Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Kashmir stag, also called hangul, is a subspecies of elk native to Kashmir. Dachigam park is best known as the home of the Kashmir stag.

Tobacco, tapioca and pineapple cultivation was introduced to India by Portuguese.

The Thar Desert also known as the Great Indian Desert. Tt is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km² and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. It is the world's 20th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.

Worship of stones, trees and animals is called nature worship. The Indus Valley people worshipped, Pasupati, stones, trees, animals and snakes.

The Harshacharita is the biography of Indian emperor Harshavardhana by Banabhatta who was a Sanskrit writer of seventh-century CE India. He was the Asthana Kavi (Court Poet) of Harshavardhana.

Gandhi composed his 'translation' of Plato's Apology while he was in South Africa. Gandhi was responding to political restrictions against the Indian community and was also influenced by John Ruskin's Unto This Last.

Bharatanatyam is thought to have been created by Bharata Muni, who wrote the Natya Shastra. It is said to be originated in Thanjavoor of Tamil Nadu.

The polymerisation of ethylene is used in the manufacturing of polythene in industry. Polyethylene (also called polythene) is made through an addition polymerization reaction that utilizes an ethylene monomer (–C₂H₄–) repeated along the chain.

Aqua regia (royal water) is a mixture of concentrated nitric and hydrochloric acids, usually one part of the former to three parts of the latter by volume. This mixture was given its name by the alchemists because of its ability to dissolve gold. It is a red or yellowish liquid.

Gunpowder consists of a mixture of nitre (potassium nitrate), sulphur, and charcoal. Together, these materials will burn rapidly and explode as a propellant. The sulphur and charcoal act as fuels while the nitre is an oxidizer.

The Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean, is the deepest location on Earth.

The Constitution empowers the President to summon each House at such intervals that there should not be more than a six-month gap between the two sessions. Hence the Parliament must meet at least twice a year.

Democratic Socialism aims to gradually and peacefully achieve socialism through established political processes rather than social revolution as advocated by revolutionary socialists.

Between 1952 and 2020, 2 additional members of the Anglo-Indian community were nominated by the President of India, which was abolished in January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019. Provision for the nomination of two Anglo-Indians to Lok Sabha was made under Article 331 of the Constitution.

In 1998, Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his theoretical, field, and ethics work in welfare economics and for his research advancing the understanding of social-choice theory, poverty, and the measurement of welfare.

Consumer sovereignty is the situation in an economy where the desires and needs of consumers control the output of producers.

Net national product (NNP) is gross national product (GNP), the total value of finished goods and services produced by a country's citizens overseas and domestically, minus depreciation.

Eugen Steinach (1861-1944) discovered sex hormones. He was an Austrian physiologist and pioneer in endocrinology. Steinach played a significant role in discovering the relationship between sex hormones (estrogen and testosterone) to human physical identifiers. German biochemist Adolf Butenandt was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his work on sex hormones.

Three Round table Conferences were held in London in 1930,1931,1932. B.R. Ambedkar and Tej Bahadur Sapru had attended all the Three Round Table Conferences. Gandhi Ji attended second Round table Conferences.

Pokhran is located in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan. It is a remote location in the Thar Desert region and served as the test site for India's first underground nuclear weapon (Pokhran-I, 1974), ballistic missiles. The Pokhran-II tests were conducted by India at Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998.