General Quiz

Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-06 15:52:35

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The Answer #5500 is correct. Neat job!

#5502. Name the material also polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, is an early plastic. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from an elimination reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. It was developed by Belgian-born chemist Leo Baekeland in New York in 1907.

#5503. Name the Italian physicist, (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954), best known for his work on Chicago Pile-1 (the first nuclear reactor), and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He is one of the men referred to as the "father of the atomic bomb".

bobbym · 2015-03-08 17:06:52

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-08 22:15:45

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Both the Answers, #5502 (Bakelite) and #5503 (Enrico Fermi) are correct. Marvelous!

#5504. Name the American multinational toy and board game company. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, US. The majority of its products are manufactured in East Asia.

#5505. Name the brand of tyres owned by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company subsidiaries in North America, Australia and Europe. In other regions of the world, the brand is owned by other companies. Its Headquarters is at Buffalo, New York, United States and Area served are North America, Europe, Australia and Southern Africa.

bobbym · 2015-03-09 14:08:20

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-09 15:03:38

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The Answer #5504 is correct. Marvelous!

#5506. What is the Average orbital speed on earth?

#55506. Name the American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877 (October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907). He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars.

bobbym · 2015-03-09 17:27:26

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-10 01:13:22

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Both the Answers, #5506 and #5507, are correct. Splendid!

#5508. How many confirmed moons of Jupiter are present? (This gives it the largest number of moons with reasonably secure orbits of any planet in the Solar System. The most massive of them, the four Galilean moons, were discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and were the first objects found to orbit a body that was neither Earth nor the Sun.)

#5509. Name the German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to him, asking him to verify. He found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics, and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.

bobbym · 2015-03-10 09:41:00

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-10 15:21:32

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#5510. Name the theory : In 1858 Antonio Snider-Pellegrini created two maps demonstrating how America and Africa continents may have once fit together, then separated.

#5511. Name the geographical term : The practice of growing a series of dissimilar/different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons. It gives various nutrients to the soil. A traditional element of it is the replenishment of nitrogen through the use of green manure in sequence with cereals and other crops.

bobbym · 2015-03-13 23:37:23

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-14 00:45:53

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The Answers #5510 (Continental Drift) and #5511 (Crop Rotation) are correct. Excellent!

#5512. Name the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. Europe and Africa are separated by 7.7 nautical miles (14.3 km; 8.9 mi) of ocean at the strait's narrowest point.

#5513. Name the circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. It formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.

bobbym · 2015-03-14 17:36:39

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-15 01:37:51

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The Answers #5512 and #5513 are correct. Marvelous!

#5514. Name the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). In 1865, as Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He then implemented Congressional Reconstruction, often at odds with President Andrew Johnson. Twice elected president, he led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect African American citizenship, and prosecute the Ku Klux Klan.

#5515. When was the Thirty Years War fought? (a series of wars in Central Europe lasting for thirty years It was one of the longest, most destructive conflicts in European history.)

bobbym · 2015-03-15 05:43:24

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-15 15:35:16

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The Answer #5514 is correct. Excellent, bobbym!

#5516. Name the war which was fought between Britain and China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice for foreign nationals. ( (1839–42)

#5517. Name the series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were probably the largest wars that had ever taken place.

bobbym · 2015-03-15 19:00:47

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-16 00:35:23

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The Answer #5517 is correct. Excellent!

#5518. Name the war which was a war pitting the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China, lasting from 1856 to 1860.

#5519. When did WWI end? (World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved.)

bobbym · 2015-03-16 10:30:51

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-16 15:20:06

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The Answer #5519 is correct. Excellent!

#5520. Name the southern dialect group of the Albanian language. The line of demarcation between this and Gheg (the northern dialect) is the Shkumbin River. It is the basis of the standard Albanian language.

#5521. Angola is a country in Southern Africa. It is the seventh largest country in Africa, and is bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean and Luanda is its capital city. What is the Official Language?

bobbym · 2015-03-16 17:56:08

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-17 18:44:26

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#5522. In which year Summer Olympic Games were held the first time in Asia, and the first time South Africa was barred from taking part due to its apartheid system in sports? (South Africa was, however, allowed to compete at the Summer Paralympics, also held in Tokyo, where it made its Paralympic Games debut.)

#5523. Name the American athlete and author; in 1896, he was the first modern Olympic champion (October 28, 1868 – January 20, 1957).
(On 6 April 1896, he won the triple jump and became the first champion of the modern Olympic Games.)

bobbym · 2015-03-18 01:41:32

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-23 00:29:57

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#5324. Name the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in United States history.

#5325. Where and when did the disaster which severely damaged by the Great Chilean Earthquake occur? (the most powerful earthquake ever recorded at magnitued 9.5. Debris and destroyed buildings from the earthquake can still be found in the suburban areas.)

bobbym · 2015-03-24 13:41:31

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-03-24 18:07:20

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The Answer #5324 (Sandy) is correct. Good work!

#5326. The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. In which nation is it presently situated?

#5327. Name the airport disaster which was a fatal runway collision between two Boeing 747s on Sunday, March 27, 1977 at Los Rodeos Airport on a Spanish island, one of the Canary Islands. The crash killed 583 people, making it the deadliest accident in aviation history.

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