General Quiz

Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-11 08:10:00

Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5695 (Maginot Line) is correct! Excellent!

#5697. Name the term / phrase - Definition given by Oxford Dictionary - Energy fueled into ways that do not use up natural resources or harm the environment.

#5698. Name a type of waste which can be broken down, in a matter of weeks or few months, into its base compounds by micro-organisms and other living things, regardless of what those compounds may be. These can be commonly found in municipal solid waste as green waste, food waste, paper waste, and these plastics. Other such include human waste, manure, sewage, sewage sludge and slaughterhouse waste. In the absence of oxygen, much of this waste will decay to methane by anaerobic digestion.

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-11 12:49:04

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The Answer #5697 is correct, zetafunc! Good work!

I shall wait for bobbym for both the Answers #5697 and #5698.

bobbym · 2015-09-11 19:01:34

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-11 21:44:35

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Both the Answers - #5697 (Alternative Energy) and #5698 (Biodegradable) are correct! Marvelous, bobbym!

#5699. The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. During which period was the pyramid built?

#5700. The Battle of Amphipolis was fought during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. It was the culmination of events with the capture of Amphipolis by the Spartans. During which period did it occur (approximately)?

bobbym · 2015-09-12 09:22:01

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-12 14:00:58

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Both the Answers, #5699 and #5700, are correct! Stupendous!

#5701. Name the element produced entirely by cosmic ray spallation and not by stellar nucleosynthesis it is a low-abundance element in both the Solar system and the Earth's crust. It is concentrated on Earth by the water-solubility of its more common naturally occurring compounds. The largest proven deposits of this element are in Turkey, which is also the largest producer of these minerals. The primary use of this element is to make these filaments, which are used in a similar way to carbon fibers in some high-strength materials.

#5702. Name the chemical element with atomic number 48. This soft, bluish-white metal is chemically similar to the two other stable metals in group 12, zinc and mercury. Like zinc, it prefers oxidation state +2 in most of its compounds and like mercury it shows a low melting point compared to transition metals. The metal and its congeners (congeners are related chemical substances "related to each other by origin, structure, or function") are not always considered transition metals, in that they do not have partly filled d or f electron shells in the elemental or common oxidation states. The average concentration of the metal in Earth's crust is between 0.1 and 0.5 parts per million (ppm).

bobbym · 2015-09-12 19:42:06

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-13 01:14:33

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The Answers #5701 and #5702 (Boron and Cadmium) are correct! Excellent!

#5703. Name the American lawyer and author (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970). Though best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces, as well as a series of non-fiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico. The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, he also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr.

#5704. Name the short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while he was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled 'The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent'. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, he later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills'.

bobbym · 2015-09-13 18:45:50

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-13 20:04:05

Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5703 (Erle Stanley Gardner) is correct! Excellent!

Good attempt (#5704), bobbym!

#5705. Name the river in Ireland, which flows through the centre of Dublin. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac. The river supplies much of Dublin's water, and a range of recreational opportunities.

#5706. Name the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. The area of its basin is 1,390,000 square kilometres (540,000 sq mi), slightly less than half that of the Nile.

bobbym · 2015-09-14 02:45:47

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-14 18:30:06

Hi bobbym,

The Answers #5705 and #5706 - River Liffey and River Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi).

The Answer #5706 is correct! Exellent, bobbym!

#5707. Name the landlocked country in Central Africa bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest and Niger to the west. It is the fifth largest country in Africa in terms of area. At 1,284,000 square kilometres (496,000 sq mi), it is the world's 21st-largest country. It is slightly smaller than Peru and slightly larger than South Africa.

#5708. Name the landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It lies on both banks of the river in the same name, which runs through the center of the country from north to south. Due to its central location in South America, it is sometimes referred to as Corazón de América ("Heart of America". Area - 406,752 square kimometers; 157,048 square miles.

bobbym · 2015-09-14 21:27:32

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-15 15:34:11

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The Answer #5707 (Chad) is correct! Good work!

#5709. On September 7, 1822, the country declared its independence from Portugal and became its own country. A military coup in 1889 established a republican government. The country has seen a dictatorship (1930–1934 and 1937–1945) and a period of military rule (1964–1985). Name the country.

