CDS Previous Year GK Questions

The Second Plan put heavy and basic industries in the public sector, and its planners found it hard to balance industry with agriculture; but it was drafted under P. C. Mahalanobis, not K. N. Raj.

Strontium-90, iodine-131 and caesium-137 are all fission products that settle on soil, water and plants and reach people through food.

Antrix is the commercial arm of ISRO, and ISRO works under the Department of Space. Antrix Corporation Limited was set up in Bengaluru in September 1992 as a government company wholly owned by the Government of India.

All three statements are correct: the Objectives Resolution guided every later stage of constitution-making and set out the philosophy the Constitution rests on.

Proteins are made on ribosomes, and the smooth endoplasmic reticulum has no ribosomes on its surface. The endoplasmic reticulum is a network of membrane tubes and sacs in the cytoplasm.

The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea, not the Black Sea. The Volga, about 3,530 km long, is the longest river in Europe.

An angle of incidence of 0° means the ray falls along the normal, and a ray along the normal passes into the next medium without bending.

On 3 March 2021 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, proposed by India, declaring 2023 the International Year of Millets.

The Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov won the International Booker Prize 2023 for Time Shelter, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel.

Four Stars of Destiny is the autobiography of General M. M. Naravane, who served as India's Chief of the Army Staff.

A Trojan is a program that looks useful or harmless but secretly carries harmful code, so it is a piece of malicious software, or malware.

On the pH scale every value below 7 means the solution has more hydrogen ions than hydroxide ions, which is what makes it acidic.

Mitosis keeps the chromosome number unchanged, so it never makes cells haploid; that is the work of meiosis. In mitosis one parent cell divides once and gives two daughter cells that are genetically identical to it.

Movement of ions through protein channels is facilitated diffusion, a passive process that needs no energy from ATP. Active transport moves substances against their concentration gradient, from low to high concentration, using carrier proteins and energy, usually from ATP.

These four are the classical Lokapalas, each guarding one of the four main directions of the world. In Hindu tradition, as described in texts such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and in later iconography, Indra guards the east, Yama the south, Varuna the west and Kubera the north.

The Bill proposed only a limited criminal jurisdiction for Indian officials over Europeans, and it met fierce European opposition that forced a diluted version.

An emulsion is a colloid in which tiny droplets of one liquid are spread through another liquid with which it does not mix.

Under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968, a party recognised as a state party in four or more states qualifies as a national party.

Both particles gain the same kinetic energy, but the electron is far lighter, so it ends up much faster. When a charge q is accelerated through a potential difference V, it gains kinetic energy equal to qV.

The Eleventh Schedule lists 29 subjects on which the state legislature may give powers and responsibilities to the Panchayats. The Eleventh Schedule was added by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992, along with Part IX on Panchayats.