Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo or Yalu Zangbu is the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

“Short goal is a crime,” said these words by Abdul Kalam, former President of India. He said, “history has proven that those who dare to imagine and break the limits had changed the world.”

Lord Buddha attained Nirvana at the age of 35 when he was alive at Bodh Gaya (Bihar). When he died, he entered nirvana, never to be born again. He is known to have attained Parinirvana after his death at Kushinagar. The Parinirvana Stupa is a Buddhist temple in Kushinagar, India which is said to be the place of death of Gautama Buddha.

Number of red blood cells per unit volume of blood is likely to be higher in a person living at high altitudes. This is in response to the air being less dense at high altitudes and the number of red blood cells is needed to trap O₂ from rarefied air having low pO₂ (partial pressure of oxygen).

Normally, each cell in the human body has 23 pairs (46) of chromosomes (Half come from the mother and the other half come from the father). Twenty-two of these pairs, called autosomes, look the same in both males and females. The 23rd pair, the sex chromosomes, differ between males and females. Females have two copies of the X chromosome, while males have one X and one Y chromosome.

Tukaram was a 17th-century Hindu poet and sant of the Bhakti movement in Maharashtra.

German Silver is an alloy of copper (60%), zinc (20%) and nickel (20%). It is used for making daily utensils and jewellery.

The chemical(s) most commonly used for cloud seeding is Silver Iodide (AgI) to aid in the formation of ice crystals. Cloud seeding is a weather-modification technique that improves a cloud's ability to produce rain or snow by introducing tiny ice nuclei into certain types of subfreezing clouds.

The tip of the match-stick is made of an oxidizing agent such as potassium chlorate, mixed with sulphur, fillers and glass powder. The side of the box contains red phosphorus, binder and powdered glass.

At present bull-fighting is not the national sport of any country. Bullfighting is illegal in most countries but remains legal in most areas of Spain and Portugal, as well as in some Hispanic American countries and some parts of southern France. Bullfighting has been banned in at least 100 towns in Spain.

Mediterranean climate is characterized by mild wet winters and warm to hot, dry summers.

The Attorney General for India is appointed by the President of India under Article 76(1) of the Constitution of India. S/he has the right to speak and to take part in the proceedings of both the Houses of Parliament or their joint sitting and any committee of the Parliament of which s/he may be named a member but without a right to vote.

'Suisini' dance form was introduced by the Bhil tribe, and later adopted by the royal communities of Rajasthan including Rajputs. The Rouf is a folk dance which originated in the Muslim community of Kashmir. Jhora dance belongs to the state of Uttarakhand and Himachal. Veedhi-Bhagavatam is a famous dance form of Andhra Pradesh.

Eco mark is a certification mark issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards to products conforming to a set of standards aimed at the least impact on the ecosystem. The marking scheme was started in 1991.

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

Monopolistic competition characterizes an industry in which many firms offer products or services that are similar substitutes. Excess capacity is more defined under monopolistic competition due to the nature of the market structure.

A geostationary satellite is an earth-orbiting satellite, placed at an altitude of approximately 35,800 km directly over the equator, that revolves in the same direction the earth rotates (west to east). At this altitude, one orbit takes 24 hours, the same length of time as the earth requires to rotate once on its axis. So they seem stationary, relative to the Earth's surface.

Steam produces more severe burns than boiling water. Steam at 100°C has more heat than water at the same temperature. Water gets converted into steam on gaining heat. Due to this latent heat of vaporisation, steam at 100°C is better for heating than boiling water at 100°C.

The density of water is maximum at 4°C. Water colder than 4°C floats to the top and warmer than 4°C sinks to the bottom. Eventually, the coldest water, which has floated to the top of the lake, freezes to form a layer of ice.

Japanese woman Junko Tabei was the first woman in the world to climb the world's highest peak of Mount Everest. She also became the first woman in the world to do an expedition of all “Seven Summits” — the tallest peak on each continent across the globe. Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) were the first in the world to scale Mount Everest.