Today’s GK Test Quiz

Sundarbans is a mangrove area in the delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. It spans from the Hooghly River in India's state of West Bengal to the Baleswar River in Bangladesh's division of Khulna.

Alphonso mango is grown across the 200-kilometer-long Konkan coastline in Devgad and Ratnagiri. The Alphonso mango from Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and adjoining areas in Maharashtra, had already acquired the GI tag in October 2018 from the government.

Wheat is primarily a crop of mid-latitude grasslands and requires a cool climate with moderate rainfall. The ideal wheat climate has winter temperature 10° to 15°C and summer temperature varying from 21°C to 26°C. Loam soil is the best for wheat cultivation.

Excessive exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) often results in lung cancer.

Article 222 empowers the President to transfer a judge from one high court to another. According to this article, the President may, (on the recommendation of the National Judicial Appointment Commission referred to in article 124A), transfer a Judge from one High Court to any other High Court.

Article 80(2) of the Constitution of India deals with the allocation of seats in the Council of States (Rajya Sabha). Twelve members are nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the President of India for their contributions towards arts, literature, sciences, and social services.

Article 89 of the constitution of India deals with The Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Council of States (Rajya Sabha). The Vice President of India is the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha. The House also elects a Deputy Chairman from among its members.

Article 1 of the Constitution states that India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. The territory of India shall consist of: The territories of the states, The Union territories and Any territory that may be acquired in the future.

The 42nd Amendment changed the description of India from a “sovereign democratic republic” to a “sovereign, socialist secular democratic republic”, and also changed the words “unity of the nation” to “unity and integrity of the nation”.

The population growth experienced in India can largely be explained by variations in birth and death rates. Some of the most important causes of population growth in India are: Widening Gap between Birth and Death Rates, Low Age at Marriage, High Illiteracy, Religious Attitude towards Family Planning, etc.

Non-plan expenditure is what the government spends on the so-called non-productive areas, such as salaries, subsidies, loans and interest, while plan expenditure pertains to the money to be set aside for productive purposes, like various projects of ministries.

The statement “Supply creates its own demand” is given by Prof JB Say. Say's Law was later simply summarized by economist John Maynard Keynes in his 1936 book, General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when He noticed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were protected from smallpox.

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.

Bats navigate and find insect prey using echolocation. They produce ultrasound. The sound waves emitted by bats bounce off objects in their environment. Then, the sounds return to the bats' ears, which are finely tuned to recognize their own unique calls.

Gravitational Force is the weakest of the four fundamental forces. Ordered from strongest to weakest, the forces are: 1) the strong nuclear force, 2) the electromagnetic force, 3) the weak nuclear force, and 4) Gravitational Force.

The full form of IRDA is Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority. IRDA is a regulatory body under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and is tasked with regulating and promoting the insurance and re-insurance industries in India.

World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on April 7, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization. In 1948, The WHO held the First World Health Assembly.

Lake Superior (in North America) is the world's largest freshwater lake (surface area – 82,100 sq km) and holds 10 percent of the world's surface freshwater. By volume, it's the third-largest, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa.

The total forest area in world is approximately 4.06 billion hectares. Forests are not equally distributed around the globe. More than half of the world's forests are found in only five countries (1st-Russia, 2nd-Brazil, 3rd-Canada, 4th-USA and 5th-China) and two-thirds (66 percent) of forests are found in ten countries.