SOLVED PAPER 2022 (CDS) (I) (General Awareness)

Total Questions: 120

51. In which one of the following years was the first telegraphic connection established between Europe and India?

Correct Answer: (c) 1865
Solution:Telegraphic communication with India was first established in 1865 by overland telegraph lines from Europe to the top of the Persian Gulf and then by an undersea cable to Karachi but the overland section was never satisfactory, prompting efforts to lay more reliable cables below the sea.

52. Who among the following was the founder of the Virashaiva Movement in Karnataka ?

Correct Answer: (a) Basavanna
Solution:The Virashaiva Movement began in Karnataka in the mid-twelfth century. It was initiated by Basavanna and his companions like Allama Prabhu and Akkamahadevi. This movement strongly argued for the equality of all human beings. It was against Brahmanical ideas about caste and the treatment of women. They were also against all forms of ritual and idol worship.

53. The ruins of Hampi were brought to light by which of the following British officers of the East India Company?

Correct Answer: (a) Colonel Colin Mackenzie
Solution:The ruins at Hampi were brought to light in 1800 by an engineer and antiquarian named Colonel Colin Mackenzie. An employee of the English East India Company, he prepared the first survey map of the site.

54. Which one of the following works was composed by Krishnadevaraya on statecraft in Telugu ?

Correct Answer: (a) Amuktamalyada
Solution:Krishnadevaraya, the most famous ruler of Vijayanagara, composed a work on statecraft in Telugu known as the Amuktamalyada. He wrote that a king should improve the harbors of his country and encourage its commerce.

55. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists.

List-I (Soil Type)List-II (Salient Characteristic)
A. Entisols1. Soils having weakly or quickly developed horizons
B. Inceptisols2. Weakly developed soils with no horizons
C. Histosols3. These soils are very old and highly weathered
D. Oxisols4. These soils have very high quantity of organic matter in the upper layers.

 

Code:ABCD
(a)2143
(b)2413
(c)3412
(d)3142
Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:

Entisols: Weakly developed soils with no horizons. Entisols lack any other layer except for the A-horizon. They are unaltered from their parents' rock. This is a very diverse group of soils with one thing in common, little profile (horizon) development.

Inceptisols: Soils having weakly or quickly developed horizons. These soils are in the beginning stages of soil profile development. The differences between horizons are just beginning to appear.

Histosols: There soils have a very high quantity of organic matter in the upper layers. Organic matter (20-30%) and are 40 cm thick.

Oxisols: There are highly weathered and old soil with the subsurface horizon being highly oxidised. Key processes include leaching and weathering.

56. A peripediment in a desert or semi-desert region is also known as

Correct Answer: (c) Bajada
Solution:The depositional feature is made up of alluvial material laid down by intermittent streams. A peripediment in a desert or semi-desert region is also known as Bajada. Option (c) is correct.

57. Individual lava flows are normally only a few feet thick, but over a long period of time, repeated flows may build up a volcano. Such volcanoes are termed as

Correct Answer: (a) Shield volcano
Solution:A Shield volcano is characterised by gentle upper slopes (about 50) and somewhat steeper lower slopes (about 100). Shield volcanoes are composed almost entirely of relatively thin lava and are built by many layers over time and the layers are usually of very similar composition.

58. Isohalines are lines joining equal

Correct Answer: (d) salinity
Solution:Isohaline is the line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.

59. Which one of the following would be considered as Foreign Direct Investment?

Correct Answer: (d) A foreign entity setting up an educational institution in India.
Solution:A foreign entity setting up an educational institution in India would be considered as Foreign Direct Investment. A Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is an investment made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests located in another country.

FDI lets an investor purchase a direct business interest in a foreign country.

Some common ones include establishing a subsidiary in another country, acquiring or merging with an existing foreign company, etc.

60. Which one of the following does not influence quantity demanded for a good?

Correct Answer: (d) Prices of inputs into production of the good
Solution:Price of inputs into production of the good effects the price of a good. The quantity demanded for a good is influence by good's own price, price of a complementary good and price of a substitute good.