CDS GK Questions 2026

The four Agnikula clans are the Pratiharas, the Chaulukyas (Solankis), the Paramaras and the Chahamanas (Chauhans). According to the Agnikula legend, told in Chand Bardai's Prithviraj Raso, the sage Vashishtha performed a great fire sacrifice on Mount Abu, and four warrior clans sprang from the fire to protect the land.

Since 2018 the Union Home Minister has been the ex officio Chairman of the North Eastern Council (NEC). The NEC was set up under the North Eastern Council Act, 1971 and began work in 1972 at Shillong as an advisory body for the balanced development of the region.

She won The Hindu Prize 2018 for fiction for her novel "Requiem in Raga Janki".

At sunrise and sunset sunlight passes through a much thicker layer of air, which scatters away most of the blue light and leaves mainly red and orange to reach our eyes.

This statement is not correct: the Preamble is non-justiciable, so its provisions cannot be enforced in a court. The Preamble is an introduction that sets out the source of authority ("We, the people of India"), the nature of the state and the objectives of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

Using v² = u² − 2gh with final velocity zero at the top, u = √(2gh) = √(2 × 10 × 20) = √400 = 20 m/s. A ball thrown straight up slows down under gravity until its velocity becomes zero at the highest point.

Statements 1 and 3 are correct; statement 2 is wrong because the Brahmani is formed by the South Koel and the Sankh, not the Kosi.

The Singpho people of upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh were brewing tea from the wild Assam tea plant long before the British began tea gardens.

By Archimedes' principle, the upward force, called buoyancy or upthrust, equals the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.

The IMD was established on 15 January 1875, so it completed 150 years in 2025. The IMD was set up after a devastating cyclone hit Calcutta in 1864 and famines followed failed monsoons, showing the need for a single national weather service.

Only pair II is correct: the Madras High Court has jurisdiction over Puducherry. Under Article 231, Parliament can set up a common High Court for two or more states and Union Territories.

Both statements are wrong: Gram Sabhas cannot declare Scheduled Areas, and PESA applies to the Fifth Schedule areas rather than leaving them out.

The juice in the stem of sugarcane is rich in sucrose, the ordinary table sugar we get from it. Sucrose is a disaccharide (C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁) made of one glucose and one fructose unit joined together.

Magnetite is the black ore of iron, it is very rich in iron, and it is naturally magnetic. Magnetite is an iron oxide (Fe₃O₄) and the finest iron ore, with an iron content of about 60 to 70 per cent, the highest among the common ores.

All four travellers are matched with their home countries correctly. Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, from what is now Italy, who passed through south India in the late 13th century and described the Pandya kingdom.

IMBEX stands for the India-Myanmar Bilateral Military Exercise, held between the two armies. The exercise began in 2017, and its focus has been training Myanmar army officers for United Nations peacekeeping duties, including drills on handling crowds, protecting civilians and running a peacekeeping camp.

Colin Mackenzie, an engineer and surveyor of the East India Company, brought the ruins at Hampi to light in 1800.

Biogas is mostly methane, usually about 50 to 75 per cent, and methane is the part that burns. Biogas is made when bacteria break down cattle dung, crop waste, kitchen waste or sewage in the absence of oxygen, a process called anaerobic digestion, inside a closed digester.

These monsoon forests are the most widespread natural vegetation in India. Tropical deciduous forests grow where annual rainfall is roughly 70 to 200 cm, which covers much of the peninsula, the Ganga plain margins and the lower Himalayan slopes.

Sound is a mechanical wave, so it needs a medium, and in air its particles vibrate along the direction of travel.