Today’s GK Test Quiz

Milk has some good qualities (protein, calcium, vitamin D, etc.) However, milk is a poor source of iron and vitamin C.

Birds have only one functional ovary, typically on the left side of the body.

Four major types of air masses that influence the weather in North America are: Maritime Tropical (mT), Maritime Polar (mP), Continental Tropical (cT) and Continental Polar (cP). The climate of North America is influenced during winter by the Continental Polar air mass. The most common example of continental polar air entering the U.S. comes in winter, when the jet stream dips southward, carrying cold, dry cP air, sometimes as far south as Florida. When it moves across the Great Lakes region, cP air can trigger lake effect snow.

The Kamakhya Temple is situated on Nilachal Hill in the western part of Guwahati city in Assam.

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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.

Created in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international institution that oversees the global trade rules among nations. It superseded the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) created in the wake of World War II.

The Security Council is a body of 15 members, five of which are permanent and have veto power: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia and China. The ten elected or non-permanent members have a tenure of two years.

The Group of Seven (G-7) is an organisation of the world's seven largest advanced economies. They are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States. Russia joined in 1998, creating the G8, but was excluded in 2014 for its takeover of Crimea. China has never been a member, despite its large economy as it is not seen as an advanced economy in the way the G7 members are.

The central region (Between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn) of the Americas has the highest concentration of World Heritage Sites on the list of UNESCO. There are 1154 sites on the list of the UNESCO in world. Out of these 545 (47.23%) are from Europe and North America.

Sir B.N. Rau was appointed as the Constitutional Adviser on the establishment of the Constituent Assembly on July 1, 1946, which he accepted to serve on an honourary basis.

Indian Universities were first founded during the period of Lord Canning. The University of Calcutta is the oldest of the modern universities in India. It was founded in 1857 during the administration of Lord canning (1856-1862).

Charles John Canning was the governor-general of India during the Revolt of 1857. He became the first viceroy of India in 1858 and played an important part in the work of reconstruction in that colony.

The concept was first proposed by Herman Potocnik in 1928 and popularised by the science fiction author Arthur C Clarke in a paper in Wireless World in 1945.

In this case the given equation shows that the velocity is linear with time and therefore the particle is moving with constant acceleration. If you travel with a constant acceleration, your velocity is always changing, but it's changing by a consistent amount each second.

When a bar magnet is cut perpendicular to its length then the pole strength of each piece remains the same (but the magnetic moment is halved). If a magnet is cut parallel to its length then the pole strength of the pieces becomes half.

UNIVAC, the first commercially produced digital computer, is dedicated. On 14 June 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the world's first commercially produced electronic digital computer.

Silent Valley is a National Park located in the Nilgiri hills, Kerala. This national park has some rare species of flora and fauna. This area was explored in 1847 by botanist Robert Wight.

The Humboldt Current, also called the Peru Current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America.

Copper mining is a significant business in the US, and in 2020 an estimated 1.2 million tonnes of the metal were unearthed. Bolivia's mines had produced cassiterite, the chief source of tin, since 1861. Mexico is the number-one silver-producing country in the world.