CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Khuntkatti was the traditional land system of the Munda tribe of the Chota Nagpur plateau, in present-day Jharkhand. Under khuntkatti, land belonged jointly to the lineage (khunt) of the families who first cleared the forest and settled the village.

The air we breathe out carries carbon dioxide, which reacts with limewater to form a white, insoluble solid that makes it look milky.

In 1940 Subhas Chandra Bose joined hands with the Muslim League in Bengal and led the campaign to remove the Holwell Monument from Calcutta.

India's territorial waters, where it has full sovereignty, extend 12 nautical miles (about 22.2 km) from the baseline of its coast.

Acceleration is the change in velocity divided by the time taken, and 10 minutes is one-sixth of an hour.

Without enough vitamin D the body cannot absorb calcium and phosphorus properly, so a child's growing bones stay soft and bend.

Urea is the body's way of getting rid of the nitrogen that comes from breaking down proteins, and only proteins among these contain nitrogen.

Telangana is a landlocked state bordered by exactly these four states. Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh on 2 June 2014 as India's 29th state, with Hyderabad as its capital.

The resolution that created NITI Aayog names the Prime Minister as Chairperson, a Governing Council of Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors, and a Chief Executive Officer appointed by the Prime Minister.

This is the false statement: glass cools into an amorphous solid without any regular crystal structure. When molten glass cools, its viscosity rises so quickly that the atoms have no time to arrange themselves in an ordered crystal lattice.

Saline soils are found in dry regions and in waterlogged or swampy areas, but they are poor in nitrogen, not rich in it.

Plastics are long chains of carbon atoms joined by strong covalent bonds, which water, air and most microbes cannot easily break.

For an object launched horizontally, the time of fall depends only on the height, because its starting vertical speed is zero.

The 2023 delimitation in Assam used the 2001 Census figures, but it raised the number of Assembly seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

The Dutt-Bradley thesis was a communist document which held that the Indian National Congress could play a great and foremost part in building an anti-imperialist people's front.

Pollen first reaches the stigma, then the gametes fuse, the zygote divides to form an embryo, and the embryo inside the seed grows into a seedling.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1889 at Qadian, a town in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab. The Ahmadiyya Movement was one of the Muslim reform movements of the late nineteenth century.

PMGSY is a centrally sponsored rural development scheme, launched as part of the poverty reduction strategy, to give all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages.

Light travels at different speeds in different media, and this change in speed at the boundary makes it bend. Light is fastest in vacuum, about 3 × 10⁸ m/s, and slower in water and glass.

Green plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to make glucose, giving out oxygen as a by-product. Photosynthesis takes place mainly in the chloroplasts of leaf cells, where chlorophyll traps light energy.