Today’s GK Test Quiz

Kharif crops are domesticated plants that are cultivated and harvested in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh during the Indian subcontinent's monsoon season, which lasts from June to November depending on the area. The southwest monsoon is generally expected to begin around the beginning of June and fade away by the end of September.

Former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna in 1997.

Among the given options, Mollusc plasma bears the smallest living cell. Mycoplasma is the smallest living known cell. It is prokaryotic, devoid of a cell wall and can live without oxygen. It is pathogenic to both plants and animals.

Tissue culture is a technique in which a small fragments of a plant (explant) are introduced into an artificial, nutrient medium, which allows its functioning or growth. Fragments of plant material, perhaps even just a couple of cells, are placed in an artificial growing medium to develop into new plants.

The Symphony No.1 was written in 1764 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of eight years. A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.

Metals are used in crackers like strontium carbonate is used for red fireworks, calcium carbonate is used for orange fireworks, sodium nitrate is used for Yellow fireworks, barium Chloride is used for green fireworks and copper chloride is used for blue Firework.

Mercury vapour and argon is the most commonly used substance in fluorescent tubes. A tube is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. Argon gas is used in fluorescent tubes to stop the oxygen from corroding the hot tungsten filament.

Rainwater is considered the purest form of water available on the Earth. However, the rainwater we receive on earth is not necessarily pure, as it brings down impurities and particles present in the atmosphere along with it. Distilled water is a type of purified water that has had both contaminants and minerals removed.

Plasma is the fourth state of matter (beyond the conventional solids, liquids and gases). It is an ionized gas consisting of approximately equal numbers of positively and negatively charged particles.

Article 37 says that Directive Principles are not enforceable but are fundamental to the Governance of the Country, and the State has the duty in applying the Directive Principles of State Policies (DPSPs). If they are not acted upon by the State, no one can move the Courts.

Articles 36-51 which comes under Part-IV of the Indian Constitution deals with Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP). The concept of DPSP was borrowed from the Irish Constitution.

The Finance Commissions are commissions periodically constituted by the President of India under Article 280 of the Indian Constitution to define the financial relations between the central government of India and the individual state governments. As per the Constitution, the Commission is appointed every five years and consists of a chairman and four other members.

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.

Household final consumption expenditure is the market value of all goods and services, including durable products (such as cars, washing machines, and home computers), purchased by households. It excludes purchases of dwellings but includes imputed rent for owner-occupied dwellings.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations, located in Geneva, Switzerland. WIPO's mission is to lead the development of a balanced and effective international intellectual property (IP) system that enables innovation and creativity for the benefit of all. Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets are types of Intellectual Properties.

Greek mathematician Euclid (lived 300 BCE) is often referred to as the 'founder of geometry' or 'father of geometry'. He is best known for his geometry book, the Elements.

The Hunter Commission of 1882 was the first Indian Education Commission and the Hunter Commission of 1920 investigated the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh. The government formed a committee of inquiry to investigate the Jallianwala Bagh shootings. The committee was commonly known as Hunter Commission after the name of the chairman, Lord William Hunter.

A nonrenewable resource is a natural substance that is not replenished with the speed at which it is consumed. There are four major types of nonrenewable resources: oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy. Oil, natural gas, and coal are collectively called fossil fuels.

Jayaprakash Narayan (1902-1979), the great Gandhian socialist leader, raised his famous slogan, Sampoorn Kranti (Total Revolution), in a speech at a huge rally in Patna on June 5, 1974. Jaya Prakash once stated that Total Revolution is a combination of seven revolu­tions, viz., political, social, economic, cultural, ideological or intellectual, educational and spiritual.

The word “Muhajir” simply means an immigrant or refugee in Urdu. Muhajir is the Urdu-speaking segment of Pakistan's population, whose elders migrated from India during Partition in 1947 and they are primarily concentrated in urban Sindh.