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NDA GK Questions 2026

Static general knowledge makes up about 90% of Part B of the NDA General Ability Test, about 360 of its 400 marks. The NDA & NA (II) 2026 notice divides it into five sections: Physics (about 25%), Chemistry (about 15%), General Science (about 10%), History, Freedom Movement etc. (about 20%) and Geography (about 20%). Half of Part B is science. Physics covers matter, motion, gravitation, heat, sound, light, magnetism, electricity and the working of everyday devices such as the siphon, pressure cooker, periscope and safety fuse. Chemistry covers changes of matter, elements and compounds, common gases, acids, bases and salts, carbon, fertilizers and the materials used to make soap, glass, cement and gunpowder. General Science covers cells, the human body, diseases, diet, the solar system and eminent scientists. Section D spans Indian history and culture, the freedom movement, the Constitution, Five Year Plans, Panchayati Raj and world history from the Renaissance to the Russian Revolution. Geography covers the Earth, rocks, oceans, the atmosphere and climate, and India's resources, industries, ports and trade. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for NDA, in English and Hindi, written as short facts and tables. Read a topic, then solve its quiz and previous-year questions on this site.

NDA GK Questions with Answers

Q4244.GeographyEasy

Jamshedpur, Bhilai and Modinagar are examples of which functional class of towns?

  1. A.Transport towns
  2. B.Industrial towns
  3. C.Garrison towns
  4. D.Religious towns
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Correct answer: B. Industrial towns

Each of the three grew around a factory: Jamshedpur around the steel works set up by the Tata enterprise, Bhilai around the public sector steel plant built with Soviet collaboration, and Modinagar around the industries of the Modi group, so industry is their dominant function.

Q4245.GeographyHard

Dispersed or isolated rural settlements are most characteristic of which of the following regions of India?

  1. A.The Punjab plain
  2. B.The Meghalaya hills
  3. C.The lower Ganga plain
  4. D.The Gujarat plain
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Correct answer: B. The Meghalaya hills

A dispersed or isolated pattern, in which a farmstead or two or three houses stand far from the next, is found where the terrain is broken and the patches of cultivable land are small and scattered, as in Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and the hills of Kerala.

Q4246.GeographyMedium

An urban agglomeration, as defined by the Census of India, means

  1. A.any town with a population above one million
  2. B.a continuous urban spread made up of a town and its adjoining outgrowths
  3. C.a group of villages administered by one panchayat
  4. D.a town selected under the Smart Cities Mission
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Correct answer: B. a continuous urban spread made up of a town and its adjoining outgrowths

An urban agglomeration is the built-up whole rather than the municipal unit: it is a town together with its outgrowths, or two or more physically contiguous towns with their outgrowths, where an outgrowth is a clearly identifiable area such as a railway colony, a university campus, a port area or…

Q4248.GeographyAsked in: CTET · 31st Dec 2021Easy

While teaching about migration in her class which of the following factors could be considered as relevant by the teacher? (A) Availability of work opportunities (B) Improving standards of living (C) Marriage Choose the correct option.

  1. A.Only (A) and (B)
  2. B.Only (B) and (C)
  3. C.Only (A) and (C)
  4. D.All (A), (B) and (C)
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Correct answer: D. All (A), (B) and (C)

Migration is studied through push factors in the place of origin and pull factors in the place of destination, and all three items listed belong to that study.

Q4249.GeographyEasy

Which Constitutional Amendment Act gave constitutional status to urban local bodies in India?

  1. A.The 72nd Amendment Act
  2. B.The 73rd Amendment Act
  3. C.The 74th Amendment Act
  4. D.The 76th Amendment Act
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Correct answer: C. The 74th Amendment Act

The Seventy-fourth Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 inserted Part IXA into the Constitution with Articles 243P to 243ZG, gave municipalities a fixed term of five years with elections conducted by a State Election Commission, provided for reservation of seats, and added the Twelfth Schedule listing eighteen subjects for urban local…

Q4251.GeographyAsked in: CTET · 22nd Dec 2021Medium

Read the two statements in the context of urbanisation: A) Due to urbanisation, only the rich began leaving their villages to look for jobs that were opening up in cities in the colonial period B) The poor and many from the low castes, saw this opportunity to get away from oppressive hold that upper-caste land owners exercised over their lives and the daily humiliation they suffered.

  1. A.Only statement 'A' is true.
  2. B.Only statement 'B' is true.
  3. C.Both statement 'A' and 'B' are false.
  4. D.Both statement 'A' and 'B' are true.
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Correct answer: B. Only statement 'B' is true.

Statement B is sound: for the poor and for people of the lower castes, the new jobs in colonial cities were a way out of the control of upper-caste landowners in the village and of the daily humiliation they suffered there, and this pull is part of every account of…

Q4253.GeographyEasy

A town with a population of 100,000 and above is placed by the Census of India in which class?

  1. A.Class I
  2. B.Class II
  3. C.Class III
  4. D.Class IV
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Correct answer: A. Class I

The Census of India groups towns into six classes by population: Class I of one hundred thousand and above, Class II of fifty thousand to ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, Class III of twenty thousand to forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, Class IV of ten thousand to nineteen…

Q4254.GeographyAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · MPPSC Forest Service Previous Year MainsMedium

Pattern of settlement in Ganga Yamuna Doab region is –

  1. A.Scattered
  2. B.Random
  3. C.Compact Random
  4. D.Semi sprinkled
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Correct answer: C. Compact Random

The Ganga-Yamuna Doab is a level alluvial plain with deep fertile soil, assured water from wells, canals and a high water table, and a long history of dense farming settlement, so its villages are compact or nucleated: the houses stand packed together in one block with narrow lanes, and the…

Q4255.GeographyMedium

According to the Census of India, which of the following is NOT one of the conditions a place must satisfy to be classified as a census town?

  1. A.A minimum population of 5,000
  2. B.At least 75 per cent of the male main working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits
  3. C.A density of population of at least 400 persons per square kilometre
  4. D.The presence of a municipality or a notified town area committee
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Correct answer: D. The presence of a municipality or a notified town area committee

A place that has a municipal corporation, a municipality, a cantonment board or a notified town area committee is a statutory town, and it is urban whatever its population; it is therefore not a census town at all.

Q4257.General ScienceMedium

Bakelite is a condensation polymer of formaldehyde with

  1. A.Phenol
  2. B.Melamine
  3. C.Urea
  4. D.Aniline
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Correct answer: A. Phenol

Bakelite is a phenol-formaldehyde resin, prepared by condensing phenol with formaldehyde; on curing the chains cross-link into a rigid network, giving a hard, heat-resistant and electrically insulating solid used for switches, plug tops, pan handles and distributor caps.

Q4260.General ScienceMedium

Rayon is best described as

  1. A.a natural protein fibre
  2. B.a semi-synthetic fibre made from cellulose
  3. C.a fully synthetic polyamide fibre
  4. D.a thermosetting plastic
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Correct answer: B. a semi-synthetic fibre made from cellulose

Rayon is made by dissolving the cellulose of wood pulp, forcing the solution through fine holes and regenerating the cellulose as a thread.