Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Indus Waters Treaty is a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan, brokered by the World Bank, to use the water available in the Indus River and its tributaries. It was signed in Karachi on 19 September 1960 by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan. Treaty gives control over the waters of the three “eastern rivers” — the Beas, Ravi and Sutlej — to India, while control over the waters of the three “western rivers” — the Indus, Chenab and Jhelum — to Pakistan.

West Singhbhum is the top iron-ore mining district of Jharkhand.

Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and the largest city in Central Asia.

The developing countries are located in the Southern Hemisphere, whereas developed countries are located in the Northern Hemisphere. Due to this geographical fact, scholars have termed developed countries as 'North' and developing countries as 'South'. When the countries of the South or developing countries cooperate in various fields, it is known as South-South Cooperation or Dialogue.

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-born American biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. Har Gobind Khorana made important contributions to this field by building different RNA chains with the help of enzymes.

Protein is most important for the growth of children up to the age of 14 as during the teenage, children experience rapid changes in their physical development. Protein is a slow-digesting nutrient, which is needed for the repair and growth of muscles and tissues. It is also essential for the production of enzymes and hormones.

Oral contraceptives (birth control pills) are used to prevent pregnancy. Estrogen and progesterone are two female sex hormones. Combinations of estrogen and progesterone work by preventing ovulation (the release of eggs from the ovaries).

Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum.

Five Past Midnight in Bhopal is a book by Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro based on the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy. It was published in 1997.

Electroplating is the process of coating a metal with a thin layer of another metal by electrolysis to improve the metal's corrosion resistance. The metals commonly used for electroplating are nickel, chromium, cadmium, copper, gold, palladium, platinum, ruthenium, silver, tin and zinc.

Indian Constitution originally had eight schedules. Four more schedules were added by different amendments, now making a total tally of twelve.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the value of goods and services produced within a country's borders, by citizens and non-citizens alike. Gross National Product (GNP) measures the value of goods and services produced by only a country's citizens but both domestically and abroad. Hence, If the firm sells new shares directly to individuals it has no effect on the GDP or GNP.

Gandhiji believed that means Justify end. For Gandhi, the end is satya or truth which requires no justification and the means- ahimsa or non-violence must be justified not only with reference to the end but also in itself. Every act must be justified with reference to satya and ahimsa.

When too much money is chasing too few goods, the situation is Demand-Pull Inflation. It is caused by the overall increase in demand for goods and services, which bids up their prices. This theory can be summarized as “too much money chasing too few goods”.

The Ghadar Party, initially the Pacific Coast Hindustan Association, was formed in 1913 in San Francisco, California (United States) under the leadership of Har Dayal, with Sohan Singh Bhakna as its president.

A geostationary satellite is an earth-orbiting satellite, placed at an altitude of approximately 35,800 km directly over the equator, that revolves in the same direction the earth rotates (west to east). At this altitude, one orbit takes 24 hours, the same length of time as the earth requires to rotate once on its axis. So they seem stationary, relative to the Earth's surface.

Metals are good conductors of electricity and heat because the atoms in the metals form a matrix through which outer electrons can move freely.

Milk is put in a container in a centrifuge machine and the container is spun at a very high speed. The centrifugal forces act on milk and separate the milk into a cream that is lighter thus floats on top and skimmed milk which is at the bottom. Then cream can be separated from the milk.

Indo-Gangetic Plains Uttar Pradesh (35,148,377) has the largest Scheduled Caste population, followed by West Bengal (18,452,555) and Bihar (13,048,608). These three states are located in Indo-Gangetic Plains.

The National School of Drama (NSD) is one of the foremost theatre training institutions in the world and the only one of its kind in India. It is situated in Delhi.