Today’s GK Test Quiz

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War were foundational in her views about sanitation.

In Bacteria generally hormone is not found but it can produce hormones that can affect host metabolism, immunity and behavior.

Hashish is a drug made by compressing and processing parts of the cannabis plant, typically focusing on flowering buds (female flowers) containing the most trichomes.

Hypothalamus is the gland that holds the body's thermostat. It is involved in different daily activities like eating or drinking, in the control of the body's temperature and energy maintenance, and in the process of memorizing and in stress control. It acts as the body's smart control coordinating centre.

The most influential social-contract theorists were the 17th-18th century philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Noble gas (also called inert gases) is any of the seven chemical elements that exhibit great stability and extremely low reaction rates. The elements are helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), radon (Rn), and oganesson (Og). Hydrogen is not a noble gas.

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.

Wax used for making candles is chemically a mixture of aliphatic hydrocarbons. This means that it's composed of compounds with a carbon backbone and hydrogen atoms that dangle off of the backbone. An aliphatic compound or aliphatic hydrocarbon contains hydrogen and carbon atoms linked together in straight chains.

Amicus Curiae is a legal Latin phrase, literally translated as a friend of the court, that refers to someone, not a party to a case, who volunteers to offer information on a point of law or some other aspect of the case to assist the court in deciding a matter before it.

Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution of India are the part of Constitutional Right to Equality. Article 15 secures the citizens from every sort of discrimination by the State, on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth or any of them.

Article 37 says that Directive Principles are not enforceable but are fundamental to the Governance of the Country, and the State has the duty in applying the Directive Principles of State Policies (DPSPs). If they are not acted upon by the State, no one can move the Courts.

The Supreme Court is a central authority body and is responsible for the protection of citizens Fundamental rights. It is a part of the Judiciary.

The national income of a country is total productive income. It can be defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced in the economy in a year.

The services sector is the largest sector of India. Gross Value Added (GVA) at current prices for the services sector is estimated at 96.54 lakh crore INR in 2020-21. The services sector accounts for 53.89% of total India's GVA of 179.15 lakh crore Indian rupees. With GVA of ₹46.44 lakh crore, the Industry sector contributes 25.92%. While Agriculture and allied sector share 20.19%.

Usefulness is the benefit that is derived by consuming a commodity whereas utility is the want satisfying power of a commodity. A commodity having utility need not be useful.

IMF (established in 1944), WHO (established in 1948), ILO (established in 1919) and FAO (established in 1945) are United Nations agencies.

The sky appears blue when the scattering of light takes place. As there is no atmosphere in space and hence light does not scatter into its constituent colours that is why the sky appears dark instead of blue to an astronaut in space.

Superconductors are those elements whose resistance falls almost to zero at very low temperatures. Superconductivity is complete disappearance of electrical resistance in various solids when they are cooled below a characteristic temperature.

A metal plate with a circular hole at the centre is heated, then the hole will expand in the same ratio as the metal. This is because the metal plate does not expand radially from the hole, it expands along the circumference i.e. the circumference of the ring expands in the same ratio as the width of the plate.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan held the office of the Vice President of India for two consecutive terms. He served as the first Vice-President of India. His office tenure as the first Vice-President was from May 13th 1952 to May 12th 1962.