CDS Previous Year GK Questions

The Durand Line is the roughly 2,640 km boundary between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was fixed in 1893 by an agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan, to mark the limits of their spheres of influence.

Sir William Jones, a judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, founded the Asiatic Society in January 1784 and served as its first president until his death in 1794.

Sulphuric acid has two replaceable hydrogen atoms, so its equivalent mass is 98 ÷ 2 = 49 g, and 49 g in one litre makes exactly one gram-equivalent per litre.

The SDGs form the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all UN member states in September 2015.

Going from east to west, the order is Kosi, Gandak, Ghaghara and Gomti. All four join the Ganga from the north.

Khasi, spoken mainly in Meghalaya, belongs to the Mon-Khmer group of the Austric (Austro-Asiatic) languages, along with its close relatives Pnar and War.

Defending President's Rule in the Constituent Assembly, Ambedkar said he hoped such Articles would never be called into operation and would remain a 'dead letter', used only as a last resort.

Gravitational force varies inversely with the square of the distance, so doubling the distance cuts the force to one-fourth.

Iodine is a non-metal, yet its solid crystals have a shiny, metallic lustre, which makes it the standard exception taught in school chemistry.

The damage an earthquake does depends on how strongly the ground shakes and on what, and who, stands on it, not on the region's climate.

UN peacekeeping troops wear light blue helmets or berets, which is why they are called the Blue Helmets. Peacekeepers are military, police and civilian personnel sent by member countries to serve in missions authorised by the UN Security Council.

A dastak was a free pass that let the English East India Company move goods without paying internal customs duties.

In India's land-use records, land that can be farmed but has lain uncultivated for over five years is called culturable wasteland.

Antarctica is bigger than Europe and, because of its thick ice sheet, it stands higher on average than any other continent.

The National Commission for Women was created by an Act of Parliament, and that Act gives it both the review and the advisory roles named in the question.

The Preamble reads 'Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic', so 'socialist' comes before 'secular', while the order of ideals is justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

He travelled in the late thirteenth century, decades before the Vijayanagara Empire was founded in 1336, so he could not have described it.

The Narmada flows west through a rift valley and falls into the Arabian Sea. The Narmada rises at Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh and flows west for about 1,300 km between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges, along a rift valley formed by faulting.

. The 123 Agreement finalised in 2007 gave India advance consent to reprocess US-origin spent fuel at a new safeguarded facility.

Most of Central Asia speaks Turkic languages, which are traditionally grouped in the Altaic family. Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Turkmen, the main languages of four of the five Central Asian republics, are Turkic.