NDA GK Questions 2026

A true fruit is a ripened ovary and nothing else. After fertilisation, the ovary of a flower develops into the fruit, its wall becomes the pericarp and the ovules inside become seeds.

The English physician showed in 1796 that deliberate inoculation could protect a person against smallpox. Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had caught the mild disease cowpox did not get smallpox.

The ryotwari system was meant to do the opposite: it bypassed the zamindars and dealt with the peasant directly. The ryotwari settlement was worked out by Alexander Read and Thomas Munro and introduced in the Madras Presidency in 1820, and later extended to the Bombay Presidency.

This statement is wrong, because the Gauhati High Court has permanent benches outside Guwahati. The Gauhati High Court at Guwahati is the common High Court for Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

In Köppen's scheme it stands for a hot desert climate with its little rain in summer, which fits western Rajasthan.

The Alvars were devotees of Vishnu, not of the goddess Shakti, so this pair is wrong. The Bhakti movement began in Tamil Nadu between the sixth and ninth centuries with two groups of poet-saints.

Mission Shakti was India's first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test. On 27 March 2019 DRDO fired a ground-launched interceptor from Dr. A.P.J.

By Archimedes' principle, the buoyant force equals the weight of the water displaced by the sphere. A fully immersed body displaces its own volume of water, here 2 × 10⁻⁴ m³.

Statement 4 is wrong because adhiyars and bargadars were both sharecroppers who worked the land of the jotedars. After the Permanent Settlement of 1793 by Lord Cornwallis, the Company tried to tame the zamindars: their troops were disbanded, their customs duties abolished and their courts placed under Company collectors.

Bangabhaban in Dhaka is the official residence of the President of Bangladesh. The name itself carries the clue, since Banga is the old name of the Bengal region, and the building served earlier as the residence of the governor of East Bengal.

The Potala Palace rises above Lhasa, the chief city of Tibet, and was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from the seventeenth century.

The Danish architect Jorn Utzon won the competition for the Sydney Opera House, whose shell shaped roofs stand on Bennelong Point in Sydney harbour.

Big Ben is strictly the name of the large bell hung in the clock tower at the northern end of the Palace of Westminster.

This large hall on the western side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing is where the National People's Congress, China's legislature, holds its sessions, and where state ceremonies and receptions for visiting leaders are held.

Casa Rosada, the Pink House, stands on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and is the office and ceremonial seat of the President of Argentina.

Lutyens was the chief architect of imperial New Delhi and designed the Viceroy's House, built between 1912 and 1929 on Raisina Hill.

The Pentagon stands at Arlington in Virginia, across the Potomac river from Washington D.C., and houses the American defence department along with the headquarters of its armed services.

Number 10 Downing Street has been the London house and the working office of the British Prime Minister since the eighteenth century, and the cabinet meets in it.

The Elysee Palace in Paris has been the official residence and working office of the President of the French Republic since the middle of the nineteenth century, and the French Prime Minister, who is the head of government, works separately from the Hotel Matignon.

Canning read the Queen's Proclamation at a durbar at Allahabad on 1 November 1858.