Today’s GK Test Quiz

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant fondly called Vizag steel. It is the first shore-based Integrated Steel Plant in India.

The monsoon is caused by differing temperature trends over the land and ocean. In India, the southwest summer monsoon is attracted by a low-pressure area that's caused by the extreme heat of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan and adjoining areas during summer. During the monsoon, the wind direction reverses. The South West monsoon engulfs the entire India by 15th July.

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution in 1885.

Hiuen Tsang was a Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator who traveled to India in the seventh century and described the interaction between Chinese Buddhism and Indian Buddhism during the reign of Harshavardhana.

Arun Shourie is India's eminent journalist, author and politician. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982.

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.

Unto This Last is an essay and book on economy by John Ruskin, first published between August and December 1860 in the monthly journal Cornhill Magazine in four articles. The book greatly influenced the nonviolent activist Mohandas Gandhi.

Cement is formed by strongly heating a mixture of limestone and clay. Cement manufacturing is a complex process that begins with mining and then grinding raw materials that include limestone and clay, to a fine powder, called raw meal, which is then heated to a sintering temperature as high as 1450 °C in a cement kiln.

The chemical name of Gypsum is calcium sulphate dihydrate (CaSO₄⋅2H₂O). Milk of lime is the common name for saturated calcium hydroxide solution (Ca(OH)₂). Glauber's salt is the common name for sodium sulphate decahydrate (Na₂SO₄·10H₂O). Saltpeter is one name for the compound called potassium nitrate, which has the chemical formula KNO₃.

The most suitable vessel for storing concentrated sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) is a glass vessel as it is not able to dissolve glass. This is because sulfuric acid is simply not corrosive enough to eat through the extremely strong silicon dioxide (SiO₂) bonds that are the main component found in glass.

Wax used for making candles is chemically a mixture of aliphatic hydrocarbons. This means that it's composed of compounds with a carbon backbone and hydrogen atoms that dangle off of the backbone. An aliphatic compound or aliphatic hydrocarbon contains hydrogen and carbon atoms linked together in straight chains.

The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury are very nearly circular. The orbits of the planets are all more or less in the same plane (called the ecliptic and defined by the plane of the Earth's orbit).

The president and judges, including the chief justice of the supreme court and high courts, can be impeached by the parliament before the expiry of the term for violation of the Constitution. According to Article 61 of the Indian constitution, the impeachment process can be initiated by 1/4th of members of either House of the Parliament.

A capital market is a financial market in which long-term debt or equity-backed securities are bought and sold. (in a money market, short-term debt is bought and sold).

The term 'Hindu rate of growth' was coined by Professor Rajkrishna, an Indian economist, in 1978 to describe the slow growth and to explain it against the backdrop of socialistic economic policies. Hindu growth rate is related to GDP.

A chaitya refers to a shrine, sanctuary, temple, math or prayer hall in Indian religions. The term is most common in Buddhism, where it refers to space with a stupa and a rounded apse at the end opposite the entrance, and a high roof with a rounded profile.

British India's first telegraph line and office was opened in October 1851, between Calcutta and Diamond Harbour along the busy shipping route on the Hooghly. Telegraph line between Calcutta and Agra was started in 1853, and this was further connected to Bombay and Madras.

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.

The major difference between laser light and other light sources (such as a light bulb) is that laser light is monochromatic, directional and coherent. Monochromatic means that all of the light produced by the laser is of the same frequency, amplitude and phase.

Alam Ara (1931) was the first Indian talkie – that is, the first Indian sound film. Until the release of Alam Ara, only silent movies were being released in India.