Today’s GK Test Quiz

Locked jaw disorder is the other name of the disease Tetanus. It is a serious bacterial infection which affects the muscles and the nervous system throughout the body. This infection often affects the muscles of the neck and jaw, but eventually spreads to the rest of the body.

Among the given options, Mollusc plasma bears the smallest living cell. Mycoplasma is the smallest living known cell. It is prokaryotic, devoid of a cell wall and can live without oxygen. It is pathogenic to both plants and animals.

Chewing gum is made from Latex. It is a sweetened, flavoured confection composed primarily of latex, both natural and artificial. Organic latex, a milky white fluid produced by a variety of seed plants, is best known as the principal component of rubber.

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

A tsunami can be generated when the earthquake causes a sudden vertical deformation of the seafloor, thus displacing the overlying water from its equilibrium position.

The preamble to the Constitution: WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN, SOCIALIST, SECULAR, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity, and to promote among them all, FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation; IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this 26th day of November 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

Mahatma Gandhi's moral philosophies were based on Truth, Non-violence, Vegetarianism, Brahmhacharya, Simplicity and Faith. Thus Prohibition of the slaughter of cows in the Directive Principle is based on Gandhi's moral philosophy.

A mixed economy is partly run by the government and partly as a free market economy. In a mixed economy, government controls part of the economy with restriction and licensing requirements, which includes involvement in such areas as education, courts, roads, hospital care, and postal delivery. The government's role in a mixed economy can also include financial policies, such as monetary and fiscal policies.

Sir John Hicks was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972 for his work in general equilibrium and welfare economics.

Companies issue stocks and bonds (securities) to the public to raise funds. A company decides to sell stock when it needs long-term access to capital.

Economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, and are typically measured by the amount of output produced. A decrease in cost per unit of output enables an increase in scale.

The Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India was the first recorded trip directly from Europe to India, via the Cape of Good Hope. Under the command of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, it was undertaken during the reign of King Manuel I in 1495–1499.

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.

Optical fibre works on the principle of total internal reflection. When light ray strikes at the internal surface of an optical fibre cable called such that incidence angle is greater than critical angle, then incident light ray reflects in the same medium and this phenomenon repeats.

Hydrogen is lighter than air. When a balloon is filled with hydrogen gas the weight of the balloon is less than the weight of air displaced by the balloon.

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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the body's immune system. If HIV is not treated, it can lead to AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome).

Manas National Park or Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is a national park, UNESCO Natural World Heritage site, a Project Tiger reserve, an elephant reserve and a biosphere reserve in Assam.

Jog Falls is a waterfall on the Sharavati river located in the Western Ghats near Sagar Taluk of Shimoga District, Karnataka. It is a segmented waterfall which depends on rain and season becomes a plunge waterfall. Jog Falls is created by the Sharavati dropping 253 m, making it the third-highest waterfall in India after the Nohkalikai Falls with a drop of 335 m in Meghalaya and Dudhsagar Waterfalls with a drop of 310 m in Goa.

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