General Knowledge Mock Test - 5 - CDS MCQ

The first statement is correct. The existence of a ploughed field was found at Kalibangan. In Banawali, terracotta ploughs were found. 

​Statements I is correct. Krishna Veda (Black) and Sulka Veda (White) are part of Yajur Veda. Gayatri Mantra is found in Rig Veda. 

The first statement is correct. The Calcutta session (1906) saw 4 resolutions passed – Bengal Partition, Swaraj, Swadeshi and Boycott. The Belgaum session of INC (1924) was presided by M.K Gandhi. It was the only INC session presided by Gandhi. The Surat session (1907) saw the split of Extremists and the Moderates in the INC.

Several political groups active during the Indian Independence Movement were opposed to the Quit India Movement. These included the Muslim League, the Hindu Mahasabha, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Communist Party of India and the princely states as below:
The Cripps Mission had failed, and on August 1942, Gandhi made a call to Do or Die in his Quit India speech delivered in Bombay at the Gowalia Tank Maidan. Aruna Asaf Ali is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement, 1942.

The Shikhara is the curvilinear tower which is present over the garbagriha. The Nagara style does not possess any elaborate gateways or large boundary walls. Amalaka is the disc like structure present at the top of temples. 

Both statement is correct. Amaravati art is influenced by Hellenistic art like Gandhara or Mathura art. It follows a narrative style of art. . 

All the statements are correct. Ajanta caves mainly has Buddhist works in nature. They contain the forms of Padmapani and Vajrapani Bodhisattva. Maheshmurti sculpture is present in Elephanta caves. Ellora caves consist of Brahmanical, Jain and Buddhist art forms. 

​The Nehru Report was published in 1928, which was a draft Constitution regarding India’s self-governance. The Cripps mission of March, 1942 offered the proposal of dominion status to India after conclusion of the World War II. Quit India Movement started in August 1942, after the failure of Cripps mission to appease the Indian demand for freedom. Wavell Plan, was produced in Shimla conference of 1945, to break the deadlock between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress. 

All the statements are correct. Navadhyaksha was the superintendent of ships. The Samaharta was the collector of revenue for the whole of the Mauryan Empire. Sannidhata was the officer-in-charge of the treasury and store. 

​The Third Buddhist council was presided over by Mogaliputta Tissa at Pataliputra. 

​The Koppen Climate Classification System is the most widely used system for classifying the world's climates. Its categories are based on the annual and monthly averages of temperature and precipitation. 

In the savanna climate there is a distinct dry season, which is in the winter. Savannas get all their rain in the summer months. There is an annual precipitation of 10 to 30 inches. In a Savanna the temperature does not change a lot during the year, but daily range is high during the winter season. 

​Malik Muhammad Jayasi belonged to 16th century while Moinuddin Chisti was predecessor of Nizamuddin Aualiya and had died much before Khiljis. Khusro was his and his uncle's contemporary and was a student of Nizamuddin Aualia. 

The delta formed by the Krishna River along with the delta formed by the Godavari River is called Rice Granary of South India. 

​All given statements are correct. Important points of the Wood’s despatch are:
(i) It wanted to educate Indian people in order to create a class of civil servants
(ii) It wanted to impart Western knowledge and information about Western Culture to the Indian people
(iii) An education department was to be set in every province
(iv) Universities on the model of the London University to be established in cities such as Bombay, Calcutta and Madras
(v) It proposed to establish at-least one government school in every district. 

​The Chola kingdom grew under Rajaraja into an extensive and well-knit empire, efficiently organized and administered and possessing a powerful standing army and navy. Rajaraja I began his conquests by attacking the confederation between the rulers of the Pandya and Kerala kingdoms and of Ceylon. Polonnaruva became the capital of Chola province in North Ceylon after the defeat of Mahinda V, the Ceylonese king. He also annexed the Maldives.

​Calcutta Unitarian Committee was establiished by Raja Ram Mohan Roy. On 24th January 1868 Keshab Chandra Sen laid the foundation stone of his mandir called the Tabernacle of New Dispensation. The Indian Reform Association was formed on 29 October 1870 with Keshub Chunder Sen as president. It represented the secular side of the Brahmo Samaj. 

​Taniyur, is a large village under Chola administrative division and Eripatti, is name of a place in Tamilnadu. Ghatikas and Mathas were colleges/schools attached to temples.

Kalidasa’s Malavikagnimitram is based on some events of the reign of Pushyamitra Shunga. The play tells the story of the love of Agnimitra, the Shunga Emperor at Vidisha. 

All 3 are tributaries of Brahmaputra. All are major tributaries of Brahmaputra along with Subansiri.

​Advantages and Disadvantages of Drip Irrigation: Maximum use of available water, No water being available to weeds, Maximum crop yield, High efficiency in the use of fertilizers, Less weed growth and restricts population of potential hosts, Low labour and relatively low operation cost, No soil erosion, Improved infiltration in soil of low intake, Ready adjustment to sophisticated automatic control, No runoff of fertilizers into ground water, Less evaporation losses of water as compared to surface irrigation, Improves seed germination, Decreased to tillage operations. 

Kharai camels found in the Kutch region are very unique. They can swim through deep sea waters and it feeds on mangroves and other saline plants. The breeders have meticulously followed the traditional grazing pattern in the coastal districts. They do not provide special housing or shelter to the camels. Given the breed’s ability to survive both on land and sea, the Kharai camel is one of the most preferred choices of graziers in the arid coastal region of Kachchh. People. It can be domesticated also – so its not wild. 

Red sanders is a tree of south India, and found in deciduous forest of India. It is used in traditional herbal medicine as an antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, tonic, hemorrhage, dysentery, aphrodisiac, anti-hyperglycaemic and diaphoretic. 

Great hornbills are found in the forests of Nepal, India, Mainland Southeast Asia and Indonesian Island of Sumatra. In South Asia they are found in a few forest areas in the Western Ghats and in the forests along the Himalayas. They occur in primary evergreen and moist deciduous forest, mainly in lowland forest, but they can be found up to 2,000 meters in some areas. In north-east India, they are generally not recorded above 1000 m. They are also seen in selectively logged forests and plantations close to larger forests.

​Statement I and III are correct. UNFCCC deals with climate change and individual countries. United Nations program for overcoming desertification under the convention UNCCD. Africa has major focus under this. 

Identified shale-gas formations are spread over several sedimentary basins of the country, such as Cambay, Gondwana, Krishna Godavari Onland, and Cauvery. 

​Air quality index takes into account Particulate matter-10 and 2.5, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, Ammonia and Lead. National Ambient Air Quality by Ministry of Environment categorises air pollution into 6 categories by considering 8 pollutants. These pollutants are PM 10, PM2.5, NO2, SO2, CO, O3, NH3 and PB. Methane CH4 is not in list. These 8 pollutants are referred for measuring Air Quality Index in India. 

​Viruses are can infect all living organisms plants animals and micro-organisms. 

The Bhitarkanika Mangroves are a mangrove wetland in India's Orissa state. The Bhitarkanika Mangroves cover an area of 650 km2 in the river delta of the Brahmani and Baitarani rivers.

To qualify as a hotspot, a region must meet two strict criteria: it must contain at least 1,500 species of vascular plants (> 0.5 percent of the world’s total) as endemics, and it has to have lost at least 70 percent of its original habitat. So we choose Species richness as well as Endemism. Along with this Threat perception is necessary to take, because it makes the base of this concept. Adaptation of flora is an arbitrary option, Ethno-botanical importance does nothing with the Biodiversity Hotspot selection criteria, vegetation Density is also discarded.