Today’s GK Test Quiz

The crops grown after the summer monsoon are called Rabi. Rabi crops are sown in winter and harvested in the summer season.

The most accurate description of The Mauryan monarchy under Ashoka was Enlightened despotism. The enlightened despots tried to institute enlightenment reforms but kept all of the political power without creating a constitution.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in the field of cinema. It is presented annually at the National Film Awards ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals, an organisation set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. V. Shantaram was awarded in 1986, Raj Kapoor was awarded in 1988 and Lata Mangeshkar was awarded in 1989 by Dadasaheb Phalke Award. Mukesh Bhatt is not a recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Euphenics is the manipulation of genes. It is the science of making phenotypic improvements to humans after birth, generally to affect a problematic genetic condition. It deals with the treatment of hereditary defects through medical means.

Soybean is the richest known source of edible protein. The protein content of soybeans is 36–56% of the dry weight. Soybean protein is known as a complete protein as it provides all of the essential amino acids for human nutrition.

Vitamin K is a group of vitamins that the body needs for blood clotting. Blood clotting or coagulation prevents excessive bleeding internally and externally.

An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault. The tectonic plates (Earth's outermost layer) are always slowly moving, but they get stuck at their edges due to friction. Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere.

As per Article 110 of the Constitution of India, the Finance Bill is a Money Bill. It is a Bill that, as the name suggests, concerns the country's finances — it could be about taxes, government expenditures, government borrowings, revenues, etc. Since the Union Budget deals with these things, it is passed as a Finance Bill.

Book building is the process by which an underwriter attempts to determine the price at which an initial public offering (IPO) will be offered.

A prime cost is the total direct costs of production, including raw materials and labour. Indirect costs, such as utilities, manager salaries, and delivery costs, are not included in prime costs. The prime cost equation is equal to the cost of raw materials plus direct labour. All the prime costs are variable costs and they are directly attributable. They do not include indirect variable costs and any fixed costs.

Open Market Operations (OMO) is the simultaneous sale and purchase of government securities and treasury bills by RBI. The objective of OMO is to regulate the money supply in the economy.

In the post-independence period, economic reforms were first introduced in India under P.V. Narasimha Rao Government in 1991.

Quasi-rent is the surplus which is received in a short period because of demand exceeding the supply by the man-made factors besides land.

The Union of India, also called the Dominion of India (Bharatiya Adhirajya), was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. India attained “Dominion Status” on 15 Aug 1947 by the Mountbatten plan.

X-ray inspection systems are mostly capable of detecting defects and contaminants in precious stones and diamonds.

Guru Nanak was born on April 15, 1469, at Rai Bhoi Ki Talwandi, near Lahore, which is in Sekhpura district of modern-day Pakistan.

The Indira Gandhi Canal is the longest canal of India. It starts from the Harike Barrage at Harike, a few km below the confluence of the Satluj and Beas rivers in Punjab and terminates in irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan.

The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

The Equator is the greatest circle of earth. If you were to cut into the Earth right on its Equator, you'd have two equal halves: the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The Equator is the only east-west line that is a great circle. All other parallels (lines of latitude) get smaller as you get near the poles.

In 1919, Mussolini founded the Italian Fasces of Combat in Milan, which became the National Fascist Party two years later.