Today’s GK Test Quiz

The river Damodar is called the sorrow of Bengal because it brought floods and destruction. The river Hwang Ho was also known as the 'Sorrow of China' because it often used to change its course after floods.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

The statement was uttered by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

Seleucus Nicator was defeated by Chandragupta Maurya. Chandragupta extended the borders of the Maurya Empire toward Seleucid Persia, after defeating Seleucus in 305 BCE.

The paintings in the Ajanta caves predominantly narrate the Jataka tales. These are Buddhist legends describing the previous births of the Buddha.

Cloves are commonly used as a spice. They are the dried flowers of the tree Syzygium aromaticum.

Chewing gum is made from Latex. It is a sweetened, flavoured confection composed primarily of latex, both natural and artificial. Organic latex, a milky white fluid produced by a variety of seed plants, is best known as the principal component of rubber.

Bullets contain lead, and once in the body, it can cause lead poisoning. Most pistol bullets are made of a lead-antimony alloy encased in a soft brass or copper-plated soft steel jacket. In rifle and machine-gun bullets, a soft core of lead is encased in a harder jacket of steel or cupronickel.

Kesari is a Marathi newspaper which was founded on 4 January 1881 by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent leader of the Indian Independence movement.

Kadambari is a romantic novel in Sanskrit. It was substantially composed by Banabhatta in the first half of the 7th century CE, who did not survive to see it through completion. The novel was completed by Banabhatta's son Bhushanabhatta, according to the plan laid out by his late father.

The Art of Living Foundation is a volunteer-based, humanitarian and educational non-governmental organization. It was founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume. Pure matter can be either Elements or Compounds. Carbon dioxide is a pure matter. Examples of pure matter include carbon, oxygen, iron, table salt and water. Air is a homogeneous mixture. Brass and Steel are alloys, therefore it is a mixture.

The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury are very nearly circular. The orbits of the planets are all more or less in the same plane (called the ecliptic and defined by the plane of the Earth's orbit).

Brain drain is defined as the movement of highly skilled and educated people to a country where they can work in better conditions and earn more money.

The Central Government of India levies taxes such as customs duty, income tax, service tax, and central excise duty.

The scientist who first sent electromagnetic waves to distant places was Heinrich Hertz (German physicist, 1857-1894). He applied Maxwell's theories to the production and reception of radio waves. He used a spark gap attached to an induction coil and a separate spark gap on a receiving antenna. When waves created by the sparks of the coil transmitter were picked up by the receiving antenna, sparks would jump its gap as well. Hertz showed in his experiments that these signals possessed all the properties of electromagnetic waves.

Ganesh Vasudev Joshi attended the Imperial Durbar of 1877 dressed in hands-pun Khadi. The Delhi Durbar was an Indian imperial-style mass assembly organized by the British at Coronation Park, Delhi, India, to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India. Also known as the Imperial Durbar, it was held three times, in 1877, 1903, and 1911, at the height of the British Empire.

The apparent weight of a man in a lift is less than the real weight when the lift is going down with an acceleration. When a lift accelerates upwards, the apparent weight of the person inside it increases; and when a lift accelerates downwards, the apparent weight of the person inside it decreases.

Woollen clothes keep the body warm because wool is a bad conductor of heat. Woollen clothes are thick and trap air inside forming a layer around the body and so it does not let our body temperature decrease through conduction.

White and black combination of colours is the most convenient during day and night time. Black text on a white background is best, since the colour properties and light are best suited for the human eye. That's because white reflects every wavelength in the colour spectrum.