Today’s GK Test Quiz

A compound leaf consists of several or many distinct parts (leaflets) joined to a single stem. Coconut, Shame plant, Rose, Clover, Baobab, Neem, Buckeye, Desert cotton, Horse chestnut, Poison ivy, etc. are some examples of a compound leaf. Papaya, Guava, peepal, hibiscus, oregano, pear plant, etc are simple leaves.

The visual system of an ant is comprised of a pair of compound eyes and a set of simple eyes called ocelli.

By mass, about 96 percent of the human body is made up of just four elements: oxygen (65 percent), carbon (18.5 percent), hydrogen (9.5 percent), and nitrogen (3.3 percent). Oxygen (O) together with hydrogen form water, which is the primary solvent found in the body and is used to regulate temperature and osmotic pressure.

Protein is known as a bodybuilder. It has a special role in bodybuilding because it contains the very building blocks of muscle tissue called amino acids. Protein is a slow-digesting nutrient, which is needed for the repair and growth of muscles and tissues.

It is the nerve tissue where no cell division occurs after birth. Cell division is the process by which a parent cell divides into two daughter cells with the same genetic material. There are two types of cell division: mitosis and meiosis. There is absence of centrioles in the nerve cells and because of this they are unable to perform mitosis and meiosis and hence these cells do not divide.

This raga is said to have been created by the sixteenth-century singing legend, Miyan Tansen. Tansen, also referred to as Ramtanu Pandey, was a prominent figure of Hindustani classical 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.

Inflammable gas is a gas that burns in the presence of an oxidant when provided with a source of ignition. inflammable gasses can include methane, acetylene, ammonia, hydrogen, propane, and propylene. The risk of a fire starting increases in relation to the amount of gas present.

The air above the land warms up and rises and the cool air over the sea moves in to take its place, resulting in the sea breeze in the daytime. At night, as the sea maintains its temperature better and is warmer than the land, the roles of land and sea reverse and convection of air results in the land breeze.

The Constitution empowers the President to summon each House at such intervals that there should not be more than a six-month gap between the two sessions. Hence the Parliament must meet at least twice a year.

subjects which are not mentioned in any of the lists i.e. union, state and concurrent lists, called Residuary Subjects. According to the constitution of India, the Parliament has the power to legislate on the residuary subjects.

Fundamental duties are defined under Article 51A of the Constitution of India 1949. This article was not included in the Draft Constitution 1948. It was inserted by the Constitution (42nd Amendment) Act 1976.

Bank rate (discount rate) is the rate of interest which a Central Bank of Country charges on its loans and advances to the commercial banks.

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.

According to the Suresh Tendulkar Committee, the Below Poverty Line (BPL) number is now 38%. Suresh Tendulkar Committee was constituted in the year 2009.

Stagflation is an economic condition that's caused by a combination of slow economic growth, high unemployment, and rising prices.

1. Prarthana Samaj: 1860s (Dadoba Pandurang and his brother Atmaram Pandurang)
2. Brahmo Samaj: 1828 (Ram Mohan Roy)
3. Arya Samaj: 1875 (Dayananda Saraswati)
4. Rama Krishna Mission: 1897 (Swami Vivekananda)

JP Narayan convened a meeting in Patna on 17 May 1934, which founded the Bihar Congress Socialist Party. He was a Gandhian Socialist. Narayan became general secretary of the party and Acharya Narendra Deva became president.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

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.