CDS Previous Year GK Questions

The Satapatra series (Shatapatre, "a hundred letters") was written by Gopal Hari Deshmukh, known as Lokahitawadi. Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823-1892) was an early social reformer of Maharashtra.

The Prati Sarkar, a parallel government of the Quit India period, was set up in Satara district of Maharashtra. During the Quit India Movement that began in August 1942, people in some areas threw off British authority and ran their own governments.

The Indian federation was not formed by an agreement among the States, so "the federating units consented to form a union" is not a feature of Indian federalism.

Goa became the first State in India where every rural household had a functional tap water connection.

A soda-acid extinguisher uses sodium hydrogen carbonate (baking soda) solution and sulphuric acid, which react to release carbon dioxide. In this extinguisher the sulphuric acid is kept in a separate container inside a cylinder filled with sodium hydrogen carbonate solution.

Andal was a woman Alvar, a Vaishnava saint devoted to Vishnu, not a Nayanar. The Bhakti movement in Tamil Nadu grew between about the sixth and ninth centuries through two groups of poet-saints: the 63 Nayanars, devotees of Shiva, and the 12 Alvars, devotees of Vishnu.

. In the Rig Veda, Sinivali is a goddess invoked for fertility and the gift of children.

Vivekananda began his famous address at Chicago on 11 September 1893 with the words "Sisters and Brothers of America", and the audience rose in a long ovation.

Statements 1 and 2 describe the scheme correctly, while statement 3 does not, because the scheme is targeted at poor and vulnerable families rather than every citizen.

The Nayanars were Tamil saint-poets of the early Bhakti movement who worshipped Shiva. Between about the 6th and 9th centuries CE, the Nayanars travelled from temple to temple in the Tamil country singing hymns in praise of Shiva.

Under Article 243F, the minimum age to become a member of a Panchayat is 21 years, not 25. Part IX of the Constitution, added by the 73rd Amendment Act, 1992 and in force from 24 April 1993, lays down the framework of Panchayati Raj.

Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, and Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, face each other across the Río de la Plata. The River Plate is a wide funnel-shaped estuary formed where the Paraná and Uruguay rivers meet before entering the Atlantic Ocean.

All three statements correctly describe the Sanyasi and Faqir risings in late 18th-century Bengal and Bihar. After the Battle of Plassey and the grant of Diwani in 1765, heavy revenue demands and the terrible Bengal famine of 1770 hurt peasants and wandering ascetics alike.

M3, called broad money, is the measure of money supply most commonly used by the RBI for analysis and policy.

Netaji wrote The Indian Struggle, his own political account of India's freedom movement. Bose wrote the first part, covering 1920 to 1934, while living in Europe for medical treatment; it was published in London in 1935 and was banned in India by the British government.

Article 371G protects the ownership and transfer of land in Mizoram, not of natural resources in general. Article 371G was added by the 53rd Amendment Act, 1986, when Mizoram became a state after the Mizo Peace Accord.

Katyayana commented on Panini's grammar, and Patanjali in turn commented on both Panini and Katyayana. Panini wrote the Ashtadhyayi, the foundational Sanskrit grammar of about 4,000 sutras, around the 5th or 4th century BCE.

A monopolist restricts output and charges a higher price, so it does not produce the efficient level of output. A monopoly is a single seller of a product with no close substitutes and strong barriers to entry.

The Good Governance Index (GGI) was designed by the Government of India to compare governance across States and Union Territories.

Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is defined as the pressure of a 760 mm column of mercury at 0 °C. In 1643 Evangelista Torricelli showed that air pressure holds up a column of mercury about 760 mm (76 cm) tall in a glass tube, inventing the mercury barometer.