Today’s GK Test Quiz

Long- and extra-long staple cottons include pima cotton and Egyptian cotton. These cottons are renowned for their superior quality.

Lothal was one of the southernmost cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, located in the Bhal region of Gujarāt. Construction of the city began around 2200 BCE. The dominant sight at Lothal is the massive dockyard which has helped make this place so important to international archaeology.

Lord Buddha attained Nirvana at the age of 35 when he was alive at Bodh Gaya (Bihar). When he died, he entered nirvana, never to be born again. He is known to have attained Parinirvana after his death at Kushinagar. The Parinirvana Stupa is a Buddhist temple in Kushinagar, India which is said to be the place of death of Gautama Buddha.

Typhoid is spread by sewage contamination of food or water. People who are infected with typhoid pass the Salmonella typhi bacteria in their faeces (poo) and urine. People can get typhoid if they eat food or drink a beverage that has been touched by a person who is infected with the typhoid bacteria and has not washed their hands properly after going to the bathroom.

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.

There are two types of vitamins: water-soluble and fat-soluble. Vitamin C and members of the vitamin B complex are water-soluble. Water-soluble vitamins are easily destroyed or washed out during food storage and preparation.

The author of “Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law” is John Austin (1790-1859). He was a pre-eminent British jurist of the 19th century. The book is based on lectures given by Austin. (Remember, “Lectures on Jurisprudence” is a different book. It is a collection of Adam Smith's lectures).

Gunpowder consists of a mixture of nitre (potassium nitrate), sulphur, and charcoal. Together, these materials will burn rapidly and explode as a propellant. The sulphur and charcoal act as fuels while the nitre is an oxidizer.

Tanchoi is a very fine weave banarasi sarees that use an extra weft thread to create delicate patterns. The Tanchoi brothers from Gujarat introduced the art to the Indian weavers in Surat (Gujarat), and later the Varanasi weavers also started weaving these Sarees, in less expensive versions.

Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was an Indian painter and artist. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography.

Major items of India's exports are Petroleum Products, textiles and garments, gems and jewelry, chemicals and related products, Pharmaceutical Products and agricultural and allied products.

Usefulness is the benefit that is derived by consuming a commodity whereas utility is the want satisfying power of a commodity. A commodity having utility need not be useful.

St. Thomas is said to have come to India to preach Christianity in the reign of Gondophernes. Gondophernes was a Parthian ruler who invaded India.

The All India Muslim League was established in the year 1906 in Dhaka Bangaladesh in Britsh ruled India. The founders of the Muslim League were: Khwaja Salimullah, Vikar-ul-Mulk, Syed Amir Ali, Syed Nabiullah, Khan Bahadur Ghulam and Mustafa Chowdhury.

The Ghadar Party, initially the Pacific Coast Hindustan Association, was formed in 1913 in San Francisco, California (United States) under the leadership of Har Dayal, with Sohan Singh Bhakna as its president.

Gopal Hari Desmukh, popularly known as “Lokahitawadi”, was a product of Western learning in India. He was a judge and a member of the Governor-General's Council in 1880.

Battery acid is sulphuric acid that has been diluted with water to attain a 30-40% concentration level.

Potential energy is the stored energy in any object or system by virtue of its position or arrangement of parts. The energy stored in a watch spring is potential energy. When a spring is compressed, it stores energy in form of elastic potential energy.

Lord Ripon is rightly called the “Father of Local Self Government” in India. In 1882 the then Viceroy of India, Lord Ripon, passed a resolution of local self-government which lead the democratic forms of municipal governance in India.

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.