General Knowledge Mock Test - 2 - CDS

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.

Limestone (caco₃) is the main raw material used in the manufacture of cement. Copper is goodconductor of electricity hence, it is used in electrical goods.Bauxite is an ore of Al. It is used in manufacture of aeroplanes. Manganese is used in steel industry toform manganese steel.

The flavour of apples is mainly due to the ethanol (c₂ H₂ OH)

Nail varnish remover generally contains acetone (CH₃COCH₃)

Marie Curie win her two different Noble prizes in two different category i.e., Physics and Chemistryfor the discovery of radium and polonium.

Chlorofluoro carbon  is also known as Freon. It is used as refrigerants in refrigerators andair conditions. It is also used as propellant in aerosols and foams.

German silver is an alloy of copper (25-50%), zinc (25–35%) and nickel (10-35%). It is used inutensils and resistance wire.

The tracking of people by trained dogs is based on the recognisation of carboxylic acid in the sweatfrom feet.

Fe and Mg metals are present in haemoglobin and chlorophyll respectively.

Reverse osmosis method is used to obtain pure water from water containing a salt or for desalinationof sea water.

The isotope of carbon  is used in radio carbon dating.

All enzymes are protein by composition but all proteins are not enzyme.

Thyroid gland is one of the largest endocrine glands which is present in the neck. It is responsible tocontrol body’s metabolism, temperature, appetite and muscle strength, etc.

Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) is not a component of biogas.

The blood group of father of the child could be A or B or O.

Sphygmomanometer is an instrument to measure the blood pressure. It is made up of an inflatableCut to restrict the blood flow and a mercury or manometer to measure pressure.

Water gas is a synthetic gas, having CO and H₂ The gas is produced by passing steam over a red hothydrocarbon fuel as coke.

Chikungunya is caused by chikungunya virus which is an insect borne virus of genus Alphavirus.
Symptoms show high fever, maculopapular rash, headache, etc.

Vitamin-C is enough in guava fruits. Vitamin-C helps in strengthening of immunity, serves as an
antioxidant and provides relief in hypertension too.

Vitamin-K adds in blood clotting. Vitamin-K acts as an essential cofactor for factor-II, VII, IX, X and
also for proteins Z, C and S.

Thyroid gland in human body contains iodine. Deficiency of iodine creates goitre disease, which isobserved by the enlargement of larynx.

Demands for Grants Committees are Departmentally Related Standing Committees. After the General
Discussion on the Budget is over, the House is adjourned for a fixed period. During this period, the
Demands for Grants of the Ministries/Departments are considered by the Committees. It is not a
parliamentary committee.

Money Bills can be introduced only in Lok Sabha. Money bills passed by the Lok Sabha are sent to the
Rajya Sabha. Rajya Sabha (Council of States) Cannot reject or amend this bill. It can only recommend
amendments.

According to Article 67, a Vice-President may be of States passed by a majority of all the thenmembers of the Council and agreed to by the House of the People.

In India, “the Emergency” refers to a 21-month period in 1975-77 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhiunilaterally had a state of emergency declared across the country. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was thePresident at that time.

Sarkaria Commission was set up in June 1983 to examine the relationship and balance of powerbetween state and central government.

A is false because the constitution without specifying the strength of the Commission has left thematter to the discretion of the president, who determines its composition. According to article 315, theUPSC consists of a chairman and other members appointed by the president of India. Articles 315 to 323of Part XIV of the constitution provide for a Public Service Commission for the Union and for each state.

Gulzarilal Nanda became the Prime Minister of India for two short periods following the deaths ofJawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966.

Two expert committees were established under former RBI Governor M. Narasimhan in 1991 and1998 to look into all aspects of the financial system in India. The report of this committee hadcomprehensive recommendations for financial sector reforms including the banking sector and capitalmarkets.

The Appropriation Bill is intended to give authority to Government to incur expenditure from and out of the Consolidated Fund of India. The procedure for passing this Bill is the same as in the case of other money Bills. An amendment of the Constitution can be initiated only by the introduction of a Bill in either House of Parliament. The procedure of amendment in the constitution is laid down in Part XX (Article 368) of the Constitution of India.

According to Article 243 (I) the governor of the state shall set up the Finance Commission within theperiod of one year. State Finance Commissions receive grants from the finance Commission that is set bythe central government.

The 2018 Krishi Kumbh International Conference and Exhibition will be held at Indian Institute ofSugarcane Research (Telibagh) in Lucknow from October 26, which will be organized by the Governmentof Uttar Pradesh.

Moody’s Investors Service has recently released its Global Macro Outlook for 2018-19. In it, theIndian economy is expected to grow by about 7.5% in 2018 and 2019 as it is largely resilient to externalpressures like those from higher oil prices.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently introduced Internal Ombudsman (IO) scheme 2018 totighten internal grievance redressal system at Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs). In it, RBI has givenstatutory powers to Internal Ombudsman (IO) under section 35 A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

The first round of the ‘two-plus-two dialogue’ between India and the US will be held in New Delhi onSeptember 6. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman willhold talks with their counterparts US Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo and Defence Secretary JamesN Mattis.

The Theosophical Society was formed by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, WilliamQuan Judge and others in November 1875 in New York. The aim of the society was to promote spiritualprinciples and search for truth known as Theosophy.

