CDS Previous Year GK Questions

The sub-prime crisis was the collapse of risky American home loans in 2007 and 2008 that set off the worldwide Great Recession.

A normal demand curve slopes downward from left to right, so its slope is negative. The law of demand says that, other things remaining the same, the quantity demanded of a good rises when its price falls and falls when its price rises.

Both the North Atlantic Drift and the Brazil Current carry warm water from low latitudes towards higher latitudes. As a rule, currents that flow from the equator towards the poles are warm, and those that flow from the poles towards the equator are cold.

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are called terrestrial planets because, like the earth, they are made of rock and metal.

The Ten Degree Channel, which runs along roughly the 10° North parallel, separates the Andaman group from the Nicobar group.

. Insurance is in the Union List of the Seventh Schedule, so the statement that it is not there is incorrect.

Dhamma is Ashoka's moral code, not one of the seven limbs of the state listed in Kautilya's Arthashastra. Kautilya, the minister of Chandragupta Maurya, compared the state to a body with seven limbs, or angas.

Structural unemployment arises when the structure of the economy changes, through new technology or a lasting shift in what people buy, and workers' skills no longer match the jobs available.

Statements 1 and 4 are true, while 2 and 3 are false. After the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931, Gandhi attended the Second Round Table Conference in London (September to December 1931) as the sole Congress representative.

All three factors shape the general circulation of the atmosphere, which is why UPSC's official key gives D. Planetary winds are the trade winds, the westerlies and the polar easterlies.

Joining a program to the library routines it calls is the job of a linker, a separate system utility, not of the operating system.

This is false: an economic model can be stated in words, shown in diagrams or graphs, or written as equations.

Neither has a Mediterranean climate, so neither has sclerophyll vegetation. Sclerophyll means 'hard leaf'.

Its Challenger Deep, about 10,900 metres (nearly 11 km) below sea level, is the deepest known point of the oceans.

A new state is created, or a state's boundaries changed, by an ordinary law of Parliament under Article 3, passed by a simple majority.

This statement is wrong: the Benami law is enforced by the Income Tax Department, not the ED. The Directorate of Enforcement, set up in 1956, is a specialised financial investigation agency under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, with its headquarters in New Delhi.

Peasant risings against moneylenders were common in the 19th century, and the Deccan Riots began at Supa in May 1875.

It is one of the two education indicators in NITI Aayog's National Multidimensional Poverty Index. The national MPI measures deprivation, not income, across three equally weighted dimensions: health, education and standard of living.

Both statements describe the standard method used to draw India's poverty line. A poverty line is the income or spending needed to meet basic needs.

Platelets, or thrombocytes, release the factors that start blood clotting at a wound. Platelets are tiny cell fragments made from large cells called megakaryocytes in the bone marrow; a healthy adult has about 1.5 to 4.5 lakh of them per cubic millimetre of blood.