Today’s GK Test Quiz

Gibbons are apes which live in subtropical and tropical rainforest from eastern Bangladesh to Northeast India to southern China and Indonesia.

Non-conventional energy (also known as Renewable energy) sources are sources that are renewed by natural processes on a continual basis. Energy generated by using wind, solar, small hydro, tides, geothermal heat and biomass is known as non-conventional energy. Hydroelectric power is a renewable energy source. It uses the energy of running water, without reducing its quantity, to produce electricity.

colour blindness, inability to distinguish one or more of the three colours red, green, and blue. A man with colour blindness will see red as Green.

The typical composition of exhaled air is about 18 percent O₂, 78 percent N₂, and 4 percent CO₂.

The oxygen released during photosynthesis is from the water. The plants absorb water as well as carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. Later these water molecules are converted into oxygen and sugar. The oxygen is then released into the atmosphere whereas the sugar molecules are stored for energy.

A goitre is a swelling of the thyroid gland that causes a lump in the front of the neck. Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of goiter.

“India Wins Freedom” is the autobiography of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. This book includes his personal experiences when India became independent, and his ideas on freedom and liberty.

Dichlorodifluoromethane (CCl₂F₂) is sold under the brand name Freon-12. Freon is a non-combustible gas that is used as a refrigerant in air conditioning applications. It is a non-corrosive gas belonging to the class of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

The maximum permitted length of a cricket bat is 38 inches (965 mm) and the maximum permitted width is 4.25 inches (108 mm).

In economics, Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that “bad money drives out good”. For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in circulation, which are accepted by law as having similar face value, the more valuable commodity will gradually disappear from circulation.

The basic approach was the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers.

Giffen goods are non-luxury items which generate higher demand when prices rise. Cheaper varieties of goods like bread, rice, potatoes, salt, etc. come under giffen goods. The demand curve for a Giffen good is upward rising.

The value of a commodity expressed in terms of money is known as price. Price is the amount of money that has to be paid to acquire a given product.

The United Nations (UN) was established after World War II on October 24, 1945. It is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Subsidiary Alliance was framed by Lord Wellesley, the Governor-General of India from 1798 to 1805. The Permanent Settlement of Bengal was brought into effect by the East India Company headed by Governor-General Lord Cornwallis in 1793. Doctrine of lapse formula devised by Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India (1848–56). The first Partition of Bengal was Announced on 19 July 1905 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India.

Shivaji obtained cannons and ammunition from the Portuguese. He used these cannons and ammunition to attack the English.

A geostationary satellite is an earth-orbiting satellite, placed at an altitude of approximately 35,800 km directly over the equator, that revolves in the same direction the earth rotates (west to east). At this altitude, one orbit takes 24 hours, the same length of time as the earth requires to rotate once on its axis. So they seem stationary, relative to the Earth's surface.

Newton's third law states that when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. The third law is also known as the law of action and reaction. When we kick the stone, the stone exerts an equal and opposite force on the leg which hurts us.

Arya Samaj is a monotheistic Indian Hindu reform movement that promotes values and practices based on the belief in the infallible authority of the Vedas. The samaj was founded by Dayanand Saraswati on 10 April 1875.

In the late 1950s, Ho Chi Minh organized a communist guerrilla movement in the South, called the Viet Cong. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong successfully opposed a series of ineffectual U.S.-backed South Vietnam regimes and beginning in 1964 withstood a decade-long military intervention by the United States.