Today’s GK Test Quiz

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) were contemporary naturalists who proposed a similar theory of organic evolution. Wallace greatly admired On the Origin of Species. In turn, Darwin regarded Wallace as the one man who truly understood the idea of evolution by natural selection.

Vitamin E is particularly important for the normal activity of sex glands as it improves blood flow and oxygen to sexual organs. It is an antioxidant that helps to maintain healthy skin, eyes and hormonal balance. It also enhances immune function and prevents clots from forming in heart arteries.

The Ain-i-Akbari is a 16th-century detailed document recording the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abul Fazl in the Persian language.

The amount of chlorine available in water after disinfection is called as residual chlorine. Typically chlorine doses to final treated waters are in the range 0.2–2.0 mg/l of free chlorine to give a residual of about 0.02–0.3 mg/l at the consumer's tap.

Hydrogen bomb is based on the principle of uncontrolled fusion reaction. A hydrogen bomb (also called thermonuclear bomb) is an uncontrolled fusion reaction in which enormous amounts of energy are released.

A country is landlocked if it has no access to any oceans or seas. As an example, Austria is landlocked. France is not landlocked because it has access to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean. A sea is also landlocked if does not have access to an ocean. As an example, the Aral Sea is landlocked.

Articles 352, 356 and 360 of the Constitution of India deals with Emergency Provisions. Article 352 provides the provision of National Emergency. Under Article 356, the Union government can take direct control of the state machinery. Article 360 has provisions of financial emergency.

The Fundamental Duty, given in Article 51A of the Indian Constitution clearly mentions the duty of the citizen to protect the environment. As of now, there are 11 Fundamental duties.

The 8th Schedule to the Constitution consists of the following 22 languages: 1. Assamese, 2. Bengali, 3. Gujarati, 4. Hindi, 5. Kannada, 6. Kashmiri, 7. Konkani, 8. Malayalam, 9. Manipuri, 10. Marathi, 11. Nepali, 12. Oriya, 13. Punjabi, 14. Sanskrit, 15. Sindhi, 16. Tamil, 17. Telugu, 18. Urdu 19. Bodo, 20. Santhali, 21. Maithili and 22. Dogri.

Part IV of the Constitution of India (Article 36–51) contains the Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP). Article 37 of the Indian Constitution States the application of the Directive Principles. These principles aim at ensuring socio-economic justice to the people and establishing India as a Welfare State.

Article 312 of the Indian constitution deals with the creation of the All-India Services. The All India Services comprises three civil services namely the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the Indian Police Service (IPS), and the Indian Forest Service (IFS).

High infant mortality rate, high death rate and high birth rate, along with low life expectancy rate are some characteristics of the population of a Developing country.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) sits in The Hague (Netherlands). ICJ is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, established in June 1945. It is composed of 15 judges elected to nine-year terms of office by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council.

A committee declared the formation of the Congress' defence team for the soldiers of the Indian National Army and included famous lawyers of the time, including Bhulabhai Desai, Asaf Ali, Jawaharlal Nehru, Tej Bahadur Sapru, Kailash Nath Katju and Lt. Col Horilal Varma Bar at Law.

The province of Bengal was partitioned into largely Muslim eastern areas and largely Hindu western areas. Announced on 19th July 1905 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India, and implemented on 16 October 1905, it was undone a mere six years later.

If the force is held constant the pressure is inversely proportional to the area (Pressure = force/area). Here area of the nail is much greater than the area of the needle. Thus, needle exerts more pressure than nail on the balloon.

Temperature does not affect speed of light. Light is an electromagnetic wave and does not need any material medium to propagate.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati is the founder of Arya Samaj in 1875. He was a social reformer. He gave a slogan 'Go back to the Vedas'. He gave equal right and respect of all peoples and religion.

The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is a statutory body set up by an Act of Parliament of India. It is under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying. The main office is in Anand, Gujarat.

The Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia) is the longest railway in the world. It was built between 1891 and 1916 to connect Moscow with the Far-East city of Vladivostok (9,198 km).