CDS GK Questions 2026

The rebels wanted Hindus and Muslims to stand together against British rule. Proclamations issued in the name of Bahadur Shah Zafar called on everyone to join the fight, recalling the Mughal past when different communities had lived together.

Smallpox was caused by the variola virus, a large DNA virus of the pox family that spread from person to person through the air.

Wang Xuance, a Tang envoy who came to India several times in the seventh century, wrote an account called Records of the Travels to Middle India, of which only fragments survive.

After fertilisation the ovary of the flower grows into the fruit, and each ovule inside it develops into a seed.

Sylhet, then a Muslim-majority district of Assam, held a referendum in July 1947, and its people voted to join East Bengal, which became part of Pakistan.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 are true, but carbon never forms a quadruple, or tetra, bond between two carbon atoms.

Sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid react to form new substances, sodium chloride and water, so this is a chemical change.

In the DNA double helix, adenine on one strand always pairs with thymine on the other, and guanine always pairs with cytosine.

P waves are the fastest earthquake waves and reach a seismograph first, and they are longitudinal, while S waves are transverse.

The patches of evergreen temperate forest in the high valleys of the Nilgiri, Anaimalai and Palani hills of the Western Ghats are called sholas.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012–17) aimed at 4 per cent growth in agriculture, not 5 per cent. The Twelfth Plan, titled Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, was the last five-year plan; after it the Planning Commission was replaced by NITI Aayog in 2015.

An alloy of sodium and potassium, called NaK, stays liquid at room temperature and carries heat away from the core of some nuclear reactors.

Among the gases listed, carbon dioxide is present in by far the largest amount, about 0.04 per cent of the air, which is roughly two hundred times the amount of methane.

Most places have two high tides a day, and because the moon rises about 52 minutes later each day, each high tide comes about 12 hours 26 minutes after the last.

In Köppen's code, C means a warm temperate climate, f means rain in all seasons with no dry season, and a means a hot summer.

The mistral is a cold, dry northerly wind that blows from the Alps down the Rhone valley of France to the Mediterranean coast.

Ziyarat means a visit to a sacred place, and in India it came to mean the pilgrimage to the dargah of a sufi saint to seek blessings.

An allele is one of the alternative forms of the same gene, found at the same place on a pair of matching chromosomes.

It was set up in 1992 under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990, so it is a statutory body, not a constitutional one.

Lysosomes are small sacs bound by a membrane that are filled with digestive enzymes able to break down almost any material in the cell.