Each letter of the alphabet is encoded as series of dots and dashes and transmitted and received with telegraphy equipments. The speed of sending is directly related to the length of the shortest (dot) element: a dash is three dots long, an inter-character gap is again three dots long, and inter-word and sentence gaps should be 5 or 7 dots long. This most famous form of telegraphy code is known as

ASCII Code Baudot Code Morse Code TeleTypeSetter Code

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. When completed in 1936, it was both the world's largest electric-power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure. The two lanes for automobile traffic across the top of the dam serving as the Colorado River crossing for the US highway is Route ___?

19 36 72 93

Nerve cells are electrically active cells which are primarily responsible for carrying out the brain's functions. These cells create action potentials, which are discrete electrical signals that travel down their stems and cause the release of chemical neurotransmissions at the near contact between similar cells. This then gets to a body of such cells on the other side of the contact. Thousands of such single neuron currents sum up to generate an action potential. These nerve cells are called

Catatonia Electrodes Endodermis Neurons

The Palm Islands are the world's three largest man-made islands - Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali & Palm Deira. This Eighth Wonder of the World will support more than 60 luxury hotels, 4,000 exclusive residential villas, 1,000 unique water homes, 5,000 shoreline apartments, marinas, water theme parks, restaurants, shopping malls, sports facilities, health spas, cinemas and various dive sites. This island would increase 120kms of shoreline for

Algeria Brunei Costa Rica Dubai  

Theoretically, it is the scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the vocabulary of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the needs for information by users in specific types of situation, and how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and electronic dictionaries. Practically, it is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. It is

Abecedarian Lemmatizer Lexicography Linguistics 

Pumpmakers of the Grand Duke of Tuscany attempted to raise water to a height above 12 meters, but found that 10 meters was the limit to which it would rise in the suction pump. In 1643 Evangelista Torricelli created a tube 1 meter long, sealed at the top end, filled it with mercury, and set it vertically into a basin of mercury. The column of mercury fell to about 76cm, leaving a Torricellian vacuum above and this height fluctuated with changing atmospheric pressure. We know this instrument now as

Barometer Kunds Tube Lactometer Rontgens Tube

4, 3.25, 2.8, 2.5, 2.286,__________?

2.087 2.125 2.136 2.143

Annual, Biennial, Triennial, Quadrennial, Quinquennial, Sexennial, Septennial, Octennial, Novennial, Decennial, Undecennial, ___________________?

Bidecennial Cinqdecennial Decidecennial Duodecennial

A viral infection that takes 3 days to infect an uninfected person, can infect only one person at a time. If 3 people are infected with this virus in a group of 1536 people, how long does it take to infect the entire group?

21 Days 24 Days 27 Days 30 Days

A petrol pipeline is laid across 250km of paddy fields. This involves either side of the pipeline to be cleared of organic matter and soil treated, so there is no vegetation within 10metres from the half metre diameter pipe. If 10squaremetre yields 22.5Kgs of paddy every 6 months, what approximate amount of paddy in kilograms would be lost in 3 years after the pipe has been laid?

40 Million  50 Million 60 Million 70 Million

500 people mine coal at USD 3 per hour for 24 hours and transfer 5000 tonnes of coal to a thermal station at USD 10 a tonne. This coal is used to produce 5000000 Units of electricity a day at an Electricity generation company’s infrastructure usage cost of USD 175000 per day. If there is a 50% loss of electricity in transfer before it can be consumed by households 250kms away, then what approximate cost should 1 Unit be sold at to the consumer if the Electricity company sees a 10% profit on its entire daily production?

5 Cents 10 Cents 12 Cents 15 Cents

A state buys all the wheat produced by its farmers at $0.35 per kilogram. This wheat is packed in 50kg gunny bags and stored in sheds before being despatched to their destinations by trucks for $0.50 per kilogram. But every year due to improper storage, 15000000 of the gunny bags with these perishable goods are spoilt and dumped in waste yards. What will be the loss for the government if the state produces 2 million tonnes of wheat this year? Consider other losses than the wheat as negligible.

