CDS GK Questions 2026

Going south from the Nepal border, the order is Dudhwa, Panna, Pench and then Indravati.

The balanced equation is Fe2O3 + 3CO → 2Fe + 3CO2, which has equal numbers of every atom on both sides.

Damin-i-koh was the tract in the Rajmahal hills that the British marked out in 1832 for settling the Santals. The Santals had moved into the Rajmahal hills area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, clearing forests and taking up settled farming.

PFMS is run by the office of the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.

The lower the pH, the stronger the acid, and pH 0 lies at the most acidic end of the common scale.

Collateral is an asset that the borrower pledges to the lender as security until the loan is repaid. When a bank lends money it wants protection against default.

In household wiring the wire with green insulation is the earth wire, not the live wire, so this statement is not correct.

In an isotonic solution the concentration outside the cell equals that inside, so there is no net movement of water.

All three symbols come from the Latin names of these metals: aurum, stannum and plumbum. Many metals known since ancient times take their symbols from Latin rather than English.

The movement was a non-violent withdrawal of cooperation, not an attempt to seize the government's machinery. The Non-Cooperation Movement was approved at the Calcutta special session in September 1920 and confirmed at the Nagpur session in December 1920.

Xerophytes live where water is scarce, so they have few stomata to cut down water loss. Xerophytes are plants of deserts and dry habitats, such as cacti, Opuntia, Calotropis and Acacia.

Gondi, spoken by the Gond tribal community of central India, has not been included in the Eighth Schedule. The Eighth Schedule lists the languages recognised by the Constitution, and Articles 344 and 351 link it to the development of Hindi.

Many white blood cells destroy germs by swallowing them, and that digestion needs a large number of lysosomes. Lysosomes are small membrane-bound sacs packed with hydrolytic enzymes that break down proteins, fats, carbohydrates and nucleic acids.

The Latin phrase habeas corpus literally means 'you may have the body', and the writ protects personal liberty. Under Article 32 the Supreme Court, and under Article 226 the High Courts, can issue five writs.

Rows 3 and 4 are correct; rows 1 and 2 have the wrong region or type. Fold mountains form when plates converge and layers of rock crumple.

Items I, II and IV were part of the Non-Cooperation programme, but item III was not: Indians were asked to give up their titles, not keep them quietly.

This play by Kalidasa tells the love story of Agnimitra, son of Pushyamitra Sunga, and Malavika, a maid in the queen's household.

The Global Gender Gap Index is published every year by the World Economic Forum in its Global Gender Gap Report.

Membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) eases access to advanced nuclear technology and trade, but it does not make a country a party to the NPT.

Sohgaura, in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, is known for a Mauryan-period copper plate inscription, not for Harappan remains. The Sohgaura copper plate, written in Prakrit in the Brahmi script, is one of the earliest copper plate records of India and is usually dated to the Mauryan age.