Today’s GK Test Quiz

A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation. The term biodiversity hotspot specifically refers to 25 biologically rich areas around the world that have lost at least 70 percent of their original habitat. India has four biodiversity hotspots, i.e., Eastern Himalayas, Western Himalayas, Western Ghats and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Allahabad Pillar inscription is written in the more refined Gupta script (a later version of Brahmi) by the poet and minister, Harishena. The inscription is a panegyric praising Samudra Gupta and lists the political and military achievements of his reign including his expeditions to the south.

Each biological parent donates one of two ABO genes to their child. The A and B genes are dominant and the O gene is recessive. For example, if an O gene is paired with an A gene, the blood type will be A. Parents with AB and O blood types can either have children with blood type A or blood type B. Two O blood type parents can produce a child with only O blood type. Two parents with A blood type can produce a child with either A or O blood types.

The mercury and sodium street lamps light up because of atomic emission. An electric discharge takes place when electricity is passed through sodium vapors at low or high pressure. As a result, the valence electron present in sodium atoms becomes excited and emits light. The mercury vapor lamp works by creating an electric current to mercury vapor within a sealed glass jacket.

The Thomas Cup is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the sport's global governing body.

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.

Article 40 of the Indian Constitution provides for the institution of Panchayati Raj. According to this article, the State shall take steps to organize village panchayats and endow them with such powers and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as units of self-government.

The law of diminishing marginal returns is a theory in economics that predicts that after some optimal level of capacity is reached, adding an additional factor of production will actually result in smaller increases in output. According to modern thinking, the law of diminishing returns applies to all fields of production.

A firm is said to be in equilibrium when its marginal cost is equal to marginal revenue. A firm in equilibrium enjoys maximum profits if average revenue exceeds marginal cost.

All of the goods which are scarce and limited in supply are called luxury goods. A luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises.

State Government transactions are carried out by RBI in terms of the agreement entered into with the State Governments in terms of section 21A of the Act. As of now, such agreements exist between RBI and all the State Governments except Government of Sikkim.

The law of demand states that the quantity purchased varies inversely with price. In other words, the higher the price, the lower the quantity demanded.

An oligopoly is a market structure in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of large firms (sellers). Examples of oligopoly include the auto industry, cable television, commercial air travel, etc.

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.

Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish pharmacist, botanist and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms 'gene', and for his 1903 'pure line' experiments in genetics.

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The Indian High Courts Act 1861 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to authorize the Crown to create High Courts in the Indian colony. Queen Victoria created the High Courts in Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay by Letters Patent in 1862. John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, between 1858 and 1869, became a prominent British Imperial statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.

When three captured Indian National Army (INA) officers, Shahnawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sahgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon were put on trial for treason, the Congress formed a Defence committee composed of 17 advocates including Bhulabhai Desai. The INA trials began at the Red Fort in November 1945.

Absorption of water from cut ends of stems disproves the Root pressure theory. Root pressure is a force that helps to drive fluids upward into the water-conducting vessels (xylem). It is primarily generated by osmotic pressure in the cells of the roots and can be demonstrated by exudation of fluid when the stem is cut off just aboveground.

World's three highest mountain peaks are Mount Everest (Himalayas-8,850m), K2 or Godwin Austen (Karakoram-8,611m) and Kanchenjunga (Himalayas-8,586m). The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest in the Himalayas in Nepal.