CDS GK Questions 2026

The balanced equation for the complete combustion of glucose is C6H12O6 plus 6O2 gives 6CO2 plus 6H2O, so one mole of glucose needs six moles of oxygen gas.

Albedo is the share of incoming sunlight a surface reflects back, and fresh snow reflects the most of any natural surface on land.

The Congress met in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the fighting at Lexington and Concord, and in June it appointed George Washington commander-in-chief of the newly created Continental Army.

The conference met in Bombay in 1931 and resolved that the depressed classes must be allowed to elect their own representatives through separate electorates, a demand Dr B. R. Ambedkar carried to the Second Round Table Conference in London the same year.

Setting up an institution in India means putting money into a real asset and running it, which is exactly what Foreign Direct Investment is.

Ultraviolet light is a transverse wave, not a longitudinal one, so this statement is the wrong one. In an electromagnetic wave the electric and magnetic fields vibrate at right angles to each other and to the direction the wave travels, which is the definition of a transverse wave.

An isohaline joins points of equal salinity on a map, and the name comes from the Greek halos, meaning salt.

Economists call something a public good when it has two features: it is non-rival, so one person's use does not reduce what is left for others, and non-excludable, so nobody can be kept out of the benefit.

The Supreme Court issues writs under Article 32, which is itself a fundamental right and can be used only to enforce fundamental rights.

Gandhi's mother Putlibai belonged to the Pranami sect, a Vaishnava tradition that drew on both Hindu and Islamic teaching and held that faiths are one; the household he grew up in therefore treated religious tolerance as ordinary.

The British wanted Russian influence kept out of Kabul, but they did not want a strong Afghan state on the north-west frontier either, because a powerful neighbour would be hard to control.

The Inter-State Council was constituted in 1990 by a presidential order acting on this commission's report on centre-state relations. Article 263 empowers the President to set up such a council to inquire into disputes between states, discuss subjects of common interest and make recommendations.

The polar front jet is strongest in winter, not in summer, so this statement is the incorrect one. A jet stream is a fast, narrow ribbon of westerly wind in the upper troposphere, and its speed depends on the temperature contrast across the front below it.

They are called the suicide bags of the cell because they are packed with digestive enzymes that can break down the cell's own material.

The Kushana gold coins were struck on the same weight standard as the Roman aureus of the time, not on a different one, because the dynasty traded briskly with the Roman world and found it convenient to match that standard.

The Nizam Shahis ruled from Ahmadnagar, founded by Malik Ahmad in 1490, while Bijapur belonged to the Adil Shahis of Yusuf Adil Shah.

The Royal Indian Navy mutiny began on 18 February 1946, when the ratings of HMIS Talwar in Bombay went on a hunger strike against bad food and racial insults.

Chin Qilich Khan, better remembered by his title Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah, was a Mughal noble appointed governor of the Deccan by Muhammad Shah.

Article 371G sits in Part XXI of the Constitution, which holds temporary, transitional and special provisions, and was inserted by the 53rd Amendment Act, 1986, when Mizoram was made a full state.

The Nehru Report of August 1928 was the draft constitution prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference under Motilal Nehru, with Tej Bahadur Sapru, Subhas Chandra Bose and others, as Indians’ answer to Lord Birkenhead’s taunt that they could not agree on a constitution of their own.