Today’s GK Test Quiz

The largest crude oil reserves are found in the Western Offshore (Mumbai High, Krishna-Godavari Basin) (40%), and Assam (27%). Mumbai high is also the largest oil-producing oilfield in India.

Bihar is not the leading state in groundnut production.

The largest Muslim population in a country is in Indonesia, a country home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, followed by Pakistan (11.1%), India (10.9%) and Bangladesh (9.2%).

The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry. The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone. The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually.

Glaucoma is a disease of the eyes. It is a group of eye conditions that damage the optic nerve, the health of which is vital for good vision. This damage is often caused by abnormally high pressure in the eye.

Urease was the First Crystalline Enzyme and the Proof That Enzymes Are Proteins. The isolation and crystallization of urease by James Sumner, in 1926, provided a breakthrough in early enzyme studies.

Amla is called 'Herbal Indian Doctor' due to its immunity. The Vitamin C content of Amla makes it an excellent source of building immunity and metabolism. It is known to fight both viral and bacterial ailments efficiently and reducing the impact of various health problems.

“Hamsa Damayanti” Oil painting on canvas by Raja Ravi Varma is his very famous painting and was done in 1899. Damayanti is the protagonist and heroine in the Sanskrit epic, Nala and Damayanti. According to the story, Damayanti and Nala fall in love despite being miles away. A swan (Hamsa) acts as their messenger of love.

The most commonly used bleaching agent is chlorine. Chlorine can act as a bleaching agent due to the nascent oxygen it can produce in the reaction with water. Basically, one Cl atom gets oxidised and the other gets reduced when chlorine gas reacts with water.

The carbon dating method (carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. The carbon dating method is not used to determine the age of rock as it only works for objects that are younger than about 50,000 years, and most rocks of interest are older than that.

Chlorophyll is the natural compound present in green plants that gives them their colour. It consists of a central magnesium atom surrounded by a nitrogen-containing structure called a porphyrin ring; attached to the ring is a long carbon-hydrogen side chain, known as a phytol chain. Calcium is not a component of chlorophyll.

The chief source of political power in India is the People. All political power is vested in and derived from the 'people'.

The National Development Council (Rashtriya Vikas Parishad) is the apex body for decision creating and deliberations on development matters in India, presided over by the Prime Minister. The Council comprises the Prime Minister, the Union Cabinet Ministers, Chief Ministers of all States or their substitutes, representatives of the Union Territories and the members of the NITI Aayog.

National income means the value of goods and services produced by a country during a financial year. Thus, it is the net result of all economic activities of any country during a period of one year and is valued in terms of money.

Close substitute goods are similar products that target the same customer groups and satisfy the same needs, but have slight differences in characteristics. Tea and coffee are close substitutes. Increase in price of coffee may increase the demand of tea.

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912) invented Leprosy bacillus in 1873. He worked on leprosy throughout his career.

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.

When the pendulum is taken to the moon, the value of 'g' will decrease and hence time period will increase.

Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency is the only parliamentary constituency of the union territory of Ladakh, India. It is the largest constituency in terms of area, with a total area of 173,266 square kilometres, including regions of Gilgit-Baltistan and Aksai Chin, but currently, only 59,000 square kilometres are under the control of the Indian administration. The number of electors (voters) in the constituency was 159,000 in 2019. As of 2019, Malkajgiri (Telangana) is the largest Lok Sabha constituency in terms of electors with 3,150,303.

According to the FAO, agriculture leads to around 80% of deforestation. Due to the overgrowing demand for food products, a huge amount of trees are felled to grow crops, and 33% of agriculture-caused deforestation is because of subsistence agriculture.