CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Article 78 sets out the duties of the Prime Minister towards the President, chief among them keeping the President informed.

It is a later Mahayana Buddhist text of ritual and prophecy, not a work of Ashvaghosha. Ashvaghosha was a Buddhist poet, dramatist and philosopher of the first–second century CE, linked by tradition to the court of the Kushana king Kanishka.

Primary deficit is fiscal deficit minus interest payments, so it shows the borrowing a government needs for its current needs alone.

All three statements are correct. The Special Marriage Act, 1954 lets any two Indians marry by civil registration whatever their religion, without either partner having to convert, so it is the law that covers inter-religious marriages.

Article 1 of the Draft Constitution described India as a 'Union of States', and the same words survive in Article 1 of the Constitution today.

Rutherford's gold foil experiment showed that an atom has a tiny, dense, positively charged centre, which he called the nucleus.

By weight, calcium is the smallest of the four and oxygen the largest, so the ascending order is calcium, aluminium, silicon, oxygen.

Jaugada is in Odisha, not Karnataka, so only pairs 2 and 3 are right. Jaugada, in Ganjam district of Odisha, is one of the two places, with Dhauli, that carry Ashoka's Separate Kalinga Edicts.

A rod standing upright on one end falls over at the slightest push, because its centre of gravity is high and its base is tiny.

Evaporation is a surface process, so its rate depends on conditions at the surface of the liquid, not on how much liquid there is in total.

Devika Rani received the first Dadasaheb Phalke Award, for 1969, the year the Government of India instituted it to mark the centenary of the birth of Dadasaheb Phalke, maker of Raja Harishchandra (1913), India's first full-length feature film.

Protective democracy does not hold that active citizen participation is essential; it values democracy only as a shield that lets citizens protect themselves from those who govern them.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, a socialist and Congress leader, persuaded Gandhiji to let women join the salt satyagraha of 1930, which he had first planned with men alone.

Khardung La, the Nubra Valley and monasteries such as Hemis, Thiksey and Diskit all lie in Ladakh, which became a separate Union Territory in 2019.

Under Article 54, the President is elected only by the elected members of both Houses of Parliament and the elected members of the State Legislative Assemblies, so a college of all members of Parliament and all State Legislatures is wrong.

The great Bengal famine of 1769–70 began with failed rains, but the East India Company's harsh revenue demand turned a crop failure into a catastrophe.

Asha Parekh received the Padma Shri in 1992, chaired the Central Board of Film Certification from 1998 to 2001 as its first woman head, and was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2020.

Only statement 3 is wrong, because stratus, nimbostratus and stratocumulus are low clouds, not high clouds. Statement 1 is correct: clouds take two basic forms, layered stratiform sheets formed by gentle lifting of air and heaped cumuliform clouds formed by rising convection currents.

Chola bronzes are celebrated for their beauty and casting skill, and they follow the same iconographic rules and style as the stone sculpture of the period.

Calcium carbonate, CaCO3, is a compound because calcium, carbon and oxygen are chemically combined in it in a fixed ratio.