CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Detroit stands on the Detroit River, which links Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie, and is far from Lake Superior.

The Rihla, meaning journey, is the Arabic travel book of Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveller from Tangier who reached India in 1333.

As one climbs, air pressure falls, so each breath delivers oxygen at a lower partial pressure and less of it passes from the lungs into the blood.

A compound always has a fixed composition by mass, so a variable composition is a property of mixtures, not compounds.

The remark that the commerce of India is the commerce of the world, and that whoever commands it exclusively is the dictator of Europe, is attributed to Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725.

Greta Thunberg, born in Stockholm in 2003, is a Swedish climate activist who became the face of the youth climate movement.

Under Article 243D, seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in every Panchayat are reserved in proportion to their share of the population of that Panchayat area, so the statement that reservation has nothing to do with population is wrong.

Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823–1892) of Maharashtra wrote under the pen name Lokahitawadi, meaning one who works for the good of the people, and the name stuck to him.

India follows a single standard time, Indian Standard Time, for the whole country, and it is ahead of GMT, not behind it.

During El Nino the trade winds of the Pacific weaken or even reverse, so a steady flow of these winds is not one of its results.

The munjaniq, also written manjaniq, was a siege engine that hurled heavy stones at fort walls, that is, a catapult.

Bhutan is the country that officially adopted Gross National Happiness, rather than economic output alone, as the measure of its progress.

The Amsterdam-St. Paul Plateau is a raised area of the ocean floor in the southern Indian Ocean, named after the French islands of Amsterdam and Saint-Paul that rise from it.

Gupta inscriptions show the kings using grand imperial titles and also religious epithets that linked them with the gods.

The magnetic force on a moving charge is F = q(v × B), and only an upward field turns a westward-moving positive charge towards the north.

Narayana Bhatta, a Vaishnava scholar of the sixteenth century, wrote the Sanskrit text Vraja Bhakti Vilasa in 1552, describing the sacred sites of the Braj region around Mathura and Vrindavan.

Article 176 of the Constitution requires the Governor to give this special address on these two occasions. In the address the Governor tells the legislature why it has been summoned and sets out the policies and programme of the state government, whose council of ministers actually prepares the text.

Alluvial soils, laid down by rivers, generally contain plenty of potash but lack phosphorus, and they are also often short of nitrogen and humus.

The Congress resolution on non-cooperation, passed at the special Calcutta session of September 1920 and confirmed at Nagpur in December 1920, called for the renunciation of all voluntary association with the British Government.

Binodini Dasi, a leading actress of the Bengali stage, wrote Amar Katha ("My Story"), which first appeared in parts between 1910 and 1913 and was published as a book in 1913.