CDS Previous Year GK Questions

The Vijaynagar Advanced Landing Ground is in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, in a remote valley close to the Myanmar border in the far east of the state.

Analogous structures do the same job but evolved separately, and the wings of birds and bats are a standard example.

Planaria is a free-living flatworm, while the other three are parasites that live inside a host. Planaria belongs to the phylum Platyhelminthes and lives in freshwater ponds and streams, gliding under stones and feeding on small animals.

Bagram Air Base lies in Parwan province of Afghanistan, about 60 km north of the capital Kabul.

When Harshavardhana died around 647 CE without an heir, his minister Arunashva, also called Arjuna, seized the throne of Kanyakubja (Kannauj).

This statement is not correct, because at the equilibrium of a competitive firm marginal cost must be rising. A firm in perfect competition is a price taker, so the price it gets equals its marginal revenue.

The statement is not correct, because an adjournment motion can be moved only on a matter that primarily concerns the Union Government, not one within a State Government's jurisdiction.

Linear momentum stays constant only when no net external force acts. Linear momentum is the product of mass and velocity, p = mv.

This statement is not correct, because conjunction happens at every new moon, about once a month, and has nothing to do with the Earth's closest point to the Sun.

This statement is not correct, because the peninsular sugar mills are concentrated mainly in Maharashtra and Karnataka, in the west and the interior of the plateau.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz, three British-born physicists working in the United States.

Amphibians and most reptiles have a heart with three chambers: two atria and one ventricle. In frogs and toads, oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and oxygen-poor blood from the body both reach the single ventricle, so some mixing takes place.

Centrifugation separates very fine insoluble particles that are too small to settle on their own. The mixture is spun at high speed in a centrifuge.

The hilsa, called ilish in Bengali, is the national fish of Bangladesh. It is a fish of the herring family that lives in the sea and swims up rivers to breed, a habit called anadromous migration.

Pearls are harvested from pearl oysters, which are bivalve molluscs. When a foreign particle, such as a grain of sand or a parasite, gets inside the shell, the oyster's mantle covers it layer after layer with nacre, the shiny material also called mother of pearl.

Faraday's law is a law of magnitude, not a direction rule. It states that the emf induced in a circuit is proportional to the rate at which the magnetic flux through it changes.

Avani Lekhara is a para shooter from Jaipur, Rajasthan, who competes in the SH1 rifle class.

NASA's Lucy mission, launched in October 2021, is the solar-powered spacecraft that travels farthest from the Sun to study the Trojan asteroids.

Both statements describe the two ports correctly. Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is India's deepest land-locked and protected port on the east coast.

Statements 1 and 2 describe the Lok Sabha's privilege procedure correctly, while statement 3 overstates the freedom from arrest. Under the Rules of Procedure of the Lok Sabha, the Speaker may refer any question of privilege to the Committee of Privileges on his own, without a motion from a member.