CDS Previous Year GK Questions

In Census 2011, Scheduled Tribes made up about 94.4 percent of Mizoram's population, the highest share among all the states.

The Eight Degree Channel runs roughly along the 8 degree north latitude in the Arabian Sea and separates Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, from the Maldives.

In Keynes's theory the level of employment in an economy is fixed by effective demand, the level of total spending at which aggregate demand equals aggregate supply.

Cotton soaks up sweat well, and as that sweat evaporates from the cloth it takes heat away from the body and keeps us cool.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Africa's coasts as traders, and their trading posts began the long story of European colonisation of the continent.

Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution, Articles 5 to 11, and any citizenship law, including the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, falls under it.

Human cells, like all animal cells, have only a flexible plasma membrane on the outside and no rigid cell wall.

Article 21A, the right to education, was inserted by the Constitution (Eighty-sixth) Amendment Act, 2002, not by the Eighty-fifth.

All three features describe alluvial soil, the most widespread soil of India. Alluvial soil is deposited by rivers such as the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra, and also lines the eastern coastal deltas.

Mission Indradhanush aims to raise full immunisation coverage among children, and it also covers pregnant women. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched it on 25 December 2014 to reach children who had been left out or only partly vaccinated under the routine Universal Immunisation Programme.

S-waves are not less destructive; their side-to-side shaking does more damage to buildings and overpasses than P-waves do. S-waves, or secondary waves, are transverse body waves: they move the ground at right angles to the direction in which they travel.

Isoenzymes, also called isozymes, are different molecular forms of an enzyme that speed up the same chemical reaction but differ in their amino acid sequence.

All three statements describe the weapons correctly. HAMMER, short for Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range, is a French precision-guided air-to-ground bomb kit made by Safran; India bought it to arm its Rafale jets, which can strike targets tens of kilometres away with it.

The Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules give all four subjects to the Department of Defence in the Ministry of Defence.

The Dasavatara temple at Deogarh is a Gupta building, but the Bhitargaon temple is made of brick, not dressed stone.

Soap micelles are large enough to scatter the light passing through the solution, and this scattering makes soapy water look cloudy.

Sir Benegal Narsing Rau was appointed Constitutional Adviser to the Constituent Assembly and prepared its first draft of the Constitution in October 1947.

The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is built on the Godavari river in Telangana and is often described as the world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation scheme.

Lying between India and Sri Lanka off Tamil Nadu, it is built around a chain of 21 small islands with estuaries, beaches, coral reefs, salt marshes, seagrass beds and mangroves.

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a huge radio telescope network built by ASTRON in the Netherlands, described as the largest and most sensitive radio telescope working at low frequencies.