CDS GK Questions 2026

The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951 inserted the Ninth Schedule along with Article 31B. Courts had begun striking down zamindari abolition and other land reform laws for violating the right to property.

Platelets, or thrombocytes, gather at a cut and start the process that forms a clot and stops bleeding. Platelets are tiny cell fragments without a nucleus, broken off from large cells called megakaryocytes in the bone marrow.

Most Ashokan inscriptions are in Brahmi, and the script already shows regional differences in the shapes of its letters. Ashoka's edicts were written mostly in Prakrit, in the Brahmi script, which James Prinsep deciphered in 1837-38.

Glass is made by melting silica sand with fluxes and stabilisers, and this option lists the standard batch. Silica, from pure sand, forms the glassy network.

The Central Vigilance Commission was created in 1964 by a government resolution, on the advice of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption headed by K. Santhanam.

Scattering acts on incoming short-wave sunlight, while the heat the Earth gives back as long-wave energy reaches the air by conduction, convection and radiation.

A monopoly's marginal revenue curve lies below its average revenue curve, not above it. A monopolist faces the whole market's downward-sloping demand curve, which is its average revenue curve.

Chemical messengers called neurotransmitters are released from the nerve endings, the tips of the axon, into the synapse. A nerve impulse travels from the dendrites through the cell body and along the axon as an electrical signal.

Baking soda, sodium hydrogen carbonate, is a mild base, so a small amount shifts fresh milk, whose pH is about 6.6, slightly above 7.

Ethyne, C2H2, has its two carbon atoms joined by a triple bond, each carbon also holding one hydrogen. Carbon has a valency of four.

The whole point of comparative advantage is that a country gains from trade even when it has no absolute advantage in any good.

The orange economy is another name for the creative economy. The term was popularised by a 2013 Inter-American Development Bank book, and orange was chosen because it is often linked with culture and creativity.

Gersoppa Falls, better known as Jog Falls, is where the Sharavati river plunges down the edge of the Western Ghats in Karnataka.

When one input is kept fixed and another is added again and again, each extra unit eventually adds less to output than the one before.

Adrenaline, released by the adrenal glands into the blood, speeds up the heart beat when the body faces stress or danger.

These are the five great elements, the Pancha Mahabhuta, that Indian philosophy saw as the building blocks of the physical world.

Water molecules are strongly polar, so they can pull apart the positive and negative ions of a salt and surround them.

A firm in perfect competition faces a perfectly elastic demand curve, but a monopolistically competitive firm faces a downward-sloping, fairly elastic one, not a perfectly inelastic one.

Statements 1 and 3 give the standard definitions, but the Worker Population Ratio counts the employed, not the unemployed. In India these measures come from the Periodic Labour Force Survey.

The anther is the top part of the stamen, the male organ of a flower, and pollen grains form inside it.