CDS GK Questions 2026

When the Salt March began in March 1930, Time magazine mocked Gandhi's thin frame and doubted that the march would reach Dandi; within a week, struck by the crowds and the response, it was hailing him as a saint and a statesman.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the Discourse on Political Economy in 1755, first as the article "Economy" for Diderot's Encyclopédie.

Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution in the Constituent Assembly on 13 December 1946, and the Assembly adopted it on 22 January 1947.

Sandhyakara Nandi wrote the Sanskrit poem Ramacharita in Bengal in the 12th century, under the Pala kings.

When natural gas or heavy oil burns with too little air, the carbon cannot all turn into carbon dioxide and separates as a very fine black soot, which is collected as carbon black.

Hydrated oxalic acid has a molar mass of 126 and is a dibasic acid, so its equivalent weight is 126 ÷ 2 = 63.

Iodine exists as diatomic molecules, I₂, in which two iodine atoms share a pair of electrons; so its atomicity is two, not one.

Here water only combines with calcium sulphate hemihydrate to form gypsum; no gas is given off and the paste simply sets hard.

Most carbon compounds are poor conductors of electricity, because their atoms are joined by covalent bonds and they do not form ions or free electrons that could carry a current.

Goldsmiths dip gold and silver ornaments in dilute nitric acid to dissolve the dirt, oxide layers and traces of base metals stuck to them, which brings back their shine.

Both statements are true, and the second explains the first: infrared waves are called heat waves because water molecules, present in most materials, absorb them readily and heat up.

Heat is energy in transit: it flows from a hotter body to a colder one only because their temperatures differ, and stops when they reach the same temperature.

The SI unit of inductance is the henry, symbol H, named after the American scientist Joseph Henry. Inductance measures how strongly a coil opposes a change in the current through it by producing an induced emf.

Plaster of Paris is calcium sulphate hemihydrate, CaSO₄·½H₂O, so one molecule of water is shared by two formula units of calcium sulphate, written (CaSO₄)₂·H₂O. It is made by heating gypsum, CaSO₄·2H₂O, to about 373 K (100 °C), when gypsum loses one and a half molecules of water per formula unit.

In the order visible light → ultraviolet → X-rays, the wavelength falls and the photon energy rises, so statements 1 and 2 are true and 3 is false.

In 1905 Einstein explained the photoelectric effect by treating light as made of packets of energy, later called photons, and he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.

Light inside an optical fibre strikes the wall at more than the critical angle, is totally reflected back inside, and repeats this again and again along the fibre.

Fly ash is the fine powdery residue left after coal is burnt in thermal power stations; it is a mixture of oxides, not a pure form of carbon.

Urea, CO(NH₂)₂, contains carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen; it has no phosphorus at all and is a nitrogenous fertilizer. Urea carries about 46% nitrogen, the highest of the common solid fertilizers, which is why it is the most widely used fertilizer in India.

X-rays are not used in radar; radar works with microwaves, which have wavelengths of a few centimetres. X-rays lie between ultraviolet rays and gamma rays in the electromagnetic spectrum, with wavelengths from about 10 nm down to 0.01 nm, so about 1 Å (0.1 nm) is typical.