Today’s GK Test Quiz

The river Godavari is often referred to as Vridha Ganga because of its large size and extent among the peninsular rivers.

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

Methyl bromide (CH₃Br) damages the ozone layer once released into the atmosphere. It is also toxic and harmful to humans and fauna if not used carefully. Methyl bromide is an odorless, colourless gas used to control a wide variety of pests in agriculture, including fungi, weeds, insects, nematodes (or roundworms), and rodents.

The purity of gold is expressed in carats. 24 carat is pure gold with no other metals (100-percent gold and 0-percent other metals). Lower caratages contain less gold; 18-carat gold contains 75 percent gold and 25 percent other metals, often copper or silver.

The winds that flow throughout the year from one latitude to another latitude because of latitudinal differences in the air pressure are called planetary winds. There are three main types of planetary winds - the trade winds, the westerlies and the easterlies. Chinook is a strong wind that becomes warm and very dry while rapidly descending the lee side of mountain slopes.

Article 80 of the Constitution lays down the maximum strength of Rajya Sabha as 250, out of which 12 members are nominated by the President and 238 are representatives of the States and Union Territories. Article 81 deals with the Composition of the Lok Sabha. The maximum strength of Lok Sabha is 552 members, which is made up by the election of up to 530 members to represent the States, up to 20 members to represent the Union Territories and 2 members to be nominated by the President from the Anglo-Indian Community. At present, the strength of the House is 545 (543+2 Anglo-Indian).

In 2017, a 9 Judge Bench of the Supreme Court delivered a unanimous verdict in Justice KS Puttaswamy vs Union of India and other connected matters, affirming that the Constitution of India guarantees to each individual a fundamental right to privacy under Articles 14, 19 and 21.

The major aim of devaluation is to encourage exports. Devaluation is the deliberate downward adjustment of the value of a country's money relative to another currency. One reason a country may devalue its currency is to combat a trade imbalance. Devaluation reduces the cost of a country's exports and increases the cost of imports.

The economy is in equilibrium only when saving is equal to investment. If saving and investment are equal at a time, they will be soon brought into equilibrium by automatic changes in the rate of interest. Given the rate of investment, if saving increases, then the rate of interest will fall. With the decline in the rate of interest, investment demand will rise.

The World Bank Group works with developing countries to reduce poverty and increase shared prosperity, while the IMF serves to stabilize the international monetary system and acts as a monitor of the world's currencies. When a country faces serious balance of payments problems because of structural weaknesses that require time to address, the IMF can assist through an Extended Fund Facility (EFF).

The Lodi dynasty was an Afghan dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1451 to 1526. It was the fifth and final dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, and was founded by Bahlul Khan Lodi when he replaced the Sayyid dynasty.

Sir Thomas Roe arrived at the port of Surat in September 1615 with a letter from King James I to the then reigning Mughal Emperor, Jahangir, seeking a trade agreement.

The British introduced the railways in India in order to facilitate British commerce and administrative control. They introduced the railway to ease their own transportation and faster supply of raw materials.

A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. It swings back and forth in a precise time interval. A pendulum clock takes 1 second to move from one extreme to the other extreme, so its time period is 2 seconds.

For a body moving with non-uniform velocity and uniform acceleration, Displacement–Time graph is nonlinear. Non-uniform motion occurs when an object's velocity (either the magnitude, or the direction, or both) is variable (i.e. the object undergoes acceleration).

Henry Ford developed the first automatic automobile. He was an American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Japanese woman Junko Tabei was the first woman in the world to climb the world's highest peak of Mount Everest. She also became the first woman in the world to do an expedition of all “Seven Summits” — the tallest peak on each continent across the globe. Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) were the first in the world to scale Mount Everest.

Presence of more plankton that are food for fish avail large numbers of fish. In the northern hemisphere, there are extensive continental shelves which favour fishing grounds. The rugged and hilly terrain make agriculture difficult, many people opt for fishing as the main economic activity hence its development.

In the case of an explosion above the ground, ground zero is the point on the ground directly below the nuclear detonation and is sometimes called the hypocenter. The World Trade Centre (in New York) site, formerly referred to as “Ground Zero” or “the Pile” immediately after the September 11 attacks.

Plato, Machiavelli and Herbert Spencer are thinkers who influenced Fascism. The Greek philosopher Plato supported many similar political positions to fascism. Niccolo Machiavelli is known to have influenced Italian Fascism, particularly through his promotion of the absolute authority of the state.