Today’s GK Test Quiz

Madhya Pradesh produces the maximum manganese in India. Next in the order of production are Maharashtra and Odisha.

Pench National Park, situated in Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh in India is one of the most popular national parks in India.

The Indus is the western most River system in the subcontinent. Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Satluj are its main tributaries of Indus. It originates from the Bokhar Chu (glacier) of Mt. Kailash (6714m). It drains the largest number of glaciers and mountain slopes of the Karakorum, Ladakh, Zaskarand Himalayan Ranges.

Jawahar Tunnel is a road tunnel in Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It has been operational since 22 December 1956.

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J.K. Rowling. She first had the idea for Harry Potter in 1990. Over the next five years, she began to plan out the seven books of the series.

The purity of gold is expressed in carats. 24 carat is pure gold with no other metals (100-percent gold and 0-percent other metals). Lower caratages contain less gold; 18-carat gold contains 75 percent gold and 25 percent other metals, often copper or silver.

Galvanizing is a process of coating iron or steel with zinc in order to provide greater protection against corrosion for the iron or steel base.

42nd Amendment, 1976 of the Indian Constitution inserted the two words — 'Socialist' and 'Secular' in the Preamble.

The demand for a good or service depends on two factors: (1) its utility to satisfy a want or need, and (2) the consumer's ability to pay (Purchasing power) for the good or service.

In economics, hot currency is the flow of funds from one country to another in order to earn a short-term profit on interest rate differences and/or anticipated exchange rate shifts.

The term “labour-intensive” refers to a process or industry that requires a large amount of labour to produce its goods or services. The degree of labour intensity is typically measured in proportion.

Disinvestment in Public sector is a process of public asset sales done by the Government to the private sector.

Charter Act 1813 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which renewed the charter issued to the British East India Company, and continued the Company's rule in India. This Act was a provision that Company should invest ₹. 1 Lakh every year on the education of Indians. Wood's Despatch of 1854 is called the Magna Carta of English Education in India. In accordance with Wood's despatch, universities were opened at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

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.

Detergents clean surfaces or clothes on the principle of surface tension. Adding detergent to water reduces its surface tension.

The sounds having a frequency range of 20Hz to 20kHz are known as audible sounds. All the frequencies residing between the limit of 20Hz and 20KHz can be perceived by human beings.

Tanzania is located east of Africa's Great Lakes north of Mozambique and south of Kenya, it has a coastline at the Indian Ocean in the east. Tanzania has two capitals, Dar-es-Salaam (executive) and Dodoma (legislative).

Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Ltd., a unit of Steel Authority of India Limited, is a plant involved in the production of alloy steels and pig iron. It is located in Bhadravathi, Karnataka. It was started as the Mysore Iron Works on 18 January 1923 by Sir M Visvesvaraya.

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