Today’s GK Test Quiz

Haryana accounted for 41% of the total sulphur production and it was followed by Gujarat 23%, Maharashtra 13% and Uttar Pradesh 11%.

The nitrogen present in the atmosphere is utilised through microorganisms. Plants get the nitrogen from the soil, where it has already been fixed by microorganisms (bacteria and archaea). Bacteria and archaea in the soil and in the roots of some plants have the ability to convert nitrogen from the air (N₂) to ammonia (NH₃), thereby breaking the tough triple bond of molecular nitrogen.

The human body is home to millions of microorganisms (microbes). Some microbes make us sick, others are important for our health. The most common types are bacteria, viruses, protozoa and fungi. Viruses are the most adaptable and versatile microorganisms. Viruses can do nothing until they enter a living cell but when enter a living cell they would be able to multiply.

“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.

subjects which are not mentioned in any of the lists i.e. union, state and concurrent lists, called Residuary Subjects. According to the constitution of India, the Parliament has the power to legislate on the residuary subjects.

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Per capita income or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population. Per capita income is national income divided by population size.

The Planning Commission, agency of the government of India established in 1950 to oversee the country's economic and social development, chiefly through the formulation of five-year plans.

The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is an international legal agreement between all the member nations of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS) are rules that are applicable to the domestic regulations a country applies to foreign investors, often as part of an industrial policy.

On 1 November 1858, the East India Company rule was ended in India and the British government enacted Parliament act of 1858. According to this act Indian administration shifted into the hands of the British Crown and this was pronounced by Lord Canning at Allahabad.

The function of the choke is to provide high voltage initially between the filaments (across the two ends of the tube light) for ionization. Again once the gas in the tube is ionized the choke limits the current flow across the tube.

The time period of a pendulum is directly proportional to the square root of its length. So when its length is halved, its time period is decreased by a factor. If the length L of a simple pendulum is halved, then its period of oscillation will decrease by √2÷2.

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.

law of gravitation is defined by Isaac Newton in 1687. Newton's law of universal gravitation is usually stated as that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centres.

All objects, regardless of mass, will fall at the same rate. Heavier things have a greater gravitational force AND heavier things have a lower acceleration. It turns out that these two effects exactly cancel to make falling objects have the same acceleration regardless of mass.

Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practised in neonatal intensive care units.

Bachendri Pal, an Indian mountaineer who in 1984 became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Santosh Yadav is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice and the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993 with an Indo-Nepalese Team.

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

Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.

The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is a statutory body set up by an Act of Parliament of India. It is under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying. The main office is in Anand, Gujarat.