#5710. Name the country in the Maghreb region of western North Africa. It is the eleventh largest country in Africa, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, by Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest. At 397,929 square miles (1,030,631 square kilometers),90% of which is desert, Mauritania is the world's 29th-largest country (after Bolivia). It is comparable in size to Egypt. It lies mostly between latitudes 14° and 26°N, and longitudes 5° and 17°W (small areas are east of 5° and west of 17°).

bobbym · 2015-09-15 15:55:57

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-15 18:39:20

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The Answer #5709 (Brazil) is correct! Excellent!

The Answer #5709 is correct! Good work!

#5711. Name the compound of two elements. It is a III-V direct bandgap semiconductor with a zinc blende crystal structure. It is used in the manufacture of devices such as microwave frequency integrated circuits, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, infrared light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, solar cells and optical windows. Some electronic properties of it are superior to those of silicon. It has a higher saturated electron velocity and higher electron mobility, allowing these transistors to function at frequencies in excess of 250 GHz.

#5712. Name the chemical element atomic number 77. A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group, it is generally credited with being the second densest element (after osmium) based on measured density, although calculations involving the space lattices of the elements show that it is denser. It is also the most corrosion-resistant metal, even at temperatures as high as 2000 °C. It is the most corrosion-resistant metal known: it is not attacked by almost any acid, aqua regia, molten metals, or silicates at high temperatures.

bobbym · 2015-09-15 23:45:32

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-16 09:17:28

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The Answer #5712 (Iridium) is correct! Good work!

#5713. Name the lake - With a surface area of 68,800 square kilometres (26,600 sq mi), it is Africa's largest lake by area, and is also the largest tropical lake in the world. It is the world's second largest freshwater lake by surface area; only Lake Superior in North America is larger. In terms of its volume, it is the world's ninth largest continental lake, and it contains about 2,750 cubic kilometers (2.2 billion acre-feet) of water.

#5714. Name an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, in both cases, after only Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake. The lake is divided among four countries – Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Zambia, with Tanzania (46%) and DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake. The water flows into the Congo River system and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean. is situated within the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift, and is confined by the mountainous walls of the valley. It is the largest rift lake in Africa and the second largest lake by volume in the world. It is the deepest lake in Africa and holds the greatest volume of fresh water, accounting for 18% of the world's available fresh water.

bobbym · 2015-09-16 13:04:53

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-16 17:52:18

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The Answer #5713 (Lake Victoria) is correct! Good work!

#5715. Name the seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia (also the Erythraean Sea). The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). It has a surface area of roughly 438,000 square kilometers (169,100 square miles). It is about 2250 km (1398 mi) long and, at its widest point, 355 km (220.6 mi) wide.

#5716. Name body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula and the Apennine Mountains from the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. It is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Sea) to the northwest and the Po Valley. The countries with coasts on it are Italy, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Slovenia. . It covers 138,600 square kilometres (53,500 sq mi) and has a volume of 35,000 cubic kilometres (8,400 cu mi).

bobbym · 2015-09-16 23:55:18

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-17 15:56:25

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The Answers #5715 (Red Sea) and #5716 (Adriatic Sea) are correct! Magnificent!

#5717. Lake Baikal is the largest (by volume) freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water. Baikal is the world's deepest lake too. State the maximum depth of it.

#5718. Name the freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia just outside the outskirts of Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe, and the 15th largest freshwater lake by area in the world. The lake has an average surface area of 17,891 km² (excluding the islands). Its north-to-south length is 219 km and its average width is 83 km; the average depth is 51 m, although it reaches a maximum of 230 m in the north-western part. Basin area: 276,000 km², volume: 837 km³ (earlier estimated as 908 km³). There are around 660 islands, with a total area of about 435 km². It is, on average, 5 m above sea level. Most of the islands, including the famous Valaam archipelago, Kilpola and Konevets, are situated in the northwest of the lake.

bobbym · 2015-09-18 01:09:21

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Jai Ganesh · 2015-09-18 15:23:35

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The Answer #5718 (Lake Ladoga) is correct! Good work, bobbym!

#5719. Name the term in geography - A narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water that otherwise separates them.

#5720. Name the term in geography - A naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water. It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two land masses, but it may also refer to a navigable channel through a body of water that is otherwise not navigable, for example because it is too shallow, or because it contains an unnavigable reef or archipelago.

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