CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, is not built on a river bank; it is known instead as the City of Lakes.

'One State, Many Worlds' is the tourism tagline of Karnataka, chosen to show how much variety a visitor can find within one State.

A change in the good's own price moves the buyer along the same demand curve; it does not shift the curve.

Milpa is the name for shifting cultivation in Mexico and Central America, and Ladang is its name in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Alexander Cunningham, the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, identified the site of ancient Taxila near Rawalpindi in the 1860s. Cunningham used the accounts of Greek writers on Alexander's campaign and of the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang to match the city named in Indian texts with the ruins…

Physical capital is the variety of inputs, such as tools, machines, buildings, raw materials and money in hand, needed at every stage of production.

Article 30 gives all minorities, whether based on religion or language, the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice, and names no other kind of minority.

In plant cells RNA is found in the nucleus, the cytoplasm, mitochondria, chloroplasts and ribosomes. RNA is made in the nucleus, where DNA is copied into messenger, transfer and ribosomal RNA; the nucleolus in particular is rich in ribosomal RNA.

The tapeworm is an animal, and animal cells have no cell wall, only a cell membrane. A rigid cell wall lies outside the cell membrane in plants, fungi, most bacteria and many protists, giving the cell shape and protection.

In the liver, methanol is oxidised to methanal (formaldehyde), which coagulates protoplasm and damages cells. Methanol, CH3OH, is the simplest alcohol and is sometimes mixed into illicit liquor.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 does not apply to the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura listed in the Sixth Schedule.

Kalsi, near Dehradun in Uttarakhand, has a full set of Ashoka's fourteen Major Rock Edicts carved on a single boulder.

The Ajanta paintings show yakshas, gandharvas and apsaras among their figures, and their painters used multiple perspectives to show crowded scenes.

The MPI measures the overlapping deprivations each person faces across indicators of health, education and standard of living. The global MPI was developed in 2010 by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the UNDP.

The English geologist William Lowthian Green put forward the Tetrahedral Hypothesis in 1875 to explain how continents and ocean basins are arranged.

In Census 2011, a person aged seven and above who could both read and write with understanding in any language was counted as literate.

Adipocytes are the fat cells of adipose tissue, a loose connective tissue that stores fat in animals. Adipose tissue lies mainly beneath the skin and around organs such as the kidneys and heart.

Seeds are carried away from the parent plant by wind, water and animals, but fungi play no part in seed dispersal.

The science journalist Gobind Behari Lal won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1937, the first person of Indian origin to receive it.

Chhattisgarh lies in the heart of the country and is surrounded only by other Indian States. Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in November 2000.