UPSC CAPF Previous Year GK Questions

On the frontier all resources are fully and efficiently used, so producing more of one good is possible only by giving up some of the other.

India's mobile telecom market is served by a handful of large operators, each big enough that its tariffs affect the others.

Salt crystal growth breaks rock by pressure alone, without changing its minerals, so it is a type of physical (mechanical) weathering.

When oxygen runs short during hard exercise, muscle cells break glucose down anaerobically, and lactic acid is the by-product. In glycolysis, which takes place in the cytoplasm, one molecule of glucose splits into two molecules of pyruvate and yields a little ATP.

The Third Round Table Conference met in London in November 1932 without the Congress, and its work led to the Government of India Act, 1935.

Both statements are true, and the magnetic field set up by the current (Statement II) is exactly why the compass needle turns (Statement I).

The printed maximum retail price is the most a seller may charge, so it works as an upper limit, a price ceiling.

The terms of employment, such as regular jobs, fixed hours and legal protection, decide whether work belongs to the organized or the unorganized sector.

The pancreas pours amylase, trypsin and lipase into the duodenum in its juice, so all three classes of food are digested there.

Article 20(1) bars ex post facto criminal laws, so a legislature cannot make a criminal law apply retrospectively. Article 20 gives protection in respect of conviction for offences.

This statement is false: Saurashtra was a Gupta province after Chandragupta II defeated the Western Kshatrapas. Chandragupta II (Vikramaditya) ended the rule of the Shaka Western Kshatrapas in Gujarat and Malwa around the end of the fourth century, adding Saurashtra and the western ports to the empire.

In Keynes's consumption function, consumption rises as income rises, so the curve slopes upward.

Adam Smith used the "invisible hand" for the way free markets, guided by prices, turn private self-interest into a benefit for society.

Lymph is plasma that has leaked out of the capillaries, and red blood cells are too large to pass through the capillary walls.

First generation rights are civil and political rights, but solidarity rights are the third generation, not the second. The idea of three generations of human rights was put forward by the Czech-French jurist Karel Vasak in 1977, linked to the French slogan of liberty, equality and fraternity.

Since 2010 the UNDP measures the education dimension of the HDI with mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling.

Money must work as a medium of exchange, serve as a unit of account and be easy to divide; a higher value in other uses is not required.

Urea is the form in which the body gets rid of the nitrogen left over when amino acids from proteins are broken down.

Of the four States listed, Tamil Nadu has the most seats in the Rajya Sabha, 18. The Council of States (Rajya Sabha) is the upper house of Parliament.

Agriculture uses natural resources directly, and services are the tertiary sector. Economic activities are grouped into three main sectors.