Basic GK Quiz 2

Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in India. It is a pulsating lake, with surface area varying from 287 sq. km to 500 sq. km during the rainy season. The lake is located at Moirang in Manipur.

With a staggering height of 260 meters, Tehri Dam is the highest dam in India. It is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand. The Hirakud Dam (in Orissa) is the longest dam in India with a total length of 25.79 km.

Rihand Dam is a concrete gravity dam located at Pipri in Sonbhadra District in Uttar Pradesh. Its reservoir area is on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. It is located on the Rihand River, a tributary of the Son River. Rihand Dam Project provides irrigation to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

White coal is a form of fuel produced by drying chopped wood over a fire. It differs from charcoal which is carbonised wood. It was used in England to melt lead ore from the mid-sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. Over the course of the early twentieth century, the term white coal was used for Hydroelectricity, particularly in Europe, because of its capability to produce more energy than any other source except coal.

The chakra, which features in the middle of the tricolour, has twenty-four spokes. It was adopted on July 22, 1947. The wheel is called the Ashoka Chakra because it appears on a number of edicts of Ashoka, the most prominent among which is the Lion Capital of Ashoka.

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.

With only a 21 sq. km area, Nauru is the third-smallest country in the world behind Vatican City and Monaco. It is the smallest republic.

Odontologists combine the work of a dentist, a forensic scientist and a police investigator. While a dentist specializes in treating teeth, including filling cavities and removing damaged teeth, while an odontologist focuses on studying teeth, not treating them.

A planimeter is a measuring instrument used to determine the area of an arbitrary two-dimensional shape. This Eidograph is a mechanical plotting instrument used to redraw maps at a smaller or larger scale. A pantograph is an instrument for duplicating a motion or copying a geometric shape to a reduced or enlarged scale. An opisometer is an instrument for measuring the lengths of arbitrary curved lines.

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is the third generation launch vehicle of India. It is the first Indian launch vehicle to be equipped with liquid stages.