CDS GK Questions 2026

The Legion of Merit is a US military decoration, not the country's highest civilian award. The Legion of Merit was created in 1942 and is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in outstanding service.

Work is negative when the force acts opposite to the displacement, because the angle between them is then 180°. Work done is W = F S cos θ, where θ is the angle between the force and the displacement.

Ethereum, Tether, Solana and Cardano are all cryptocurrencies, digital assets recorded on blockchains rather than issued by a central bank.

Once a satellite is placed in orbit with the right speed, the Earth's gravity keeps it going round without any engine.

Bipin Chandra Pal was one of the leading Extremists, the "Pal" of the famous trio Lal-Bal-Pal. The trio were Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab, Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Maharashtra and Bipin Chandra Pal of Bengal.

Havelock Island was renamed Swaraj Dweep, but the names given for Ross Island and Neil Island have been swapped. On 30 December 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced new names for three islands of the Andaman and Nicobar group at Port Blair.

Friction is a non-conservative force because the work it does depends on the path taken and the energy it removes is lost as heat.

Under Article 279A of the Constitution, the Union Finance Minister is the Chairperson of the GST Council. Article 279A was added by the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016, which brought in the Goods and Services Tax.

A microphone is a transducer that changes the pressure variations of sound into a matching electrical signal. In a common dynamic microphone, sound waves make a thin diaphragm vibrate.

Light slows down when it enters water from air, so a ray that strikes the surface at an angle bends towards the normal.

Vidarbha won the 2024-25 Ranji Trophy, beating Kerala in the final at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur. The final in March 2025 ended in a draw, and Vidarbha took the title on their first-innings lead.

In 2015-16 China was India's largest trading partner by total trade, that is exports plus imports. India's trade with China that year was about US$ 70 billion, but most of it was imports of electronics, machinery and chemicals, so India ran its largest bilateral trade deficit with China.

A light year is the distance that light travels in empty space in one year, so despite the word "year" it measures length, not time.

The provisions on citizenship and elections came into force on 26 November 1949, the day the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution.

Annie Besant became the international president of the Theosophical Society in 1907 and led it until her death in 1933.

Larsen & Toubro's Armoured Systems Complex at Hazira, near Surat in Gujarat, is India's first private sector unit for making howitzers.

The Gujarati film Hellaro, directed by Abhishek Shah, won the Golden Lotus for Best Feature Film at the 66th National Film Awards for films of 2018.

A desiccant is a substance that absorbs moisture from its surroundings and keeps things dry, and silica gel is the most widely used one.

A plane mirror always forms an upright image of the same size as the object, and the image cannot be caught on a screen.

The India State of Forest Report 2021 placed Madhya Pradesh first in India by total forest cover in area. The report is prepared every two years by the Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, using satellite data.