CDS GK Questions 2026

Restructuring military commands for the best use of resources, including joint and theatre commands, is a task of the Department of Military Affairs, not of the Department of Defence.

Kodumanal is an excavated Sangam-age settlement in Erode district, on the northern bank of the Noyyal river, a tributary of the Kaveri.

These four dynasties ruled the Vijayanagara empire one after another. Harihara I and Bukka I of the Sangama dynasty founded Vijayanagara in 1336 on the banks of the Tungabhadra.

A Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force holds the same rank as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and a Commander in the Navy.

A crater is the bowl-shaped depression at the top of a volcano, around the opening through which lava, gas and ash come out.

A drumlin is a smooth, oval hill shaped by a moving glacier out of glacial till, so it is a landform of glacial deposition.

Uranus cannot normally be picked out by the naked eye and was discovered only in 1781, so ancient Indian astronomers never wrote about it.

The 1835 resolution did the opposite: it stopped fresh stipends to students of Oriental institutions and stopped spending on printing Oriental texts.

Electromagnetic waves are transverse, not longitudinal, so this statement is false. In an electromagnetic wave the electric field and the magnetic field oscillate at right angles to each other and both at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels.

Operation Sadbhavna is the Indian Army's goodwill and civic action programme for people in remote and disturbed areas. The Army began it in the late 1990s in Jammu and Kashmir and later took it to Ladakh and parts of the North-East.

A pull factor is something attractive at the destination that draws people towards it, and better pay is the classic example.

Tropical rainforests hold more plant and animal species than any other land ecosystem. These forests cover only about six to seven per cent of the Earth's land, yet they are thought to hold more than half of all known land species.

Podsolization is the soil process of cool, moist climates under coniferous forest, which lie in the high middle latitudes. In the cold, wet taiga belt, needle litter from pines and firs decays slowly and forms acidic humus.

All three statements are correct: the WTO replaced GATT, the IAEA inspects nuclear sites worldwide, and Amnesty International is a non-governmental organisation.

While describing how the institutes have grown into engines of innovation and enterprise, the Defence Minister said the IIT ecosystem has supported over 6,000 start-ups, produced 56 unicorns and generated nearly 5,000 patents.

The Defence Minister said the proposal to set up a National Military Drone Technology Hub at IIT Kanpur, in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence, has made significant progress and that its approval process is nearing completion.

The campaign was launched by the Defence Minister in New Delhi and is the largest fundraising effort ever undertaken by any Indian Institute of Technology.

The normal human ear hears sound from about 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz, the audible range. Frequency, measured in hertz, is the number of vibrations per second, and it decides the pitch of a sound: the higher the frequency, the shriller the note.

Ultrasound is sound with a frequency above 20,000 Hz, the upper limit of human hearing. Humans hear sound between about 20 Hz and 20 kHz.

Propane is a light gaseous hydrocarbon that burns completely with a blue flame, leaving no smoke, soot or ash. A clean fuel burns completely, gives high heat and releases few pollutants.