Today’s GK Test Quiz

Sir Ben Kingsley is an English actor. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has garnered numerous accolades, including a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award from four nominations.

The Surti is a breed of water buffalo found in the Charottar tract of Gujarat between the Mahi and Sabarmati rivers. The best animals of this breed are found in Anand, Kaira and Baroda districts of Gujarat.

Tea grows best in regions which enjoy a warm, humid climate with a rainfall measuring at least 200 centimetres a year. Ideally, it likes deep, light, acidic and well-drained soil. Given these conditions, tea will grow in areas from sea level up to altitudes as high as 2,100 metres above sea level.

A gland is an organ that makes one or more substances, such as hormones, digestive juices, sweat, tears, saliva, or milk. Stomach is not a gland but a muscular, hollow organ.

“Plant - Rabbit - Tiger” represents a food chain involving a producer, a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian.

Tetanus is an infection caused by bacteria called Clostridium tetani. Spores of tetanus bacteria are everywhere in the environment, including soil, dust, and manure. The spores develop into bacteria when they enter the body.

Vitamin B₁₂, cobalamin, is a cobalt-containing ring-contracted modified tetrapyrrole that represents one of the most complex small molecules made by nature. The core component of cobalamin is the corrin macrocycle that acts as the main ligand for the cobalt.

Hickey's Bengal Gazette was the first newspaper (English-language) published in India. It was first published on 29th January 1780 by James Augustus Hickey under the British Raj.

Electroplating is the process of coating a metal with a thin layer of another metal by electrolysis to improve the metal's corrosion resistance. The metals commonly used for electroplating are nickel, chromium, cadmium, copper, gold, palladium, platinum, ruthenium, silver, tin and zinc.

The Latin meaning of Habeas Corpus is “we may have the body”. This writ is used to protect the individual against unlawful detention. The person is then freed if the detention is found to be illegal. Hence, this writ is known as the bulwark of personal freedom.

Aurangzeb spent the last 25 years of his life (1682-1707) in the Deccan. He was an advocate of direct conquest of the Deccan states due to the strategic importance of the Deccan states and the administrative and economic necessity of the Mughal empire.

The magnificent 'Ratha' cave temples of Mahabalipuram (Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu) was built by the Pallava king Narsimha in the 7th and 8th centuries.

The word Swaraj was first of all used by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Lokmanya Tilak's slogan “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it...” caught the imagination of a country fighting to free itself from colonial rule.

Subsidiary Alliance was framed by Lord Wellesley, the Governor-General of India from 1798 to 1805. The Permanent Settlement of Bengal was brought into effect by the East India Company headed by Governor-General Lord Cornwallis in 1793. Doctrine of lapse formula devised by Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India (1848–56). The first Partition of Bengal was Announced on 19 July 1905 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India.

When Rays from a distant point source travel parallel to each other in a particular direction, it forms a parallel Light Beam. The sun-ray is an example of a parallel Beam of Light.

Stars have different colours, which are indicators of temperature. The hottest stars tend to appear blue or blue-white, whereas the coolest stars are red.

A concave lens is used to minimize the proportions of the objects and gives a wider view of the object or area. It always forms virtual, erect and diminished image.

Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve in Andhra Pradesh is the largest tiger reserve in India. The core area of this reserve is 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi).

The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) formerly known as Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay is India's premier nuclear research facility, headquartered in Trombay, Mumbai.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is the regulatory body for the securities and commodity market in India under the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It was established on 12 April 1988 and given Statutory Powers on 30 January 1992 through the SEBI Act, 1992.