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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

QUESTIONS

1- What is the constituent elements of alcohol?
2- Which is the wetstern most district in india ?
3- The script of which language was described as ‘the Queen of World Scripts’ by Vinoba Bhave?
4- Who is called as ‘the Father of the Atomic Age’ ?
5- Which Indian scientist’s autobiography is ‘Years of Pilgrimage’?
6- What is measured by using a tonometer?
7- Who was the first winner of the United Nations Human Rights Medal ?

Answers

1. Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen
2. Kucch ( Gujarat)
3. Kannada
4. Enrico Fermi
5. Raja Ramanna
6. Fluid pressure inside eyes
7. Nelson Mandela

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Do You Know ?

Dead Hot

The Sahara is the largest desert in the world with an area of 9 millions sq. km. One third of it is sand the rest rocky wasteland. In the 1820s the Scottish explores Hugh Clpperton and Walter Oudney, And English soldier Dixon Denham crossed the Sahara and made friends with Arab leaders. If a person spent a day in the Sahara with no shade, food, water, or clothes, their temperature would be about 46oC by sunset, and they would have lost 2-3.5 litres of water. By night fall they would be dead.

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