$25 Million $50 Million $75 Million $100 Million

The original 15 feet X 29 feet mural, painted between 1495 and 1498, is on a wall of the refectory in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. This first to depict real people acting like real people is arguably the greatest example of one point perspective ever created. On a mission to insert another door into the refectory, this Leonardo work was dabbed making Jesus loose his feet. This work of Art is

12 Disciples Birth of Christ Last Supper Jesus Resurrection

This British mathematician continued to work on his design of the analytical engine, first described in 1837, until his death in 1871. His machine could punch numbers onto cards and would employ a base-10 fixed-point arithmetic. It could store 1000 numbers of 50 decimal digits each and would be able to perform all four arithmetic operations, plus comparisons and optional square roots. He is
 
Alan Turing Charles Babbage Joseph Clement Luigi Menabrea

This South American river is the largest in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next eight largest rivers combined. It has the largest drainage basin in the world, accounting for approximately one fifth of the worlds total river flow and responsible for about 20% volume of fresh water entering the oceans worldwide. We know this river sea that at no point is crossed by bridges as it flows through tropical rainforest as

Huang Ho Amazon The Ganges Nile

Women who have had sex with many men or women who have had many other partners have a greater risk of contracting Human papilloma virus infection that is a necessary factor for the malignant cancer of the cervix uteri. While the early stages may be completely asymptomatic, advanced stages may show single swollen leg, heavy bleeding from the vagina, leaking of urine or faeces from the vagina among others. This disease is known as

Acquired Immuno Deficiency Cervical Cancer Bovine Spongiform Tuberculosis 

He was on the brink of despair, as he felt that his discovery of nuclear fission had led to the death and suffering of hundreds of thousands of Japanese people in the world war. This German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry is known for his discovery of radio active elements and is regarded as THE FATHER OF NECLEAR CHEMISTRY and the FOUNDER OF THE ATOMIC AGE. He is 

Lise Meitner Otto Hahn Sir Ernest Rutherford Theodor Zincke

8 used engine oil cans, if returned to the same shop, could be exchanged for one new engine oil can. If you have 64 used engine oil cans, how many new engine oil cans would you get?

Earths gravity varies with latitude, altitude, local topography and geology. Gravitational pull that contributes to the centripetal force keeping the objects on the surface moving in a circular motion, decreases as one moves towards the poles. Gravity is different at different latitudes because of the equatorial bulge caused by the centrifugal force. Core of Earth has a 10.7 m/s² Gravitational field strength, because of its density that decreases with altitude. At surface we approximately value it at

9.3 m/s² 9.8 m/s² 10.16 m/s² 12.5 m/s²

Umbrella, Uncqfmka, Uodpgnja, Upeohoia, Uqfnipha, ___________?

Urhokrha Urgmjqha Urgoiqga Urgmjqga

The hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves, a scenario known as ecophagy (EATING THE ENVIRONMENT), is known as

All go Big blast Eric drexler Grey goo

You purchase some home appliances for $450000/- by 15th January on your newly bought credit card. Your credit card bank charged 3.5% interest on your credit balance by the wake of every month. Approximately how much extra would you pay if you paid Rs.100000/- by every month end to your credit card bank? Assume you start repaying from the same month end that you spent the amount. Also, if the balance payment is below $100000/-, you repay the whole remaining amount.

$25001 $30138 $35467 $40090

25million is being sanctioned for 150 villages to buy seeds to sow in their fields because of the floods that they experienced in the previous season. If 10% of this money is taken by the minister who sanctions it, 15% of the remaining by the authorities that move the fund to the respective village board and 20% of this amount by the village board authorities, then what amount does each of the 375 villagers in each village get if the amount is shared equal amongst them?

Every month beginning there is an increase of 8% in the number of books in a library. 24% of the books are lent at $1 per week every month. If the library had 3500 books in their first month, then approximately what would be money they would have made by lending their books in the first 5 months?

$3500 $3845 $4580 $4925

Transpositions of consonants of two words in a phrase, creates an amusing new expression with humorous effect. This error in speech or deliberate play of words is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency, is  known as

Archibaldism Baldism Spoonerism Williamism

His paintings are considered to be among the best examples of the fusion of Indian traditions with the techniques of European academic art. His exposure in the west came when he won the first prize in Vienna Art Exhibition in 1873. His representation of mythological characters has become a part of the Indian imagination of the epics. This keralite who is considered the first to found litho press for printing of pictures in India is

Kanai Kunhiraman Raja Ravi Varma Vasudevan Namboodiri V.S.Valliathan

Amor is the Latin name of this god of erotic love and beauty. This son of Goddess Venus, also known as Eros in Greek, was overcome by the beauty of Psyche and fell in love with her and had a daughter named Voluptas or Hedone (meaning pleasure). In Roman Mythology he is known as

