Today’s GK Test Quiz

Mizoram is a landlocked state in North East India whose southern part shares 722 kilometres long international borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, and northern part share domestic borders with Manipur, Assam and Tripura.

Bengaluru is widely regarded as the “Silicon Valley of India” because of its role as the nation's leading information technology (IT) exporter.

Black soils are most suitable for the cotton crop hence it is also known as black cotton soil.

Malabar coast is the main spice producer comprising Kerala and Tamil Nadu. As it lies in tropical conditions with ample rainfall, it is best suited for spice production.

The Mahavir Chakra is the second-highest military award in India in India, after the Paramvir Chakra. General Arunkumar Shridhar Vaidya was a General Officer in the Indian Army. He served as the 13th Chief of the Army Staff from 1983 to 1986 He was awarded Mahavir Chakra twice (1965 and 1971).

Diphtheria is a highly contagious, infectious disease caused by the bacteria Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is a serious bacterial infection that usually affects the mucous membranes of the nose and throat.

Photochemical smog is a mixture of pollutants that are formed when nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) react to sunlight, creating a brown haze above cities. The major chemical pollutants in Photochemical smog are NO and NO₂, VOCs, Ozone (O₃) and PAN (Peroxyacetyl Nitrate).

Soda water is a carbonated drink where CO₂ is dissolved in water to form carbonic acid, hence it is acidic in nature.

Peat contains recognisable traces of the original plant material. Peat is a soft, organic material consisting of partly decayed plant and mineral matter. When peat is placed under high pressure and heat, it undergoes physical and chemical changes (coalification) to become coal.

The narrow stretch of water connecting two Seas is called Strait. Most commonly it is a channel of water that lies between two landmasses. Some straits are not navigable, for example because they are too shallow or because of an unnavigable reef or archipelago.

From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed from within. Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610.

The Attorney General for India is the Indian government's chief legal advisor, and is its principal barrister in the Supreme Court of India (Article 76). S/he has the right to speak and to take part in the proceedings of both the Houses of Parliament or their joint sitting and any committee of the Parliament of which s/he may be named a member but without a right to vote.

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.

Economic activity is an activity of providing, making, buying, or selling of commodities or services by people to satisfy their day-to-day needs of life. A teacher teaching his own daughter at home does not constitute an economic activity.

Government of India Act 1858 passed which changed the name of post-Governor General of India by Viceroy of India. The Viceroy was appointed directly by the British government. The first Viceroy of India was Lord Canning.

In 1918, Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State, and Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy, produced their scheme of constitutional reforms, known as the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, which led to the enactment of the Government of India Act of 1919.

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.

All magnetic objects produce invisible lines of force that extend between the poles of the object. Earth is similar to a giant bar magnet with magnetic field lines radiating from the south to the north magnetic pole.

The surface tension of oil is less than cold water, and hence, oil spreads over cold water. However, the surface tension of oil is greater than that of hot water.

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udaan Academy is a pilot training institute located at Fursatganj Airfield, in Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh. It was the first such institute in India (established in 1985). It is an autonomous institution and comes under the Ministry of Civil Aviation.