CDS Previous Year GK Questions

This statement is incorrect because the Speaker resigns by writing to the Deputy Speaker, not to the President.

This is the incorrect statement, because the Rajya Sabha does discuss a Money Bill. Under Article 109, a Money Bill is introduced only in the Lok Sabha and, after it is passed, it is sent to the Rajya Sabha.

Zonal Councils are statutory bodies set up under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, to promote cooperation among neighbouring states. There are five: Northern, Central, Eastern, Western and Southern.

The United Nations Security Council has fifteen members: five permanent members and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms.

The Suresh Tendulkar expert group, which reported to the Planning Commission in 2009, deliberately moved away from the old calorie-based poverty line.

A cumulonimbus cloud is the final stage of a growing cumulus cloud. On a hot day, rising warm air forms small fair-weather cumulus.

An avalanche is a mass of snow and ice sliding suddenly down a mountain slope. It is driven by gravity acting on the snowpack, so it is grouped with landslides as a terrestrial or mass-movement disaster, not an atmospheric one.

Shipki La is the pass through which the Satluj river enters India from Tibet. It lies in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, on the border with the Tibet region of China.

Cooking soda, also called baking soda, is sodium hydrogen carbonate, also known as sodium bicarbonate. It is a mild base made from one sodium, one hydrogen, one carbon and three oxygen atoms.

Particles of matter mix with one another on their own, and there are forces of attraction between them; both are basic properties taught in Class 9 science.

Article 20(2) says no person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once, which is the protection against double jeopardy.

Bhagwati Charan Vohra, a leading thinker of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, wrote The Philosophy of the Bomb in 1930.

Members of the Rajya Sabha from the states are not elected by the people directly; they are elected by the elected members of the state Legislative Assemblies, so this statement is not correct.

The Kherwar or Sapha Har movement of the Santhals in the 1870s called on the tribe to worship one supreme god and to purify its own social life.

The Latin maxim means 'hear the other side', and it says no person should be condemned or punished without a fair chance to present their case.

Article 55(3) says the President is elected by proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, and voting is by secret ballot.

Under paragraph 4 of the Fifth Schedule, a Tribes Advisory Council must be set up in every state that has Scheduled Areas, and the President may direct that one be set up in a state that has Scheduled Tribes but no Scheduled Areas.

Singapore is both a port of call and an entrepot, and Karwar is a naval port, but Dover is a ferry port, not an outport.

Core inflation leaves out food and fuel, whose prices swing sharply with monsoons, harvests and world oil prices, so that it shows the steady, underlying trend of prices.

Cochin Port lies at the head of the Vembanad Kayal and Mormugao Port at the entrance of the Zuari estuary, while statements 1 and 4 place Deendayal and Paradip wrongly.