Cupid Kama Madonna Valentine

They are the most luminous, powerful, and energetic objects known in the universe. These very centres of active young galaxies inhabitants are believed to be powered by accretion of material into supermassive black holes in the nuclei of distant galaxies, making them emit up to a thousand times the energy of our entire Milky Way. These objects that are mostly farther than three billion light-years away from us are

Blasar Pulsars Quasars Super Nova

This is both a number and the numerical digit that plays a central role in mathematics as the additive identity of the integers, real numbers, and many other algebraic structures. The term that came via French for this even number is

One Ten Zero Zillion 

Akita, Basenji, Beagle, Canaan, Chow Chow, English Setter, Finnish Spitz, Giant Schnauzer, Great Dane, Havanese, Japanese Spitz, Komondor, Lhasa Apso, Mastiff, Pekingese, Rottweiler, Saluki, Shih Tzu, Tosa Inu, Whippet are different breeds of

Cats Cows Dogs Sheep

53, 59, 61, 67, 71, _____?

73 75 76 79

Light scattered from an object is recorded in a medium. The recorded medium then reconstructs the recorded data to make it appear as the object. The image of the object changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes. This happens in exactly the same way as if the object was still present, thus making the recorded image appear three dimensional. This technique is called

Dimensionology Holography Illusionography Lightology

1,  3,  7,  13,  21,  ____?

29 30 31 32

A 9.8km proposal of a flyover in the beach road at Chennai would help commuters skip 7 signals. Every vehicle using that road has to wait in each signal for 25 seconds each. If all of 11300 four wheelers using the road everyday do not switch off the engines in any of the signals, what approximately will be the yearly fuel saved because of the flyover for the four wheelers, if fuel consumed in the idling state is 2 litres per hour for every four wheeler?

226018 34605 404201 791000

Most jet or commercial planes use kerosene as fuel for flying. Let us take Kerosene’s Carbon-di-oxide emission coefficient value of 2.58kg/litre as per Energy Information Association of US for our calculations. If a plane’s normal cruise speed is 840km/hr at 37000ft and it consumes 3025lt/hr with a passenger capacity of 150(max), what would be the planes approximate Carbon dioxide emission rate in kg for a one kilometre travel at full passenger capacity at this height?

8.1 9.3 10.8 11.2 

In a petrol pump, the owner of the pump decides to make some fast money by selling adulterated petrol. One litre of petrol bought from his pump would contain 15% Kerosene and remaining petrol. Kerosene is 35% the cost of Petrol. If all of 24000 litres of pure petrol in this pump is added with Kerosene and sold at $1.5 per litre, then what would be his approximate profit if even without mixing Kerosene he use to see a 5% profit margin?

$ 5240 $5330 $5450 $5560

Ganesh Ghote is an inspector in the police force of Mumbai, India. His first appearance was in, The Perfect Murder (1964), that won H. R. F. Keating, who wrote this novel without ever having been to India, a Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. This novel was adapted into a film in 1988 by Merchant Ivory titled

Breaking and Entering Burning Train Highway Murder The Perfect Murder

This combination of atmospheric and oceanic phenomena in the tropical Pacific Ocean, occurring every three to eight years, is linked with Floods, droughts and other weather disturbances in many locations around the world. Its effects on weather vary with each event. Some research suggests that treating ocean warming in the eastern tropical Pacific separately from that in the central tropical Pacific may help explain some of these variations. This phenomenon is popularly known as

El Nino El Passo La Bamba La Nina

In 1814 Francis Scott Key wrote a poem on the back of a letter and titled it, Defence of Fort McHenry. Judge Joseph H. Nicholson fit the popular melody, To Anacreon in Heaven, an old British drinking song, to the poem. Thomas Carr of the Carr Music Store published the words and music together under the title, The Star-Spangled Banner. On March 3, 1931 this song was adopted as a national anthem of which country

Canada England Ireland USA

This American historian specializes in the history of India and Pakistan and is currently a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His book about Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination was banned in India and his book on Jinnah was banned in Pakistan. He is

Bayard Taylor Naturam Godse Stanley Wolpert Washington Irving

Byzantium was an ancient Greek city, which was founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC. The city later evolved to be the centre of the Byzantine Empire under the name of Constantinople. Constantinople fell to the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1453. The name of the city was changed in 1930 to

Ankara Greece Istanbul Turkey

Your Bank Locker password is a unique 5 digit number which on reverse (180 degree turn) would still read as a proper number but the value would increase by 78633. What is your password if all the 5 digits in the number are different?

06189 10968 61089 96018

A skyscraper has 120 storeys. Which floor is above the floor below the floor,
below the floor above the floor, below the floor above the 54th? 

