CDS GK Questions 2026

Vivekananda began his famous address at Chicago on 11 September 1893 with the words "Sisters and Brothers of America", and the audience rose in a long ovation.

Statements 1 and 2 describe the scheme correctly, while statement 3 does not, because the scheme is targeted at poor and vulnerable families rather than every citizen.

Nerve impulses are carried by the movement of sodium and potassium ions across the membrane of the nerve cell, so sodium is essential.

Mission Indradhanush is the Union Health Ministry's drive to fully immunise children and pregnant women against vaccine-preventable diseases. The mission was launched on 25 December 2014 to reach children who had missed their routine vaccines or had received them only partly, especially in districts with low coverage.

Salmonella typhi is a rod-shaped bacterium that causes typhoid fever in human beings. Typhoid spreads through food and water contaminated with the faeces of an infected person.

Magnetic field lines are always closed curves, so the statement that they are open curves is the incorrect one. Outside a magnet, field lines run from the north pole to the south pole; inside the magnet they continue from the south pole back to the north pole, closing the loop.

India is not a member of the G7; it attends some summits only as an invited guest country. The Group of Seven is an informal grouping of seven major advanced economies: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada.

Lipids, including steroids and the phospholipids of membranes, are made by the smooth endoplasmic reticulum, so a defect there would stop lipid synthesis.

Kampala lies almost on the equator, where a point on the Earth's surface moves the longest distance in each rotation and so has the greatest linear speed.

Koppen placed the Ganga plain of northern India under Cwg, a monsoon type with dry winters.

The egg is fertilised to form the zygote, the zygote grows into the embryo, and the ovule carrying the embryo becomes the seed.

All three statements are correct: Krishnadevaraya fought the Gajapati ruler of Orissa early in his reign, took Raichur from Ismail Adil Khan in 1520 and restored the Bahmani Sultan Mahmud Shah.

The vehicle goes 100 m east and 200√2 m south, and the straight-line distance between start and finish is √(100² + (200√2)²) = 300 m. Each leg starts from rest, so the distance covered is s = ½at².

Only statement 1 is correct; statement 2 has the two layers the wrong way round. Sleet is precipitation in the form of frozen raindrops and refrozen melted snow-water.

When light of a suitable frequency falls on a metal and knocks electrons out of it, the process is called photoelectric emission.

Carbon monoxide binds to the haemoglobin of red blood cells to form carboxyhaemoglobin, so the blood can no longer carry oxygen to the tissues.

In the hills of Uttarakhand the river is called the Kali (or Mahakali); it takes the name Sarda (Sharda) only after it reaches the plains.

. Thyroxine sets the body's basal metabolic rate, that is, how fast cells use oxygen and food to release energy.

The refrigerator uses 5 kW × 10 h × 30 days = 1,500 kWh, and at ₹ 4 per kWh that costs ₹ 6,000.

. When quicklime reacts with water a large amount of heat is released, so the reaction is exothermic.