Today’s GK Test Quiz

Belgium is known as the 'Cockpit of Europe' because it is where the largest number of European battles have taken place in history.

Chandra Gupta I, king of India (reigned 320 to 330 CE) and founder of the Gupta empire. He was the grandson of Sri Gupta, the first known ruler of the Gupta line.

The largest amount of sugar present in human blood is glucose. It is an important source of energy and provides nutrients to the body. It comes from food eaten. Blood carries glucose to all of the body's cells to use for energy.

Maximum harm to a tree is caused by the loss of all leaves because leaves produce food through the process of photosynthesis. The plant can survive without leaves for few days as the stored food in roots and stems helps to execute all the food requirements of that plant. If a plant loses its leaves, it will usually generate new ones.

The Red Data Book is a public document that is created for recording endangered and rare species of plants, animals, fungi as well as some local subspecies that are present in a particular region.

Hydrolysis is a double decomposition reaction with water as one of the reactants. It is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds.

Litmus is a water-soluble mixture of different dyes obtained from lichens. It is often absorbed onto filter paper to produce one of the oldest forms of pH indicator, used to test materials for acidity.

The troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, and is also where nearly all weather conditions take place. It contains 75% of the atmosphere's mass and 99% of the total mass of water vapour and aerosols. Troposphere is the warmest because it is closest to the ground, where the heat is coming from.

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 Republic is governed in terms of the Constitution of India which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November, 1949 and came into force on 26th January, 1950.

According to Keynes, employment can be increased by increasing demand and/or investment. demand depends on income and when income rises, demand also rises but not as much as income. A fall in aggregate demand causes a fall in real gross national product and employment.

The product or value-added method is a way of computing the national income of a country. This system is also known as output or inventory method.

The major aim of devaluation is to encourage exports. Devaluation is the deliberate downward adjustment of the value of a country's money relative to another currency. One reason a country may devalue its currency is to combat a trade imbalance. Devaluation reduces the cost of a country's exports and increases the cost of imports.

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.

Per capita income is a measure of the amount of money earned per person in a nation or geographic region. It is calculated by dividing country's national income by its population.

“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge...” This was stated on the night of August 14, 1947 by Jawaharlal Nehru.

Pycnometers are used for measuring and comparing densities or specific gravities of liquids and solids, including soil.

Isohyte is a line on a map connecting points having the same amount of rainfall in a given period. Isobar is a line on a map that joins places that have the same air pressure at a particular time. Isohel is a line on a map connecting points having the same duration of sunshine. Isotherm a line on a map that joins places that have the same temperature at a particular time.

A full-wave rectifier rectifies both the half cycles of the AC input i.e., it conducts twice during a cycle. Hence, output frequency would be double to that of input frequency. Thus, the output frequency of a full-wave rectifier would be 2n.

The Antarctic blue whale is the largest mammal on the planet.