General Quiz

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-11 02:26:45

#1219. Tashkent is the capital of which country (member of CIS)?

#1220. What does WTO stand for?

#1221. Which language is spoken by the most number of people in the world after Mandarin Chinese?

#1222. Where did yoga originate? Who is considered as the 'Father of Yoga'?

#1223. What does the abbreviation MBBS stand for?

#1224. Of the four scales of temperature, Centigrade (Celsius), Fahrenheit and Kelvin are three. Which the fourth?

#1225. What is the height of the mercury column at atmospheric pressure?

JaneFairfax · 2009-01-11 12:30:39

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-11 20:38:52

Answer to #1221:-

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JaneFairfax · 2009-01-11 22:58:02

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-12 01:34:55

JaneFairfax · 2009-01-12 14:13:38

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-12 17:40:12

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-12 18:05:49

#1226. What does CTBT stand for?

#1227. Who is referred to as the 'Father of Modern China'?

#1228. Who is the author of 'My Presidential Years'?

#1229. What is the full name of Mahatma Gandhi? When (date) and by whom was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated?

#1230. What was Swami Vivekananda's birth-name?

#1231. Where was the 'Parliament of the World's Religions' held in the nineteenth century?

#1232. Name the person who holds the record for the individual with the most awards and the most nominations of Oscar awards.

#1233. What are 'Emmy Awards' presented for?

#1234. What is the full name of the Golden Globe award winning composer A.R. Rahman?

#1235. What is 'manicure'?

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-14 00:59:40

#1236. What does 'Le Chatelier's Principle (also called the Le Chatelier-Braun principle)' state?

#1237. What is 'The Ring of Fire'? (Also referred to as the Pacific Ring of Fire)

#1238. Name the law that states that the total energy radiated from a black body is equal to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.

#1239. What is 'Doppler effect'?

#1240. What is an 'atmometer'?

#1241. Who invented the 'Safety lamp'?

#1242. For manufacture of which chemical sibstance is 'Contact process' employed?

#1243. What is 'Tyndall effect'?

#1244. What is 'Mass Defect'?

#1245. How is specific resistance in physics different from that in chemistry?

JaneFairfax · 2009-01-14 13:43:54

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-14 19:56:01

Answers to #1236, #1239, #1241, and #1242:-
All correct, JaneFairfax!

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-14 23:07:22

#1246. What is 'Seaborgium'?

#1247. What is an 'Amphoteric substance'?

#1248. What are the three modes of transfer of heat?

#1249. What are 'Bimetallic strips' and what is their chief use?

#1250. What is 'Borax'?

#1251. Why does the sky appear blue in color?

#1252. Which is the most abundant element in the Universe?

#1253. Which game is also known by the name 'ping pong'?

#1254. What are the four forms of coal?

#1255. What is 'Catenation'?

JaneFairfax · 2009-01-15 06:49:15

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-16 02:05:11

Answers to #1246, #1248, #1249, #1252, and #1253:-
Thats outstanding, JaneFairfax! All correct!!!

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-16 03:17:55

#1256. What is the World average life expectancy?

#1257. What are the dimensions of a tennis court (singles) in feet?

#1258. What is the number of players on each side in Rugby league and Rugby Union?

#1259. In which country is Linares situated, where the annual Linares chess tournament is held?

#1260. What is the birth name of Muhammad Ali, retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion?

#1261. Who holds the record of 14 career Olympic gold medals, the most by any Olympian?

#1262. Which is the first Asian city to host the Olympic Games?

#1263. Who is the author of 'V'?

#1264. Who is the author of 'Indica' who was a Greek traveller and geographer who visited India during the third century BCE?

#1265. In internet jargon, what does DSL stand for?

JaneFairfax · 2009-01-16 08:39:25

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-17 04:05:21

Answers to #1258, #1260, #1262, #1265:-
JaneFairfax, all your answers are correct!

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-17 17:43:56

#1266. Name the person who won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe in the category of 'Best Actress' for her performance in the film The Piano in 1993.

#1267. By what name is the city 'Constantinople' now known by?

#1268. What does GRE stand for (in the field of education)?

#1269. How were the 'Proteas' formerly referred as?

#1270. As per the statistics of 2007 AD, which country has the highest per capita income?

#1271. (1) King : Kingdom :: Sultan : ? (2) Malta : Valletta :: Suriname : ?

#1272. By what name is Calcium Magnesium Carbonate better known as?

#1273. What is a 'Xerophyte'?

#1274. What are 'Horse latitudes'?

#1275. Who is an 'Ornithologist'?

JaneFairfax · 2009-01-18 09:20:30

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-19 02:40:50

Answers to #1267, #1269, #1273, and #1275:-
All correct!

I relied on my memory instead of a website, and have changed the wrong statement. I'd prefer doing that always, but my memory isn't what it was 20 years before! I keep forgetting things and my short-term memory is abysymal
However, I bank on what I learnt at school, and that helps a lot!

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-19 16:39:23

#1276. How many Angstroms is a Fermi?

#1277. Roughly, how many square kilometers is a square mile?

#1278. If a substance weighs 9 grams per cc, how much would a (meter)³ of the substance weigh?

careless25 · 2009-01-19 16:53:00

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-20 03:32:11

Answer to #1277:-
Correct, careless25!

#1279. Name the chemical which has the formula

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#1280. What is an 'Archipelago'?

#1281. In which year was the fictional character 'James Bond' created?

#1282. Define a 'Nautical Mile'.

#1283. What is a 'Gharial'?

JaneFairfax · 2009-01-20 06:37:35

Jai Ganesh · 2009-01-20 16:52:25

Answers to #1276, #1278, #1280, and #1282:-
The first three answers are correct, JaneFairfax!
Regarding answer to #1282, I think it would be better if you correct the answer.

#1284. What is 'Veterans Day (formerlyArmistice Day)' observed for?

#1285. What is the '49th Parallel'?

#1286. Who is considered the author of 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'?

#1287. Who is the author of ''The Divine Comedy''?

#1288. What are 'Mersenne primes'?

#1289. When was the currency 'Euro' adopted by a part of the European nations and when was the currency notes first printed and coins launched?

#1290. Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?

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