Mixed GK Test

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is located in the Queens borough of New York City and has hosted the US Open Tennis Tournament since 1978. It is one of the largest tennis facilities in the world.

Ban Ki-Moon served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016. He is a South Korean diplomat and was succeeded by António Guterres.

The Counterinsurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) is located in Vairengte, Mizoram. It is the Indian Army's premier training institute for counter-insurgency and jungle warfare operations, established in 1970.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore for their efforts to spread awareness about man-made climate change and to create the political momentum needed to tackle climate change.

The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late 2004 to early 2005 following the disputed presidential election between Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. Orange was the campaign color of Yushchenko.

Swaminarayan Akshardham in New Delhi is recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest comprehensive Hindu temple complex. It opened in 2005, covers over 100 acres, and was built by the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS).

Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Chickenpox is caused by varicella-zoster virus, poliomyelitis by poliovirus, and influenza by the influenza virus - all are viral diseases.

Kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis) is spread by the bite of infected female sand flies belonging to the genus Phlebotomus (Old World) and Lutzomyia (New World). Sand flies transmit the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani.

Turtles are reptiles that belong to an ancient lineage dating back around 220 million years. Dolphins, otters, and walruses are mammals that evolved from land ancestors much more recently in evolutionary terms. Reptiles appeared much earlier than mammals.

Goiter is the abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland caused by iodine deficiency, which leads to insufficient thyroid hormone production. The thyroid gland attempts to compensate by growing larger. The adrenal cortex, adrenal medulla, and pituitary gland are not affected by goiter.

The liver is the largest internal organ and largest gland in the human body, weighing approximately 1.5 kg. The thyroid is much smaller, while the pancreas and spleen are also considerably smaller than the liver.

Water reaches its maximum density at 4°C. When heated from 0°C to 4°C, the volume decreases as density increases. From 4°C to 20°C, the volume increases normally as density decreases with heating. This anomalous expansion is unique to water.

According to Archimedes' principle, the fraction of a floating object submerged depends on the ratio of the object's density to the liquid's density. The mass of the ball is irrelevant - only the densities matter. For a given liquid density, balls with the same density will float at the same level regardless of mass.

Evening sun rays travel through a much thicker layer of Earth's atmosphere due to the oblique angle, causing greater scattering and absorption of heat. At midday, the sun is overhead, so rays travel the shortest distance through the atmosphere with minimal scattering. The sun's temperature doesn't actually decrease.

In a compound microscope, the objective has a very short focal length (few mm) to magnify the specimen, while the eyepiece has a longer focal length to further magnify the real image. For a convex lens, the minimum distance between object and real image is 4f, occurring when the object is at 2f. Both statements are correct.

To operate a 110V lamp on 220V mains, a resistor must be added in series to drop the excess voltage. Using P = V²/R, the lamp's resistance is fixed, so adding external resistance limits current to safe levels. A transformer would be more efficient but wasn't the expected answer.

According to the regelation phenomenon, increased pressure lowers the melting point of ice. When two ice blocks are pressed together, the contact point experiences high pressure, causing local melting. Water formed lubricates the surface, and when pressure is released, it refreezes, joining the blocks.

All three plants are commonly propagated vegetatively: Jasmine through stem cuttings, Sugarcane through stem sections (setts) with nodes, and Turmeric through rhizome division. Vegetative propagation produces clones of the parent plant and is faster than seed propagation.