General Knowledge Mock Test - 2 - CDS MCQ

The Moist deciduous forests are more pronounced in the regions which record rainfall between 100
200cm. These forests are found in the northeastern states along the foothills of Himalayas, eastern slopes
of the Western Ghats and Odisha. Tropical moist deciduous forest covers around 37% of the total cover in
India which is the largest occupied area among 16 different forest types of the country.

The National Forestry Action Plan aims to bring 33% of land area in India under tree cover by 2012.

Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar is on the Rihand River which is the tributary of the Son River.

The Nanda Devi National Park is a national park situated around the peak of Nanda Devi (7, 816 m). Itis situated in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand.

Montreal is Situated on the bank of river st. lowrence.

1. Edmanton-Canada
2. Kimberley-South Africa
3. Cardiff-United Kingdom
4. Cairns-Australia.

Bass Strait is a sea strait which separates Tasmania from the Australian mainland.

Selvas is a tropical rain forest found in the Amazon basin of South America.

The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, It connects the Mediterranean Sea and theRed Sea. On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was opened to navigation.

The Luni is a river of western Rajasthan state. It originates in the Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Rangenear Ajmer and ends in Ram of Kutch in Gujarat.

Akbar ruled with a social and religious toleration that was relative, not absolute, and was based onhis concept of sulh-i-kul (for the general good of all people) which built on his liberal views of religion.Akbar took the Sufi mystic notion of sulh-i-kul and transformed it to become a principle denoting amitywithin a culturally pluralistic India.

Narasimhadeva I (AD 1238-1264) was the king of Ganga dynasty.

The Indian National Calendar, sometimes called the Saka calendar, is the official civil calendar in use
in India. Saka Calendar begins on 22 March every year except in leap years when it starts on 23 March.
The Kushana emperor Kanishka is credited with the initiation of the Saka era on his accession to the
throne in 78 AD.

Lord Mountbatten was preceded by C Rajgopalachari. Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India
(1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent Dominion of India (1947-48).

Under the leadership of Gandhiji, the Civil Disobedience Movement was launched in AD 1930. It
began with the Dandi March. On 12 March 1930, Gandhiji with some of his followers left the Sabarmati
Ashram at Ahmedabad and made their way towards Dandi, a village on the west coast of India. Here,
Gandhiji protested against the Salt Law (salt was a monopoly of the government and no one was allowed
to make salt) by making salt himself and throwing up a challenge to the British government.

After 1857 Lord Canning announced at a Darbar at Allahabad, the assumption of the Govt. of India by
the sovereign of great Britain.

1. Third Carnatic War (1756-1763)
2. The First Anglo-Mysore War – (1767-1769)
3. The First Anglo-Burmese War – (1824-1826)
4. The Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880)

Lord William Bentinck was the first governor General of India.

The 23rd Session (1907) of the Congress was held at Surat. In the session, there was an open clashbetween the Moderates and the Extremists and ultimately it led to a split in the Congress.

The “Grand Old Man of India” Dadabhai Naoroji initiated establishment of East India Association atLondon.

Jagdish Chandra Bose was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London for his contribution inthe field of Plant Physiology and Physics.

Steam burns are more serious than burns from boiling water even though both are at 100°C because
when steam condenses it give up very high heat energy i.e. additional 22.6 × 〖10〗^6 joule of heat
(latent that of vapourisation) compared to boiling water.

The rays of light are scattered by the fog droplets due to which it become difficult to see through fog.

Density of water is maximum at 4°C.

Edwin Hubble gave the first evidence of the big-bang theory.

By law of reflection, angle of incidence i is equal to angle of reflection rTotal deviation of ray = 30° + 30° = 60°

To keep the outside heat away, windows of double-pane glass with air in between is the best choicebecause air is the bad conductor of heat.

To keep the outside heat away, windows of double-pane glass with air in between is the best choicebecause air is the bad conductor of heat.

Rocket works on the principle of conservation of linear momentum.

In a pressure cooker while cooking pressure increases due to which boiling point of water alsoincreases as P ∝ T.