NDA GK Questions 2026

The monks who went south were the followers of Bhadrabahu, who later became the Digambaras, not the Shvetambaras.

Magnesium ribbon burns in air with a dazzling white flame, giving off heat and light and leaving a white powder of magnesium oxide.

Amuktamalyada was written in Telugu by Krishnadevaraya, the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara. Krishnadevaraya ruled from 1509 to 1529.

An atomic clock keeps time by locking onto the fixed frequency of radiation that makes atoms such as cesium-133 or rubidium jump between two energy levels.

Lithium is so light that it floats on kerosene or paraffin oil, so it is kept coated in petroleum jelly or paraffin wax, or under an inert gas, instead of under oil.

A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic machine that builds up a very large static charge on a hollow metal sphere, raising it to millions of volts.

Jordan grew out of the British Mandate after the First World War, but it is not landlocked because it touches the Gulf of Aqaba.

Starlight is bent again and again by layers of air of changing density, so its path and brightness keep shifting and the star seems to twinkle.

The focal length is 10 cm, and an object between F and C of a concave mirror gives a real image beyond C, in front of the mirror.

X-rays are electromagnetic waves made of photons, which carry no electric charge, so electric and magnetic fields cannot bend them.

The Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes is a joint committee whose Chairperson is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from among its members.

Across the Indian Navy's tenure, the activities of CTF 154 added up to more than 7,800 hours of training, with personnel from 39 countries taking part.

India's association with the Combined Maritime Forces came in two steps: it first joined as an Associate Partner in 2022 and then took up full membership in 2023.

The Combined Maritime Forces is a partnership of 47 nations, and CTF 154 is the one task force within it that is given over wholly to training, running professional courses and capacity building so that member navies can work with one another at sea.

The ceremony at which the Indian Navy gave up command of Combined Task Force 154 was held at Manama in Bahrain on 14 October 2026, and it closed the first spell in which India headed a task force of the Combined Maritime Forces.

Power equals force times velocity, so the force is 3,000 W divided by 5 m/s, which is 600 N. Power is the rate of doing work: P = W/t. Work is force times distance, W = F × d, so P = F × d/t, and since d/t is the…

In this last stage both the birth rate and the death rate are low, so the population grows very slowly or stays almost steady.

It is the deepest landlocked and well-protected port on India's east coast. Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh lies in a natural harbour cut into the land, sheltered by the Dolphin's Nose headland, which protects ships from the waves of the Bay of Bengal.

A geostrophic wind blows high above the surface, where the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force balance and the air flows parallel to the isobars.

A wave carries energy from one place to another, while the particles of the medium only vibrate about their fixed positions.