General Quiz

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-08 00:10:28

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#7257. Where is 'Strait of Malacca' situated?

#7258. After whom is 'Quezon City' named?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-10 00:20:00

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#7259. Name the element, because it is highly reactive, it is never found as a free element on Earth. It has a concentration in the Earth's crust of about one gram per kilogram (compare copper at about 0.06 grams). With few exceptions, minerals containing the element are in the maximally oxidized state as inorganic phosphate rocks.

#7260. Name the village on the Swedish island of Resarö, in Vaxholm Municipality in the Stockholm archipelago. Today the residential area is dominated by suburban homes.

The name of the village translates to "outer village". It is perhaps most famous for being the single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world; the chemical elements yttrium (Y), ytterbium (Yb), erbium (Er) and terbium (Tb) are all named after it.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-12 00:16:47

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Borax bead

A small loop is made in the end of a platinum or nichrome wire and heated in a Bunsen burner flame until red hot. A stick made of another inert substance such as a magnesia stick (MgO) may also be used. It is then dipped into powdered borax and held in the hottest part of the flame where it swells up as it loses its water of crystallization and then shrinks, forming a colourless, transparent glass-like bead (a mixture of sodium metaborate and boric anhydride).

The bead is allowed to cool and than wetted and dipped into the sample to be tested such that only a tiny amount of the substance adheres to the bead. If too much substance is used, the bead will become dark and opaque. The bead and adhering substance is then heated in the lower, reducing, part of the flame, allowed to cool, and the colour observed. It is then heated in the upper, oxidizing, part of the flame, allowed to cool, and the colour observed again.

Characteristic coloured beads are produced with salts of copper, iron, chromium, manganese, cobalt and nickel. After the test, the bead is removed by heating it to fusion point, and plunging it into a vessel of water.

#7261. Name the color in Metal in Oxidizing flame and Reducing flame of Cobalt.

#7262. Name the color in Metal in Oxidizing flame and Reducing flame of Chromium.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-14 00:29:14

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#7263. Name the four chemical elements starting with the letter 'B'.

#7264. Name the three chemical elements starting with letter 'D'.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-16 00:14:21

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#7265. Name the is the only tennis player (born 9 August 1938) to twice achieve a Grand Slam, in 1962 and 1969, and the latter remains the only time a man has done so in the Open Era. He also won eight Pro Slam titles, including the "pro Grand Slam" in 1967, and he contributed to five Davis Cup titles for Australia during an age when Davis Cup was deemed as significant as the four majors.

#7266. What is also referred to as the "Channel Slam" - still arguably the sport's biggest challenge?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-18 01:33:36

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#7267. What is the motto of Forbes magazine?

#7268. In 1922, DeWitt Wallace started the magazine while he was recovering from shrapnel wounds received in World War I. Wallace had the idea to gather a sampling of favorite articles on many subjects from various monthly magazines, sometimes condensing and rewriting them, and to combine them into one magazine.

The magazine's format for several decades consisted of 30 articles per issue (one per day), along with a vocabulary page, a page of "Amusing Anecdotes" and "Personal Glimpses", two features of funny stories entitled "Humor in Uniform" and "Life in these United States", and a lengthier article at the end, usually condensed from a published book.

Name the magazine.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-20 00:21:48

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#7269. When is 'World Blood Donor Day (WBDD)' celebrated?

#7270. Why is 'International Day of Yoga' celebrated?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-23 01:23:38

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#7271. Name the the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

#7272. Name the interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, it's design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace. Its language constructs and object-oriented approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-25 00:16:40

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#7273. Name the country of South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Due to its central location in South America, it is sometimes referred to as Corazón de Sudamérica ("Heart of South America").

#7274. Name the South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Santiago is the capital and Atacama Desert in northern part contains great mineral wealth, principally copper.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-27 00:12:19

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#7275. What is the national anthem of Australia?

#7276. What is the national anthem of Canada?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-06-30 00:16:18

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#7277. Along with nearby Bratislava, it forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In July 2017 it was moved to the list of World Heritage in Danger. Apart from being regarded as the City of Music, because of its musical legacy, it is also said to be "The City of Dreams" because it was home to the world's first psychoanalyst – Sigmund Freud. Name the city.

