NDA GK Questions 2026

Themes are among the most heavily tested details in questions on exercises and summits, because they are specific, short and easy to confuse with a plausible alternative.

The ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise was conducted there, with INS Sahyadri and INS Kulish representing the Indian Navy through both the Harbour Phase and the Sea Phase.

In the continental drift theory that Alfred Wegener put forward in 1912, the single land mass was Pangaea and the single mega ocean around it was Panthalassa, a Greek name meaning all sea.

The Earth turns through 360 degrees in 24 hours, so it covers 15 degrees of longitude in one hour, and each standard time zone is drawn one hour, that is 15 degrees, wide.

Magadha was the first power of ancient India to use elephants in war on a large scale, taking them from the forests of its east Indian heartland.

Potassium permanganate is a neutral compound, so the oxidation numbers of all its atoms must add up to zero. Potassium, an alkali metal, is always +1, and each of the four oxygen atoms is -2, giving the oxygens a total of -8.

Coulomb friction, also called dry friction, is the resistance that acts when two solid surfaces touch each other with no lubricant between them.

A concave lens, also called a diverging lens, spreads out the rays that fall on it and so can never bring them to a real focus.

Wetting is decided by a contest between two forces: cohesion, the attraction among the molecules of the liquid itself, and adhesion, the attraction between the liquid and the solid surface.

The atomic number of an element is by definition the number of protons in its nucleus, so an atomic number of 11 means 11 protons.

In the Gupta age a workshop at Sarnath, near Varanasi, carved in cream Chunar sandstone and produced the seated preaching Buddha whose hands form the dharmachakra mudra, the gesture of teaching, and whose robe clings so closely that art historians describe it as wet drapery.

Bamiyan, in the highlands of what is now Afghanistan, lay on the trade route through the Hindu Kush and was part of the wide Gandhara cultural region, along with Hadda, Begram, Jalalabad, Swat and Taxila.

The best known of them is the standing figure of Kanishka in spotted red sandstone, broken at the neck, whose inscription names him Maharaja Rajatiraja Devaputra Kanishka, and it is now in the Government Museum at Mathura.

The correct answer is C, the wheel, the dharmachakra, which stands for the first sermon delivered in the deer park at Sarnath, an event called the dharmachakra pravartana, the turning of the wheel of law.

Amaravati lies in the lower Krishna valley in Andhra Pradesh, and the other sites of the same school, Nagarjunakonda, Jaggayyapeta, Ghantasala and Bhattiprolu, are in the same stretch of country.

Besides Buddhist figures it carved the earliest known images of the Jain tirthankaras, found at the Kankali Tila mound, and the earliest images of Brahmanical deities including Vishnu, Shiva, Surya, Balarama and Kubera, along with a long line of yakshi figures.

Kanishka, the greatest Kushana ruler, is linked with both, and the Kushanas also set up royal portrait statues at Mat near Mathura.

The Gandhara sculptor treated cloth as a Roman sculptor did, with deep, heavy, naturalistic folds falling over both shoulders, and the halo behind the head is left plain.

Its sculptors worked mainly in relief on the drum slabs and railings of the great stupa, filling each panel with figures that tell a story from the Buddha's life or from the Jataka tales, and their bodies are slender and elongated, bent in the triple flexion called tribhanga, so that…

The correct answer is B, the Satavahanas, who ruled the Deccan from the first century before the common era, with the school continuing later under the Ikshvakus of the Krishna valley.