Today’s GK Test Quiz

The caste system in ancient India was used to establish separate classes of inhabitants based upon their social positions and employment functions in the community.

Morarji Desai was the sixth (and first non-Congress) Prime Minister of India (1977–79). He was the only Indian who won the Bharat Ratna (1991) and Pakistan's Nishan-e-Pakistan (1990). Morarji Desai helped restore friendly relations with China and Pakistan, and vowed to avoid armed conflict such as the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971.

By mass, about 96 percent of the human body is made up of just four elements: oxygen (65 percent), carbon (18.5 percent), hydrogen (9.5 percent), and nitrogen (3.3 percent). Oxygen (O) together with hydrogen form water, which is the primary solvent found in the body and is used to regulate temperature and osmotic pressure.

A biopsy test is typically associated with the diagnosis of cancer. Doctors use biopsies to test whether abnormalities in the body are caused by cancer or by other conditions.

A person's eye colour results from the pigmentation of a structure called the iris, which surrounds the small black hole in the centre of the eye (the pupil) and helps control how much light can enter the eye. The colour of the iris ranges on a continuum from very light blue to dark brown.

The medical term used for sleeplessness is Insomnia. It is a common sleep disorder that can make it hard to fall asleep, hard to stay asleep or cause to wake up too early and not be able to get back to sleep.

Anemia occurs due to the deficiency of folate (folic acid or vitamins B₉). Iron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia caused by a shortage of iron in the body. Vitamin deficiency anemia is a lack of healthy red blood cells caused by lower than usual amounts of vitamin-B₁₂ and folate.

Starch, glycogen and cellulose are all polymers of glucose. They differ in the type of glucose present and the bonds which link the glucose monomers together.

The Vedas, meaning “knowledge,” are the oldest texts of Hinduism. They are derived from the ancient Indo-Aryan culture of the Indian Subcontinent and began as an oral tradition that was passed down through generations before finally being written in Vedic Sanskrit between 1500 and 500 BCE.

Soda water is a carbonated drink where CO₂ is dissolved in water to form carbonic acid, hence it is acidic in nature.

Mica is common in igneous and metamorphic rock and is occasionally found as small flakes in sedimentary rock. It is abundant in many rocks, e.g., shale, slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss, and granite.

NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog is established to replace the Planning Commission. It is a non-constitutional body because it is not created by the Constitution. It is also a non-statutory body as it is not created by an Act of Parliament.

The Finance Commissions are commissions periodically constituted by the President of India under Article 280 of the Indian Constitution to define the financial relations between the central government of India and the individual state governments.

Depository services are services in which the securities of investors are kept in an electronic form just as bank keeps all your cash in its account and provides all services related to the transaction of cash, similarly, we help you out in performing the service through a demat account.

Marginal product refers to the extra output, return, or profit yielded per unit by advantages from production inputs. When Total Product rises at an increasing rate, marginal product also rises. When Total Product increases at a diminishing rate, marginal product declines.

Gross domestic product is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a specific time period by countries.

The Group of Seven (G-7) is an organisation of the world's seven largest advanced economies. They are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States. Russia joined in 1998, creating the G8, but was excluded in 2014 for its takeover of Crimea. China has never been a member, despite its large economy as it is not seen as an advanced economy in the way the G7 members are.

Vijayanagar is now known as Hampi. Hampi is an ancient village in the south Indian state of Karnataka. It's dotted with numerous ruined temple complexes from the Vijayanagara Empire.

A hygrometer is an instrument used in meteorological science to measure the humidity, or amount of water vapour in the air.

The word “Muhajir” simply means an immigrant or refugee in Urdu. Muhajir is the Urdu-speaking segment of Pakistan's population, whose elders migrated from India during Partition in 1947 and they are primarily concentrated in urban Sindh.