NDA GK Questions 2026

Both statements are wrong: Gram Sabhas cannot declare Scheduled Areas, and PESA applies to the Fifth Schedule areas rather than leaving them out.

The juice in the stem of sugarcane is rich in sucrose, the ordinary table sugar we get from it. Sucrose is a disaccharide (C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁) made of one glucose and one fructose unit joined together.

Magnetite is the black ore of iron, it is very rich in iron, and it is naturally magnetic. Magnetite is an iron oxide (Fe₃O₄) and the finest iron ore, with an iron content of about 60 to 70 per cent, the highest among the common ores.

All four travellers are matched with their home countries correctly. Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, from what is now Italy, who passed through south India in the late 13th century and described the Pandya kingdom.

IMBEX stands for the India-Myanmar Bilateral Military Exercise, held between the two armies. The exercise began in 2017, and its focus has been training Myanmar army officers for United Nations peacekeeping duties, including drills on handling crowds, protecting civilians and running a peacekeeping camp.

Colin Mackenzie, an engineer and surveyor of the East India Company, brought the ruins at Hampi to light in 1800.

Biogas is mostly methane, usually about 50 to 75 per cent, and methane is the part that burns. Biogas is made when bacteria break down cattle dung, crop waste, kitchen waste or sewage in the absence of oxygen, a process called anaerobic digestion, inside a closed digester.

These monsoon forests are the most widespread natural vegetation in India. Tropical deciduous forests grow where annual rainfall is roughly 70 to 200 cm, which covers much of the peninsula, the Ganga plain margins and the lower Himalayan slopes.

Sound is a mechanical wave, so it needs a medium, and in air its particles vibrate along the direction of travel.

Moraines, eskers and outwash plains are landforms left by glaciers, and among these Union Territories only Ladakh has glaciated high mountains.

UDAN is the regional connectivity scheme meant to grow regional air travel and make it affordable while keeping the routes viable for airlines.

COP-27 was the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC was adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and its parties meet every year at a COP.

Tiny gas molecules in the air scatter short wavelengths far more strongly than long ones. This is Rayleigh scattering: the amount of scattering varies inversely with the fourth power of the wavelength.

Australia's men's field hockey team is known as the Kookaburras, after the laughing bird native to Australia. The Kookaburras are among the strongest sides in world hockey.

Pairs I, II and III are correct; pair IV is wrong because UNTSO works in the Middle East, not Haiti.

The Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007–2012) carried the title "Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth". The Eleventh Plan was prepared by the Planning Commission under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with Montek Singh Ahluwalia as Deputy Chairman.

That is exactly how the Indian Navy describes the ship in the announcement of its arrival at Busan, and each part of the phrase carries meaning.

The exercise is arranged in two parts. During the harbour phase the two navies hold professional interactions, cross-deck visits, cross-training and sporting events while the Indian frigate is alongside at Busan.

The ship that entered Busan Naval Harbour in the Republic of Korea for the India-Republic of Korea Navy bilateral exercise is INS Sahyadri, a guided missile stealth frigate that was designed and built in India.

The correct answer is Veer Guardian 26, the India-Japan air force exercise during which Japanese fighter aircraft came to India for the first time; the Chief of Staff of the Air Self-Defense Force travelled to India in conjunction with it.