CDS GK Questions 2026

Blood pressure is written as two numbers, and normal adult blood pressure is about 120/80 mm of mercury.

UN peacekeeping missions are set up by resolutions of the Security Council, the organ that the UN Charter makes primarily responsible for international peace and security, so the power does not rest exclusively with the General Assembly and statement 1 is wrong.

Anthropology, from the Greek 'anthropos' (human) and 'logos' (study), is the science of human beings: how societies and cultures began, how they changed and how people live today.

The Soo Locks, or Sault Ste. Marie canals, carry ships around the rapids of the St. Marys River, which drains Lake Superior into Lake Huron.

Jahandar Shah won the throne in 1712 with the help of Zulfiqar Khan, and the Sayyid brothers, Abdullah Khan and Husain Ali Khan, helped his nephew Farrukhsiyar defeat and kill him in 1713.

Mangaluru lies on the Karnataka coast, on the western, windward side of the Western Ghats. The south-west monsoon winds coming off the Arabian Sea strike the Ghats there, rise and shed heavy rain, so the coastal belt gets well over 3,000 mm a year.

The Alvars were twelve Tamil poet-saints, active roughly between the 6th and 9th centuries, whose name means 'those who are immersed' in devotion to Vishnu.

Naropa is a Buddhist festival held at Hemis Monastery in Ladakh in honour of Naropa, the 11th-century Indian scholar-yogi of Nalanda and Vikramashila whose teachings shaped the Drukpa Kagyu order that runs Hemis.

This is part of the very definition of a parliamentary committee: it is appointed or elected by the House or nominated by the presiding officer, works under the presiding officer's direction, reports to the House, and has a secretariat provided by the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha secretariat.

A blizzard is a severe snowstorm with strong winds, blowing snow and very low visibility, so it occurs only where there is heavy snowfall in winter.

The Voice of India was an English journal started in Bombay in 1883 by Dadabhai Naoroji, who later merged it with the Indian Spectator; Gokhale was not its editor.

Charvaka, also called Lokayata, is the materialist school of Indian philosophy linked with the sage Brihaspati. It accepts perception as the only valid source of knowledge, denies the soul, rebirth and the authority of the Vedas, and holds that the body is made of four elements.

The phrase 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam', meaning 'the whole world is one family', comes from a verse of the Maha Upanishad (chapter 6, verse 72).

The Gwalior Prashasti is a Sanskrit eulogy of the Gurjara-Pratihara king Mihira Bhoja (Bhoja I, about 836–885 CE), and its composer was the poet Baladitya.

Adding hydrogen across the double or triple bond of an alkene or alkyne turns it into a saturated alkane; this reaction is called hydrogenation and it needs a catalyst.

Thyroxine is an animal hormone, made by the thyroid gland in the neck, and it controls the rate of metabolism in the human body.

SAGY is run by the Ministry of Rural Development, not the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, so statement 1 is wrong.

In the Brønsted–Lowry theory an acid is any substance that gives away a proton, that is a hydrogen ion (H⁺), to another substance.

Of the total Acceptances of Necessity accorded in this meeting, roughly 82 per cent of the procurement is to be made from Indian industry, which places the clearance squarely within the drive for self-reliance in defence production.

In this round of clearances the Navy was approved to procure the Active Offboard Decoy System, which raises the credibility of anti-missile defence, especially against the modern anti-ship missiles that an adversary may use, and along with it other major naval platforms designed and constructed in India.