Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Godavari is the longest river of peninsular India. And also the largest catchment area river in the Indian Peninsula. The Godavari, also known as 'Dakshin Ganga'.

The monsoon is caused by differing temperature trends over the land and ocean. In India, the southwest summer monsoon is attracted by a low-pressure area that's caused by the extreme heat of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan and adjoining areas during summer. During the monsoon, the wind direction reverses. The South West monsoon engulfs the entire India by 15th July.

Gujarat state has the longest Coastline (1,600 km) in India, lies on the Kathiawar region and bounded by the Arabian Sea. Andhra Pradesh has the second-longest coastline in India after Gujarat with a length of 974 km, along with Coromandel Coast. Coastline of Tamil Nadu is part of Coromandel Coast and is the third-longest coastline (940 Km) in the country.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was in his mid-30s when he started to lose his hearing, so he had many years of composing under his belt.

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, also called ELISA or EIA, is a test that detects and measures antibodies in your blood.

Kiratarjuniya is a Sanskrit epic poem by Bharavi. Amuktamalyada is a Telugu epic poem composed by Krishnadevaraya, the Vijayanagara Emperor in the early 16th century. Nagananda is a Sanskrit play attributed to emperor Harshavardhana. Ritusamhara is a long poem or mini-epic in Sanskrit attributed to Kalidasa.

The chemical name of Gypsum is calcium sulphate dihydrate (CaSO₄⋅2H₂O). Milk of lime is the common name for saturated calcium hydroxide solution (Ca(OH)₂). Glauber's salt is the common name for sodium sulphate decahydrate (Na₂SO₄·10H₂O). Saltpeter is one name for the compound called potassium nitrate, which has the chemical formula KNO₃.

Isoneph is a line on a map connecting points that have the same average percentage of cloudiness.

A quasi-legislative capacity is that in which a public administrative agency or body acts when it makes rules and regulations. Quasi-judicial is defined as an action by an administrative agency which ascertains certain facts, holds hearings, weighs evidence, makes conclusions from the facts as a basis for their official action, and exercises discretion of judicial nature.

In India, the tools of legislative control are Questions, Resolutions, Discussion, Adjournment Motions, Votes of Censure, Budgets and Parliamentary Committees, Public Accounts Committee, Estimates Committee, Committees on Public Undertakings, Committee on Subordinate Legislation and the Committee on Assurances. The dissolution of Lok Sabha is not a tool of legislative control over administration in India.

A party is recognised as a state or regional party in a state if any of the following conditions is fulfilled:

1. If it secures 6% of the valid votes polled in the state assembly election of the state concerned and wins 2 seats in that assembly or
2. If it secures 6% of the valid votes polled in the Lok Sabha election from the state concerned and wins 1 seat in the Lok Sabha from that state or
3. If it wins 3% of seats in the legislative assembly of the state concerned or 3 seats in the assembly, whichever is more or
4. If it wins 1 seat in the Lok Sabha for every 25 seats or any fraction thereof allotted to the state at a general election to the Lok Sabha from the state concerned or
5. If it secures 8% of the total valid votes polled in the state assembly election of the state concerned or Lok Sabha from that state. This condition was added in 2011.

Amir Khusro was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar who lived under the Delhi Sultanate. He is credited for the invention of the sitar. He rechristened the 3 stringed Tritantri Veena which eventually became known as the sitar.

Exceptional or abnormal demand is a demand pattern which does not abide with the laws of demand. Its curve is one which slopes down from right to left or in other words, which goes up from left to right, showing that more is demanded at a higher price than at a lower price.

Alauddin chose to pay his soldiers salaries in cash rather than iqtas (grants of land).

Radiocarbon Dating (carbon-14 dating) is used to estimate the age of fossils. It is a method of age determination that depends upon the decay to nitrogen of radiocarbon (carbon-14).

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.

The fundamental scientific principle in the operation of a battery is dissociation of electrolytes. In dissociation of electrolytes, the addition of a solvent or of energy in the form of heat causes molecules or crystals of the substance to break up into ions (electrically charged particles).

Interference may be defined as waves emerging from two different sources, producing different wave-fronts. It is demonstrated by the light reflected from a film of oil floating on water. Another example is the thin film of a soap bubble, which reflects a spectrum of beautiful colours when illuminated by natural or artificial light sources.

Ostrich is the tallest and heaviest bird on the planet. Females can grow up to six feet and weigh more than 200 pounds, while males can reach nine feet tall and roughly 280 pounds.

On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.