Today’s GK Test Quiz

India is the world's largest producer of sheet mica, accounting for about 60% of global production. Andhra Pradesh is the largest producer of mica.

Sir Ben Kingsley is an English actor. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has garnered numerous accolades, including a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award from four nominations.

Charak was the famous court physician of Kanishka (Kushan dynasty). He was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda. He is known as an editor of the medical treatise entitled Charaka Samhita, one of the foundational texts of classical Indian medicine and Ayurveda.

Bleaching powder is used in drinking water as a disinfectant. It is an active agent which is used to kill germs and bacteria in drinking water. The main content of the bleaching powder is the Chlorine element which acts as the main disinfectant material.

A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases. It does not belong to the solar system.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

A biome is a large geographical area that contains distinct plant and animal groups which are adapted to live in that environment. They are the interactions between biota, such as plants and animals, within the environment, and many ecosystems can make up a single biome.

The idea of the legislature as the custodian of national purse was for the first time mooted by the Government of India Act, 1909. It is considered as the custodian as it is the primary and most often the exclusive arbiter of federal fiscal affairs.

In order to be chosen a member of Parliament (Article 84(b)), a person must be a citizen of India and not less than 30 years of age in the case of Rajya Sabha and not less than 25 years of age in the case of Lok Sabha.

The Constituent Assembly was constituted in November 1946 under Cabinet Mission Plan. The total strength of the Constituent Assembly was 389. It was comprised of several Committees to deal with different tasks. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was the Chairman of the Union Powers Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India. The Constituent Assembly set up a Drafting Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. BR Ambedkar to prepare a Draft Constitution for India.

The basic features of the Indian Constitution which are not amendable under Article 368 are Sovereignty, territorial integrity, federal system, judicial review and parliament system of government. As per the Basic Structure Doctrine, any amendment that tries to change the basic structure of the constitution is invalid.

A smaller part of their income

In the Lok Sabha, the speaker and the deputy speaker both are elected from among its members by a simple majority of members present and voting in the house (Article 93). The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. As in all democracies, the Indian Armed Forces are controlled by the elected political leadership of the Nation - The Government of India.

The theory of monopolistic competition is developed by American economist Edward Hastings Chamberlin in his book 'Theory of Monopolistic Competition' (1933).

According to Keynes interest is purely a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is a payment in money and for money. Interest is a reward for parting with liquid for specified period.

In 1922 Albert Hoyt Taylor and Leo C. Young, researchers working with the U.S. Navy invented Radar. Albert Hoyt Taylor (1879-1961) was an American electrical engineer and Leo C. Young was an American radio engineer. Sir Robert Watson-Watt was also One of the greatest radar pioneers who developed the first practical radar system that helped defend the British in world war II. Watson was widely known as the 'father of radar'.

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Pondicherry was an important French possession in India. The French East India Company acquire Pondicherry from the Sultan of Bijapur.

Radiocarbon Dating (carbon-14 dating) is used to estimate the age of fossils. It is a method of age determination that depends upon the decay to nitrogen of radiocarbon (carbon-14).

Hydrogen is lighter than air. When a balloon is filled with hydrogen gas the weight of the balloon is less than the weight of air displaced by the balloon.