CDS GK Questions 2026

Statement 1 is false because landslides happen mostly on steep slopes, and not only during rain. A landslide is the rapid downslope movement of rock, soil and debris under gravity.

Kalila wa Dimna is the Arabic version of the Panchatantra, named after two jackals, Karataka and Damanaka, who appear in its first book.

Power is the work done divided by the time taken, and here the work is the potential energy gained by the mass.

Histosols are the soil order made mostly of organic matter, such as peat and muck, rather than of mineral particles.

The Portuguese traveller Domingo Paes visited Vijayanagara during Krishnadeva Raya's reign and left this well-known description of him. Paes came to the city around 1520 and wrote a detailed account of its markets, palaces, festivals and army.

Garba of Gujarat was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2023. Garba is a devotional circle dance performed around a lamp or an image of the goddess, mainly during the nine nights of Navratri.

The rotation of the Earth and the length of the day change how much sunlight a place receives, while the spread of land and water changes only how that energy heats the surface.

Each characteristic in the list belongs to a different layer from the one it is paired with. Ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by the ozone layer, which lies in the stratosphere, roughly 15 to 35 km above the Earth.

All four are recognised processes by which a river wears away its bed and banks. Hydraulic action is the sheer force of moving water that loosens rock and forces air into cracks.

Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveller from Tangier, reached India in 1333. Muhammad bin Tughluq, impressed by his learning, made him the qazi (judge) of Delhi, a post he held for several years.

After years of travel, Guru Nanak (1469-1539) settled at Kartarpur on the banks of the Ravi and set up a centre there.

Buddhist texts such as the Anguttara Nikaya list sixteen mahajanapadas in the sixth century BC. Most were monarchies, but a few were ganas or sanghas, states ruled by an assembly of clan chiefs rather than a single king.

Sholas are patches of stunted, evergreen montane forest found in the sheltered valleys and folds of the high hills of the southern Western Ghats, above about 1,500 metres.

M1, called narrow money, is the most liquid measure of money supply in India. It is made up of currency with the public, demand deposits with banks, and other deposits with the Reserve Bank of India.

Mass wasting, or mass movement, is the downslope movement of rock and soil under the direct pull of gravity, without a carrying agent such as running water or wind.

A sphygmomanometer has an inflatable cuff wrapped around the upper arm, a rubber bulb to pump air into it, and a gauge, traditionally a column of mercury.

The Sargasso Sea lies in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Bermuda, and it is the only sea in the world with no land coast.

When an electric current is passed through brine, a concentrated aqueous solution of sodium chloride, the salt decomposes. Chlorine gas is given off at the anode and hydrogen gas at the cathode, while sodium hydroxide is left in the solution near the cathode.

Those areas have a Mediterranean climate with dry summers and winter rain, and their vegetation is evergreen scrub such as chaparral and maquis, not rain forest.

The National Water Academy is the training wing of the Central Water Commission, which works under the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti.