CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Assembly language replaces the binary machine codes of a processor with short symbols called mnemonics, such as MOV, ADD and JMP.

Sorting wastes into categories and disposing of each in the proper way reduces pollution, so it helps solve environmental problems rather than cause them.

The Sukhoi-30 MKI is not made by DRDO; it was designed by Russia's Sukhoi bureau and is built in India under licence by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Nashik.

The order of setting up is Sarkaria Commission (1983), Eleventh Finance Commission (1998), Second Administrative Reforms Commission (2005) and Punchhi Commission (2007).

The peacock is a bird and the camel is a mammal, and these are the only two groups of animals that are warm-blooded.

Penicillin stops bacteria from building their peptidoglycan cell wall, so the weakened cells burst and die. Penicillin binds to and blocks the transpeptidase enzymes, also called penicillin-binding proteins, that cross-link the peptidoglycan chains of the wall.

Russian athletes competed at the Tokyo 2020 Games, held in 2021, under the name ROC because Russia was barred from competing under its own name and flag.

Ghepang Ghat (Ghepan Gath) is a glacial lake in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, high in the Chandra river basin.

The Union Government created a separate Ministry of Cooperation on 6 July 2021 to strengthen the cooperative movement under the vision "Sahkar Se Samriddhi" (prosperity through cooperation).

The Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship in Guwahati was set up in 1993, not 1999, while its stated aim is indeed training, research and consultancy for small and micro enterprises.

The Hardy-Weinberg principle states the opposite: allele frequencies in a population stay stable, that is constant, from generation to generation.

The 2015 amendment required a working toilet at home, no pending electricity bills and no default on cooperative loans, but its education rule was not the same for every category.

With no net force acting on it, the object keeps moving at the same speed in the same straight line.

Nereis, the clamworm, is an annelid, and annelids are bilaterally symmetrical: only one plane divides the body into identical left and right halves.

This ministry plans, promotes and coordinates India's environmental policy, so it deals with UNEP on India's behalf. UNEP was set up in 1972 after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sclerenchyma cells lay down thick walls hardened with lignin, and once the wall is complete the protoplasm dies. Sclerenchyma is the plant tissue that gives strength and rigidity.

She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first Olympic medal by an Indian woman.

General K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army on 15 January 1949. He succeeded General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British chief, and the day he took charge is celebrated every year as Army Day on 15 January.

PKVY was started to help farmers shift to chemical-free, organic cultivation. Paramparagat means traditional, and the scheme revives traditional, low-input farming.

A prokaryotic cell has no true nucleus, so its genetic material is not wrapped in a nuclear membrane. Bacteria and cyanobacteria are prokaryotes.