Today’s GK Test Quiz

Botanical Survey of India (BSI) is located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was founded on 13 February 1890. BSI is the apex taxonomic research organization of India which is under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

Rome is called the Eternal City because ancient Romans believed that no matter what happened to the world, or how many empires rose or fell, that Rome would go on forever.

Seleucus Nicator was defeated by Chandragupta Maurya. Chandragupta extended the borders of the Maurya Empire toward Seleucid Persia, after defeating Seleucus in 305 BCE.

The Gandhara School of art had developed in the first century AD along with Mathura School during the reign of Kushana emperor Kanishka.

Starch, glycogen and cellulose are all polymers of glucose. They differ in the type of glucose present and the bonds which link the glucose monomers together.

When Concentrated sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) is added to dry potassium nitrate (KNO₃), gives brown fumes of nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) gas. Concentrated H₂SO₄ reacts with dry KNO₃ to form nitric acid (HNO₃) and potassium sulphate (KHSO₄). The formed HNO₃ dissociates to give NO₂, H₂O and O₂ gas.

The Mariana Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean about 200 kilometres east of the Mariana Islands. It is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.

Amicus Curiae is a legal Latin phrase, literally translated as a friend of the court, that refers to someone, not a party to a case, who volunteers to offer information on a point of law or some other aspect of the case to assist the court in deciding a matter before it.

Statutory grants-in-aid of the revenues of States are dealt with in Article 275 of the Constitution of India. It is done on the basis of the recommendation of the Finance Commission of India. Resources transferred from the Government of India to States are termed 'Statutory' if they are made on the recommendations of the Finance Commission.

'Consent of the people' means consent of:

The economy is in equilibrium only when saving is equal to investment. If saving and investment are equal at a time, they will be soon brought into equilibrium by automatic changes in the rate of interest. Given the rate of investment, if saving increases, then the rate of interest will fall. With the decline in the rate of interest, investment demand will rise.

India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF) is a Trust established by the Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India in 2003 with the objective of promoting and creating international awareness of the Made in India label in markets overseas and to facilitate dissemination of knowledge of Indian products and services.

Population growth rate is affected by birth rates, death rates, immigration, and emigration. A high growth rate of population is characterised by high birth and low death rates.

Home Rule League, either of two short-lived organizations of the same name in India established in April and September 1916, respectively, by Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak and British social reformer and Indian independence leader Annie Besant.

Vernacular Press Act of 1878, proposed by Lytton the then Viceroy of India (1876-80). It was meant only for vernacular/ native language newspapers not for English ones.

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.

Shrimant Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao Bhat, also known as Nana Saheb, was the 8th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire in India.

Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Sometimes referred to as the “Birdman of India”, Salim Ali was the first Indian to conduct systematic bird surveys across India and wrote several bird books that popularized ornithology in India.

The correct match is as follows:

The time increases at a rate of 4 minutes per one degree of longitude, east of the Prime Meridian.