Today’s GK Test Quiz

India has 15,106.7 Km of land border and a coastline of 7,516.6 Km including island territories. The length of our land borders with neighbouring countries (in Km) is: Bangladesh 4,096.7, China 3,488, Pakistan 3,323, Nepal 1,751, Myanmar 1,643, Bhutan 699 and Afghanistan 106.

Shipki La is a mountain pass is located in Kinnaur district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India and Ngari Prefecture in Tibet, China.

The slogan of Reliance Jio is 'Digital Life' while a popular tagline of Jio has been 'Jio jee bharke' which means live life to the fullest.

Earthworms are called the friends of the farmer because of the multitude of services they provide that improve soil health and consequently plant health.

Veins seen in the leaves, serve the function of transpiration. They are composed of xylem and phloem cells. The vein xylem transports water from the petiole throughout the lamina mesophyll, and the phloem transports sugars out of the leaf to the rest of the plant.

¹⁴C₆ is used in dating archaeological findings up to about 60,000 years old. Radiocarbon dating (carbon-14 dating) is a method used for dating archaeological findings by using the properties of radiocarbon (¹⁴C₆), a radioactive isotope of carbon.

Cooking gas (LPG) is a mixture of butane and propane. It is composed of hydrocarbons containing three or four carbon atoms. The normal components of LPG thus, are propane (C₃H₈) and butane (C₄H₁₀). Small concentrations of other hydrocarbons may also be present.

The sphere of living matter together with water, air and soil on the surface of the earth is known as Biosphere. The biosphere, also known as the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

A yardang is a streamlined protuberance carved from bedrock or any consolidated or semi-consolidated material by the dual action of wind abrasion by dust and sand, and deflation which is the removal of loose material by wind turbulence.

Risk-bearing is the most essential function of an entrepreneur. He has to pay to all the other factors of production in advance. There are chances that he may be rewarded with a handsome profit or he may suffer a heavy loss. Therefore, risk-bearing is the final responsibility of an entrepreneur.

Non-plan expenditure is what the government spends on the so-called non-productive areas, such as salaries, subsidies, loans and interest, while plan expenditure pertains to the money to be set aside for productive purposes, like various projects of ministries.

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.

Malik Kafur (died 1316), also known as Taj al-Din Izz al-Dawla, was a prominent slave-general of the Delhi Sultanate ruler Alauddin Khalji. Kafur occupied Madurai on 24 April and reached Delhi in triumph on 18 October 1311.

Charles John Canning was the governor-general of India during the Revolt of 1857. He became the first viceroy of India in 1858 and played an important part in the work of reconstruction in that colony.

The Union of India, also called the Dominion of India (Bharatiya Adhirajya), was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. India attained “Dominion Status” on 15 Aug 1947 by the Mountbatten plan.

In this case the given equation shows that the velocity is linear with time and therefore the particle is moving with constant acceleration. If you travel with a constant acceleration, your velocity is always changing, but it's changing by a consistent amount each second.

Solar energy is converted into chemical energy during Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the conversion of solar energy (light energy from the Sun) into stored chemical energy (a form of glucose or other organic molecules).

INSAT-1A was an Indian communications satellite, Launched in 1982. The Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) is a series of multipurpose geostationary satellites launched by ISRO to satisfy the telecommunications, broadcasting, meteorology, and search and rescue operations.

The world's three Longest Rivers are Nile (6650 km), Amazon (6400 km) and Yangtze (6300 km). The Nile River is the longest whereas the Amazon is the largest river in the world.

Vande Bharat Express or Train 18 with a top speed of 180 km/h is the fastest running train on Indian Railways. It was made by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) at Perambur, Chennai under the Indian government's Make in India campaign. Indian Railways operates two Vande Bharat trains, one from Delhi to Varanasi and the other from Delhi to Katra.