CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Malleability is the property of being beaten into thin sheets and ductility the property of being drawn into wires, and gold possesses both to the highest degree of any metal: a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of about one square metre and drawn into a wire of…

Little Boy was the code name of the uranium fission bomb dropped by the United States on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, the first use of a nuclear weapon in war.

The elections of 1937 were held under the Government of India Act, 1935, and the Congress swept the country, winning a clear majority in five provinces and emerging as the largest party in most of the rest.

Nothing is oxidised when a soda bottle is opened; the pressure inside simply falls, the dissolved carbon dioxide becomes less soluble and escapes as bubbles.

This Act, formally the Indian Councils Act of 1909, first gave Muslims a separate electorate, in which Muslim voters chose Muslim members from Muslim-only constituencies.

Article 338A was inserted by the 89th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003, which split the earlier joint commission into two separate bodies and gave the Scheduled Tribes a commission of their own from 2004.

Naphthalene is an aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, with a very high proportion of carbon, so the air around the flame cannot supply enough oxygen to burn all of it to carbon dioxide.

The Charter Act of 1833 ended the East India Company's last trading privilege, its monopoly over trade with China and in tea, and turned the Company into a purely administrative body holding India in trust for the British Crown.

The Tropic of Capricorn runs at about 23.5 degrees south and misses Uruguay, which lies further south between roughly 30 and 35 degrees.

It provides for Autonomous District Councils in the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, and is read with Article 244(2).

The south-west monsoon splits over the sea into two arms, and Punjab is one of the few places where both reach.

The Battle of Ten Kings, or Dasarajna, is described in the seventh book of the Rigveda.

The balanced equation for the complete combustion of glucose is C6H12O6 plus 6O2 gives 6CO2 plus 6H2O, so one mole of glucose needs six moles of oxygen gas.

Albedo is the share of incoming sunlight a surface reflects back, and fresh snow reflects the most of any natural surface on land.

The Congress met in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the fighting at Lexington and Concord, and in June it appointed George Washington commander-in-chief of the newly created Continental Army.

The conference met in Bombay in 1931 and resolved that the depressed classes must be allowed to elect their own representatives through separate electorates, a demand Dr B. R. Ambedkar carried to the Second Round Table Conference in London the same year.

Setting up an institution in India means putting money into a real asset and running it, which is exactly what Foreign Direct Investment is.

Ultraviolet light is a transverse wave, not a longitudinal one, so this statement is the wrong one. In an electromagnetic wave the electric and magnetic fields vibrate at right angles to each other and to the direction the wave travels, which is the definition of a transverse wave.

An isohaline joins points of equal salinity on a map, and the name comes from the Greek halos, meaning salt.

Economists call something a public good when it has two features: it is non-rival, so one person's use does not reduce what is left for others, and non-excludable, so nobody can be kept out of the benefit.