CDS GK Questions 2026

Ferromagnetism needs the atomic magnets of a substance to line up together in fixed regions called domains, and this happens only in the ordered structure of a solid.

Chemical reactions involve only the outer, or valence, electrons, so these decide how an element behaves. Atoms combine by losing, gaining or sharing their valence electrons to reach a stable arrangement, usually eight electrons in the outer shell.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Geneva-born philosopher, published The Social Contract (Du contrat social) in 1762.

The Himalayas were formed by the collision of two continental plates, the Indian and the Eurasian, and such a collision does not produce volcanoes.

Adam Smith laid down four canons of taxation, and fiscal adequacy was not one of them; it was added by later economists.

Animal cells are bounded only by a flexible plasma membrane and have no rigid cell wall outside it. A cell wall is found in plants, where it is made mainly of cellulose, in fungi, where it is made of chitin, and in bacteria, where it is made of peptidoglycan.

Cytokinins are the plant hormones whose main job is to promote cell division, or cytokinesis, which gives them their name.

THAAD, properly the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is a United States system built to shoot down ballistic missiles in the last, or terminal, phase of their flight.

The Indian part of the Indus basin covers all six, along with Chandigarh. The Indus rises near Lake Mansarovar in Tibet and enters India in Ladakh.

This is Article 20, and since the 44th Amendment of 1978 the enforcement of Articles 20 and 21 cannot be suspended even during a National Emergency.

The Kabini rises in the Wayanad district of Kerala and flows into Karnataka, where it joins the Kaveri near Tirumakudalu Narasipura.

The blind spot is the place where the optic nerve leaves the eye, and it has no rods or cones, so light falling there is not seen.

The financial cycle is the rise and fall of credit and asset prices, and the ratio of credit to GDP shows how far borrowing has run ahead of the economy.

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was passed by Parliament in 2006. Popularly called the Forest Rights Act, it recognises the rights of forest-dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers over the land they cultivate and the forest produce they use.

The inscription asks that a member own land and a house, but it sets the age limit at 35 to 70 years, not 30 to 60.

In 1799 the Nawab of Awadh presented an illustrated manuscript of the Badshah Nama to King George III of Britain, and it is now kept in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

The National Sports University is located in Imphal, Manipur, as provided first by the 2018 Ordinance and then by the National Sports University Act, 2018.

The Truman Doctrine pledged American support to countries resisting communist pressure, so as to stop the spread of Soviet influence.

The eye lens focuses light on the retina, the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye, where a real and inverted image is formed.

Article 14 guarantees equality before law to every person, and Article 15 forbids the State to discriminate on grounds of sex, among others.