CDS Previous Year GK Questions

The Nyishi are the largest tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, living mainly in its central and western hill districts. The Nyishi live in districts such as Papum Pare, Kurung Kumey, Kra Daadi, East Kameng and Lower Subansiri, with smaller groups in the bordering parts of Assam.

Locke argued that a government is legitimate only when it rests on the consent of the governed, the idea of government by consent.

Ramaswamy Naicker. E.V.

Supplying resources, sustaining life and providing aesthetic services are all functions of the environment. The environment is the total of all the living and non-living things around us.

All four of them, M.A. Ayyangar, G.S.

Thyroxine is an iodine-containing hormone, so the thyroid gland cannot make it without iodine from the diet. The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland in the neck.

Mitochondria carry out respiration, chloroplasts photosynthesis, ribosomes make proteins and the rough endoplasmic reticulum transports them. Mitochondria are called the powerhouse of the cell because aerobic respiration in them releases energy as ATP.

This follows the order of these metals in the reactivity series, and hydrochloric acid reacts fastest with the metal highest in it.

UNESCO has never won a Nobel Prize, while the other three UN bodies have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Several parts of the United Nations family have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Guntupalle Buddhist caves lie in the Eluru region of Andhra Pradesh, in the old West Godavari district. Guntupalle is one of the oldest Buddhist sites of the Andhra country, dating back to around the 2nd century BCE.

The GII measures gender gaps in reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market, and its value runs from 0 to 1.

Among the four States listed, only Assam and Nagaland touch Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh is the largest State of the North-East by area.

A quasi-federal constitution has the basic features of a federation but also a strong unitary bias, and the Indian Constitution is the best known example.

The bora is a cold, dry and often violent north-easterly wind that rushes down from the Dinaric Alps onto the eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, and it also reaches Trieste in Italy.

The English jurist John Austin developed legal positivism, the view that law is the command of the sovereign backed by a sanction, kept separate from questions of morality.

J is from Assam, which had a population density of 398 persons per square kilometre in Census 2011, far higher than the other three States.

Keynes argued that in a depression the government should spend more than it earns, even by borrowing, to revive demand and employment.

Mahishmati, an important city of ancient central India, stood on the Narmada and is usually identified with Maheshwar in present-day Madhya Pradesh, though some scholars place it at Mandhata (Omkareshwar).

The sour taste of tamarind comes from tartaric acid, not oxalic acid, so this statement is not correct. Many natural acids give foods their sour taste.

The lion is not found among the animals carved on Harappan seals, although the tiger appears on several of them.