Today’s GK Test Quiz

Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, 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.

Mushika-vamsha is a Sanskrit dynastic chronicle composed in 11th century by poet Atula. It narrates the legendary history of the Mushika dynasty, which ruled the northern part of the present-day Kerala state of India.

Jamini Roy was an Indian painter. He was honoured with the State award of Padma Bhushan in 1954. He was one of the most famous pupils of Abanindranath Tagore, whose artistic originality and contribution to the emergence of art in India remains unquestionable.

Tansen Samman (award) is presented every year to honour famous Indian classical singers and musicians. It was instituted by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1980.

The Moortidevi Award is an Indian literary award annually presented by the Bharatiya Jnanapeeth Trust, a literary and research organisation.

Olive oil is one of the healthiest edible oil for the heart. It is a great source of monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs). MUFAs fall under the category of healthy dietary fats. These healthy fats are known to reduce the risk of heart disease by keeping cholesterol levels in check.

Ashtadhyayi is a Sanskrit treatise on grammar written in the 6th to 5th-century BCE by the Indian grammarian Panini. This work set the linguistic standards for Classical Sanskrit.

This raga is said to have been created by the sixteenth-century singing legend, Miyan Tansen. Tansen, also referred to as Ramtanu Pandey, was a prominent figure of Hindustani classical music.

The process involved in the industrial production of vegetable ghee is reduction. Vegetable ghee is made from cooking oil by hydrogenation. Hydrogenation reaction of unsaturated fatty acids is basically the reaction where the hydrogen gets added in the double bond of the alkene or alkyne in presence of nickel. Nickel acts like a catalyst in solid-state.

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is a by-product of the refinery process. It is a fuel gas made of petrol which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, most commonly propane (C₃H₈), butane (C₄H₁₀) and propylene. The composition of LPG from its individual components is not fixed.

Only once was the term of the Lok Sabha extended up to 6 years. This can happen in case of a National Emergency. The term of the fifth Lok Sabha was supposed to end on 18 March 1976 but was extended by one year up to 18 March 1977 by the House of the People (Extension of Duration) Act, 1976.

The population growth experienced in India can largely be explained by variations in birth and death rates. Some of the most important causes of population growth in India are: Widening Gap between Birth and Death Rates, Low Age at Marriage, High Illiteracy, Religious Attitude towards Family Planning, etc.

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.

Amir Khusrau was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, historian, poet and scholar who lived under the Delhi Sultanate. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent.

The Secretariat Building was designed by the prominent British architect Herbert Baker in Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture. Sir Herbert Baker was a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures.

A dynamo is a device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy. In a dynamo, the mechanical energy of rotation is converted into electrical energy in the form of a current in the armature.

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

Cartography is the method through which maps are studied, created and designed. A confluence between practice, science, and art, cartography guides the principles and practical standards behind maps and map-making.

China produces the largest amount of aluminium in the world followed by India, Russia and Canada.