CDS Previous Year GK Questions

The unemployment rate is the share of the labour force that has no work, so it is worked out as (LFPR − WPR) ÷ LFPR × 100.

Insulin lets glucose leave the blood and enter body cells, especially muscle and fat cells, and so it lowers the blood sugar level.

The SA node, a small patch of special muscle in the wall of the right atrium, produces the electrical impulse that starts each heartbeat, which is why it is called the pacemaker of the heart.

The equivalent weight of a base is its molecular weight divided by its acidity, which is the number of replaceable hydroxide ions in one molecule.

If the quantity of a good or factor cannot change, the same amount is supplied whatever the price, so the supply curve is a vertical line at that quantity.

Jute needs a hot and humid climate, heavy rainfall and the fresh alluvial soil that river floods renew every year, conditions found in the Ganga–Brahmaputra delta and the plains of eastern India.

In India most women move from their parents' home to their husband's home after marriage, so marriage is by far the largest reason for female migration.

In October 1925 Tambe, a Swarajist member from the Central Provinces, accepted a seat on the Governor's Executive Council. He became the first Swarajist to take office under the dyarchy that the party had vowed to wreck from within.

A joint committee has members from both Houses, so a Bill can be sent to one only when the other House agrees to join it.

This official account of the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq, compiled around 1370, describes how the Ashokan pillar at Topra was carried to Delhi, and its manuscript carries painted illustrations of the operation.

Input prices change what it costs a firm to produce, so they shift the supply of a good, not the quantity that buyers want.

When iron(III) oxide is heated with aluminium powder, aluminium takes away the oxygen, and the reaction gives out so much heat that the iron produced is molten: Fe2O3 + 2Al → 2Fe + Al2O3 + heat.

Under the ASEAN Charter, the Chairmanship rotates every year among the member states in the alphabetical order of their English names, so statement 1 is correct.

The Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur was built by Rajaraja Chola I and dedicated to Shiva, so its early Chola murals show Shaiva themes.

At its meeting at Bezwada (Vijayawada) in March 1921, the AICC set three targets to carry the Non-Cooperation Movement forward: one crore members for the Congress, one crore rupees for the Tilak Swaraj Fund, and twenty lakh charkhas to be distributed among the people by 30 June 1921.

In this poem Amir Khusrau sets out to show that India is superior to other lands, praising its climate, its languages, its arts and music, and even its animals.

The Bower Manuscript is valued above all for its medical texts, which make it one of the oldest surviving records of Ayurveda.

The Gulf of Cambay, or Khambhat, has no coral reefs because its water is muddy and its tides are among the strongest on India's coast.

The Basel Convention controls the movement of hazardous wastes across borders and their disposal, to protect human health and the environment.

Under Article 231, Parliament may by law establish a common High Court for two or more States, or for two or more States and a Union Territory.