Today’s GK Test Quiz

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.

Foramen Magnum (also called great hole) is an aperture found in the skull. It is a large, oval-shaped opening in the occipital bone of the skull.

The oxygen released during photosynthesis is from the water. The plants absorb water as well as carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. Later these water molecules are converted into oxygen and sugar. The oxygen is then released into the atmosphere whereas the sugar molecules are stored for energy.

Conduction and respiration are associated with plants during the dark period. Conduction is the process by which vital nutrients are transported to the different parts of a plant. This process is independent of the light factor. Respiration always occurs in plants, but night respiration is more evident since the photosynthesis process ceases.

Paraffin wax is a colourless soft, solid wax obtained from petroleum, coal or oil shale. It consists of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules containing between twenty and forty carbon atoms. It's often used in skin-softening salon and spa treatments on the hands, cuticles, and feet.

Ethanol containing 5 percent water is known as rectified spirit. Rectified spirit is a mixture of ethanol (95-96 percent) and water produced as an azeotrope by distillation.

LBW (Leg before wicket) is one of the ways in which a batsman can be out. The umpire may rule a batter out lbw if the ball would have struck the wicket, but was instead intercepted by any part of the batsman's body (except the hand holding the bat).

On 5 August 2019, the Government of India revoked the special constitutional status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution.

The maximum strength of the House is 552 members - 530 members to represent the States, 20 members to represent the Union Territories, and 2 members to be nominated by the President from the Anglo-Indian Community.

Article 37 says that Directive Principles are not enforceable but are fundamental to the Governance of the Country, and the State has the duty in applying the Directive Principles of State Policies (DPSPs). If they are not acted upon by the State, no one can move the Courts.

GNP (Gross national product) includes what is produced domestically and what is produced by domestic labour and business abroad in a year. NNP (Net national product) is GNP minus depreciation. Depreciation is the process by which capital ages over time and therefore loses its value.

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 size of the landholdings is declining in India due to the shortage of land which has been used for industrial and other purposes. Many land goes to the private sector for setting up big projects. The main factors triggering land fragmentation are inheritance; population growth; land markets; and historical/ cultural background. Owning of land is a social status in India.

The Industrial Sector has been the highest taxpayer in India. Corporation tax is the biggest source of revenue for the government. Corporation tax is levied on the net income of the company.

Dhanvantari is the Hindu god of medicine and an avatar of Lord Mahavishnu. He is mentioned in the Puranas as the god of Ayurveda.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician, activist, and writer. He was a leading figure in the Indian independence movement and the Hindu Mahasabha. He wrote History of India in the Marathi language on the walls of the Andaman Cellular Jail.

Asteroids are rocky objects revolving around the sun that are too small to be called planets. The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.

Solar energy is converted into chemical energy during Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the conversion of solar energy (light energy from the Sun) into stored chemical energy (a form of glucose or other organic molecules).

Adiabatic demagnetization is a process by which the removal of a magnetic field from certain materials serves to lower their temperature. It comes under magnetic cooling, exploiting paramagnetic properties to cool some materials down.

The Tehri Dam is the tallest dam in India. It is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand.