Today’s GK Test Quiz

Tea grows best in regions which enjoy a warm, humid climate with a rainfall measuring at least 200 centimetres a year. Ideally, it likes deep, light, acidic and well-drained soil. Given these conditions, tea will grow in areas from sea level up to altitudes as high as 2,100 metres above sea level.

The major nutrients essential for growth the development of tobacco plants are nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium and sulphur. Nitrogen has a greater effect on tobacco yield and quality than any other nutrient.

Men and women have an equal number of bones which is 206. A baby's body has about 300 bones at birth. These eventually fuse (grow together) to form the 206 bones that adults have.

The gas that is used in the manufacture of vanaspati ghee is hydrogen. Hydrogenation is a process where manufacturers add hydrogen to a liquid fat, such as vegetable oil, to turn it into a solid fat at room temperature.

Plasma is the fourth state of matter (beyond the conventional solids, liquids and gases). It is an ionized gas consisting of approximately equal numbers of positively and negatively charged particles.

Colourado, a western USA state, has a diverse landscape of arid desert, river canyons and snow-covered Rocky Mountains, which are partly protected by Rocky Mountain National Park. The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colourado River.

The Preamble of the Indian Constitution is primarily based on the 'Objective Resolution' written by Jawaharlal Nehru. He introduced his objective resolution on December 13, 1946, later it was accepted by the Constituent Assembly on 22 January 1947. The preamble is taken from the US constitution. The Indian Preamble borrowed its ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity from the French Constitution.

A writ of mandamus or mandamus (which means “we command” in Latin) is the name of one of the prerogative writs in the common law, and is “issued by a superior court to compel a lower court or a government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly”.

The Finance Commission is constituted by the President under article 280 of the Constitution, mainly to give its recommendations on the distribution of tax revenues between the Union and the States and amongst the States themselves.

Article 58 of the Indian constitution deals with Qualifications for election as President. For the election of President of India, a citizen should not be less than 35 years of age, and qualified for election as a member of the Lok Sabha. His term of office is five years, and he is eligible for re-election.

Bank rate is the rate charged on the loans offered by the Central bank to the commercial banks without any collateral. It is also considered as the rate at which the central bank discounts the bills of the commercial banks. Bank rate is a quantitative credit control measure under the monetary policy of the government as it controls the overall supply of money in the economy.

Complementary goods have a negative cross-price elasticity: as the price of one good increases, the demand for the second good decreases. Substitute goods have a positive cross-price elasticity: as the price of one good increases, the demand for the other good increases. Petrol and Cars is an example of Complementary goods.

Usefulness is the benefit that is derived by consuming a commodity whereas utility is the want satisfying power of a commodity. A commodity having utility need not be useful.

The Security Council has five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States — collectively known as the P5. It has also ten non-permanent members which are elected for two-year terms.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. The World Wide Web is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by URL (Uniform Resource Locators), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.

Nuclear reactors operate on the principle of nuclear fission, the process in which a heavy atomic nucleus splits into two smaller fragments. The nuclear fragments are in very excited states and emit neutrons, other subatomic particles, and photons.

The Wildlife Institute of India is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate change, Government of India. It was established in 1982. It is located in Dehradun.

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was established in 1963 as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to contribute in the skill building for the external trade sector of India. It is located in New Delhi.

Cartography is the method through which maps are studied, created and designed. A confluence between practice, science, and art, cartography guides the principles and practical standards behind maps and map-making.

The full form of ATM is “Automated teller Machine”. It is an electro-mechanical machine that is used for making financial transactions from a bank account.