Today’s GK Test Quiz

India has 15,106.7 Km of land border and a coastline of 7,516.6 Km including island territories. The length of our land borders with neighbouring countries (in Km) is: Bangladesh 4,096.7, China 3,488, Pakistan 3,323, Nepal 1,751, Myanmar 1,643, Bhutan 699 and Afghanistan 106.

The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics is an institution of basic research and training in physical and biophysical sciences located in Kolkata. The institute is named after the famous Indian physicist Meghnad Saha.

The crops grown after the summer monsoon are called Rabi. Rabi crops are sown in winter and harvested in the summer season.

Megasthenes was the Greek ambassador who visited India sometime between 302 BCE and 288 BCE. He was an ambassador of Seleucus Nicator I, in the court of Chandragupta Maurya. He described India in his book Indika.

Sweat glands in mammals are primarily concerned with thermoregulation. Its main function is to control body temperature. As the water in the sweat evaporates, the surface of the skin cools.

Unto This Last is an essay and book on economy by John Ruskin, first published between August and December 1860 in the monthly journal Cornhill Magazine in four articles. The book greatly influenced the nonviolent activist Mohandas Gandhi.

Pyroligneous acid, also called wood vinegar or wood acid, is a dark liquid produced by the destructive distillation of wood and other plant materials. The principal components of pyroligneous acid are 10% acetic acid, acetone and methanol.

Tear gas is a chemical compound that causes temporary skin, respiratory, and eye irritation. Chloropicrin (CCl₃NO₂) is one of the constituents of tear gas. Chloropicrin has been used in chemical warfare and as tear gas.

Golak Nath's case (Golaknath vs the State Of Punjab) was a 1967 Indian Supreme Court case, in which the Court ruled that Parliament could not curtail any of the Fundamental Rights in the Constitution.

At present, the retirement age is 65 years for Supreme Court judges and 62 years for high court judges.

On an occasion, Gandhi had explained that for him a true Ram Rajya means to ensure “equal rights to both prince and pauper”.

The statement “Supply creates its own demand” is given by Prof JB Say. Say's Law was later simply summarized by economist John Maynard Keynes in his 1936 book, General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

4. Treaty of Salbai (17 May 1782); 3. Treaty of Seringapatam (18 March 1792); 2. Treaty of Bassein (31 Dec 1802); 1. Treaty of Amritsar (16 March 1846)

1. Prarthana Samaj: 1860s (Dadoba Pandurang and his brother Atmaram Pandurang)
2. Brahmo Samaj: 1828 (Ram Mohan Roy)
3. Arya Samaj: 1875 (Dayananda Saraswati)
4. Rama Krishna Mission: 1897 (Swami Vivekananda)

Congress held a special session in Calcutta in September 1920 under the presidentship of Lala Lajpat Rai. It met to pass the resolution of the Non-Cooperation Movement.

Farad is the unit of electrical capacitance (ability to hold an electric charge), in the MKS system of physical units. It is named in honour of the English scientist Michael Faraday.

When the ice was floating, the volume of water displaced had a mass equal to that of ice. After melting, that mass of ice has been converted into water. Therefore, there is no change in water level.

Bats can fly in the dark because they generate ultrasonic sound waves. Bats are guided by ultrasonic waves which they produce and enable them to fly in the dark.

The first engineering college was established in present-day Uttarakhand at Roorkee in the year 1847 for the training of Civil Engineers.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as the father of Indian nationalism and the prophet of Indian nationalism. He started the Brahmo Samaj in 1828. He also started the Atmiya Sabha by attracting the youth of Calcutta and fighting against religious and social evils.