Today’s GK Test Quiz

Ocean currents do not have influence over the climate in India. Ocean currents act much like a conveyer belt, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles and cold water from the poles back to the tropics.

Araneology is the study of spiders. It is the scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related animals such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and harvestmen. The raising of bees is known as apiculture. The study of aphids is known as aphidology. Acarology is the study of mites and ticks.

A person's eye colour results from the pigmentation of a structure called the iris, which surrounds the small black hole in the centre of the eye (the pupil) and helps control how much light can enter the eye. The colour of the iris ranges on a continuum from very light blue to dark brown.

Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004) was an Indian writer in English. Important books by Mulk Raj Anand are: ​Untouchable, ​Coolie, Two Leaves and a Bud, The Village, Across the Black Waters, ​The Sword and the Sickle, ​The Big Heart, The Private Life of an Indian Prince, etc. “The Village” is also a short novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin. “A Stranger Called I” is written by Pritish Nandy. The Dark Room is a novel written by R.K.Narayan. Sasthi Brata burst on the literary scene in the late 1960s with My God Died Young, an autobiography.

Under Article 356 of the Constitution of India, in the event that a state government is unable to function according to Constitutional provisions, the Union government can take direct control of the state machinery.

After a general election and formation of a new government, a list of senior Lok Sabha members prepared by the Legislative Section is submitted to the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, who selects a protem speaker. The appointment has to be approved by the President. The main duty of the protem speaker is to administer the oath of office to new members of the house.

The Constitution of India does not mention either a Confidence or a No-Confidence Motion. Although, Article 75 does specify that the Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha. A motion of “No Confidence Motion” against the Government can be introduced only in the Lok Sabha. No-Confidence Motion can be admitted when a minimum of 50 members, support the motion in the house.

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is an Indian classical Sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. He was awarded India's second-highest civilian honour Padma Vibhushan in 2001.

Padma Subrahmanyam, is an Indian classical Bharata Natyam dancer. Sanjukta Panigrahi was the foremost exponent of Indian classical dance Odissi. Sonal Mansingh is an Indian classical dancer and Guru Bharatanatyam and Odissi dancing style. Madhavi Mudgal is known for her Odissi dance style.

The break-even point (BEP) is the point at which total cost and total revenue are equal, i.e. “even”. In investing, the break-even point is said to be achieved when the market price of an asset is the same as its original cost.

Bull and bear are related to the Stock market. A 'bull' by definition is an investor who buys shares because they believe the market is going to rise; whereas a 'bear' will sell shares as they believe the market is going to turn negative.

A prime cost is the total direct costs of production, including raw materials and labour. Indirect costs, such as utilities, manager salaries, and delivery costs, are not included in prime costs. The prime cost equation is equal to the cost of raw materials plus direct labour. All the prime costs are variable costs and they are directly attributable. They do not include indirect variable costs and any fixed costs.

Disposable Personal Income (DPI) is how much money a person has to spend after taxes and any other mandatory withholdings are taken from their pay-check.

On November 1, 1858, a grand Darbar was held at Allahabad. Here Lord Canning sent forth the royal proclamation which announced that the queen had assumed the government of India. This proclamation declared the future policy of the British Rule in India.

Pondicherry was an important French possession in India. The French East India Company acquire Pondicherry from the Sultan of Bijapur.

On a rainy day, due to the Interference of light, small oil films on water show brilliant colours. Interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superimpose to form a resultant wave of the greater, lower, or same amplitude.

The concept was first proposed by Herman Potocnik in 1928 and popularised by the science fiction author Arthur C Clarke in a paper in Wireless World in 1945.

Servants of India Society was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1905 to unite and train Indians of different ethnicities and religions in welfare work. It was the first secular organization in that country to devote itself to the underprivileged, rural and tribal people, emergency relief work, the increase of literacy, and other social causes.

Gol Gumbaz is the tomb of king Mohammed Adil Shah. It is in Bijapur, Karnataka. Construction of the tomb was started in 1626 and was completed in 1656.

In the late 1950s, Ho Chi Minh organized a communist guerrilla movement in the South, called the Viet Cong. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong successfully opposed a series of ineffectual U.S.-backed South Vietnam regimes and beginning in 1964 withstood a decade-long military intervention by the United States.