CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Adam Smith laid down four canons of taxation, and fiscal adequacy was not one of them; it was added by later economists.

Animal cells are bounded only by a flexible plasma membrane and have no rigid cell wall outside it. A cell wall is found in plants, where it is made mainly of cellulose, in fungi, where it is made of chitin, and in bacteria, where it is made of peptidoglycan.

Cytokinins are the plant hormones whose main job is to promote cell division, or cytokinesis, which gives them their name.

THAAD, properly the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is a United States system built to shoot down ballistic missiles in the last, or terminal, phase of their flight.

The Indian part of the Indus basin covers all six, along with Chandigarh. The Indus rises near Lake Mansarovar in Tibet and enters India in Ladakh.

This is Article 20, and since the 44th Amendment of 1978 the enforcement of Articles 20 and 21 cannot be suspended even during a National Emergency.

The Kabini rises in the Wayanad district of Kerala and flows into Karnataka, where it joins the Kaveri near Tirumakudalu Narasipura.

The blind spot is the place where the optic nerve leaves the eye, and it has no rods or cones, so light falling there is not seen.

The financial cycle is the rise and fall of credit and asset prices, and the ratio of credit to GDP shows how far borrowing has run ahead of the economy.

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was passed by Parliament in 2006. Popularly called the Forest Rights Act, it recognises the rights of forest-dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers over the land they cultivate and the forest produce they use.

The inscription asks that a member own land and a house, but it sets the age limit at 35 to 70 years, not 30 to 60.

In 1913 the English physicist Henry Moseley showed that atomic number, not atomic mass, is the fundamental property of an element.

The College of Military Engineering stands at Dapodi in Pune, Maharashtra, and is the main training institution of the Indian Army's Corps of Engineers.

Pinaka and Smerch are both multi-barrel rocket launchers used by the Indian Army's artillery. Pinaka was developed by DRDO, with the Armament Research and Development Establishment at Pune as the lead laboratory, and is named after the bow of Lord Shiva.

Project 75 India, or P-75I, is the Indian Navy's plan to build six advanced conventional diesel-electric submarines in India. Its key requirement is Air Independent Propulsion, which lets a conventional submarine stay submerged for much longer without surfacing to charge its batteries.

The 103rd Amendment Act, 2019 allowed reservation of up to 10 percent for the Economically Weaker Sections in educational institutions and in government jobs.

Relative humidity compares the water vapour actually present in the air with the most the air could hold at that temperature, so both figures are needed.

Parts of all three states drain into the Ganga through its tributaries. The Ganga basin is the largest river basin of India, covering about a quarter of the country's area.

Pyruvate, the ion of pyruvic acid (CH3COCOOH), is a three-carbon molecule. It is formed at the end of glycolysis, the first stage of respiration, which takes place in the cytoplasm of every living cell.

For a photon, energy equals momentum multiplied by the speed of light, E = pc, so a momentum of 10 MeV/c gives an energy of exactly 10 MeV.