NDA GK Questions 2026

Tidal volume, the air breathed in or out in one normal quiet breath, is only about 500 millilitres in a healthy adult, the smallest of the four volumes listed.

Frogs and most fishes release their eggs and sperm into water, where fertilisation takes place outside the female's body. In external fertilisation, a large number of eggs and sperm are shed together, because many are lost to currents and predators.

India beat Pakistan by 17 runs in the final of the Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2016.

The Geiger-Müller counter detects and counts the ionising radiation given out by radioactive substances, so it is the standard instrument for measuring radioactivity.

Muscle cells are packed with the contractile proteins actin and myosin, whose filaments slide over each other to shorten the cell and produce movement.

Nimbostratus is a thick, dark grey layer cloud that covers the whole sky and gives steady, continuous rain or snow, often for many hours.

Ultrasound is sound with a frequency above 20,000 hertz, the upper limit of human hearing, so its defining feature is a higher frequency than audible sound.

The atomic number, the number of protons in the nucleus, decides which element an atom is, and no two elements share it.

The frequency of a wave is set by its source, so it does not change when light passes from air into glass; only the speed and wavelength change.

Since both wires have the same material and thickness, resistance is proportional to length, so R2 = 2R1, and the parallel combination works out to R = 2R1/3.

With uniform acceleration, velocity changes by the same amount in every equal interval of time, so the velocity-time graph is a straight line whose slope equals the acceleration.

Both statements match the record of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, in Madhya Pradesh, as NCERT's Class 12 history text describes it.

The statement is false because the latent heat of fusion of ice is high, about 334 joules per gram, or roughly 80 calories per gram.

The temperate forests called Sholas grow in the higher reaches of all three ranges named, the Nilgiris, the Anaimalai and the Palani hills.

Lime water is a clear solution of calcium hydroxide, and carbon dioxide reacts with it to form insoluble calcium carbonate, which turns the solution milky.

The nucellus is the mass of tissue inside the ovule whose cells carry stored food, and the embryo sac develops within it.

The corpus callosum is a thick band of nerve fibres that joins the two cerebral hemispheres, so it belongs to the forebrain, not the hindbrain.

As part of the training exchanges arranged during the port call, trainees of the First Training Squadron visited this centre, while the Senior Officer of the squadron called on the Chief of Defence Force of the Maldives National Defence Force, on the Commandant of the MNDF Coast Guard and on…

The Ministry of Defence used exactly this expansion while placing the squadron's Maldives port call within India's maritime outreach, saying the visit underscored growing maritime cooperation between the two countries.

The First Training Squadron that arrived off Male consisted of INS Tir, INS Sujata and the Indian Coast Guard Ship Sarathi, and the three reached the Maldives on 21 October 2026 on a Long Range Training Deployment.