52nd 53rd 55th 56th

Initially, to make a phone call, one needs to wind a crank on the side of the phone that generated current to light a lamp at a central office. On seeing the light, an operator would insert their patch cord into a socket & assist the customer with the call connection by connecting the caller to the person being called. The first successful bi-directional transmission of clear speech by Graham Bell and his colleague Watson was made on

10 March 1876 10 August 1876 30 January 1877 4 May 1877

One, Ten, Hundred, Thousand, Million, Billion, Trillion, Quadrillion, __________?

Quatrillion Quindrillion Quintillion Quinquillion

You have assigned a five numbered password for your laptop. The second digit is 4 lesser than the fourth digit while it is 3 greater than the third. The first digit is three times the fifth digit. If there are 3 pairs of numbers whose sum equals 11, then what is your password?

6,790,062,216 is the world population as on 7th Jan 2009 and there are approximately about 61 trees per person. If 2% trees in the world are being cut down and then 1.5% new trees are planted every year, then what approximate number of trees would there be per person on 7th Jan 2015 if the population had also increased by 3.5% then?

On any day, a person sees 26 company advertisements on the internet, 53 in the newspaper, hears 31 on radio, watches 67 on TV, receives 2 direct mailers, views 32 at point of purchases, stares at 87 on hoardings and banners while travelling on the road and is recommended 5 products through word of mouth. How many advertisements does this person come across in the whole month of January?

He faired poorly in education and was subjected to regular mob torment by his classmates in his early days. THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM, a pamphlet published by him resulted in him being expelled from Oxford in 1811. This world renowned poet who died in a boat accident on July 8, 1822 before his 30rth birthday is

John Keats Lord Byron Percy Shelley William Yeats

Two companies each at Westminster, Oxford and Cambridge totalling 47 members worked for two years and three-quarters on this project. A final revision, occupying nine months, was then made by a smaller body, consisting of two representatives from each company, after which it was seen through the press by Dr. Miles Smith and Bishop Bilson. The Authorized Version thus brought out in 1611 is

Bible Sacred Name of YAH Ten Commandments Yahweh’s Holy Days

This term sometimes means the food and sometimes the drink of Gods. This food is often depicted as conferring agelessness immortality upon whoever consumes it. It is also closely related to the Gods other form of sustenance, Nector. This greek mythology term is

Amber Ambrosia Amruth Honey

Hercule Poirot, a French-speaking Belgian detective, lived and worked from 56B Whitehaven Mansions, Sandhurst Square, London W1. He appeared in 33 novels and 54 short stories. He was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times that read - HERCULE POIROT IS DEAD; Famed Belgian Detective. He was created by

Agatha Christie Ayn Rand Nancy Drew Perry Mason

This country that is 1.05 kilometres (0.6 mi) long and .85 kilometres (0.5 mi) wide has no official language established by law, but laws and regulations are published in the Italian-language. Its only own bank has an ATM with instructions in Latin. As of 2008 census, its total population is 824. It has itself as its capital. This place is

149, 162536, 496481, 100121144,__________?

153204368 169196225 171224321 209306508

Aversion therapy Trace conditioning Backward conditioning Exposure therapies

Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte,---------?

Ettabyte Xikkabyte Yottabyte Zillabyte

162024, 253035, 364248, 495663, _________?

647184 647280 647382 647486

2005 March saw a good paddy crop yield in an acre plot at Nellore, AndraPradesh. 5% of the yield was lost in the fields during the crop reap. 5% then was lost in the removal of husk from the rice. 10% of the weight then was lost in the rice polishing. There was a 5% loss again in packing and transportation to the final destination, where the remaining 5000 kilos of rice was sold at $30/- per kilo. If the yield already made a profit of $50,000/-, approximately how much more profit could the yield have fetched if there was no above mentioned losses?

$22800/- $30500/- $38700/- $44400/-

A normal Computer in sleep mode will consume 35 watt/hour. All 500 employees of a company work with computers for 8 hours a day exactly for 5 days in a week. All these 500 computers remain in sleep mode when no one works on them. What amount of electricity is wasted by this company in 4 full weeks if the cost per 1000watts is $8?

$48340 $53780 $65440 $71680

Every year tens and thousands of people are dragged to the ravines of Kimberly to find Diamonds. Only 5 out of every 1000 people find diamonds in a month in those ravines and their combined worth would be $40000. A fashion house decides to make two gowns with such diamonds worth $10million on each. If each person is paid $2 per month at Kimberly to find diamonds, then what would be the approximate wages paid to people dragged into Kimberly fields to find that many diamonds in a month?

