Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Kashmir stag, also called hangul, is a subspecies of elk native to Kashmir. Dachigam park is best known as the home of the Kashmir stag.

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.

Mallika Sarabhai is an activist and Indian classical dancer and actress from Ahmedabad. She is the daughter of the Indian space scientist- Vikram Sarabhai.

Samudragupta (335-375 AD) of the Gupta dynasty is known as the Napoleon of India. Historian A V Smith called him so because of his great military conquests known from the 'Prayag Prashati' written by his courtier and poet Harisena, who also describes him as the hero of a hundred battles.

The Dronacharya Award, officially known as Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, is the sports coaching honour of India. The Awardees receive a cash prize of ₹15 lakhs (increased from ₹5 lakhs in 2020) in addition to the bronze statue of Dronacharya and a certificate.

Salivary amylase is an enzyme that is present in the saliva of humans. It is a glucose-polymer cleavage enzyme that is produced by the salivary glands.

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

Tukaram was a 17th-century Hindu poet and sant of the Bhakti movement in Maharashtra.

Phosphorus is used in making smoke bombs. White phosphorus burns with a brilliant yellow flame while producing ample amounts of white smoke which is phosphorus pentoxide (P₄O₁₀).

Fructose is the sweetest sugar. Sucrose is second sweetest followed by glucose and lactose.

The term Penalty Stroke is associated with Hockey, not Football. In field hockey, a penalty stroke is the most severe penalty given.

The air above the land warms up and rises and the cool air over the sea moves in to take its place, resulting in the sea breeze in the daytime. At night, as the sea maintains its temperature better and is warmer than the land, the roles of land and sea reverse and convection of air results in the land breeze.

Bauxite ore is the world's primary source of aluminium. The ore must first be chemically processed to produce alumina (aluminium oxide). Alumina is then smelted using an electrolysis process to produce pure aluminium metal.

A Federal Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution is a feature to both the Indian Federation and the American Federation.

The law of diminishing marginal returns is a theory in economics that predicts that after some optimal level of capacity is reached, adding an additional factor of production will actually result in smaller increases in output. According to modern thinking, the law of diminishing returns applies to all fields of production.

Located close to Takht Keshgarh Sahib, the second most important Sikh shrine (after the Golden Temple complex) in Anandpur Sahib, 85 km from Chandigarh, where the Khalsa Panth — a kind of Praetorian Guard — was founded by Guru Gobind Singh on April 13, 1699.

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.

The Salt March (Dandi March) was an act of nonviolent Civil Disobedience Movement in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty-four-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 5 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly.

A dynamo is a device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy. In a dynamo, the mechanical energy of rotation is converted into electrical energy in the form of a current in the armature.

Woollen clothes keep the body warm because wool is a bad conductor of heat. Woollen clothes are thick and trap air inside forming a layer around the body and so it does not let our body temperature decrease through conduction.