CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Going north along the east coast from Chennai, these rivers are crossed in exactly this order. The shortest road from Chennai to Kolkata runs up the eastern coastal plain.

About 90% of the atmosphere's ozone lies in the stratosphere, forming the ozone layer. The stratosphere extends from the top of the troposphere, about 8 km at the poles and 18 km at the equator, up to about 50 km.

Reef-building corals are marine animals and die in fresh water, so this statement is false. Corals are tiny polyps that build skeletons of calcium carbonate and live with algae called zooxanthellae inside their tissues.

At the point where total utility is highest, marginal utility is zero but average utility is still positive, so the two cannot be equal.

Lands with a Mediterranean climate are the world's great orchards of oranges, lemons, grapes and olives. The Mediterranean climate has hot, dry, sunny summers and mild, rainy winters, the rain coming from westerly winds.

The Act guarantees at least 100 days of unskilled manual work, not skilled labour.

With a land area of only about 32 square kilometres, Lakshadweep is the smallest Union Territory of India. Lakshadweep is a group of 36 coral islands in the Arabian Sea off the Kerala coast, of which only about ten are inhabited.

All four belong to the First Anglo-Maratha War: Surat (1775), Purandar (1776), Wadgaon (1779) and Salbai (1782). In 1775 the Bombay government signed the Treaty of Surat with Raghunathrao, promising to put him in power as Peshwa in return for Salsette and Bassein.

Opportunity cost is what you sacrifice by choosing one option, measured by the best option you did not take. Because resources such as time, money and land are scarce, choosing one use means giving up others.

Radical socialism is a European political tradition, chiefly French, and is not one of the strands of socialism that grew in India.

When a bank collects tax, it acts as an agent on behalf of its customer and the government, which is an agency function.

Sound travels as compressions and rarefactions, while light is a transverse electromagnetic wave. In a longitudinal wave the particles of the medium vibrate back and forth along the direction in which the wave moves.

Shivaji took Torna first, then Javli, then killed Afzal Khan, and later raided Shaista Khan's camp. In 1646, still a teenager, Shivaji captured the fort of Torna from the Bijapur Sultanate, his first major conquest.

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve spreads across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. Set up in 1986, Nilgiri was India's first biosphere reserve, and in 2000 it became the first Indian reserve on UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

This Delhi-based NGO, working on HIV/AIDS, led the long legal fight against Section 377 of the IPC. Section 377 punished "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" and was used against consensual same-sex relations.

IMR is a rate, so it compares infant deaths with live births in the same year. An infant is a child who has not yet completed one year of life.

Crowding-in means that government spending pulls private investment in rather than pushing it out. When the government builds roads, railways, ports and power lines, it lowers the cost of doing business and raises demand for cement, steel and machinery.

The Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul-Haq gave the concept of human development and launched the first Human Development Report for the UNDP in 1990.

India's land-use records follow a nine-fold classification, and 'marginal land' is not one of its classes.

The Climax mine is in Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, and it was long the world's largest molybdenum mine.