Today’s GK Test Quiz

The sex ratio (also known as Gender Ratio) refers to the number of females per thousand males.

After Alexander's death, the Eastern part of his empire came under Seleucus Nicator. In the Wars of the Diadochi that took place after Alexander's death, Seleucus established the Seleucid dynasty and the Seleucid Empire.

William Harvey made the momentous medical discovery that the flow of blood must be continuous and that its flow must be in one direction only.

The normal pH range of human blood is 7.35 to 7.45. This means that blood is naturally slightly alkaline or basic.

Glass is a supercooled liquid. Supercooling is the process of lowering the temperature of a liquid or a gas below its freezing point without it becoming a solid. It achieves this in the absence of a seed crystal or nucleus around which a crystal structure can form.

Aspirin is chemically known as acetylsalicylic acid. It is a common drug for relieving minor aches, pains, and fevers. People also use it as an anti-inflammatory or a blood thinner.

Water polo is a competitive team sport played in the water between two teams of 7 players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the two teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal.

The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. The competition is contested every two years with the venue alternating between courses in the United States and Europe.

A geosynchronous orbit is located at 35,786 km above Earth's equator. This position is a valuable spot for monitoring weather, communications and surveillance. Geosynchronous orbit is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds.

The Campos, grassland with few trees or shrubs except near streams, lies between 24°S and 35°S; it includes parts of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, and all of Uruguay.

Bauxite ore is the world's primary source of aluminium. The ore must first be chemically processed to produce alumina (aluminium oxide). Alumina is then smelted using an electrolysis process to produce pure aluminium metal.

The highest-ranking civil servant is the Cabinet Secretary. They are ex-officio Chairman of the Civil Services Board; the chief of the Indian Administrative Service and head of all civil services under the rules of business of the Government of India.

Private income is either any type of income received by a private individual or household, often derived from occupational activities, or income of an individual that is not in the form of a salary, wage, or commission (e.g. income from investments or renting land or other property).

The Centre earns money through several taxes, such as corporate tax, income tax, goods and services tax (GST), Union excise duty and customs duty. A part of the taxes is shared with state governments. Sales tax is charged at both the levels of Legislation, Central (Central Sales Tax) and State (states Sales Tax). Sales tax is not shared between the Union and the states.

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.

The Secretariat Building was designed by the prominent British architect Herbert Baker in Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture. Sir Herbert Baker was a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures.

The Kuka Movement marked the first major reaction of the people in Western Punjab to the new political order initiated by the British after 1849. The Namdhari Movement, of which the Kuka Movement was the most important phase, aimed at overthrowing the British rule.

When a body is thrown upward, the height attained by that body is independent of the mass and depends on the initial speed of the body and the value of g. So, two stones of unequal masses are thrown vertically up with the same velocity they will reach the same height.

The sky appears blue to the human eye as the short waves of blue light are scattered more than the other colours in the spectrum, making the blue light more visible.

A geostationary satellite is an earth-orbiting satellite, placed at an altitude of approximately 35,800 km directly over the equator, that revolves in the same direction the earth rotates (west to east). At this altitude, one orbit takes 24 hours, the same length of time as the earth requires to rotate once on its axis. So they seem stationary, relative to the Earth's surface.