Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Mettur Dam is the largest in Tamil Nadu, located across the river Cauvery where it enters the plains. Mettur Dam Hydro Power Project is a small town in Salem District, Tamil Nadu.

Sidi Bashir Mosque (built-in 1452 AD) is a former mosque in the city of Ahmedabad. Only the central gateway and two minarets survive; they are known as the Jhulta Minar or Shaking Minarets.

Agni-II is the second strategic ballistic missile of Agni family. It is an Indian medium-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile (MRBM) with a range of over 2,000 km.

Devprayag is the confluence of two holy rivers Alaknanda and Bhagirathi to form Ganga. River Bhagirathi originates from Gangotri and Alaknanda originates from Badrinath.

One of the most fascinating figures from the Indus Valley Civilization is the sculpture titled 'Mother Goddess'. A large number of Mother Goddess terracotta figurines have been excavated from Mohenjo Daro are evidence of the fact that the Mother Goddess was the chief deity of the people of the Indus Valley civilization.

The Kalinga war was fought between Ashka and the state of Kalinga 261 BC. The massive bloodshed filled Ashoka with remorse and he adopted Buddhism under the Buddhist monk Upagupta and abandoned the policy of physical conquest and adopted the policy of cultural conquest.

The process of improving the quality of rubber by heating it with sulphur is called Vulcanization. It is the process of converting natural rubber to more strong and more elastic form.

Rusting is an oxidation reaction. The iron reacts with water and oxygen to form hydrated iron(III) oxide, which we see as rust. Hence, iron rust when they come into contact with water and oxygen – both are needed for rusting to occur.

The air above the land warms up and rises and the cool air over the sea moves in to take its place, resulting in the sea breeze in the daytime. At night, as the sea maintains its temperature better and is warmer than the land, the roles of land and sea reverse and convection of air results in the land breeze.

A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating compact star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.

A vote-on-account, as defined by Article 116 of the Indian Constitution, is a grant in advance for the central government to meet short-term expenditure needs from the Consolidated Fund of India, generally lasting for a few months till the financial year kicks in.

The Supreme Court of India has Original, Appellate and Advisory Jurisdiction. The Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction over all the courts and tribunals in India. Under Article 143 the Supreme Court of India has got the Advisory Jurisdiction under which it may advise the President of India on matters which are related to public importance.

Disposable Personal Income (DPI) is how much money a person has to spend after taxes and any other mandatory withholdings are taken from their pay-check.

The province of Bengal was partitioned into largely Muslim eastern areas and largely Hindu western areas. Announced on 19th July 1905 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India, and implemented on 16 October 1905, it was undone a mere six years later.

Dyarchy system of double government was introduced by the Government of India Act (1919) for the provinces of British India. It marked the first introduction of the democratic principle into the executive branch of the British administration of India.

Milk is put in a container in a centrifuge machine and the container is spun at a very high speed. The centrifugal forces act on milk and separate the milk into a cream that is lighter thus floats on top and skimmed milk which is at the bottom. Then cream can be separated from the milk.

World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on April 7, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization. In 1948, The WHO held the First World Health Assembly.

The Antarctic blue whale is the largest mammal on the planet.

Heligoland is located 46 kilometres off the German coastline.