Today’s GK Test Quiz

Ranthambore National Park is a vast wildlife reserve near the town of Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. Gir Forest National Park is a wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat. Bandipur National Park is in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-born American biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. Har Gobind Khorana made important contributions to this field by building different RNA chains with the help of enzymes.

The pituitary gland is sometimes called the 'master gland' of the endocrine system because it controls the functions of many of the other endocrine glands. It is located at the base of the brain.

Dengue viruses (DENV) are the causative organism of dengue fever. They are transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito.

Marble is a metamorphic rock formed when limestone is exposed to high temperatures and pressures.

The Sahara is a desert on the African continent. It is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.

Tropical storm in the Chinese Sea is known as Typhoon. It is the most intense typhoon in the South China Sea in the month of May. Tropical Cyclones also known as Hurricanes in the Atlantic.

The tundra climate region occurs between 60° and 75° of latitude, mostly along the Arctic coast of North America, Eurasia (Europe and Asia) and on the coastal margins of Greenland.

National income is the sum total value of all goods and services produced in the country during a period of one year.

A prime cost is the total direct costs of production, including raw materials and labour. Indirect costs, such as utilities, manager salaries, and delivery costs, are not included in prime costs. The prime cost equation is equal to the cost of raw materials plus direct labour. All the prime costs are variable costs and they are directly attributable. They do not include indirect variable costs and any fixed costs.

The United Nations (UN) was established after World War II on October 24, 1945. It is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Herodotus (484-425/413 BCE) was a Greek writer who invented the field of study known today as history. He was called 'The Father of History' by the Roman writer and orator Cicero for his famous work The Histories.

The Indian National Congress, on 19 December 1929, passed the historic 'Purna Swaraj' – (total independence) resolution – at its Lahore session. The newly adopted tricolour flag was unfurled at this session of the Indian National Congress.

The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi in March–April 1930.

In this case the given equation shows that the velocity is linear with time and therefore the particle is moving with constant acceleration. If you travel with a constant acceleration, your velocity is always changing, but it's changing by a consistent amount each second.

Narinder Singh Kapany (1926 – 2020) was an Indian-American physicist best known for his work on fiber optics. He is credited with inventing fiber optics, and is considered the 'Father of Fiber Optics'.

The Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay On 28 December 1885. A.O. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was elected president.

The Four Asian Tigers are the high-growth economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Fuelled by exports and rapid industrialization, the Four Asian Tigers have consistently maintained high levels of economic growth since the 1960s, and have collectively joined the ranks of the world's wealthiest nations.

The bee hummingbird is a species of Humming Bird which is the world's smallest bird. It is native to Cuba.

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.