CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Both statements misdescribe the GDP deflator. The deflator is the ratio of nominal GDP to real GDP, multiplied by 100.

All three titles were in use in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century India, and each pair is matched correctly. Gajapati means 'lord of elephants' and was the title of a powerful ruling family of Orissa, the Gajapatis who succeeded the Eastern Gangas.

The American chip maker opened India's first such centre in Bengaluru in 1985, the start of what is now called the Global Capability Centre (GCC) model.

Both statements describe the industry correctly. The modern cotton mill industry began in Mumbai in 1854 and grew first in Maharashtra and Gujarat, close to the black cotton soil, the ports and a ready market.

Statements 1 and 3 describe the Kashmir Himalayas correctly, but Pangong Tso and Tso Moriri are salt-water lakes. The Karewas are thick deposits of glacial clay and other materials embedded with moraines, laid down on the floor of the Kashmir Valley; they are famous for the cultivation of saffron (zafran).

It is the batch file that MS-DOS runs automatically, line by line, every time the computer starts. A batch file is a plain text file of DOS commands with the.BAT extension.

A price floor is a lowest price fixed by the government, and the MSP guarantees farmers that price for crops such as jowar.

In the Hadley cell, air rises near the equator and sinks at about 30 degrees latitude, in the subtropical high-pressure belts.

Belarus is a landlocked country in eastern Europe, far south of the Arctic, so it has no tundra. Tundra vegetation grows beyond the tree line, mainly north of the Arctic Circle, where summers are short and cool and the subsoil stays frozen as permafrost.

India's standard meridian is 82°30' East, and Indian Standard Time is set by the local time along this line. India stretches from about 68°7' E to 97°25' E, a spread of nearly 30 degrees of longitude, which makes a time difference of about two hours between Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh.

The Extended Fund Facility is a lending arrangement of the International Monetary Fund for countries with serious balance of payments problems.

PMSSY was set up to correct regional imbalances in tertiary health care and to improve medical education; universal immunisation is not its aim.

Egg white is mostly water and protein, and heat denatures these proteins so that they set into an opaque white solid.

Both statements are true, and UPSC's official key also gives C. Water vapour is a variable gas, from almost nil in cold deserts to about 4 percent of the air by volume in the warm, humid tropics.

Both statements are correct: a ground inversion is formed by radiation cooling, and it is the same as a negative lapse rate near the surface.

SGML was designed to be independent of both hardware and software, so saying it depends on a computer's hardware is false.

By mass, an adult human body has the most oxygen, then carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen. Oxygen makes up about 65 percent of body mass, carbon about 18 percent, hydrogen about 10 percent and nitrogen about 3 percent.

The Great Himalayan area in Himachal Pradesh is a national park, not a biosphere reserve. The Great Himalayan National Park lies in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh.

Near the horizon, sunlight crosses a much thicker layer of air, and scattering removes most of the blue light before it reaches us.

The glass of a glowing bulb is heated mainly by radiation from the white-hot filament, not by convection. Conduction passes heat through a solid from particle to particle, convection carries heat by the actual movement of a fluid, and radiation sends heat as electromagnetic waves that need no medium.