It was a significant battle fought between the forces under the command of the British East IndiaCompany on the one side and the combined army of Mir Kasim, the Nawab of Bangal, Nawab of Awadhand Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor. Mir Jafar was a puppet of British East India Company.

The Non-Cooperation Movement, 1920-22

Civil Disobedience Movement India, 1930-34)

The Quit India Movement, 1942

The Musalman is the oldest Urdulanguage daily newspaper published from Chennai in India. Thenewspaper was founded by Syed Asmatullah in 1927. The Musalman is possibly the only handwrittennewspaper in the world.

The Arthasastra is a treatise on Political philosophy. The book, written in Sanskrit, discusses theoriesand principles of governing a state. The meaning of Arthashastra is ‘Science of Polity’. It is written byKautilya.

The partition of Bangal took place on 16 October 1905. The Chauri Chaura incident occurred atChauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of the United Province, British India on 5 February 1922. Thefirst Round table conference was opened officially by King George V on November 12, 1930 in London.

Lord Dufferin was the viceroy of India at the time of the formation of India national Congress.

Government of India Act 1909 introduced separate and discriminatory electorates for Muslims. Thiswas for the first time that, electorate for returning to the representatives to the councils was decided onthe basis of class & community. For the central council, one more category Muslims was added. This wasfor the first time that the seats in the legislative bodies were reserved on the basis of religion for Muslims.This is called Communal representation.

The Treaty of Amritsar of 1809 was an agreement between the British East India Company and RanjitSingh, the Sikh leader who founded the Sikh empire. The treaty settled Indo-Sikh relations for ageneration. The immediate occasion was the French threat to northwestern India, following Napoleon’sTreaty of Tilsit with Russia (1807) and Ranjit Singh’s attempt to bring the Cis-Sutlej states under hiscontrol. The British wanted a defensive treaty against the French and control of Punjab to the SutlejRiver. Although this was not a defensive treaty, it did fix the frontier of lands controlled by Ranjit Singhbroadly along the line of the Sutlej River.

Ayushman Bharat -National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) is a centrally sponsored schemeunder Ayushman Bharat Mission. The scheme will provide insurance cover of Rs. 5 Lakh per family peryear. The scheme will benefit more than 10 crore families belonging to poor and vulnerable population.AB-NHPM will subsume the on-going centrally sponsored schemes –Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana(RSBY) and the Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS).

Floating rate bonds have variable interest rate and protect investors against a rise in interest rates (which have an inverse relationship with bond prices). They also carry lower yields than fixed notes of the same maturity

The indirect taxes like VAT etc are paid by everyone if they buy any product irrespective of financialconditions. Direct taxing is considered the most progressive taxing mechanisms because they justify theincome levels of the people.

The two week-long joint military exercise “Maitree 2018′ has started between Indian Army and RoyalThai Army in Thailand on August 6 with a focus on enhancing anti-terror cooperation between the twosides.

In 1886, copyright entered the international arena with the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (1926-1984) won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki in wrestling and was one of the first athletes from India to win a medal in the Olympics.

In 1976, Government of India launched a plan scheme called “Economic Census and Surveys”. In 1977 Central Statistical Organisation conducted First economic census in collaboration with the Directorate of Economics & Statistics (DES) in the States/Union Territories. Current Economic Census is Sixth Economic Census held in 2013. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) conducted the Sixth Economic Census during January, 2013 to April, 2014 in collaboration with Directorates of Economics and Statistics in all the States and Union Territories.

The Act requires the government to lay before the parliament three policy statements in eachfinancial year namely Medium Term Fiscal Policy Statement; Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement andMacroeconomic Framework Policy Statement.

As per economic survey 2007-2008 corporation tax is the largest source of revenue of theGovernment of India.

A self-regulatory organization (SRO) is a non-governmental organization that has the power to createand enforce industry regulations and standards. The priority is to protect investors through theestablishment of rules that promote ethics and equality.

According to The National Food for Work Programme, food subsidy should be better targetedthrough targeted public distribution system and specific programmes for the poor like Food for WorkProgramme. The National Food for Work Programme was launched on 14 November 2004 in 150 of themost backward districts of India with the objective of generating supplementary wage employment. ThePlanning commission is not a constitutional body.

Target of 11th Five Year Plan is to increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points.

The aim of 11th Five Year Plan is to connect every village by telephone and provide broadbandconnectivity to all villages by 2012.

The U.S. subprime mortgage crisis was a nationwide banking emergency that coincided with the U.S.recession of December 2007 – June 2009. It was triggered by a large decline in home prices, leading tomortgage delinquencies and foreclosures and the devaluation of housing-related securities. India has notonly shown greater resistance during financial crises but it was one of the countries showing the fastestrecovery too. This financial crisis displayed the robustness of Indian economy. It has also helped infurther fine-tuning our economic policies and changing the vision of various corporate.

Syndicate Bank. The symbol of dog implies that Bank is trustworthy and a friend. Its slogan is : Yourfaithful and friendly financial partner.

Attorney General of India is appointed by the President of India under Article 76(a) of theConstitution and holds office during the pleasure of the President.

The Human Right Commission consists of a chairman and other four members.  A person who is a retired Chief justice of the Supreme Court of India can only be appointed as the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission.

The 10th Schedule to the Indian Constitution is known as Anti-Defection Law. It was inserted by the52nd Amendment Act 1985 to the Constitution. It sets the provisions for disqualification of electedmembers on the grounds of defection to another political party.