Today’s GK Test Quiz

Kalinga Prize is an international award given by UNESCO to reward exceptional contributions made by individuals in communicating science to society and promoting the popularization of science. It was created in 1952, following a donation from Biju Patnaik, Founder President of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India.

Gandhi composed his 'translation' of Plato's Apology while he was in South Africa. Gandhi was responding to political restrictions against the Indian community and was also influenced by John Ruskin's Unto This Last.

The most commonly used bleaching agent is chlorine. Chlorine can act as a bleaching agent due to the nascent oxygen it can produce in the reaction with water. Basically, one Cl atom gets oxidised and the other gets reduced when chlorine gas reacts with water.

Major pollutants of cigarette smoke are Carbon monoxide (CO) and benzene (C₆H₆). Carbon monoxide is emitted in high concentrations in cigarette smoke. Benzene in cigarette smoke accounts for half of all human exposure to a cancer-causing toxin. Cigarette smoke includes carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, benzene, formaldehyde, nicotine, etc.

The main gases responsible for the greenhouse effect include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor (which all occur naturally), and fluorinated gases (which are synthetic). Bacteria are responsible for both the production and consumption of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO₂), nitrous oxide (N₂O) and methane (CH₄).

Biological oxygen demand (BOD) generally represents how much oxygen is needed to break down organic matter in water. Clean water has BOD which is less than 5 ppm.

In cricket, a beamer is a type of delivery in which the ball, without bouncing, passes above the batsman's waist height.

The Speaker has a casting vote in the event of a tie. It is customary for the Presiding Officer to exercise the casting vote in such a manner as to maintain the status quo.

Rongali Bihu is a traditional aboriginal ethnic festival celebrated in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam and other parts of northeastern India by the indigenous ethnic groups of Assam, and marks the beginning of the Assamese New Year.

Tripitaka is a traditional term used for various Buddhist scriptures. The three pitakas are Sutta Pitaka, Vinaya Pitaka and Abhidhamma Pitaka. The Upanishads are late Vedic Sanskrit texts of Hindu philosophy which form the foundations of Hinduism. Angas are 45 sacred Jain texts based on the tirthankara's discourse. The Aranyakas are part of the ancient Indian Vedas.

Pandit Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee was an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana.

GNP (Gross national product) includes what is produced domestically and what is produced by domestic labour and business abroad in a year. NNP (Net national product) is GNP minus depreciation. Depreciation is the process by which capital ages over time and therefore loses its value.

There are forty sites/monuments of India in the list of UNESCO World Heritage. Out of 40 sites, 32 are cultural, seven are natural and one is a mixed property. 32 cultural sites are: Agra Fort, Ajanta Caves, Archaeological Site of Nalanda, Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Churches and Convents of Goa, Dholavira Harappan City, Elephanta Caves, Ellora Caves, Fatehpur Sikri, Great Living Chola Temples, Group of Monuments at Hampi, Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, Group of Monuments at Pattadakal, Hill Forts of Rajasthan, Historic City of Ahmadabad, Humayun's Tomb Delhi, Jaipur City, Ramappa Temple, Khajuraho Monuments, Mahabodhi Temple Bodh Gaya, Mountain Railways of India, Qutb Minar, Rani-ki-Vav at Patan, Red Fort Complex, Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, Sun Temple, Taj Mahal, The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, The Jantar Mantar and Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai.

Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish pharmacist, botanist and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms 'gene', and for his 1903 'pure line' experiments in genetics.

During the reign of Alauddin Khilji, 'amils' were government agents to collect land revenue. The amil was responsible for collection of revenue with the assistance of the village headman, who was paid a commission of 2.5% of the collections of the full rental.

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Radiocarbon Dating (carbon-14 dating) is used to estimate the age of fossils. It is a method of age determination that depends upon the decay to nitrogen of radiocarbon (carbon-14).

Due to the presence of pores (narrow space) in the wick, capillary action takes place, which makes the oil rise in the wick. Capillary action is the process of a liquid flowing in a narrow space without the assistance of, or even in opposition to, any external forces like gravity.

Longitudinal waves such as sound cannot travel through the vacuum as they need a medium to travel. Light and other types of electromagnetic waves are considered transverse waves. These waves travel through a vacuum as they do not need a medium for their propagation.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is the regulatory body for the securities and commodity market in India under the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It was established on 12 April 1988 and given Statutory Powers on 30 January 1992 through the SEBI Act, 1992.