CDS GK Questions 2026

The amara-nayakas were military commanders to whom the Vijayanagara rulers gave territories to govern. Under the amara-nayaka system, a key political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, the king granted a commander an area of land called amaram.

Articles 15, 16 and 19 are available only to citizens of India, while Article 21 protects every person, including foreigners.

TRIPS stands for the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. TRIPS was negotiated in the Uruguay Round and came into force with the World Trade Organization on 1 January 1995, binding every WTO member.

Only during a National Emergency under Article 352 can the enforcement of Fundamental Rights be suspended. When a National Emergency is proclaimed, Article 358 automatically suspends the freedoms of Article 19, but only when the emergency is declared on the ground of war or external aggression, not armed rebellion.

The Venetian Niccolao Manucci came to India as a boy, spent the rest of his life here, and died in India in the early eighteenth century.

Halep of Romania won the 2019 Wimbledon women's singles title by beating Serena Williams in the final. Halep won the final 6-2, 6-2 in just 56 minutes, one of the most one-sided Wimbledon finals of recent times.

Surya Kiran is the annual joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Nepali Army. The exercise began in 2011 and is held every year, alternately in India and Nepal.

The basic structure doctrine was laid down in Kesavananda Bharati, limits Parliament's power under Article 368, and works through judicial review; Golaknath was a different, earlier ruling.

Money from selling the government's stake in public sector enterprises reduces its assets, so it is a capital receipt, not a revenue receipt.

Tincture of iodine is made from iodine, potassium iodide, alcohol and water; acetone is not one of its ingredients. A tincture is a solution in alcohol.

The CHOGM in Malta was held in November 2015, not 2016, and no CHOGM took place in 2016. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is normally held every two years.

The location is reversed: the Sargasso Sea lies east of the Gulf Stream and west of the Canary Current, not the other way round.

INS Viraat was an aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy and was decommissioned in March 2017. Viraat began life as the British carrier HMS Hermes, which served in the Falklands War.

Each of the four is a power the Constitution gives the Supreme Court. Article 131 gives the Supreme Court original and exclusive jurisdiction in disputes between the Government of India and one or more States, or between States.

Natural rubber is a polymer of isoprene, a hydrocarbon, and contains no sugar units at all. Natural rubber is cis-1,4-polyisoprene, obtained from the latex of the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis; its monomer isoprene (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene) has the formula C5H8.

The Tropic of Capricorn, at about 23.4° South, runs just south of Bolivia's southern border and does not enter the country.

Lead nitrate decomposes on heating into lead(II) oxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxygen. The balanced equation is 2Pb(NO3)2 → 2PbO + 4NO2 + O2.

The Bharat Ratna was instituted in 1954, not 1972, and it carries no cash award. The Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian honour.

Both statements describe how cancer starts and how it spreads, and both are correct. Cancer is uncontrolled division of cells.

India beat China 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw in the final at Kakamigahara, Japan, in November 2017.