Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Konkan Railway was constructed to fill the missing gap between Roha (near Mumbai) and Mangalore.

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

AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural products in India, assuring that they conform to a set of standards approved by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, an agency of the Government of India.

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also the first Asian to be awarded in 1913. There are 12 Indian (five Indian citizens and eight of Indian ancestry or residency) Nobel prize winners so far:
Citizens of India: 1. Rabindranath Tagore (1913, Literature); 2. C.V. Raman (1930, Physics); 3. Mother Teresa (1979, Peace); 4. Amartya Sen (1998, Economics); 5. Kailash Satyarthi (2014, Peace).
Indian origin: 1. Har Gobind Khorana (1968, Medicine); 2. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983, Physics); 3. Venki Ramakrishnan (2009, Chemistry); 4. Abhijit Banerjee (2019, Economics).
Residents of Foreign Origin in India: 1. Ronald Ross (1902, Medicine); 2. Rudyard Kipling (1907, Literature); 3. 14th Dalai Lama (1989, Peace).

The starfish has respiratory organ but does not have brain. They have a complex nervous system that allows them to make a decision. This nervous system is centralized in the ring around the mouth.

A glass snake (glass lizard) is a long, slender, legless lizard that superficially resembles a snake but is not a true snake. It has no legs but is not a snake, making it a unique and interesting member of the reptile kingdom.

Physical exercise is one of the most effective tools for strengthening the heart muscle, keeping weight under control and warding off the artery damage from high cholesterol, high blood sugar and high blood pressure that can lead to heart attack or stroke.

To measure blood pressure, doctor uses an instrument called a sphygmomanometer, which is more often referred to as a blood pressure cuff.

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

The noble gas used in radiotherapy is radon (Rn). Radon is a heavy radioactive gas of Group 18 (noble gases) of the periodic table, generated by the radioactive decay of radium.

A vote-on-account, as defined by Article 116 of the Indian Constitution, is a grant in advance for the central government to meet short-term expenditure needs from the Consolidated Fund of India, generally lasting for a few months till the financial year kicks in.

During periods of rising prices, debtors gain and creditors lose. A basic rule of inflation is that it causes the value of a currency to decline over time. In other words, cash now is worth more than cash in the future. Thus, inflation lets debtors pay lenders (creditors) back with money that is worth less than it was when they originally borrowed it.

Five Rural Regional Banks (RRBs) were set up on 2 October 1975 on the recommendations of the Narsimha Committee on Rural Credit. The purpose was to include rural areas into the economic mainstream since around 70% of the Indian population was rural.

The statement is taken from Keyne's Investment Demand Function. According to Keynes Investment expenditure refers to the creation of new assets i.e. an addition to the stock of existing capital assets.

Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha, major nonviolent protest action in India led by Mahatma Gandhi in March–April 1930. Based on Gandhi's principle of non-violence or Satyagraha, the march marked the inauguration of the civil disobedience movement.

The Battle of Wandiwash was a battle in India between the French and the British in 1760. The battle was part of the Third Carnatic War fought between the French and British colonial empires, which itself was a part of the global Seven Years' War. It was a decisive win for the English.

On 25 March 1505, Francisco de Almeida was appointed Viceroy of India, on the condition that he would set up four forts on the southwestern Indian coast: at Anjediva Island, Cannanore, Cochin and Quilon.

When the ice was floating, the volume of water displaced had a mass equal to that of ice. After melting, that mass of ice has been converted into water. Therefore, there is no change in water level.

The Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay On 28 December 1885. A.O. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was elected president.

RAF stands for “Rapid Action Force”. It is a specialised wing of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) of India to deal with riot and crowd control situations.