Today’s GK Test Quiz

Silent Valley National Park is a national park in Kerala. It is located in the Nilgiri hills. This national park has some rare species of flora and fauna. The flora of the valley includes about 1000 species of flowering plants, 107 species of orchids, 100 ferns and fern allies, 200 liverworts, 75 lichens and about 200 algae.

Wheat is primarily a crop of mid-latitude grasslands and requires a cool climate with moderate rainfall. The ideal wheat climate has winter temperature 10° to 15°C and summer temperature varying from 21°C to 26°C. Loam soil is the best for wheat cultivation.

Pink mould is the common name for Neurospora. Neurospora is a genus of Ascomycete fungi. It produces pink or red bread mould.

The adult human brain weighs about 1200–1400 gm which is about 2% of the total body weight. The weight of an average human brain is about 1.36 kg.

Iodoform, also called triiodomethane, is used as an antiseptic. It is a yellow, crystalline solid belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds, used as an antiseptic component of medications for minor skin diseases.

The bleaching of Sulphur dioxide (SO₂) is mainly due to its reduction property and its temporary reaction as soon as it gains the required oxygen helps to regenerate its initial property.

Zinc is used to galvanise iron. 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.

The fuel used in an atomic reactor is Uranium. Uranium is the most widely used fuel by nuclear power plants for nuclear fission.

Mulching, shelter belts and vegetative cover are some methods by which soil can be conserved in semi-arid and arid regions. The shelter belt is most effective in arid areas. Shelter belts are rows of trees, usually along fence lines.

The Right to Constitutional Remedies (Article 32) is considered to be the most important fundamental right because it ensures the protection of our fundamental rights. Article 32 is known as the “spirit of the constitution and exceptionally heart of it” by Dr. Ambedkar.

According to Article 358, when a proclamation of National Emergency (Article 352) is made, the six fundamental rights under article 19 are automatically suspended. Article 19 is automatically revived after the expiry of the emergency.

Protection from discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth; Equality of opportunity; fundamental rights of freedom mentioned in article 19; Protection of language, script and culture of minorities; Right of minorities to establish and administer educational institutions are availed to Indian citizens only.

The main functions of CSO are to provide advisory services to other statistical agencies, keep liaison (public relation) with international statistical bodies, prepare and publish national accounts statistics, industrial statistics, conduct economic census, etc.

4. Treaty of Salbai (17 May 1782); 3. Treaty of Seringapatam (18 March 1792); 2. Treaty of Bassein (31 Dec 1802); 1. Treaty of Amritsar (16 March 1846)

The Young Bengal was a group of Bengali free thinkers emerging from Hindu College, Calcutta. They were also known as Derozians, after their firebrand teacher at Hindu College, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

All of the given answers choices are responsible for the decline of the Indian Handicrafts Industry in the 19th century.

A rocket works on the principle of conservation of linear momentum. Rocket ejaculates gases in backward direction which creates momentum of the gases backward and thus by conservation of momentum, the rocket gets momentum in the forward direction making it move forward.

The largest reflecting telescope in Asia is located in the Devasthal Observatory at Nainital, Uttarakhand, India.

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is the third generation launch vehicle of India. It is the first Indian launch vehicle to be equipped with liquid stages.

Japanese woman Junko Tabei was the first woman in the world to climb the world's highest peak of Mount Everest. She also became the first woman in the world to do an expedition of all “Seven Summits” — the tallest peak on each continent across the globe. Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) were the first in the world to scale Mount Everest.