Today’s GK Test Quiz

Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) is a port city of Tamil Nadu. The city lies on the Coromandel (eastern coast) Coast of the Bay of Bengal.

Jamini Roy was an Indian painter. Bhuvneshwari Kumari is a former women's squash champion from India. Alla Rakha was an Indian tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical music. Medha Patkar is a Social and environmental activist.

Mohd Ali Jinnah died of tuberculosis at the age of 70 in 1948. Mahatma Gandhi was shot on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse. In 1951, Liaqat Ali Khan was shot while he was addressing in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In August 1979, Mountbatten was assassinated by a bomb planted aboard his fishing boat in Ireland, by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Fat has more than twice as many calories per gram as carbohydrates and proteins. A gram of fat has about 9 calories, while a gram of carbohydrate or protein has about 4 calories.

An ecosystem consists of a community of organisms together with their physical environment. Ecosystems can be of different sizes and can be marine, aquatic, or terrestrial.

The Art of Living Foundation is a volunteer-based, humanitarian and educational non-governmental organization. It was founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

The Symphony No.1 was written in 1764 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of eight years. A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.

In a lead-acid battery, the cathode is made of lead dioxide, and the anode is made of metallic lead. The two electrodes are separated by an electrolyte of sulfuric acid.

Detergent is a sodium salt of long-chain benzene sulphonic acid or sodium salt of long-chain alkyl hydrogen sulphate, which has cleansing properties in water. Like soaps, Detergents contain anionic groups such as sulphonate groups or sulphate groups and long-chain hydrocarbon, a non-ionic group.

Percentage of lead in lead pencils is 0. Lead pencils aren't actually made from lead. It is made of a mixture of graphite and clay. Graphite is the part that makes the dark mark on the paper. The clay is there because graphite on its own is too soft to write.

Tropical land has maximum biodiversity because rainforests located in tropical regions receive a lot of sunlight. Since there is a lot of sunlight, there is a lot of energy in the rainforest. This energy is stored in plant vegetation, which is eaten by animals. The abundance of energy supports an abundance of plant and animal species.

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.

Lok Sabha Speaker gives the resignation to Deputy Speaker as per Article 94 (b) of the Constitution of India.

The President may be removed before his tenure through impeachment for violating the Constitution of India by the Parliament of India. The process may begin in either of the two houses of the Parliament. There is no approval of the Chief Justice of India is required.

The national income of a country is total productive income. It can be defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced in the economy in a year.

The major aim of devaluation is to encourage exports. Devaluation is the deliberate downward adjustment of the value of a country's money relative to another currency. One reason a country may devalue its currency is to combat a trade imbalance. Devaluation reduces the cost of a country's exports and increases the cost of imports.

The balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain time period.

National income means the value of goods and services produced by a country during a financial year. Thus, it is the net result of all economic activities of any country during a period of one year and is valued in terms of money.

X-ray inspection systems are mostly capable of detecting defects and contaminants in precious stones and diamonds.

The strongest force in nature is nuclear force, also called the strong nuclear interaction. It is the strongest of the four fundamental forces of nature.