NDA GK Questions 2026

The Rig Veda has only a few words for cereals, and the main ones are yava and dhanya.

Insulin lets glucose leave the blood and enter body cells, especially muscle and fat cells, and so it lowers the blood sugar level.

The SA node, a small patch of special muscle in the wall of the right atrium, produces the electrical impulse that starts each heartbeat, which is why it is called the pacemaker of the heart.

The equivalent weight of a base is its molecular weight divided by its acidity, which is the number of replaceable hydroxide ions in one molecule.

Jute needs a hot and humid climate, heavy rainfall and the fresh alluvial soil that river floods renew every year, conditions found in the Ganga–Brahmaputra delta and the plains of eastern India.

When iron(III) oxide is heated with aluminium powder, aluminium takes away the oxygen, and the reaction gives out so much heat that the iron produced is molten: Fe2O3 + 2Al → 2Fe + Al2O3 + heat.

At its meeting at Bezwada (Vijayawada) in March 1921, the AICC set three targets to carry the Non-Cooperation Movement forward: one crore members for the Congress, one crore rupees for the Tilak Swaraj Fund, and twenty lakh charkhas to be distributed among the people by 30 June 1921.

In this poem Amir Khusrau sets out to show that India is superior to other lands, praising its climate, its languages, its arts and music, and even its animals.

The Bower Manuscript is valued above all for its medical texts, which make it one of the oldest surviving records of Ayurveda.

The acid-secreting cells of the stomach, called oxyntic or parietal cells, release hydrochloric acid, which protein digestion in the stomach depends on.

The Indian Civil Service was a modern, merit-based bureaucracy filled through open competitive examinations from 1853, but Indians were kept out of it in practice for decades.

The body falls freely from rest through 50 m, so v² = 2gh = 2 × 9.8 × 50 = 980, giving v = √980, about 31.3 m s⁻¹; its total energy at release is all potential energy, mgh = 2 × 9.8 × 50 = 980 J. Because the…

Almost all the mass of an atom is in its nucleus, so the mass number, which the question calls atomic mass, is the total of protons and neutrons, the two kinds of nucleons.

This is the defining condition of simple harmonic motion, written F = −kx, where k is the force constant and the minus sign shows that the force always points back towards the mean position.

The Belt and Road Initiative is China's plan, announced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, to build roads, railways, ports, pipelines and power links connecting China with Asia, Europe and Africa.

Using the lens formula with sign conventions, the object is found to be 10 cm from the lens, and the magnification v/u comes to 0.5.

The Bengali poet Mukundaram Chakrabarti, honoured with the title Kavikankan, composed the Chandimangala in the sixteenth century. Mangalkavyas are long Bengali narrative poems in praise of a deity, and the Chandimangala celebrates the goddess Chandi.

In the rock-salt structure of sodium chloride, every Na+ ion is surrounded by six Cl− ions and every Cl− ion by six Na+ ions, so the coordination number is 6 for both.

In April 1930, C. Rajagopalachari led a band of volunteers from Tiruchirappalli, then called Trichinopoly, to Vedaranyam on the Tanjore coast, where they broke the salt law.

The statement is false because CaSO4·2H2O is gypsum; Plaster of Paris is calcium sulphate hemihydrate, CaSO4·½H2O. When gypsum is heated to about 373 K, it loses three-quarters of its water and becomes Plaster of Paris, a white powder.