CDS Previous Year GK Questions

In the southern hemisphere the Coriolis force turns winds to the left, not the right. The Coriolis force is an apparent force caused by the Earth's rotation.

A change in a good's own price, with everything else fixed, moves the buyer up or down the same demand curve.

The two statements are reversed: the Estimates Committee is a standing committee, and the Railway Convention Committee is an ad hoc committee.

A hydrogen bomb fuses light hydrogen nuclei, while a uranium bomb splits heavy uranium-235 nuclei. In nuclear fission a heavy nucleus such as uranium-235 absorbs a neutron and splits into two lighter nuclei, releasing energy and two or three more neutrons.

The nucellus is the diploid tissue of the ovule itself, while the synergids, the egg and the antipodals are haploid cells of the embryo sac.

Antarctica is the highest continent on average, and Mount Vinson is its highest peak. Antarctica's average elevation is about 2,500 metres, far above that of any other continent; Asia, the next highest, averages under 1,000 metres.

Article 18 of the UN Charter lists all three as 'important questions' that need a two-thirds majority of members present and voting.

Both were killed in 1942 during the Quit India Movement, Matangini Hazra in Bengal and Lakshman Naik in Odisha. The Quit India Movement began after the Congress passed the Quit India resolution in Bombay on 8 August 1942, with Gandhi's call of 'Do or Die'.

The base is made thin and lightly doped so that most charge carriers from the emitter cross it to the collector.

Cropping intensity is gross cropped area divided by net sown area, usually shown as a percentage, and it tells how many times the same land is cropped in a year.

Flint glass contains lead oxide, which gives it a high refractive index and clarity, so it is used for lenses and prisms of optical instruments.

Lysosomes bud off from the Golgi apparatus as small membrane-bound sacs packed with digestive enzymes. The hydrolytic enzymes of a lysosome are first made on ribosomes attached to the rough endoplasmic reticulum.

Tamil Nadu's decadal growth rose from about 11.7 per cent in 1991–2001 to about 15.6 per cent in 2001–2011, while the other three states slowed down.

The law of demand assumes buyers are not swayed by imitating others; the demonstration effect is in fact one of its exceptions.

Expressed as women per men, Asia has a low sex ratio, because several of its large countries have fewer women than men.

As its name says, it is subsistence farming, where the family grows food mainly for its own use, not for sale.

The Sea of Azov joins the Black Sea through the narrow Kerch Strait, east of the Crimean peninsula. The Sea of Azov is bordered by Russia and Ukraine and is often called the shallowest sea in the world, with a maximum depth of only about 14 metres.

In a centripetal pattern streams flow inward from all sides into a central lake or basin, like spokes pointing to a hub.

Petrol is one of the petroleum products kept out of GST for now, so it still bears central excise duty and state VAT.

All three statements describe India's two coasts correctly: the west is high, rocky and erosional, the east is low and depositional.