DAILY QUIZ

Recently, the river Yamuna witnessed toxic froth floating on its surface in Delhi
For the frothing is the release of certain gases when a specific kind of bacteria becomes active in anaerobic conditions — when there is no or little oxygen is available.

It was built by King Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire during the 16th century, who got fascinated with the Konark Sun temple chariot while fighting a battle in Odisha. The chariot is a shrine dedicated to Garuda, built inside the Vittala Temple Complex. The massive sculpture of Garuda, Lord Vishnu’s escort once was seated atop the chariot but it is empty at the present date.

Recently, Japan retrieved a space probe carrying asteroid (first extensive )samples that may hold clues to the origin of planets. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission seeks to answer some fundamental questions about the origins of the solar system and where molecules like water came from. Hayabusa2 spacecraft, launched from Japan’s Tanegashima space centre in 2014, took four years to reach the asteroid Ryugu before taking a sample and heading back to Earth in November 2019

This asteroid was discovered in 1999 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project, a collaborative, U.S.-based project to catalogue and track space rocks. Ryugu is orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars and occasionally crosses Earth’s orbit, which means the space rock is classified as “potentially hazardous,” though the body poses no imminent danger to our world.

Recently researchers of Thailand unearthed Bryde’s whale skeleton. Bryde’s whales are one of the most poorly understood baleen whale species. Also known as ‘tropical whales’, due to their preference for waters of 16° Celsius or higher, they are found in both nearshore and open waters between the latitudes of 40° South and 40° North.