He received both his nations highest honour for military valour and the Nobel prize for peace. He was blind in his left eye due to a blow he took in one of the boxing sparring sessions that detached the retina. He lived with a bullet, fired at him, in his chest for more than 6 years until his death. He has stuffed toy bears named after him. This youngest to become the president of United States is

Abraham Lincoln George Washington Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson

His scepticism towards the divine origin of the Koran led him to seek the true religion. He collated and put together portions of Islam, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism and other religions and adopted a religion called Din-e-alahi. This religion failed to gain acceptance outside his mughal empire and died with him. This emperor was

Akbar Humayun Jahangir Salim

This Aeronautical Engineering, popularly known as the Missile Man of India, to support his studies had started his career as a newspaper vendor. Besides receiving honorary doctorates from as many as 30 universities, he has been honoured with Indias highest civilian honours – Padma Bhushan in 1981, Padma Vibhushan in 1990 and the Bharath Ratna in 1997. This 11th President of India is

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Rajendra Prasad V. V. Giri Vikram Sarabhai

Nobel Prize established by Alfred Nobel of Sweden (inventor of high explosive dynamite) in his will in 1895, was first awarded in 1901. Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Literature and Economics are the disciplines for which, a gold medal, a diploma, and around US$1.5 million is given as Nobel Prize Award. They are awarded annually during the anniversary of Alfred Nobels death on

January 10 February 10 March 10 December 10

Mrs. Darrell Waters is considered as one of the most successful childrens storytellers of the twentieth century whose forte was adventures of children with minimal adult help. Around 800 titles published of hers also include some popular series such as The Five Find-Outers and Dog, Famous Five and The Secret Seven.  This talented pianist who gave up her music to work as a teacher is also known as

Agatha Christie Enid Blyton Mills & Boon Nancy Drew

These particles travel close to the speed of light. They are not zero mass but do not have electric charge and are able to pass through ordinary matter almost undisturbed and are thus extremely difficult to detect. These particles are created as a result of certain types of radioactive decay or nuclear reactions such as those that take place in the Sun. They are called

Aquinas Gluons Neutrinos Plancks

If you painted your 20cm cube on all six sides and then cut them into 5cm cubes, then how many cubes would you have with no paint on any of their sides

This is the only part of a human body that has no blood supply and gets its oxygen directly through the air. It is

Cornea Ear drum Hair Nail

5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, 12, ----------- ?

3 6 12 15

A terror group kidnaps 1000 children aged 10 in a particular year into a forest. All 1000 children are forced to undergo training to become suicide bombers. Training involves brain washing to hate a sect of people at $100 per month, knowledge on terror creation at $250 per month, physical exercises at $150 per month and practical sessions at $1000 per month. If the $10 per month worth food per person and the vigorous training cut down 150 children every month end, then what would be the approximate cost incurred to reach the final 100 from this 1000?

$3.8 Million $4.5 Million $5.7 Million $6.3 Million

Due to recession in the market place, a software company looses 60% of its annual billing amount. This leads to the company sacking 50% of its employees and increasing the working time of the remaining employees by 4 more hours from otherwise 8 hours. If the company hiked the remaining employee’s salary by 10%, what would approximate cost per hour difference for retained employee Diana be, if her 24 working day monthly salary before the hike was $3840?

(-)$5.34 (-)$6.13 (-)$7.37 (-)$8.81

5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794 is known as LA GRANDE TERREUR (The Great Terror), which occurred fifteen months after the onset of the French Revolution. Conflict between political factions marked the mass execution of nearly 40,000 ENEMIES OF REVOLUTION under the blade.  This blade that became the symbol of a string of executions is known as

Guillotine Paul Winchell Schick Wilkinson

This Princess of Monaco, whose film career lasted just five years and eleven films, became the first U.S. actress to appear on a U.S. postage stamp. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of her death, commemorative coins were issued on July 1, 2007 with the NATIONAL side bearing her image. She is

Grace Kelly Ingrid Bergman Lisa Fremont Marlyn Monroe

The world human population today is closing on 7 Billion. United Nations celebrated the birth of Matej Gaspar, a eight pound boy, on 11th July 1987. What worlds human inhabitant number did his birth in Zagreb (now capital of Croatia), Yugoslavia, officially mark?

