

The Regulating Act of 1773 turned the Governor of Bengal into the Governor-General of Bengal, and Warren Hastings, who was already Governor, became the first holder of the post in 1774.

Mount Thullier, about 642 metres high, is the highest point of the Nicobar group and stands on Great Nicobar, the southernmost and largest island of that group.

The Election Commission of India began issuing Electors Photo Identity Cards in 1993 to stop impersonation and bogus voting at polling booths.

Blue growth means using the sea for economic progress without harming the health of the ocean. The idea, part of the wider blue economy, covers fisheries and aquaculture, shipping and ports, coastal tourism, offshore energy, seabed minerals and marine biotechnology.

Foreign currency assets make up the largest part of India's foreign exchange reserves, but holding them is never free, so statement 2 is false.

The Barak rises in the hills of Manipur, not Meghalaya, so statement 1 is false, while the other two statements are true.

When a currency depreciates, a country's goods become cheaper for foreign buyers, while imports become dearer at home, not cheaper.

The Golden Quadrilateral links Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai, and neither Lucknow nor Indore lies on any of its four sides.

Black soil covers most of the Deccan Plateau, and its clay holds water so well that rainfed crops actually do well in it, so statement 3 is false.

Marble, chalk and limestone are all made of the same compound, calcium carbonate, with the formula CaCO3. They differ only in how they were formed.

Air near the ground is denser than air higher up, so sunlight bends as it passes through the atmosphere and reaches us while the Sun is still just below the horizon.

Made on 8 August 1940, it was the first time the British government accepted that framing India's new constitution should be mainly the responsibility of Indians.

The Antarctic Plate, carrying Antarctica and the ocean around it, is one of the seven major lithospheric plates. Plate tectonics divides the lithosphere into seven major plates and several minor ones.

In Newton's second law, F = ma, the force on a body is proportional to its acceleration, and the constant linking the two is the body's mass.

Panchayati Raj Institutions are bodies of rural local self-government, through which villagers manage their own local affairs. Article 40, a Directive Principle, asks the State to organise village panchayats and give them the powers needed to function as units of self-government.

Mrichchhakatika, meaning 'The Little Clay Cart', is a ten-act Sanskrit play attributed to King Shudraka. The play tells the love story of Charudatta, a generous Brahmin merchant of Ujjayini who has lost his wealth, and Vasantasena, a rich and noble courtesan.

All three statements correctly describe the spinning and weaving machines that drove the British cotton industry in the late eighteenth century.