NDA GK Questions 2026

The Ilbert Bill of 1883 sought to remove the rule that European British subjects could be tried only by European judges.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar founded Abhinav Bharat at Nashik in 1904, together with his brother Ganesh. It grew out of an earlier group called Mitra Mela and took its name from Mazzini’s Young Italy, whose biography Savarkar translated into Marathi.

Baking soda is sodium hydrogen carbonate, NaHCO3, a mild base made by the Solvay process from brine, ammonia and carbon dioxide.

Melting means breaking the particles free of the forces holding them in a fixed lattice, so a higher melting point means stronger forces of attraction.

Asia takes the largest share of India’s exports, close to half of the total, far ahead of any other continent.

Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1935. He bombarded beryllium with alpha particles and found that the radiation given off was not affected by electric or magnetic fields, yet could knock protons out of paraffin.

Bryophytes live on land but still need water to complete reproduction, so they are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom.

A liquid boils when its vapour pressure equals the pressure of the air pressing on its surface, so lower air pressure means a lower boiling point.

Cones are the photoreceptor cells of the retina that respond to colour in bright light. The human retina carries two kinds of photoreceptors.

While describing what the Commanders' Conference will underline, the Ministry of Defence pointed to the Navy's role in safeguarding India's maritime interests, the security of energy included, against the background of continuing conflicts in West Asia.

The Navy's apex leadership is assessing its overall preparedness against these three foundational pillars, whose initials form the acronym JAI, with the object of optimising force levels and raising combat readiness.

The second edition of the Indian Navy's Commanders' Conference for the year is being held there over three days, from 29 September to 1 October 2026.

Ethiopia is counted among India's important defence partners and the association between the two militaries dates from that year, which makes it one of India's older defence links on the African continent.

The correct answer is February 2025, when the defence ministers of the two countries signed the Defence Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding that set up the standing mechanism for these consultations.

The correct answer is Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, where the two sides met to discuss military training, exercises, medical cooperation, peacekeeping and defence industries.

Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner, a German chemist, grouped elements of similar properties in sets of three that he called triads. His rule was that the atomic mass of the middle element is about the average of the other two.

It is a reduction division: one parent cell with the full, diploid set gives four cells with half the number of chromosomes, the haploid set.

Water behaves unlike most liquids between 0 and 4 degrees Celsius, a behaviour called the anomalous expansion of water. Almost every substance shrinks as it is cooled, but water shrinks only until it reaches 4 degrees Celsius.

Blood is filtered in the glomerulus of the nephron, and the filtrate that first enters the tubule still holds many useful substances.

Iron is a micronutrient, needed by plants only in very small amounts, and calcium is a macronutrient, needed in large amounts.