CDS Previous Year GK Questions

For resistors in parallel the reciprocals add: 1/11 + 1/22 + 1/33 = 11/66 = 1/6, so the equivalent resistance is 6 Ω. Taking 66 as the common denominator, 1/11 becomes 6/66, 1/22 becomes 3/66 and 1/33 becomes 2/66.

Rhizopus, the bread mould, feeds on dead and decaying organic matter, which is exactly what a saprophyte does. A saprophyte gets its food by releasing digestive enzymes onto dead matter such as stale bread, fruit or leaf litter and then absorbing the simple nutrients that result.

Jordan lies north of the peninsula in the Levant, while Kuwait, Oman and Yemen are all on the Arabian Peninsula.

The FATF sets the international standards that countries follow to fight dirty money and terror funding. The FATF is an inter-governmental body set up in 1989 at the G7 summit in Paris, and its secretariat is housed at the OECD in Paris.

The manjaniq was a siege engine that hurled heavy stones at fort walls and defenders. The word comes from Arabic and is related to the Greek and Latin words that also gave English the term mangonel.

The Kalaram temple stands at Panchavati in Nashik, Maharashtra, where Dr B. R. Ambedkar led the famous temple entry satyagraha.

India, Nepal and the Maldives signed the SAARC Charter in 1985, while Afghanistan joined only in 2007. SAARC was set up at the Dhaka summit on 8 December 1985 by seven South Asian countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

South India has an equable, maritime climate, not an extreme one, because it lies close to the equator and is surrounded by the sea on three sides.

The Son is a right-bank tributary that flows straight into the Ganga, meeting it near Patna in Bihar.

The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is observed on 16 September, not 16 November. The date marks the signing of the Montreal Protocol on 16 September 1987, the treaty that phased out chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting substances.

The Bhakra Nangal Project is built on the Satluj, and its canals carry Satluj water to Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.

Gandhi's first major public appearance in India was his speech at the opening of the Banaras Hindu University in February 1916.

As its name says, the Act guarantees work to households in rural areas; towns and cities are outside its scope.

Geyserite is a chemically formed sedimentary rock: it is silica that comes out of solution from hot spring and geyser water and is deposited around the vent.

Of the four elements of xylem, only xylem parenchyma is made of living cells; tracheids, vessels and xylem fibres are dead at maturity.

Energy passes one way from the Sun through the food chain and is lost as heat, while nutrients are used again and again.

Cetane is the common name of n-hexadecane, C16H34, a straight-chain alkane with sixteen carbon atoms. Cetane ignites very readily when compressed, which is exactly what a diesel engine needs, because diesel fuel is not lit by a spark but catches fire from the heat of compressed air.

A kunta is a spear or lance, a thrusting weapon, while the other three are Sanskrit names for the bow.

In Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's Bengali novel Anandamath (1882), the monk-rebels are shown three images of the Mother Goddess standing for the motherland: as she was, as she is and as she will be.

Nanda Devi National Park lies in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, around India's second-highest peak, Nanda Devi. The park is a vast glacial basin ringed by high peaks and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1988 for its wild, untouched landscape.