Today’s GK Test Quiz

The veena is the oldest of Indian musical instruments. From the reference to Vedic writings, it can date back to around the first millennium B.C.

Television was introduced in India on 15 September 1959 in Delhi, after British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began the first television service of the world in 1936. On 25 April 1982 Doordarshan had introduced to broadcast India's first-ever colour programme.

Xenobiotics which are inherently resistant to microbial attack are called as Recalcitrant.

Urease was the First Crystalline Enzyme and the Proof That Enzymes Are Proteins. The isolation and crystallization of urease by James Sumner, in 1926, provided a breakthrough in early enzyme studies.

The human-infective stage of malaria is sporozoites from the salivary gland of an infected mosquito. The sporozoites grow and multiply in the liver to become merozoites.

¹⁴C₆ is used in dating archaeological findings up to about 60,000 years old. Radiocarbon dating (carbon-14 dating) is a method used for dating archaeological findings by using the properties of radiocarbon (¹⁴C₆), a radioactive isotope of carbon.

Chlorine gas is not part of the Earth's atmosphere. Earth's atmosphere is composed of about 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon, and 0.1 percent other gases. Trace amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and neon are some of the other gases that make up the remaining 0.1 percent.

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

Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth's climate system observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth's atmosphere.

Part III of the Indian Constitution talks about Fundamental Rights. There are six fundamental rights (Article 14-32) recognised by the Indian constitution: the right to equality (Articles 14-18), the right to freedom (Articles 19-22), the right against exploitation (Articles 23-24), the right to freedom of religion (Articles 25-28), cultural and educational rights (Articles 29-30) and the right to constitutional remedies (Article 32 and 226).

Mahatma Gandhi's moral philosophies were based on Truth, Non-violence, Vegetarianism, Brahmhacharya, Simplicity and Faith. Thus Prohibition of the slaughter of cows in the Directive Principle is based on Gandhi's moral philosophy.

Inventory is the accounting of items, component parts and raw materials a company uses in production or sells.

A want turns into a demand just when it is supported by the capacity or the ability to buy. A want becomes a demand only when it is backed by the ability to purchase.

Revealed Preference Theory was propounded by American economist Paul Anthony Samuelson in 1938. This theory states that consumer behaviour, if their income and the item's price are held constant, is the best indicator of their preferences.

On November 1, 1858, a grand Darbar was held at Allahabad. Here Lord Canning sent forth the royal proclamation which announced that the queen had assumed the government of India. This proclamation declared the future policy of the British Rule in India.

Guglielmo Marconi sent out the first wireless signals in 1897. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory in 1900. Wright Brothers successfully flew an aircraft in 1903. Albert Einstein propounded the General Theory of Relativity in 1915.

Liquid water has one of the highest specific heat capacities among common substances, about 4184 J⋅kg⁻¹⋅K⁻¹ at 20°C; but that of ice, just below 0°C, is only 2093 J⋅kg⁻¹⋅K⁻¹. Hydrogen gas has more than three times (14300 J⋅kg⁻¹⋅K⁻¹) the specific heat as water under normal laboratory conditions.

Gravitational Force is the weakest of the four fundamental forces. Ordered from strongest to weakest, the forces are: 1) the strong nuclear force, 2) the electromagnetic force, 3) the weak nuclear force, and 4) Gravitational Force.

K2, at 8,611 metres above sea level, is the highest mountain in India and second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest. It lies in the Karakoram range, in part in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

The Panchayat Raj system was first introduced in Bihar by the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act of 1947. It was a continued legacy of local self-government started by Lord Ripon in the British era. Later it was implemented by Rajasthan in Nagaur district on 2 October 1959. Rajasthan was the first state to introduce the panchayat system in India after independence.