Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Ganga Canal is a canal system that irrigates the Doab region between the Ganges River and the Yamuna River in India. The canal system irrigates nearly 9,000 km² of fertile agricultural land in ten districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Ranthambore National Park is a vast wildlife reserve near the town of Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. Gir Forest National Park is a wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat. Bandipur National Park is in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

Although cyclones affect the entire coast of India, the East coast (Bay of Bengal) is more prone as compared to the West coast. Four states - Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal and one Union Territory - Pondicherry on the East Coast are most vulnerable to cyclone disasters. Coastal Andhra (Coromandal) is a region in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Indian Air Force Academy is a Defence Service training institute located in Hyderabad, Telangana. The Academy was established in 1969 and started operations in 1971.

Golconda and Ahmadnagar Sultanates did not fight for the Tungabhadra Doab.

The pituitary gland is sometimes called the 'master gland' of the endocrine system because it controls the functions of many of the other endocrine glands. It is located at the base of the brain.

The nitrogen present in the atmosphere is utilised through microorganisms. Plants get the nitrogen from the soil, where it has already been fixed by microorganisms (bacteria and archaea). Bacteria and archaea in the soil and in the roots of some plants have the ability to convert nitrogen from the air (N₂) to ammonia (NH₃), thereby breaking the tough triple bond of molecular nitrogen.

Westerlies are called anti-trade wind. The westerlies are prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude. They originate from the high-pressure areas in the horse latitudes and trend towards the poles and steer extratropical cyclones in this general manner.

Isobars are lines on a weather map that join places that have the same air pressure at a particular time.

The troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, and is also where nearly all weather conditions take place. It contains 75% of the atmosphere's mass and 99% of the total mass of water vapour and aerosols. Troposphere is the warmest because it is closest to the ground, where the heat is coming from.

Both statements are correct. Equality before the law, also known as legal equality, is the principle under which all people are subject to the same laws of justice (due process).

Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and is not subject to dissolution. However, one third of the members retire every second year, and are replaced by newly elected members. Each member is elected for a term of six years.

Article 243 as it is today, of the Constitution of India was inserted by the Constitution (Seventy-Third) Amendment Act, 1992. This Amendment has added a new part IX consisting of 16 Articles and the Eleventh Schedule to the Constitution. It provides for a 3-tier Panchayat system, which would be constituted in every state at the village level, intermediate level and district level.

Jayaprakash Narayan proposed partyless democracy in India. Jayaprakash Narayanan led his socialist group out of the Congress party in 1948 and later merged it with a Gandhian-oriented party to form the People's Socialist Party.

In December 1922, Chittaranjan Das, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar and Motilal Nehru formed the Congress-Khilafat Swarajaya Party with Das as the president and Nehru as one of the secretaries.

Pycnometers are used for measuring and comparing densities or specific gravities of liquids and solids, including soil.

law of gravitation is defined by Isaac Newton in 1687. Newton's law of universal gravitation is usually stated as that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centres.

Humidity is a measure of the amount of water vapour in the air. Relative humidity measures the amount of water in the air in relation to the maximum amount of water vapour (moisture). The higher the temperature, the more water vapour the air can hold.

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

Agro-based and Mine-based is the classification of Industries on the basis of raw materials.