Today’s GK Test Quiz

Rourkela Steel Plant, in Rourkela, Odisha is the first integrated steel plant in the public sector in India. It was set up with West Germany collabouration in the 1960s. It is operated by Steel Authority of India.

AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural products in India, assuring that they conform to a set of standards approved by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, an agency of the Government of India.

Allopathy is the branch of medicine involving synthetic chemical compounds. It is the treatment of disease by conventional means, i.e. with drugs having effects opposite to the symptoms.

Vitamin K is a group of vitamins that the body needs for blood clotting. Blood clotting or coagulation prevents excessive bleeding internally and externally.

Goats tend to be less susceptible to heat stress than animals like cows, donkeys, and buffalos. They can tolerate more summer heat. A healthy adult goat can survive in temperatures ranging from below -18°Celcius and above 38°Celcius.

Gobar gas (Biogas) contains mainly methane. It is a mixture of gases, primarily consisting of methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste and food waste. It is a renewable energy source.

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.

A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating compact star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.

As per article 356, parliamentary approval is necessary for the imposition of the President's Rule on any state. The proclamation of President's Rule should be approved in both Houses of Parliament within two months of its issue. The approval is through a simple majority. The President's Rule is initially for a period of six months. Later, it can be extended for a period of three years with parliamentary approval, every six months.

Tanchoi is a very fine weave banarasi sarees that use an extra weft thread to create delicate patterns. The Tanchoi brothers from Gujarat introduced the art to the Indian weavers in Surat (Gujarat), and later the Varanasi weavers also started weaving these Sarees, in less expensive versions.

Inflation is a measure of the rate of rising prices of goods and services in an economy. Increasing the money supply faster than the growth in real output will cause inflation. The reason is that there is more money chasing the same number of goods.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist. He discovered that massive stars can collapse under their own gravity to reach enormous or even infinite densities. Today we call these collapsed stars neutron stars and black holes. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler.

Akbar remained illiterate and uneducated all his life. He had to occupy the throne at the early age of 13 years after the untimely death of his father Humayun.

Alauddin Khalji declared himself as Sikandar-i Sani (the second Alexander). Allauddin's ambition was to conquer the whole world but had to be satisfied with conquering only India. Even then, he issued coins with the title Sikandar (Alexander – II).

Sonar is a device that uses sound waves to detect and range objects on or under the surface of the water.

Indo-Gangetic Plains Uttar Pradesh (35,148,377) has the largest Scheduled Caste population, followed by West Bengal (18,452,555) and Bihar (13,048,608). These three states are located in Indo-Gangetic Plains.

Corbett National Park is India's oldest national park. This Park is a forested wildlife sanctuary in northern India's Uttarakhand State.

Chandni Chowk (Delhi) is the smallest Parliamentary Constituency in India in terms of area (Total area: 10 sq km). Lakshadweep is the smallest Parliamentary Constituency in terms of electors (Number of Electors: 49,922).

K2, at 8,611 metres above sea level, is the highest mountain in India and second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest. It lies in the Karakoram range, in part in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Rihand Dam is a concrete gravity dam located at Pipri in Sonbhadra District in Uttar Pradesh. Its reservoir area is on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. It is located on the Rihand River, a tributary of the Son River. Rihand Dam Project provides irrigation to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.