NDA GK Questions 2026

Gersoppa Falls, better known as Jog Falls, is where the Sharavati river plunges down the edge of the Western Ghats in Karnataka.

Adrenaline, released by the adrenal glands into the blood, speeds up the heart beat when the body faces stress or danger.

These are the five great elements, the Pancha Mahabhuta, that Indian philosophy saw as the building blocks of the physical world.

Water molecules are strongly polar, so they can pull apart the positive and negative ions of a salt and surround them.

The anther is the top part of the stamen, the male organ of a flower, and pollen grains form inside it.

The alveoli are tiny air sacs at the end of the smallest airways, and oxygen and carbon dioxide pass through their walls.

Breaking calcium carbonate into quicklime and carbon dioxide needs a steady supply of heat, so the reaction absorbs energy. An endothermic reaction takes in heat from its surroundings, while an exothermic reaction gives heat out.

Platinum is a noble metal and does not combine with oxygen even when heated in air. Metals low in the reactivity series, such as gold and platinum, hold on to their electrons very firmly, so oxygen cannot pull them away under ordinary conditions.

That session treated air power as an instrument of national power and covered deterrence, coercion, escalation control and human capital development.

CAPSS was set up in that year as an autonomous research and analysis body working on national security, nuclear and aerospace questions, which is why the year 2026 marks its Silver Jubilee.

The seminar was held on 9 October 2026 at the Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi, while this multinational flying exercise was under way, so the participating teams moved from flying sorties to a conceptual discussion on doctrine.

He took silver in the men's marathon in a national record time of 2:11:37, and that medal closed the long gap of 44 years since India had last stood on an Asian Games marathon podium.

She finished the Games with two gold and one silver, and her win in the individual women's trap event made her the first Indian woman to take gold in that shooting event at the Asian Games.

Athletes of the three Services returned from the Asian Games in Japan with 27 medals, broken up as 6 gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze, which is the best the defence forces have ever managed at the event.

The parietal (oxyntic) cells in the lining of the stomach secrete hydrochloric acid into the gastric juice. Hydrochloric acid makes the stomach strongly acidic, with a pH of roughly 1.5 to 3.5.

Copper exposed to moist air slowly gains a green layer of basic copper carbonate, a form of cupric carbonate. Copper does not rust like iron, but it corrodes.

After 3 minutes 45 seconds the boy has completed seven and a half rounds, so he stands at the point exactly opposite his starting point.

Bile has no digestive enzymes at all; it only prepares fats for digestion by other enzymes. Bile is made by the liver, stored and concentrated in the gall bladder, and poured into the duodenum through the bile duct.

Carbon dioxide makes up about 96.5% of the atmosphere of Venus and about 95% of the atmosphere of Mars. The two neighbours of the Earth have atmospheres dominated by carbon dioxide, with nitrogen and argon making up most of the rest.

Halophytes are plants adapted to grow in soil or water with a high salt content. The word comes from the Greek 'halos', meaning salt.