Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Ranjit Sagar Dam (Thein Dam) is part of a hydroelectric project constructed by the Government of Punjab Punjab Irrigation Department on the Ravi River on the Border of two states of India Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

Tansen Samman (award) is presented every year to honour famous Indian classical singers and musicians. It was instituted by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1980.

The immunity caused by the B-lymphocytes is called Humoral Immunity. Humoral immunity is the process of adaptive immunity manifested by the production of antibodies by B-lymphocytes. It develops in bone marrow.

This raga is said to have been created by the sixteenth-century singing legend, Miyan Tansen. Tansen, also referred to as Ramtanu Pandey, was a prominent figure of Hindustani classical music.

Pyrex glass is a variety of heat-resistant glass. Pyrex contains borosilicate and expands only about one-third as much as common glass (silicate) when heated. As a result, it is less apt to break when subjected to rapid temperature changes. Flint glass is optical glass that has relatively high refractive index and low Abbe number.

An emulsion is a colloid of a liquid in a liquid. It is a mixture of two or more liquids that do not normally mix together.

Water softening is the removal of calcium, magnesium, and certain other metal cations in hard water. It can be removed by using a water softener which works on the principle of ion exchange in which calcium and magnesium ions are exchanged with sodium or potassium ions, reducing the concentration of hardness minerals to tolerable levels.

An estuary is an area where a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean. In estuaries, the salty ocean mixes with a freshwater river.

Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and is not subject to dissolution. However, one-third of the members retire every second year, and are replaced by newly elected members. Each member is elected for a term of six years. The Vice President of India is the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha.

The Panchayat Raj system was first adopted by the state of Bihar by the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act of 1947. It was a continued legacy of local self-government started by Lord Ripon in the British era. Rajasthan was the first state to introduce the panchayat system in India after independence. Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru inaugurated the three-tier Panchayati Raj System on 2nd October 1959 in Nagaur district of Rajasthan.

The balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain time period.

The fourth Five-Year Plan was from 1969 to 1974. It targeted achieving self-reliance through progressive movement and achieving stable growth. During the implementation of this plan, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi called the slogan 'GARIBI HATAO'.

Producer surplus is the difference between how much a person would be willing to accept for given quantity of a good versus how much they can receive by selling the good at the market price. The difference or surplus amount is the benefit the producer receives for selling the good in the market.

The Grand Trunk Road, built by Shershah Suri Suri, a ruler of the Indian subcontinent in the 16th century AD.

The Bengal Sati Regulation which banned the Sati practice in all jurisdictions of British India was passed on December 4, 1829 by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.

The atmospheric air is held to the Earth by gravity. Earth's gravity is strong enough to hold onto its atmosphere and keep it from drifting into space.

All magnetic objects produce invisible lines of force that extend between the poles of the object. Earth is similar to a giant bar magnet with magnetic field lines radiating from the south to the north magnetic pole.

Spread his hands outwards should a person on a freely rotating turntable do to decrease his (angular) speed. A person on the rotating table will maintain approximately the same angular momentum during the spin. When he spreads his hands outward, the angular rotation is decreased.

The air layer between two shirts behaves like insulating media. Air in general is a good thermal insulator, but it can transmit heat through convection. However, if the air pockets inside the insulating material are separated from each other, heat flow from one air pocket to another cannot happen easily.

A mirage occurs because of total internal reflection by layers of air. When the ground is very hot and the air is cool, the hot ground warms a layer of air just above the ground. When the light moves through the cold air and into the layer of hot air it is refracted (bent). A layer of very warm air near the ground refracts the light from the sky nearly into a U-shaped bend.