Today’s GK Test Quiz

Long- and extra-long staple cottons include pima cotton and Egyptian cotton. These cottons are renowned for their superior quality.

The Gandhara School of art had developed in the first century AD along with Mathura School during the reign of Kushana emperor Kanishka.

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes.

The normal cholesterol levels are different depending on age and sex. In adult human blood, It is between 180-200 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL).

Devdas (1917) is a Bengali-language romance novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay written when he was only seventeen years of age.

Glass is a supercooled liquid. When glass is made, the material (often containing silica) is quickly cooled from its liquid state but does not solidify when its temperature drops below its melting point. At this stage, the material is a supercooled liquid, an intermediate state between liquid and glass.

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is used for cleansing polluted water bodies owing to its remarkable capacity of absorbing pollutants.

Silver halides are used in photographic plates because they are reduced by light. Silver halides are photosensitive as they react with light to form the image. A silver halide is a compound of silver and a halogen; for example, silver bromide (AgBr), silver chloride (AgCl), silver fluoride (AgF), and silver iodide (AgI).

An equinox is one of the two times of the year (21 March and 22 September) when the amount of daylight and night time hours are just about equal duration.

A yardang is a streamlined protuberance carved from bedrock or any consolidated or semi-consolidated material by the dual action of wind abrasion by dust and sand, and deflation which is the removal of loose material by wind turbulence.

A quasi-legislative capacity is that in which a public administrative agency or body acts when it makes rules and regulations. Quasi-judicial is defined as an action by an administrative agency which ascertains certain facts, holds hearings, weighs evidence, makes conclusions from the facts as a basis for their official action, and exercises discretion of judicial nature.

In 2017, a 9 Judge Bench of the Supreme Court delivered a unanimous verdict in Justice KS Puttaswamy vs Union of India and other connected matters, affirming that the Constitution of India guarantees to each individual a fundamental right to privacy under Articles 14, 19 and 21.

The Reserve Bank has the sole authority to issue banknotes in India. The Currency notes of ₹2 and above denominations are banknotes and are issued with the signature of the Governor, Reserve Bank of India. The one rupee note is the only note bearing the signature of the Finance Secretary and not the Governor of the RBI.

Jawahar Rozgar Yojna was launched on 1 April 1989 by merging National Rural Employment Program (NREP) and Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Program.

German chemist Otto Hahn (1879-1968) invented the atom bomb in 1938. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and the godfather of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) is known as the 'father of the atomic bomb' for their role in the Manhattan Project – the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons.

Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, was the Maharani consort of the Maratha princely state of Jhansi from 1843 to 1853 as the wife of Maharaja Gangadhar Rao. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and became a symbol of resistance to the British Raj for Indian nationalists.

Government of India Act 1858 passed which changed the name of post-Governor General of India by Viceroy of India. The Viceroy was appointed directly by the British government. The first Viceroy of India was Lord Canning.

Shorter waves move faster and have more energy, and longer waves travel more slowly and have less energy.

Roorkee Engineering College (I.I.T. Roorkee) is the earliest Engineering Educational Institution in India. It was established in 1847 AD in the British Empire. It was formerly known as the University of Roorkee and Thomason College of Civil Engineering.

The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries recognized German domination over most of continental Europe; Italian domination over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese domination over East Asia and the Pacific.