CDS GK Questions 2026

Pair 1 is right: the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, set up in 1965, works from the Rashtrapati Niwas in Shimla, the building that was once the Viceregal Lodge, where the Simla Conference of 1945 was held.

Madhyamika is the ancient town now called Nagari, about 13 km north of Chittorgarh in Rajasthan. The grammarian Patanjali, who lived in the time of Pushyamitra Shunga in the second century BCE, wrote in his Mahabhashya the examples "the Yavana besieged Saketa" and "the Yavana besieged Madhyamika".

Statement 1 is wrong: alluvial soils, the most widespread soils of India, are generally rich in potash and lime but poor in nitrogen and phosphorus, which is why farmers on the northern plains add nitrogen fertiliser.

The Gulf Stream is a warm current of the North Atlantic. It starts in the Gulf of Mexico, passes through the Florida Strait, flows north along the east coast of the USA and then turns north-east across the Atlantic as the North Atlantic Drift, keeping the ports of north-western Europe…

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2016 went to the Telugu film-maker Kasinadhuni Viswanath, and it was presented to him in 2017.

As blood flows through the thin-walled capillaries, part of its plasma, with small proteins and some white blood cells, leaks out into the spaces between cells.

Lanak La is a high pass in the Aksai Chin area of eastern Ladakh, on the line between territory held by India and by China.

The Gujral Doctrine is a set of principles for India's relations with its immediate neighbours, put forward by I.K. Gujral in 1996 as External Affairs Minister and followed by him as Prime Minister in 1997-98.

Under Article 131 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court alone can hear disputes between the Government of India and one or more States, or between two or more States, and such a case starts directly in the Supreme Court.

Algae are the predominantly aquatic members of the Kingdom Plantae. They are simple, chlorophyll-bearing organisms with a thallus body that is not divided into true roots, stems and leaves.

The focus of an earthquake is also called the hypocentre. It is the point inside the Earth where the rocks first break or slip and the energy of the earthquake is released.

A scatter graph is the right diagram when the aim is to show how two sets of data are related to each other.

IBSAMAR is the joint maritime exercise of the navies of the three IBSA countries. The name itself gives the answer: IBSA stands for India, Brazil and South Africa, and MAR comes from "maritime".

Siddheshvara was not one of the poets at the court of Krishnadevaraya. Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509-1529), the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara, was himself a scholar who wrote the Telugu poem Amuktamalyada.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-17) had the theme "Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth". It continued the inclusive-growth idea of the Eleventh Plan (2007-12), whose theme was "Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth", and added sustainability as a stated goal.

Both statements misread what the 86th Amendment of 2002 did. Education was already a Directive Principle from 1950: the original Article 45 asked the State to provide free and compulsory education to all children up to fourteen years.

The Puranas, the Ramayana and the Kalpa-Sutra are Smriti texts, while the Vedas are Shruti. Ancient Indian literature is divided into two classes.

The Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam was founded in Kerala in 1903 to carry forward the reform ideas of Sri Narayana Guru.

Both were officials, not elected members: Rau was the Constitutional Adviser and Mukherjee the Chief Draftsman of the Constituent Assembly.

No Directive Principle asks the State to protect personal laws; on the contrary, Article 44 asks it to secure a Uniform Civil Code for all citizens.