General Quiz

bobbym · 2014-11-17 16:34:04

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-18 00:19:17

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The Answer #5271 is correct. Splendid!

#5273. Name the country of northern Europe on Jutland and adjacent islands. It was unified in the 10th century by the Viking king Harold Bluetooth (died 985), who converted the people to Christianity. It was controlled England briefly in the 11th century and was united with Sweden and Norway in 1397. The union with Sweden lasted until 1523, and the union with Norway until 1814.

#5274. Name the country of northwest Europe on the North Sea. Inhabited by Germanic tribes during Roman times, the region passed to the Franks (4th-8th century), the Holy Roman Empire (10th century), the dukes of Burgundy (14th-15th century), and then to the house of Hapsburg. The northern part of the region formed the Union of Utrecht in 1579 and achieved its independence as the United Provinces in 1648 after the Thirty Years' War. In the 17th century the country enjoyed great commercial prosperity and expanded its territories in the East and West Indies and elsewhere.

bobbym · 2014-11-18 00:22:59

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-18 16:23:54

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The Answers #5273 and #5274 are correct. Magnificent!

5275. Name the third Prime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian National Congress party (19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984). She served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. She served as the Chief of Staff of her father's highly centralised administration between 1947 and 1964 and came to wield considerable unofficial influence in government. Elected Congress President in 1959, she was offered the premiership in succession to her father.

#5276. Name the Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma. In the 1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners.

bobbym · 2014-11-18 18:20:16

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-19 01:55:40

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The Answers #5275 (Indira Gandhi) and #5276 (Aung San Suu Kyi) are correct. Brilliant!

#5277. Who was Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike (Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike - born April 17, 1916, Ratnapura, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]—died October 10, 2000)?

#5278. Who is María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón (born 4 February 1931), better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón or Isabel Perón?

bobbym · 2014-11-19 02:25:58

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-19 20:17:00

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The Answer #5278 is partly correct. Good work!

#5278. Name the nation :- A country of southeast Asia on the Gulf of Thailand. Once part of the Khmer empire that ruled the entire Mekong River valley, the area was controlled after the 15th century by the neighboring kingdoms of Siam and Annam. It became part of French Indochina in the 19th century and proclaimed its independence as a kingdom in 1953. After the overthrow of the monarchy in 1970, It commenced a long period of political and social disruption, especially under the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot, which was responsible for more than a million deaths from 1975 to 1979. The monarchy was restored in 1993.

#5280. Name the nation :- A republic in E central Asia: made a Chinese province in 1691; became autonomous in 1911 and a republic in 1924; multiparty democracy introduced in 1990. It consists chiefly of a high plateau, with the Gobi Desert in the south, a large lake district in the northwest, and the Altai and Khangai Mountains in the west Official language: Khalkha.

bobbym · 2014-11-19 20:28:08

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-20 00:36:50

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The Answers #5279 and #5280 are correct. Keep it up!

#5281. Name the Geographical term :- A valley, gully, or streambed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season; a stream that flows through such a channel.

#5282. Name the term in Astronomy :- A band of the celestial sphere extending about 8° to either side of the ecliptic that represents the path of the principal planets, the moon, and the sun.

bobbym · 2014-11-20 12:58:21

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-21 00:30:48

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The Answers :-

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#5283. How is 'northern lights' also known as?

#5284. Name the Geographical term :- A fall or slide of a large mass, as of snow or rock, down a mountainside; a massive or overwhelming amount; a flood.

bobbym · 2014-11-21 02:12:25

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-22 00:46:31

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The Answers #5283 and #5284 are both correct. Excellent!

#5285. Name the Geological Science term :- A fine-grained dark basic igneous rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar, a pyroxene, and olivine: the most common volcanic rock and usually extrusive.

#5286. Name the Geographical term :- A body of water, such as a creek or small river, that is a tributary of a larger body of water; a sluggish stream that meanders through lowlands, marshes, or plantation grounds.

bobbym · 2014-11-22 00:48:22

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-22 19:37:11

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The

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#5287. Name the term in Physical Geography : A crevasse at the head of a glacier. Also called: rimaye.

#5288. Name the term in Physical Geography: A narrow promontory.

bobbym · 2014-11-22 21:12:29

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-23 00:56:25

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The Answer #5288 is correct. Excellent, Arna!

#5289. Name the Geographical term : An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.

#5290. Name the Geographical term :- A violent, cold, northeasterly winter wind on the Adriatic Sea.

bobbym · 2014-11-23 01:03:50

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-24 00:43:42

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The

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#5291. Name the term in Agriculture : The successive planting of different crops on the same land to improve soil fertility and help control insects and diseases.

#5292. name the Geographical term : A long and wide chain of mountains, especially the main mountain range of a large landmass. They can include the valleys, basins, rivers, lakes, plains, and plateaus between parallel chains of a single mountain system, or they can consist solely of a string of connected mountain peaks.

bobbym · 2014-11-24 00:46:49

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-25 00:39:59

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The Answer #5291 is correct. Neat job!

#5293. Name the Geological Science term : The consolidation of a loosely deposited sediment into a hard sedimentary rock.

#5294. Name the term in Geology : The process by which a sediment progressively loses its porosity due to the effects of loading. When a layer of sediment is originally deposited, it contains an open framework of particles with the pore space being usually filled with water. As more sediment is deposited above the layer, the effect of the increased loading is to increase the particle-to-particle stresses resulting in porosity reduction primarily through a more efficient packing of the particles and to a lesser extent through elastic compression and pressure solution

bobbym · 2014-11-25 02:15:59

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Jai Ganesh · 2014-11-26 00:19:51

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The Answer #5294 (Compaction) is perfect. Excellent!

#5295. Name the term in Metallurgy : A metallurgical coating process in which a metal or alloy such as iron or steel is immersed in a powder of another metal, such as zinc, chromium, or aluminum, and heated to a temperature below the melting point of either. It is often employed to increase resistance to oxidation.

#5296. Name the Geological term : A sedimentary rock consisting primarily of calcium carbonate, often in the form of the minerals calcite or aragonite, and sometimes with magnesium carbonate in the form of dolomite. Minor amounts of silica, feldspar, pyrite, and clay may also be present. It can occur in many colors but is usually white, gray, or black. It forms either through the accumulation and compaction of fossil shells or other calcium-carbonate based marine organisms, such as coral, or through the chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate out of sea water.

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