Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Ahom crossed the Patkai Range from Burma (now Myanmar) and conquered the local chieftains of the upper Assam plain. In the 15th century the Ahom, who gave their name to the region, were the dominant power in upper Assam.

Most houses of the Indus Valley Civilization were built of fired and mortared brick (Pucca bricks); some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures. Sites were often raised, or built on man-made hills. This could be to combat flooding in the nearby areas.

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.

Melanin is a type of pigment that gives colour to the hair, skin, and eyes in humans and animals. It is a complex polymer derived from the amino acid tyrosine.

Warm-blooded animals are the animals which can maintain a body temperature higher than their environment. Mammals and birds are warm-blooded. Dolphins, whales, seals, sea lions, and otters are all mammals. Some examples of warm-blooded are whales, dogs, lions, cats, vultures, and raccoons. Reptiles, insects, and fish (amphibians) including snakes, lizards, turtles and crocodiles are cold-blooded.

“Young India” was a weekly paper or journal in English published by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from 1919 to 1931. Gandhi wrote various quotations in this journal that inspired many. Mahatma Gandhi began publishing “Harijan”, a weekly newspaper, in English in 1933. It lasted until 1948.

Five Past Midnight in Bhopal is a book by Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro based on the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy. It was published in 1997.

In diamonds, all carbon atoms are quaternary in nature. A quaternary carbon is a carbon atom bound to four other carbon atoms. Diamond has a giant covalent structure in which each carbon atom is bound to four other carbon atoms by covalent bonds.

The metal, which is a constituent of vitamin B₁₂ is Cobalt. Cyanocobalamin (commonly known as Vitamin B₁₂) is a highly complex, essential vitamin, owing its name to the fact that it contains the mineral, cobalt.

Litmus is a water-soluble mixture of different dyes obtained from lichens. It is often absorbed onto filter paper to produce one of the oldest forms of pH indicator, used to test materials for acidity.

Ethylene glycol is added to aviation gasoline because it prevents the freezing of petrol. It is an organic compound and has a low freezing point. In the US and Latin countries, the term gasoline is used, but in Europe and Asian countries, it's called petrol.

Habeas corpus is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.

The provisions of a Federation with a strong centre, Residuary powers of the Centre, the appointment of State governors by the Centre and the advisory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, have all been borrowed from the Canadian constitution.

The current system of Indian government to issue notes is 'Minimum Reserve System'. Under this policy, the minimum reserves to be maintained in the form of gold and foreign exchange should consist of ₹200 crore. Out this reserve, the value of gold to be maintained is ₹115 crore.

The different instruments of quantitative credit control technique are Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR), Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR), the Bank Rate Policy, Selective Credit Control (SCC), Open Market Operations (OMOs), etc.

The process of curing inflation by reducing money supply is called Disinflation. Disinflation is a temporary slowing of the pace of price inflation and is used to describe instances when the inflation rate has reduced marginally over the short term.

The sky appears blue to the human eye as the short waves of blue light are scattered more than the other colours in the spectrum, making the blue light more visible.

Jog Falls is a waterfall on the Sharavati river located in the Western Ghats near Sagar Taluk of Shimoga District, Karnataka. It is a segmented waterfall which depends on rain and season becomes a plunge waterfall. Jog Falls is created by the Sharavati dropping 253 m, making it the third-highest waterfall in India after the Nohkalikai Falls with a drop of 335 m in Meghalaya and Dudhsagar Waterfalls with a drop of 310 m in Goa.

OTEC stands for Ocean thermal energy conversion. It uses the ocean's warm surface water with a temperature of around 25°C to vaporize a working fluid, which has a low-boiling point, such as ammonia. The vapor expands and spins a turbine coupled to a generator to produce electricity.

Dikes are man-made structures that defend against natural forces like water, climate and altitude and are mostly constructed of material found on site. Over the centuries, the Netherlands (Holland) had frequently been flooding, from the rivers as well as the sea in varying degrees and severity.