Today’s GK Test Quiz

Srinagar is one of the northernmost cities in India. Since Srinagar lies to the north of the Tropic of Cancer, it never gets the vertical rays of the sun.

Gibbons are apes which live in subtropical and tropical rainforest from eastern Bangladesh to Northeast India to southern China and Indonesia.

Some 200 million years ago, Antarctica was joined to South America, Africa, India​, and Australia in a single large continent called Gondwanaland.

Ocean currents do not have influence over the climate in India. Ocean currents act much like a conveyer belt, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles and cold water from the poles back to the tropics.

The liver secretes bile juice that does not contain enzymes but helps in digestion. Salivary gland secrets ptyalin which is the first digestive enzyme. The small intestine secrets maltase, and peptidase. The pancreas produces pancreatic amylase, trypsin, nuclease, nucleosidases, and lipase.

Sleeping sickness is caused by microscopic parasites of the species Trypanosoma Brucei. It is transmitted by the tsetse fly (Glossina species).

The normal pH range of human blood is 7.35 to 7.45. This means that blood is naturally slightly alkaline or basic.

The chemical name for baking soda is sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO₃). It is a salt composed of a sodium cation and a bicarbonate anion.

The most suitable vessel for storing concentrated sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) is a glass vessel as it is not able to dissolve glass. This is because sulfuric acid is simply not corrosive enough to eat through the extremely strong silicon dioxide (SiO₂) bonds that are the main component found in glass.

The 42nd Amendment also amended Preamble and changed the description of India from “sovereign democratic republic” to a “sovereign, socialist secular democratic republic”, and also changed the words “unity of the nation” to “unity and integrity of the nation”.

A writ of mandamus (which means “we command” in Latin), is the name of one of the prerogative writs in the common law, and is issued by a superior court to compel a lower court or a government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.

The Supreme Court of India, in several judgments, that have clearly established the relation between the right to housing and the right to life, as guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India.

The two forms of democracy are Parliamentary and Presidential. Parliamentary democracy is a form of government in which the party in the parliament (legislature) forms the government, its leader becoming prime minister or chancellor. The presidential system, unlike the parliamentary form of democracy, has a strong and independent chief executive with extensive powers related to both domestic, or internal, affairs and foreign policy. The president's independence from the legislature is based on election by the people to whom he or she is directly accountable and not to the legislature, as in the parliamentary system.

A commercial bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits, offers checking and savings account services, and makes loans. A commercial bank can grant a loan only if it has the permission of Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Overdraft is a financial instrument in which the money can be withdrawn from the current or savings account, even if the account balance goes below zero.

The Satvahanas predominantly minted their coins in lead. They also used 'potin' an alloy of silver and copper to mint coins.

Cabinet Mission was a high-powered mission sent in February 1946 to India by the Atlee Government (British Prime Minister). The mission came to India aiming to discuss the transfer of powers from the British government to the Indian leadership, with the aim of preserving India's unity and granting its independence.

A rectifier is a special type of diode that converts alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC).

Raindrops start to form in a roughly spherical structure due to the surface tension of water. Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible.

An initial public offering (IPO) refers to the process of offering shares of a private corporation to the public in a new stock issuance. Public share issuance allows a company to raise capital from public investors.