#7278. Name the city : In 1865, Wellington became the capital city in place of this city, which William Hobson had made the capital in 1841. The New Zealand Parliament had first met in Wellington on 7 July 1862, on a temporary basis; in November 1863, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Alfred Domett, placed a resolution before Parliament in the city that "... it has become necessary that the seat of government ... should be transferred to some suitable locality in Cook Strait [region]."

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-03 00:53:00

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#7279. Where is the 'Old Trafford Cricket Ground'?

#7280. Where is the 'Basin Reserve' cricket ground?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-05 00:31:53

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#7281. What was/is 'Perestroika'?

#7282. What was/is 'Glasnost'?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-08 00:05:41

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#7283. Name the domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).

#7284. Name the general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, it came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continuous use for over six decades in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics, crystallography and computational chemistry. It is a popular language for high-performance computing and is used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-11 17:27:50

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#7285. Name the British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869. It is one of the most recognizable scientific journals in the world, and was ranked the world's most cited scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports and is ascribed an impact factor of 40.137, making it one of the world's top academic journals. It is one of the few remaining academic journals that publishes original research across a wide range of scientific fields.

#7286. Name the French physician. He invented the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker, and pioneered its use in diagnosing various chest conditions. He became a lecturer at the Collège de France in 1822 and professor of medicine in 1823. His final appointments were that of head of the medical clinic at the Hôpital de la Charité and professor at the Collège de France. He died of tuberculosis in 1826 at the age of 45.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-13 00:10:18

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#7287. Name the the process of removing excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer perform these functions naturally. This is referred to as renal replacement therapy.

#7288. Name the Polish biochemist (February 23, 1884 – November 19, 1967), generally credited with being among the first to formulate (in 1912) the concept of vitamins, which he called "vital amines" or "vitamines".

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-15 00:11:45

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#7289. Each of these consists of a quark and an antiquark and is therefore a meson. They are the lightest mesons and, more generally, the lightest hadrons. What are they?

#7290. What is tau lepton?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-17 00:09:06

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#7291. How much is a gallon? (US and British).

#7292. How many/much is a league in the English-speaking world?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-19 01:47:10

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#7293. Name the Swedish physician (11 February 1706 – 16 July 1773). He is considered the founder of modern pediatrics, while his work The diseases of children, and their remedies is considered to be "the first modern textbook on the subject".

#7294. Name the organization created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children and mothers in countries that had been devastated by World War II. The Polish physician Ludwik Rajchman is widely regarded as the founder observed as its first chairman from 1946 to 1950, when he had to flee the United States in the wake of McCarthyism. (McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.)

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-21 00:03:33

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#7295. Name the string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods. It is similar in appearance to a small harp but with distinct differences.
In organology, it is defined as a "yoke lute", being a lute in which the strings are attached to a yoke that lies in the same plane as the sound-table and consists of two arms and a cross-bar.
In Ancient Greece, recitations of lyric poetry were accompanied by it playing.

#7296. The musical instrument players and and collectors particularly prize the fine historical instruments made by the Stradivari, Guarneri, Guadagnini and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona (Italy) and by Jacob Stainer in Austria. Name the instrument.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-24 17:58:13

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#7297. Name the Swedish luxury vehicles company. It is headquartered on Torslanda in Gothenburg, and is a subsidiary of the Chinese automotive company Geely. The company manufactures and markets sport utility vehicles (SUVs), station wagons, sedans and compact executive sedans. The Group was founded in 1927 as a subsidiary of the ball bearing manufacturer SKF.

#7298. Name the automobile marque that was planned, developed, and manufactured by the Ford Motor Company for model years 1958 through 1960. With the brand, Ford had expected to make significant inroads into the market share of both General Motors and Chrysler and close the gap between itself and GM in the domestic American automotive market.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-07-27 00:47:07

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#7299. Name the manufacturer of luxury pens, founded in 1888 in, Wisconsin, United States. In 2011 the Parker factory at Newhaven, East Sussex, England, was closed, and its production transferred to Nantes, France.

#7300. Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio. The name means wasp in Italian. It has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio

Jai Ganesh · 2019-08-01 02:09:41

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#7301. When and where did 'Peloponnesian War' occur?

#7302. When and where did 'Punic Wars' occur?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-08-03 01:40:13

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#7303. When and where did the 'Hundred Years' War' occur?

#7304. When and where did the 'Wars of the Roses' occur?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-08-05 16:52:08

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#7305. When did the 'War of the Spanish Succession' occur?

#7306. When did the 'War of the Austrian Succession' occur?

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