CDS GK Questions 2026

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.

In an apple, the fleshy part we eat develops from the thalamus, the swollen tip of the flower stalk, and not from the ovary, which is why it is called a false fruit.

A ring of muscle at the lower end of the stomach, the pyloric sphincter, opens and closes to let food pass into the small intestine a little at a time.

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was Gandhiji's first satyagraha in India, and its great significance was that it tied the grievances of peasants to the national movement.

Shale gas resources have been identified in all three basins: Cambay, Cauvery and Krishna-Godavari. Shale gas is natural gas, mostly methane, trapped in fine-grained sedimentary rock called shale, and it is extracted by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Only the first pair is correct: Chaliha Sahib is a festival of the Sindhi community. During Chaliha, Sindhis observe forty days of fasting and prayer, usually in July and August, in honour of Jhulelal, the patron deity of Sindhis, ending with thanksgiving at a river or other water body.

In the mid-18th century the English East India Company's main exports from Bengal were cotton textiles, silk, saltpetre and opium.

. A light-year works as a unit of distance only because light in a vacuum always travels at the same speed, so the distance it covers in a year is fixed.

Statement 2 is correct, but statement 1 is wrong because the first IONS was held in 2008, not 2015. The Indian Ocean Naval Symposium was conceived by the Indian Navy, and its inaugural edition took place in New Delhi in February 2008 with India as the first chair.

Triclosan is an antibacterial and antifungal agent added mainly to personal-care products. It has been used in antibacterial soaps, hand washes, toothpastes, deodorants, shaving creams, mouthwashes and cosmetics, and sometimes in kitchen items and textiles to stop the growth of germs.

Only Gandhi Sagar is matched with its correct State, so three of the four pairs are wrong. Gandhi Sagar is the first of the Chambal valley dams, built in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, so pair 2 is correct.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, while statement 3 is wrong. Article 355 says it is the duty of the Union to protect every State against external aggression and internal disturbance and to ensure that its government runs according to the Constitution, so statement 1 is correct.

The Chambal River holds the largest wild population of gharials in the world and is protected as the National Chambal Sanctuary.

The Sarkaria Commission on Centre-State relations laid down these qualities for choosing a Governor. The Commission was set up by the Union Government in 1983 under Justice R.S.

Bisphenol A is the main building block from which polycarbonate plastic is made. Polycarbonate is a hard, clear and shatter-resistant plastic once widely used for reusable water bottles, baby feeding bottles, food containers, CDs and spectacle lenses.

The 2011 Census found that about 49% of Indian households used firewood as their main fuel for cooking, which rounds to half.

The Janata government set up the Ashok Mehta Committee in December 1977 to suggest how to revive the weakening Panchayati Raj institutions.

The 44th Amendment of 1978 added a proviso to Article 74(1) letting the President ask the Council of Ministers to reconsider its advice once.