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Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-11 00:02:22

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#7407. Name the Parliament of Poland (upper house and lower house).

#7408. Name the bicameral legislative chambers of Spain.

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-13 00:02:20

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#7409. Who is the author of 'A Doll's House'? (It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879.)

#7410. Who is the author of 'A Fraction of the Whole', a 2008 novel? (New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, 2009: Winner of People's Choice Award for Fiction)

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-15 00:13:14

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#7411. Who is the author of 'A Man for All Seasons'?

#7412. Name the New Zealand short story writer and novelist (born 1983). was born in Palmerston North in 1983. He graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with an MA in Creative Writing. He won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book for his short story collection A Man Melting.

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-17 00:02:47

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#7413. What does the term 'Arithmetic Logic Unit' (ALU) signify?

#7414. What does the term 'Armistice' signify?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-19 00:20:25

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#7415. What does the abbreviation WMF mean? (WMF is a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training.

Founded in 1965, WMF is headquartered in New York, and has offices and affiliates around the world, including Cambodia, France, Peru, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. In addition to hands-on management, the affiliates identify, develop, and manage projects, negotiate local partnerships, and attract local support to complement funds provided by donors.)

#7416. What does the abbreviation WPI denote? It is the price of a representative basket of wholesale goods. Some countries (like the Philippines) use WPI changes as a central measure of inflation. But now India has adopted new CPI to measure inflation. However, United States now report a producer price index instead.

It also influences stock and fixed price markets. The WPI is published by the Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It focuses on the price of goods traded between corporations, rather than the goods bought by consumers, which is measured by the Consumer Price Index. The purpose of the WPI is to monitor price movements that reflect supply and demand in industry, manufacturing and construction. This helps in analyzing both macroeconomic and microeconomic conditions.

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-21 00:03:00

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#7417. Who is the author of 'The Lord of the Rings', an epic high-fantasy novel written by English author and scholar?

#7418. Who is the author of 'Le Petit Prince' (The Little Prince), French aristocrat, writer, and aviator?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-23 00:07:01

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#7419. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). In which year did win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

#7420. Name the retired Ecuadorian lawyer and diplomat (born in Quito on 29 January 1932), currently residing in Quito. He served as Foreign Minister of Ecuador on three occasions. Pursuant to United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/48/141 of 20 December 1993 he was appointed first United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and started his four-year mandate on 5 April 1994.

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-25 00:21:32

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#7421. Name the Japanese physician and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut born May 6, 1952, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan. She was the first Japanese woman in space, and was the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights.

#7422. Name the Chinese military and government official who rose to power during the late Qing dynasty (16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916). He tried to save the dynasty with a number of modernization projects including bureaucratic, fiscal, judicial, educational, and other reforms, despite playing a key part in the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform. He established the first modern army and a more efficient provincial government in North China in the last years of the Qing dynasty before the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor, the last monarch of the Qing dynasty, in 1912. Through negotiation, he became the first official president of the Republic of China in 1912.

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-27 00:02:11

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#7423. Who was known as 'Il Duce ("The Leader")'?

#7424. Name the Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) . He wrote a number of notable works, including The Decameron and On Famous Women. He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in Tuscan vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot.

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-29 00:05:43

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#7425. Name the English manufacturer, Radical and Liberal statesman (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865), associated with two major free trade campaigns.

As a young man, he was a successful commercial traveller who became co-owner of a highly profitable calico printing factory in Sabden but lived in Manchester, a city with which he would become strongly identified. However, he soon found himself more engaged in politics, and his travels convinced him of the virtues of free trade (anti-protection) as the key to better international relations.

#7426. By what other name is Saint Nicholas known?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-31 00:11:06

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#7427. Name the English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I (1552/1553 – 13 January 1599). He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.

#7428. Name the prominent British Tory statesman of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806). He became the youngest Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1783 at the age of 24 and the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as of January 1801. He left office in March 1801, but served as Prime Minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806. He was also Chancellor of the Exchequer for all of his time as Prime Minister.

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-02 00:02:24

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#7429. Who is known as 'Father of History'?

#7430. Who is known as 'Father of Medicine'?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-04 00:04:29

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#7431. What is 'Compressed natural gas (CNG)'?

#7432. What is 'Biogas'?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-06 00:05:14

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#7433. What is the pH value of Apple fruit?

#7434. What is the pH value of Tomato?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-08 00:16:01

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#7435. What are the uses of 'Oxalic acid'?

#7436. What are the uses of 'Benzoic acid'?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-10 00:14:55

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#7437. What is the other name of the chemical 'Carbolic acid'?

#7438. What is the other name of the pigment 'Prussian blue'?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-12 01:35:24

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#7439. Name the English scientist and analytical chemist who published many scientific papers from 1853 (22 September 1829 – 15 June 1910) . He was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He died in Horley and is buried in Streatham. He was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1862.

Throughout the later 19th century, many chemists attempted to determine the makeup of natural rubber, with the goal of reproducing it. In 1860, he analyzed rubber by destructive distillation and obtained a large quantity of a light oil which he termed isoprene.

#7440. Melamine resin or melamine formaldehyde (also shortened to melamine) is a resin with melamine rings terminated with multiple hydroxyl groups derived from formaldehyde. This thermosetting plastic material is made from melamine and formaldehyde. In its butylated form, it is dissolved in n-butanol and xylene. It is then used to cross-link with alkyd, epoxy, acrylic, and polyester resins, used in surface coatings. There are many types, varying from very slow to very fast curing.

Who discovered it?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-14 00:40:19

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#7441. Name the Jamaican track and field sprinter (born 28 June 1992). She rose to prominence at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, completing a rare sprint double to win gold in the 100m (with a time of 10.72 s) and the 200m (21.78 s). The previous Olympian to so do was Florence Griffith Joyner at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics. She currently ranks as the fifth-fastest woman in the 200 metres event and tied fourth-fastest in the 100 metres.

#7444. Name the British distance runner (born 23 March 1983). The most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history, he is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m. He is the second athlete in modern Olympic Games history, after Lasse Virén, to win both the 5000 m and 10,000 m titles at successive Olympic Games. He also completed the 'distance double' at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships in Athletics.

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-16 00:24:02

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#7445. What is the National emblem of Belarus?

#7446. What is the National emblem of Indonesia?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-18 00:24:47

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#7447. What is the name of the parliament of Chile?

#7448. What is the name of the parliament of Kuwait?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-20 00:42:38

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#7449. What is the present name of 'New Hebrides'?

#7450. What was the other name of 'City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality'?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-22 00:08:23

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#7451. What is the time zone of Austria with reference to UCT (Coordinated Universal Time)?

#7452. What is the time zone of Barbados with reference to UCT (Coordinated Universal Time)?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-24 00:37:52

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#7453. What is the time zone of Colombia with reference to UCT (Coordinated Universal Time)?

#7454. What is the time zone of Djibouti with reference to UCT (Coordinated Universal Time)?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-26 00:06:55

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#7455. Who is the author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

#7456. Who is the author of 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-02-28 00:47:48

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#7457. Who is the author of 'Corridors of Power' (novel)?

#7458. Who is the author of 'The Doctor's Dilemma' (play)?

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