NDA GK Questions 2026

India marks 21 May as Anti-Terrorism Day because former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on that day in 1991.

In ecology, a population is defined by three things together: one species, one place and one time. Ecology studies life in levels.

Cyclohexane, C 6 H 12, has 6 C–C single bonds and 12 C–H single bonds, 18 single bonds in all and no double or triple bond.

Silver and copper are the two best conductors of heat among metals. Metals conduct heat because their free electrons carry energy quickly through the solid.

Velocity multiplied by time is displacement, so the area between a velocity-time graph and the time axis gives the displacement.

A bacterium is a prokaryote, so its DNA lies in an irregular region called the nucleoid, with no nuclear membrane around it.

Photo 51 is the X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA that revealed its helical shape. The picture was taken in May 1952 at King's College London by Rosalind Franklin and her student Raymond Gosling.

Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, stands on the Vltava river, not on the Danube. The Danube is Europe's second-longest river after the Volga.

Twenty crests and twenty troughs make twenty complete waves in 0.1 second, so the frequency is 200 Hz and the wavelength is 330 ÷ 200 = 1.65 m. One complete wave, or one cycle, contains one crest and one trough (for sound, one compression and one rarefaction).

Article 269A makes inter-State GST a tax that only the Centre levies and collects and then shares with the States.

The Teesta flows from Sikkim through West Bengal into Bangladesh and joins the Brahmaputra, so it has nothing to do with the Indus system.

Cape Town, Los Angeles, Adelaide and Santiago all lie in the Mediterranean climate belt on the western sides of continents, roughly between 30° and 40° latitude.

In May 2020 Sania Mirza won the Fed Cup Heart Award for the Asia/Oceania zone, becoming the first Indian to receive it.

Reducing manganese dioxide with aluminium, 3MnO₂ + 4Al → 3Mn + 2Al₂O₃, gives out a large amount of heat. This method of reducing a metal oxide with aluminium powder is called aluminothermy, or the Goldschmidt thermite process.

A freely falling object moves with a uniform acceleration, the acceleration due to gravity, g, about 9.8 m/s² near the Earth's surface.

A large part of the energy is lost at every trophic level, so after four or five links too little is left to support another level.

The CAG audits spending from the Consolidated Fund and of bodies substantially financed by government, but has no control over the release of money from the fund.

Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal came into effect on 16 October 1905, years before the other three events. Curzon announced the partition in July 1905, claiming it was for administrative convenience, but it was widely seen as a way to divide Hindus and Muslims and weaken Bengali nationalism.

The Indigo Revolt (1859–60) of Bengal's peasants against European indigo planters won strong support from the Bengali intelligentsia, press and missionaries.

In aerobic tissues, where oxygen is available, glucose is broken down completely into carbon dioxide, water and energy. Aerobic respiration begins with glycolysis in the cytoplasm, which gives pyruvate.