Today’s GK Test Quiz

Ghagra rises as the Karnali River (Chinese: Kongque He) in the high Himalayas of southern Tibet, China, and flows southeast through Nepal.

The Maikal Hills are range of hills in the state of eastern Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh India. The Maikal Hills are an eastern part of the Satpuras in Kawardha District of Chhattisgarh and Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh.

A Buddha is one who has attained Bodhi; and by Bodhi is meant wisdom, an ideal state of intellectual and ethical perfection which can be achieved by man through purely human means. The term Buddha literally means enlightened one, a knower.

The Gandhara School of art had developed in the first century AD along with Mathura School during the reign of Kushana emperor Kanishka.

Copper was first used by mankind over 10,000 years ago. A copper pendant discovered in what is now northern Iraq has been dated about 8700 BC For nearly five millennia copper was the only metal known to man, and thus had all the metal applications.

When one gene pair hides the effect of the other unit. The phenomenon is referred to as epistasis. Epistasis is the interaction between two non-linked genes which causes one gene to mask the expression of the other in the phenotype.

William Harvey made the momentous medical discovery that the flow of blood must be continuous and that its flow must be in one direction only.

Pheromones are chemicals released by one species of animals in order to attract the other members of the same species. They are capable of acting like hormones outside the body of the secreting individual, to affect the behavior of the receiving individuals.

Sodium is used in the yellow lamps used for street lighting. Sodium-vapour lamps are good for night-time illumination because of their high efficiency and because the light they produce penetrates mist and fog particularly well.

The 3-tier of the Panchayati Raj System consists of Gram Panchayat (village level), Mandal Parishad or Block Samiti or Panchayat Samiti (block level), and Zila Parishad (district level). It was formalized in 1992 by the 73rd amendment to the Indian Constitution.

Mahatma Gandhi's moral philosophies were based on Truth, Non-violence, Vegetarianism, Brahmhacharya, Simplicity and Faith. Thus Prohibition of the slaughter of cows in the Directive Principle is based on Gandhi's moral philosophy.

RBI buys and sells government securities or bonds to control the money supply and interest rates. To increase the money supply, the RBI will purchase bonds from banks, which injects money into the banking system. It will sell bonds to reduce the money supply. Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) is a minimum percentage of deposits that a commercial bank has to maintain in the form of liquid cash, gold or other securities.

Exceptional or abnormal demand is a demand pattern which does not abide with the laws of demand. Its curve is one which slopes down from right to left or in other words, which goes up from left to right, showing that more is demanded at a higher price than at a lower price.

Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician-scientist who was recognised for discovering penicillin. Penicillins are a group of antibacterial drugs that attack a wide range of bacteria. The discovery of penicillin has changed the face of medicine, as these drugs have saved millions of lives.

The famous traveller Ibn Batuta came from Morocco. In 1325, at age 21, he left his homeland (Morocco) for the Middle East. He intended to complete his hajj—the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca—but he also wished to study Islamic law along the way.

Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College was founded in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, initially as a primary school, with the intention of taking it to a college-level institution, known as Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental Collegiate School.

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.

During washing of clothes, we use indigo due to its proper pigmental composition. The combination of yellow and blue colours gives white colour. Hence we add blue indigo to remove yellow tint from the white clothes.

INSAT-1A was an Indian communications satellite, Launched in 1982. The Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) is a series of multipurpose geostationary satellites launched by ISRO to satisfy the telecommunications, broadcasting, meteorology, and search and rescue operations.

The emblem is the graphic representation of the Lion Capital that originally graced the top of the Ashok Stambh or Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath. It has the national motto, Satyamev Jayate (truth alone triumphs), written below it. This is a quote from Mundaka Upanishad, the concluding part of the sacred Hindu Vedas.