Today’s GK Test Quiz

Ocean currents do not have influence over the climate in India. Ocean currents act much like a conveyer belt, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles and cold water from the poles back to the tropics.

Forming an integral part of the emblem is the motto inscribed below the abacus in Devanagari script: Satyameva Jayate.

Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. The tradition dates back to the Heian period when floral offerings were made at altars. Later, flower arrangements were instead used to adorn the tokonoma of a traditional Japanese home.

The High Yielding Variety Programme (HYVP) was launched in the Kharif of 1966-67 with an objective to attain self-sufficiency in food by 1970-71.

The Surti is a breed of water buffalo found in the Charottar tract of Gujarat between the Mahi and Sabarmati rivers. The best animals of this breed are found in Anand, Kaira and Baroda districts of Gujarat.

Xenobiotics which are inherently resistant to microbial attack are called as Recalcitrant.

Animal protein is called first-class protein because it is rich in essential amino acids. It is superior to plant protein because animal proteins contain a broad spectrum of amino acids with more vitamins and minerals than plant proteins.

Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s.

An amalgam is an alloy of mercury with another metal. It may be a liquid, a soft paste or a solid, depending upon the proportion of mercury.

The chemical name of 'Common salt' is Sodium chloride. Sodium chloride is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium (Na⁺) and chloride (Cl^–) ions.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

The Earth is covered with 71% of water and remaining 29% is land. Deserts make up about 33% or 1/​3rd of earth's land area.

It is stated in Article 85 of the constitution that there should not be a gap of more than six months between two sessions of Parliament. It also states that the President can summon a session of Parliament.

Interest rates are determined by RBI who actively commit to maintaining a target interest rate. They do so by intervening directly in the open market through open market operations (OMO), buying or selling Treasury securities to influence short-term rates.

A fiscal deficit is a difference between total expenditure and total receipts. In other words, it is a shortfall in a government's income compared with its spending. The government that has a fiscal deficit is spending beyond its means.

The Hunter Commission of 1882 was the first Indian Education Commission and the Hunter Commission of 1920 investigated the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh. The government formed a committee of inquiry to investigate the Jallianwala Bagh shootings. The committee was commonly known as Hunter Commission after the name of the chairman, Lord William Hunter.

1915, barely five months after the ban on “Al-Hilal”, Maulana Azad started the publication of the “Al-Balagh” weekly. It was similar in its content to “Al-Hilal”.

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Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Ltd., a unit of Steel Authority of India Limited, is a plant involved in the production of alloy steels and pig iron. It is located in Bhadravathi, Karnataka. It was started as the Mysore Iron Works on 18 January 1923 by Sir M Visvesvaraya.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.