CDS 2012 (1) ( held on 12.02.2012 )

Solved Question Paper - General Knowledge

1. Over 90% of the world’s biomass is in

  1. Tropical rain forest
  2. Freshwater wetlands
  3. Topsoils
  4. Oceans

2. Which one among the following is a source of methane emission into the atmosphere?

  1. Automobile exhaust fume
  2. Industrial chimney
  3. Mining
  4. Wetland

3. Which one among the following statement is not correct?

  1. Trophic dynamics represents the transfer of energy from one trophic level to another in a food chain
  2. In deeper parts of oceans, primary production remain almost nil
  3. The primary consumers are called autotrophs
  4. The decomposers are called saprotrophs

4. Carbon dioxide is called a greenhouse gas because

  1. Its concentration remains always higher than other gases
  2. It is used in photosynthesis
  3. It absorbs infrared radiation
  4. It emits visible radiation

5. The fossil of Archaeopteryx represents the evidence of origin of

  1. Birds from reptiles
  2. Mammals from reptiles
  3. Reptiles from amphibians
  4. Mammals from birds

6. Which of the following statements is/are correct?

  1. NIFTY is based upon 50 firms in India
  2. NIFTY is governed and regulated by the Reserve Bank of India
  3. NIFTY does not trade in mutual fund

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Code :

  1. 1 only
  2. 2
  3. 3 only
  4. 1 and 3

7. When the productive capacity of the economic system of a State is inadequate to create sufficient number of jobs, it is called

  1. Seasonal unemployment
  2. Structural unemployment
  3. Disguised unemployment
  4. Cyclical unemployment

8. Which one of the following is not a Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations?

  1. Eradicate extreme poverty
  2. Reduce birthrate and death rate
  3. Improve maternal health
  4. Promote gender equality

9. Fiscal policy in India is formulated by

  1. The Reserve Bank of India
  2. The Planning Commission
  3. The Finance Ministry
  4. The Securities and Exchange board of India

10. Which one among the following is not a clause of World Trade Organization?

  1. Most favoured nation treatment
  2. Lowering trade barriers with negotiations
  3. Providing financial support to the countries having deficit balance of payments
  4. Discouraging unfair trade practices such as anti-dumping and export subsides

11. Special Drawings Rights (SDRs) relate to

  1. The World Bank
  2. The Reserve Bank of India
  3. The World Trade Organization
  4. The International Monetary Fund

12. Which one among the following is not a landlocked country in Africa?

  1. Botswana
  2. Zambia
  3. Lesotho
  4. Nigeria

13. The imaginary line on the Earth’s surface that closely follows the 180o meridian is

  1. Prime meridian
  2. Equator
  3. International date line
  4. Tropic of cancer

14. The country that shares longest border with India is

  1. China
  2. Bangladesh
  3. Nepal
  4. Pakistan

15. The distance between two consecutive longitudes (91o E and 92o E) at the Poles is

  1. 0 km
  2. 18 km
  3. 25 km
  4. 111 km

16. Lack of atmosphere around the moon is due to

  1. Low escape velocity of air molecule and low gravitational attraction
  2. High escape velocity of air molecules and low gravitational attraction
  3. Low gravitational attraction only
  4. High escape velocity of air molecule only

17. Which one among the following correctly defines a unit magnetic pole in SI units?

  1. 1 foot from an equal and a similar pole repels it with a force of 1 pound
  2. 1 meter from an equal and a similar pole repels it with a force of 1 Newton
  3. 1 cm from an equal and a similar pole repels it with a force of 1 dyne
  4. 1 meter from an equal and a similar pole repels it with a force of 1 Newton/m2

18. After rising a short distance , the smooth column of smoke from a cigarette break ups into an irregular and random pattern. In a similar fashion , a stream of fluid flowing past an obstacles break ups into eddies and vortices which give the flow irregular velocity components transverse to the flow direction. Other examples include the waves left in water by moving ships, the sound produced by whistling and by wind instruments . These examples are the results of

  1. Laminar flow of air
  2. Streamline flow of air
  3. Turbulent flow of air
  4. Viscous flow at low speed

19. Two identical piano wires have same fundamental frequency when kept under the same tension. What will happen if tension of one of the wires is slightly increased and both the wires are made to vibrate simultaneously?

  1. Noise
  2. Beats
  3. Resonance
  4. Non linear effects

20. What is the major role of a greenhouse gas that contributes to temperature rise of the earth’s surface?

  1. Transparent to both incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared radiation
  2. Stops both incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared radiation
  3. Lets outgoing infrared radiation pass through but stops incoming sunlight
  4. Lets incoming sunlight pass through but stops outgoing infrared radiation