CDS GK Questions 2026

The Dashavatara temple at Deogarh stands in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, on the bank of the Betwa river. Built around the early sixth century, it is one of the earliest Hindu temples in north India and is dedicated to Vishnu.

A pattern that looks like the branches of a tree or the veins of a leaf, formed on uniform rock with a regular slope, is dendritic.

The Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) is the sole research and development wing of the Ministry of Railways. RDSO is headquartered at Lucknow.

Apabhramsha was a literary language that took recognisable shape by about the sixth century, formed from regional speech mixed with the Prakrits and Sanskrit.

The Swadeshi Movement grew out of the protest against the partition of Bengal, and the Extremists, Aurobindo Ghosh among them, wanted to turn it into a nationwide mass struggle.

When crude supply is disrupted, oil prices rise, and almost every good in India becomes costlier to make and move.

Nagaland was the only Indian state whose population fell between 2001 and 2011; its decadal growth rate in Census 2011 was about −0.6 per cent.

Paleogeography is the study of the Earth's geography in the geological past, and its main product is a set of maps showing where continents, oceans, mountains and shorelines lay at different times.

Cowasjee Nanabhoy Davar, a Parsi businessman of Bombay, set up the Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company, which began production in 1856 and is regarded as India's first modern cotton mill.

Mahendragiri, about 1,501 metres high, stands in the Gajapati district of southern Odisha, close to the Andhra Pradesh border.

The Abhijit Sen Committee dealt with agricultural economics, not local self-government. Its best-known reports were on a long-term grain policy in 2002 and on whether futures trading pushed up farm prices in 2008.

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam, formed between the main channel of the Brahmaputra to the south and the Subansiri and Kherkutia Suti channels to the north.

This statement is false, because diamond is an electrical insulator: all four valence electrons of each carbon atom are locked in covalent bonds, leaving no free electrons to carry current.

Operation Olivia is the Indian Coast Guard's annual mission, begun in the early 1980s, to protect Olive Ridley turtles off the Odisha coast.

All three statements are true: Lachit Borphukan was the Ahom commander who defeated the Mughals at Saraighat, and the NDA's best cadet receives a gold medal in his name.

After fertilisation each structure of the flower turns into the next stage in exactly this way. When a male gamete from the pollen tube fuses with the egg cell inside the ovule, the fertilised egg becomes the zygote.

Water gas is made by passing steam over red-hot coke, and the reaction C + H₂O → CO + H₂ gives carbon monoxide and hydrogen in roughly equal volumes.

Watt's improvements turned the steam engine from a device that merely pumped water out of mines into a source of power for factory machines.

Southern Argentina is Patagonia, a cold, dry steppe and desert region lying in the rain shadow of the Andes, so it does not have a humid subtropical climate.

Intercontinental ballistic missiles came first in 1957, communication satellites followed from 1958 onwards, and the World Wide Web arrived only around 1989 to 1991.