Today’s GK Test Quiz

Koderma is the leading producer of Mica. It is located in Hazaribagh belt of Jharkhand. Earlier it was famous for production of world-class mica and was known as the Mica Capital of India

West Singhbhum is the top iron-ore mining district of Jharkhand.

The Shivanasamudra Falls is on the Cauvery (Kaveri) River after the river has found its way through the rocks and ravines of the Deccan Plateau and drops off to form waterfalls.

The Narmada, Periyar and Tapti are the only long rivers, which flow west and make estuaries. An estuary is an area where a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean. When freshwater and seawater combine, the water becomes brackish, or slightly salty.

Worship of stones, trees and animals is called nature worship. The Indus Valley people worshipped, Pasupati, stones, trees, animals and snakes.

The most accurate description of The Mauryan monarchy under Ashoka was Enlightened despotism. The enlightened despots tried to institute enlightenment reforms but kept all of the political power without creating a constitution.

Carbohydrates can be divided into three main categories: sugar, fiber and starch. Starches are the most commonly consumed type of carbohydrate. Cereal grains and root vegetables are a rich source of starches.

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is used for cleansing polluted water bodies owing to its remarkable capacity of absorbing pollutants.

Rusting is an oxidation reaction. The iron reacts with water and oxygen to form hydrated iron(III) oxide, which we see as rust. Hence, iron rust when they come into contact with water and oxygen – both are needed for rusting to occur.

Polyvinyl chloride also known as PVC is obtained by the polymerisation of vinyl chloride. Vinyl chloride is an organochloride with the formula H₂C=CHCl that is also called vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) or chloroethene.

The law of demand states that the quantity purchased varies inversely with price. In other words, the higher the price, the lower the quantity demanded.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic and political organization of eight countries in South Asia. It was established in 1985. Presently, there are eight member countries in SAARC namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan had joined as the 8th member of SAARC in 2007. The headquarters of SAARC is in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The Congress Socialist Party was a socialist group within the Indian National Congress (INC). It was founded in 1934 by socialists such as Acharya Narendra Dev, Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia and Minoo Masani.

The Bengal Sati Regulation which banned the Sati practice in all jurisdictions of British India was passed on 4 December 1829 by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.

Fibre optics work on the principle of total internal reflection. Light travels down a fiber optic cable by bouncing off the walls of the cable repeatedly. Each light particle (photon) bounces down the pipe with continued internal mirror-like reflection. The light beam travels down the core of the cable.

Liquid water has one of the highest specific heat capacities among common substances, about 4184 J⋅kg⁻¹⋅K⁻¹ at 20°C; but that of ice, just below 0°C, is only 2093 J⋅kg⁻¹⋅K⁻¹. Hydrogen gas has more than three times (14300 J⋅kg⁻¹⋅K⁻¹) the specific heat as water under normal laboratory conditions.

Corbett National Park is India's oldest national park. This Park is a forested wildlife sanctuary in northern India's Uttarakhand State.

Badruddin Tyabji served as the third President of the Indian National Congress. He was one of the founding members and first Muslim president of Indian National Congress.

The thousands of lakes in Finland are the reason why the country's nickname is “the land of a thousand lakes.” There are a total of 188 000 lakes in Finland.

Washington DC, the U.S. capital, is a compact city on the Potomac River, bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia. The capital of the United States of America is located in Washington District of Columbia.