CDS GK Questions 2026

Among the four, Charan Singh held office for the shortest time, about 170 days. He became Prime Minister on 28 July 1979 after the Janata government of Morarji Desai fell, but resigned on 20 August 1979 without ever facing Parliament, when the Congress withdrew its support.

Dryland farming is practised where annual rainfall is below about 75 cm. Indian agriculture is grouped by the source of moisture into irrigated and rainfed farming, and rainfed farming is further divided into dryland and wetland farming.

Relative humidity compares the moisture in the air with what the air could hold, and that capacity rises with temperature.

Thawing is the melting of ice, a physical change that works on rocks only mechanically.

Tuff is the rock formed when volcanic ash settles in layers and hardens.

Temperature inversion needs rapid cooling of the ground, which happens under clear skies, not cloudy ones. Statement I is correct: normally temperature falls with height, but during an inversion a layer of warmer air lies above cooler air near the ground, so the normal lapse rate is reversed.

Both the Steppes and the Pampas are mid-latitude grasslands, so only the first statement is right.

The Big Bang theory is the accepted explanation of how the universe itself began, while the other options try to explain only the solar system.

The land-use classification kept in India's land revenue records divides the reporting area into nine categories.

The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway joining two seas, and it is the busier and more important of the two great canals.

Both statements describe standard facts about how air temperature is measured and how it changes with height.

Lithification is the name for turning loose sediment into solid rock. Fragments produced by weathering and erosion are carried by rivers, wind, glaciers or waves and laid down in layers.

Pressure of water breaks rock mechanically without changing its minerals, so it is a physical process. Weathering is the breaking down of rocks where they lie.

Photosynthetic bacteria have no chloroplasts; their pigments sit on infoldings of the cell membrane that form vesicles or sacs, often called chromatophores.

Venkatachaliah. The National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution was set up by the Union government in February 2000 under Justice M.N.

Adipose tissue is a loose connective tissue whose cells, called adipocytes, are built to store fat. Each cell holds a large droplet of fat that pushes the nucleus and cytoplasm to one side.

'Tomb of Sand' won the International Booker Prize in 2022, and that win was a first on both counts. The novel was written in Hindi by Geetanjali Shree as 'Ret Samadhi' (2018) and translated into English by the American translator Daisy Rockwell, who shared the prize money with her.

Both statements repeat the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The Court, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, sits at the Peace Palace in The Hague and has fifteen judges elected for nine-year terms, with one-third of the seats falling vacant every three years.

The antariya was the lower garment of ancient India, a long piece of cotton or fine fabric wrapped around the hips and legs and tucked in, much like the later dhoti.

Germanium is a metalloid, an element whose properties lie between those of metals and non-metals. It is a hard, shiny, grey-white solid like a metal, yet it is brittle and conducts electricity far less well than a metal, which makes it a semiconductor.