CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Teejan Bai of Chhattisgarh is the best-known exponent of Pandavani, a folk ballad form that tells stories from the Mahabharata.

Keoladeo, Sundarbans and Kaziranga national parks are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, while Ranthambore National Park is not one in its own right.

The Banas is not a tributary of the Luni; it flows east and joins the Chambal, which belongs to the Ganga basin.

Ultraviolet light is an electromagnetic wave, and all electromagnetic waves are transverse, not longitudinal. In an electromagnetic wave, the electric and magnetic fields vibrate at right angles to each other and to the direction in which the wave travels, which is the mark of a transverse wave.

The word fission is used in two sciences: in biology for splitting of a single-celled organism, and in physics for splitting of a heavy nucleus.

A disease that stays constantly present at a steady baseline level in a particular area, without being brought in from outside, is called endemic.

Acting as a check on democratic rule, especially when members are nominated or indirectly elected, is a criticism of second chambers, not one of their benefits.

Government spending adds to income more than an equal transfer, and its effect is smaller when money supply is not expanded alongside it.

Among the four states listed, Tamil Nadu has the most seats in the Council of States (Rajya Sabha), with 18.

The Satyashodhak Samaj came first in 1873, the Bardoli Satyagraha followed in 1928 and the Chipko Movement began in 1973.

In the Sangam poems of the early Tamil region, the ploughmen who worked the land were called uzhavar. The Sangam texts describe a rural society with clear groups.

The Kolkata Metro is run by Indian Railways as its own zone, the Metro Railway, with its headquarters in Kolkata.

Multidimensional peacekeeping aims to stabilise a country after conflict and to consolidate the peace, while staying impartial between the parties.

Neutrons sit inside the nucleus with protons; it is the electrons that move around the nucleus. The neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932, and he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1935.

Resistivity is a property of the material and its temperature, not of the wire's shape, so every copper wire has the same resistivity.

An avalanche is a sudden slide of snow, ice and debris down a mountain slope, a movement of material on the land surface, so it is grouped with terrestrial disasters.

Allocation of resources through central planning is the mark of a socialist or command economy, not a capitalist one. In a capitalist economy, the means of production such as land, factories and capital are owned mainly by private individuals and firms.

Under the dadni system, European companies gave cash advances to weavers through middlemen to secure cloth for export. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the English, Dutch and French companies bought huge quantities of cotton and silk cloth in Bengal and other regions.

Every point on the Earth turns through 360 degrees in the same time, but points nearer the equator travel a longer circle and so move faster.

Maithili was added to the Eighth Schedule by the 92nd Amendment Act of 2003, along with Bodo, Dogri and Santali; this was the most recent addition to the list.