CDS GK Questions 2026

Chile beat Argentina in the final of the 2016 Copa América Centenario to win the title. The 2016 tournament marked 100 years of the Copa América and was held in the United States, the first time it was played outside South America.

A survey of 1842 found that the average life span of workers in Manchester was only 17 years, far lower than that of any other social group.

It protects civil servants of the Union and the States against arbitrary dismissal, removal or reduction in rank. Article 311 lays down two safeguards.

Subhas Chandra Bose started Azad Hind Radio in Germany in 1942, broadcasting to India from Berlin. Bose escaped from house arrest in Calcutta in January 1941 and reached Berlin by way of Kabul and Moscow.

The Shompen are a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group who live in the forests of Great Nicobar Island. The Shompen are a semi-nomadic people who hunt, gather and grow a little food along the rivers of Great Nicobar's forested interior, and they have very little contact with outsiders.

The Rakshasa form, one of the eight forms of marriage described in the Dharmashastras, meant taking a bride away by force, often after defeating her relatives.

In 1609 Kepler showed that the planets move around the Sun in elliptical orbits, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.

Under Article 109, the Rajya Sabha must return a Money Bill within 14 days, so it can hold the bill up for only about two weeks.

The plan for 2017-2031 is India's third National Wildlife Action Plan and the first to deal with the impact of climate change on wildlife, but it has five components, not ten.

The Scottish botanist secretly took tea plants, seeds and skilled tea workers out of China for the East India Company, which made large-scale tea growing in India possible.

Humidity is the amount of water vapour present in the air. Air holds water as invisible vapour, and the amount it can hold rises with temperature.

Silappadikaram was written by Ilango Adigal, a prince who became a Jaina monk, and Jaina ideas run through its story.

She wrote Stri Purush Tulana, A Comparison between Women and Men, in Marathi in 1882. Tarabai Shinde was born in Buldhana in Berar and was associated with Jyotirao Phule's Satyashodhak Samaj.

In the 14th Finance Commission's formula for sharing central taxes among the States, income distance carried a weight of 50 percent, the highest of all the criteria.

Bagchi used Francis Buchanan-Hamilton's survey figures for Gangetic Bihar to argue that India went through deindustrialization in the 19th century.

The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) has its headquarters at Yokohama in Japan. ITTO is an intergovernmental body set up under the International Tropical Timber Agreement of 1983 and working since 1986.

Tokyo was called Edo until 1868, when it was renamed Tokyo, which means eastern capital.

The Arya Samaj drew its strength mainly from Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh and from the trading castes, and its social base was wider, not narrower, than that of the Brahmo Samaj.

Britain handed Hong Kong back to China on 1 July 1997, and it became a Special Administrative Region under the principle of one country, two systems.

Lord Wellesley founded the College of Fort William at Calcutta in 1800 to train young British civil servants of the East India Company.