Defence GK Questions 2026

The American chip maker opened India's first such centre in Bengaluru in 1985, the start of what is now called the Global Capability Centre (GCC) model.

Both statements describe the industry correctly. The modern cotton mill industry began in Mumbai in 1854 and grew first in Maharashtra and Gujarat, close to the black cotton soil, the ports and a ready market.

Statements 1 and 3 describe the Kashmir Himalayas correctly, but Pangong Tso and Tso Moriri are salt-water lakes. The Karewas are thick deposits of glacial clay and other materials embedded with moraines, laid down on the floor of the Kashmir Valley; they are famous for the cultivation of saffron (zafran).

It is the batch file that MS-DOS runs automatically, line by line, every time the computer starts. A batch file is a plain text file of DOS commands with the.BAT extension.

Rubidium, an alkali metal like caesium, gives off electrons easily when light falls on it, so it is used in photoelectric cells.

Tooth enamel is made mainly of calcium phosphate in the form of a hard crystal called hydroxyapatite. Enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, harder even than bone.

In a recumbent fold the rock layers are pushed over so far that the fold lies on its side and its axial plane is almost horizontal.

The rebels wanted Hindus and Muslims to stand together against British rule. Proclamations issued in the name of Bahadur Shah Zafar called on everyone to join the fight, recalling the Mughal past when different communities had lived together.

Smallpox was caused by the variola virus, a large DNA virus of the pox family that spread from person to person through the air.

Wang Xuance, a Tang envoy who came to India several times in the seventh century, wrote an account called Records of the Travels to Middle India, of which only fragments survive.

After fertilisation the ovary of the flower grows into the fruit, and each ovule inside it develops into a seed.

Sylhet, then a Muslim-majority district of Assam, held a referendum in July 1947, and its people voted to join East Bengal, which became part of Pakistan.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 are true, but carbon never forms a quadruple, or tetra, bond between two carbon atoms.

Sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid react to form new substances, sodium chloride and water, so this is a chemical change.

In the DNA double helix, adenine on one strand always pairs with thymine on the other, and guanine always pairs with cytosine.

P waves are the fastest earthquake waves and reach a seismograph first, and they are longitudinal, while S waves are transverse.

The patches of evergreen temperate forest in the high valleys of the Nilgiri, Anaimalai and Palani hills of the Western Ghats are called sholas.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012–17) aimed at 4 per cent growth in agriculture, not 5 per cent. The Twelfth Plan, titled Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, was the last five-year plan; after it the Planning Commission was replaced by NITI Aayog in 2015.

An alloy of sodium and potassium, called NaK, stays liquid at room temperature and carries heat away from the core of some nuclear reactors.

Among the gases listed, carbon dioxide is present in by far the largest amount, about 0.04 per cent of the air, which is roughly two hundred times the amount of methane.