Today’s GK Test Quiz

Koderma is the leading producer of Mica. It is located in Hazaribagh belt of Jharkhand. Earlier it was famous for production of world-class mica and was known as the Mica Capital of India

Coriander is an annual herb. Its Fresh leaves and dried seeds are most commonly used as food.

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a temperature-sensitive vitamin, so is easily destroyed by heat. It is easily degraded during cooking.

The ability of the eye to see in the dark is due to the production of a purple pigment known as Rhodopsin. Rhodopsin, also known as visual purple, is the photopigment used by the rods and is the key to night vision. It is a pigment-containing sensory protein that converts light into an electrical signal.

The author of “Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law” is John Austin (1790-1859). He was a pre-eminent British jurist of the 19th century. The book is based on lectures given by Austin. (Remember, “Lectures on Jurisprudence” is a different book. It is a collection of Adam Smith's lectures).

A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron. Blast furnace slag is a nonmetallic coproduct produced in the process. It consists primarily of silicates, aluminosilicates, and calcium-alumina-silicates.

Anthracite is the highest grade and best equality coal. It is a hard, very low content of volatile compact variety of coal that has a high luster. It has the highest carbon content (92.1% to 98%), the fewest impurities, and the highest calorific content.

Sodium is used in the yellow lamps used for street lighting. Sodium-vapour lamps are good for night-time illumination because of their high efficiency and because the light they produce penetrates mist and fog particularly well.

Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion.

The strike is one of such crucial rights available to those who are covered by the Industrial Disputes Act. Thus the right of Government Employees to resort to strike, even in the services declared to be of public utility either under the Industrial Disputes Act or by way of an executive notification, is an unqualified statutory right.

In economics, Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that “bad money drives out good”. For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in circulation, which are accepted by law as having similar face value, the more valuable commodity will gradually disappear from circulation.

In economics and political science, fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection and expenditure to influence a country's economy. The long-term fiscal policy proposes to maintain the stability of the ratio of tax revenue to GDP.

Bilateral trade is the exchange of goods between two countries promoting trade and investment. The two countries will reduce or eliminate tariffs, import quotas, export restraints, and other trade barriers to encourage trade and investment.

In India, the Minimum Wages Act was enacted in 1948. It is an Act of Parliament concerning Indian labour law that sets the minimum wages that must be paid to skilled and unskilled labours. The Act gives both the Central government and State government jurisdiction in fixing wages.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional grouping that promotes economic, political, and security cooperation among its ten members: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The rulers of Vijayanagar promoted Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit. Tamil and Telugu became the lingua-franca of the Vijayanagara Empire. Some scholars also opine that Sanskrit acted as a lingua-franca, but it must have been only so among the elites and the literate.

Dyarchy system of double government was introduced by the Government of India Act (1919) for the provinces of British India.

Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College was founded in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, initially as a primary school, with the intention of taking it to a college-level institution, known as Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental Collegiate School.

The Wildlife Institute of India is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate change, Government of India. It was established in 1982. It is located in Dehradun.

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is a futures and forwards exchange with the world's largest market in standardised forward contracts, futures contracts and options on base metals.