Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

There will be a decrease in the number of rats simply because the rat is prey to all three of them.

Charak was the famous court physician of Kanishka (Kushan dynasty). He was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda. He is known as an editor of the medical treatise entitled Charaka Samhita, one of the foundational texts of classical Indian medicine and Ayurveda.

Morarji Desai was the sixth (and first non-Congress) Prime Minister of India (1977–79). He was the only Indian who won the Bharat Ratna (1991) and Pakistan's Nishan-e-Pakistan (1990). Morarji Desai helped restore friendly relations with China and Pakistan, and vowed to avoid armed conflict such as the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971.

Green plants are the largest fixator of solar energy. All green plants generate and transfer energy through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration.

Jaundice is a symptom of the disease of the Liver. Jaundice happens when there's too much bilirubin, a yellow-orange substance, in the blood. It's found in red blood cells. This happen when there are too many red blood cells dying or breaking down (hemolysis) and going to the liver.

The study of extinct animals is called Paleontology. Paleontology is the study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils. Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock.

The author of the book “War and Diplomacy in Kashmir” is Chandrashekhar Dasgupta. He was an Indian civil servant, diplomat, writer and a former Indian ambassador to the European Union, Belgium, Luxembourg and China.

Milk of magnesia is also known as magnesium hydroxide. It is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Mg(OH)₂. It occurs in nature as the mineral brucite.

Alum stops bleeding in minor cuts because of coagulation. When alum is added to water, it reacts with the water and results in positively charged ions (Al³⁺). On applying alum on fresh minor cuts, coagulation of negatively charged particles with Al³⁺ ions takes place and bleeding stops.

In a lead-acid battery, the cathode is made of lead dioxide, and the anode is made of metallic lead. The two electrodes are separated by an electrolyte of sulfuric acid. Here, lead dioxide, lead metal, and sulfuric acid react to form lead sulphate and water; the separate processes are the oxidation of lead to lead sulphate at one electrode and the reduction of lead dioxide to lead sulphate at the other while the electric charge is transported through the electrolyte by the migration of hydrogen ions.

Oxalic acid is manufactured using sawdust. The heating of sawdust with Potassium hydroxide (KOH) results in the production of oxalic acid.

Excessive exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) often results in lung cancer.

A tsunami is a series of extremely long waves caused by a large and sudden displacement of the ocean, usually the result of an earthquake below or near the ocean floor.

Article 317 of the Indian Constitution deals with the Removal and suspension of a member of a Public Service Commission. As per this article, The Chairman or any other member of UPSC shall only be removed from his/her office by order of the President of India on the basis of an inquiry and report by the Supreme Court.

The concept of Directive Principles of State Policy was borrowed from the Irish Constitution. The makers of the Constitution of India were influenced by the Irish nationalist movement. Hence, the Directive Principles of the Indian constitution have been greatly influenced by the Directive Principles of State Policy.

The United Kingdom, under Margaret Thatcher started privisation of state-owned enterprises as a major state policy. The Ridley report devised for the Thatcher shadow cabinet, recommended a policy of breaking up the public sector and dismembering unions.

Amplitude modulation (AM) is a modulation technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting messages with a radio wave.

law of gravitation is defined by Isaac Newton in 1687. Newton's law of universal gravitation is usually stated as that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centres.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the only Indian to be elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). In 1953 Pandit became the first woman to be elected president of the UNGA.