Today’s GK Test Quiz

Alphonso mango is grown across the 200-kilometer-long Konkan coastline in Devgad and Ratnagiri. The Alphonso mango from Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and adjoining areas in Maharashtra, had already acquired the GI tag in October 2018 from the government.

Television was introduced in India on 15 September 1959 in Delhi, after British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began the first television service of the world in 1936. On 25 April 1982 Doordarshan had introduced to broadcast India's first-ever colour programme.

Contour ploughing is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines.

As non-biodegradable wastes like plastic bags, glass bottles, etc., cannot be broken down by decomposers, their disposal poses a big problem. Recycling is one of the best solutions to get rid of non-biodegradable wastes.

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.

Vertebrae is a series of bones that form the spinal column (backbone) of all vertebrates. The average person is born with 33 vertebrae that interact and connect with each other through flexible joints called facets. By the time a person becomes an adult most have only 24-26 vertebrae because some vertebrae at the bottom end of the spine fuse together during normal growth and development.

Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s.

Arsenic, mercury, cadmium and fluoride are the main pollutants in the drinking water which are found in some parts of India.

About 2.1% of all of Earth's water is frozen in glaciers. About 70% of Earth's freshwater is stored in glaciers.

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.

The Constituent Assembly was constituted in November 1946 under Cabinet Mission Plan. The total strength of the Constituent Assembly was 389. It was comprised of several Committees to deal with different tasks. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was the Chairman of the Union Powers Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India. The Constituent Assembly set up a Drafting Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. BR Ambedkar to prepare a Draft Constitution for India.

Nargis Dutt was the first woman film star nominated/ elected to the Rajya Sabha. In the early 1970s, Nargis became the first patron of The Spastic Society of India and her work with the organization brought her recognition as a social worker.

The taxation system in India empowers the state governments to levy income tax on agricultural income, professional tax, state excise duty, land revenue and stamp duty. The Central Government of India levies taxes such as customs duty, income tax, Goods and service tax (GST), and central excise duty.

Inflation allows borrowers to pay lenders back with money worth less than when it was originally borrowed, which benefits borrowers.

The Young Bengal was a group of Bengali free thinkers emerging from Hindu College, Calcutta. They were also known as Derozians, after their firebrand teacher at Hindu College, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969.

As per WHO The standard audible capacity of a healthy human being is in the range of 45-50 decibels. Humans can hear sounds between 0 and 180 decibels. To be precise, noise becomes harmful when it exceeds 75 decibels (dB) and is painful above 120 dB.

Ultrasound is sound waves with frequencies higher than the upper audible limit of human hearing. Humans can detect sounds in a frequency range from about 20 Hz to 20 kHz. The frequency of ultrasound waves is above 20 kHz.

The total forest area in world is approximately 4.06 billion hectares. Forests are not equally distributed around the globe. More than half of the world's forests are found in only five countries (1st-Russia, 2nd-Brazil, 3rd-Canada, 4th-USA and 5th-China) and two-thirds (66 percent) of forests are found in ten countries.

The Baltoro Glacier, at 63 km in length, is one of the longest glaciers outside the polar regions. It is located in Gilgit-Baltistan region of POK. It runs through part of the Karakoram mountain range.