NDA GK Questions 2026

All three statements about the Richter scale are correct. Statement 1 is correct: the American seismologist Charles F. Richter devised the scale in 1935 at the California Institute of Technology, working with Beno Gutenberg.

Java lies wholly in the Southern Hemisphere, roughly between 6° S and 9° S, so the Equator does not pass over it.

The south-west monsoon usually lasts about 100 to 120 days, from early June to about mid-September. The monsoon reaches the Kerala coast around 1 June and spreads over almost the whole country by early to mid-July.

Naneghat is a mountain pass in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, known for Satavahana cave inscriptions, not for a Chola Shiva temple.

Parenchyma is the basic packing tissue of plants, and it is also present in both xylem (xylem parenchyma) and phloem (phloem parenchyma).

A point on a map is fixed where its line of latitude crosses its line of longitude, so both values are needed and enough.

Oxidising power of the halogens falls as we go down group 17, so iodine is the weakest and fluorine the strongest oxidising agent.

Rourkela in Sundargarh district of Odisha matches all three clues: Jharia coal, Sundargarh and Kendujhar iron ore, Hirakud power and water from the Koel and Sankh.

Urea, CO(NH2)2, contains about 46 per cent nitrogen, the highest of any common solid fertiliser, and is the main nitrogen fertiliser used in India.

The primary structure of a protein is simply the linear order of amino acids joined one after another by peptide bonds.

This statement is false: diamond is an electrical insulator because it has no free electrons. In diamond, every carbon atom uses all four of its valence electrons to form strong covalent bonds with four other carbon atoms in a rigid three-dimensional network.

Land left uncultivated for more than one year but less than five years falls in this category of the land revenue records.

Neither has a Mediterranean climate, so neither has sclerophyll vegetation. Sclerophyll means 'hard leaf'.

Its Challenger Deep, about 10,900 metres (nearly 11 km) below sea level, is the deepest known point of the oceans.

A new state is created, or a state's boundaries changed, by an ordinary law of Parliament under Article 3, passed by a simple majority.

This statement is wrong: the Benami law is enforced by the Income Tax Department, not the ED. The Directorate of Enforcement, set up in 1956, is a specialised financial investigation agency under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, with its headquarters in New Delhi.

Peasant risings against moneylenders were common in the 19th century, and the Deccan Riots began at Supa in May 1875.

Platelets, or thrombocytes, release the factors that start blood clotting at a wound. Platelets are tiny cell fragments made from large cells called megakaryocytes in the bone marrow; a healthy adult has about 1.5 to 4.5 lakh of them per cubic millimetre of blood.

The first all-India census was attempted in 1872, and from 1881 a census has been held every ten years. The 1872 count, under Viceroy Lord Mayo, was taken in different regions at different times and did not cover the whole country, so it is called the first, non-synchronous attempt.

Magma is mostly molten silicate, so the minerals that crystallise from it, such as feldspar, quartz, mica, pyroxene and olivine, are silicates.