Today’s GK Test Quiz

Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) is a port city of Tamil Nadu. The city lies on the Coromandel (eastern coast) Coast of the Bay of Bengal.

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

The words Satyameva Jayate from Mundaka Upanishad, meaning 'Truth Alone Triumphs', are inscribed below the abacus in Devanagari script.

EEG (electroencephalogram) is used to detect the functioning of the Brain. It is a test that detects electrical activity in the brain using small, metal discs (electrodes) attached to the scalp.

The giraffe is a quiet animal that seems to have very little to say. Therefore, many assume that the giraffe is dumb.

Tissue culture is a technique in which a small fragments of a plant (explant) are introduced into an artificial, nutrient medium, which allows its functioning or growth. Fragments of plant material, perhaps even just a couple of cells, are placed in an artificial growing medium to develop into new plants.

Hydrolysis is a double decomposition reaction with water as one of the reactants. It is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds.

Acid rain is caused by a chemical reaction that begins when compounds like sulphur dioxide (SO₂) and nitrogen oxides (NO_x) are released into the air. These substances can rise very high into the atmosphere, where they mix and react with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form more acidic pollutants, known as acid rain. Nitrogen oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) are collectively known as nitrogen oxides (NO_x).

Natural radioactivity was discovered by Antoine Henri Becquerel. Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) was a French physicist who discovered radioactivity through his investigations of uranium and other substances. In 1903 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie.

The bleaching of Sulphur dioxide (SO₂) is mainly due to its reduction property and its temporary reaction as soon as it gains the required oxygen helps to regenerate its initial property.

According to the UN Charter, Article 23, the Security Council consists of fifteen Members of the United Nations. It has five permanent members (China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and ten non-permanent members elected by the UN General Assembly for two-year terms.

The Battle of Khanwa was fought near the village of Khanwa, in Bharatpur Rajasthan, on March 16, 1527. It was fought between the invading forces of the first Mughal Emperor Babur and the Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga of Mewar, after the Battle of Panipat.

On 15 May 1952, after the first general elections in independent India, Mavalankar, who was representing Ahmedabad for Congress, was elected the Speaker of the first Lok Sabha.

Isohyte is a line on a map connecting points having the same amount of rainfall in a given period. Isobar is a line on a map that joins places that have the same air pressure at a particular time. Isohel is a line on a map connecting points having the same duration of sunshine. Isotherm a line on a map that joins places that have the same temperature at a particular time.

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is the third generation launch vehicle of India. It is the first Indian launch vehicle to be equipped with liquid stages.

Then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had called for a mid-term election to the Lok Sabha in March 1971 a full one year ahead of schedule.

Dadabhai Naoroji is known as “Grand Old Man of India”. He was also known as “Unofficial Ambassador of India”. He was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895. He was the first Asian to be a British MP.

Uranium, plutonium and Thorium are the main atomic minerals. Other atomic minerals are beryllium, lithium and zirconium.

Washington DC, the U.S. capital, is a compact city on the Potomac River, bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia. The capital of the United States of America is located in Washington District of Columbia.

The Garden of Eden or Garden of God, also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28 and 31. Location of the Garden of Eden include the head of the Persian Gulf, as argued by Juris Zarins, in Kutch region of South Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; and in the Armenian Highlands or Armenian Plateau.