3 Billion 4 Billion 5 Billion 6 Billion

Describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States Senators from throughout the Senates history is this Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by the youngest elected president of United States. This book titled PROFILES IN COURAGE that was made into a television series and aired later was authored by

Daniel Webster George Bernard Shaw   John F Kennedy Theodore Roosevelt

This 98 metre tall golden pagoda believed to be built before 486 BC lies to the west of Kandawgyi Lake, on Singuttara hill, dominating the skyline of the Yangon city in Burma. This most sacred Buddhist Pagoda enshrines within itself the staff of Kakusandha, the water filter of Konagamana, a piece of the robe of Kassapa and eight hairs of Gautama. The name of this pagoda is

Anauk Petleik Ashe Petleik Shwedagon Su Taung Pyi Ceti

This antiparticle is routinely produced in scanners used in hospitals that provide a mechanism to show areas of activity within the human brain. This antimatter counterpart of electron is

Gluon Meson Positron Proton

Your mobile phone beeps for every 17 seconds. How many times would it beep between 4:25:25 and 5:15:47

164 171 177 18

Pyrite (FeS2) is used for producing Sulphur Dioxide for use in paper industry and in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. Some of its properties made them popular for use in early firearms. Pyrite is often used in jewellery such as necklaces and bracelets.
They are also known as

Aqua silver Fools gold Rold gold Platinum

You fully fill your vehicle tank with petrol. You have a small opening at the top of the petrol tank through which 1/3rd of the petrol evaporates on the first day. On the second day only 3/4th of the remaining petrol remains after further evaporation. What would be the remaining quantity of petrol in your vehicle tank at the end of the second day?

50% 60% 70% 80%

A city of a million people pledged to plant a tree each on their respective birthday every year. If they pledged on 1st of January 2000 and there was 5% death and 10% increase in this human population every year, how many trees would there be approximately by the end of 2010 if the 5% death every year died after they planted their tree and the additional group planted one on their year of joining each. Assume a 2% tree death by every year among the ones planted that year.

Out of 36500 companies that started in a year 2001, 95% close down by the first year. Out of the remaining, 90% close by the second year. 51 companies of the remaining companies close by the fifth year. The remaining ones stay for long and are known as successfully formed companies. Approximately what percentage of companies formed in 2001 are successfully formed companies?

A lake has its bed covering 1.75 kms by 2 kms. Every year there are 10 million tourists visiting and boating in the lake. Seven out of every ten tourists drop their plastic cup into the lake after having their tea, served inside the boat during their boat ride. If 100 cups cover an area of 1 square meter, and each tourist takes only one boat ride in a year, how many years approximately would it take to cover the entire lake bed once with plastic tea cups?

This robed woman made of pure copper is hung on a framework of steel designed by the designer of Eiffel Tower. The crown that she wears has seven spikes representing seven seas and seven continents, while the tablet in her hand represents knowledge. The lit flame she holds signifies enlightenment. This symbol of liberty and freedom was sculpted by

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Frédéric Bartholdi Isma'il Pasha René de Laboulaye

MANDELAs  first name NELSON was given to him by his teacher at school and his middle name ROLIHLAHLA colloquially means TROUBLE MAKER. He relocated to Johannesburg fearing arranged marriage where he did his B.A. via correspondence while working as an article clerk at a law firm. During his presidency after his term in prison for 27 years one of his trademarks was his use of Batik shirts even on formal occasions known as

Ahla Wear Elson Madiba Shirts Mandela Cotton

In Greek mythology he was renowned for his beauty who could only fall in love with himself. Once when he went to drink from a stream, he saw his reflection and fell in love with it, not knowing that it was him. For fear of damaging his reflection, he died there of thirst staring at himself. The flower that grew from where he died is

Cephisus Leirope Narcissus Teiresias

Kohinoor Film Company, established in 1918 in India, made several mega-hits in 1920s such as Gul-e-Bakavali and Kala Naag. It began with a major censorship controversy with its first significant production. This mythological film in 1921 had its main character appear clad as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and was banned for political reasons. The film is

Alam Ara Bhakta Vidur Mugal-E-Asam Sheesh Mahal

These viruses are continually evolving to cause systematic infections with increased environmental stability. Migratory birds, among the carriers of this virus, spread them to all parts of the world. Over two hundred million birds have been killed so far in trying to contain this virus. Billions of U.S. dollars are being spent against a potential pandemic by this virus on humans that could wipe a huge population. The virus is

H1N2 H10N7 H5N1 H7N7

Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding. Since his first book on grammar was published in Warsaw in July 1887, number of speakers grew rapidly, in Russia, Europe, USA, China, Korea, Iran and Japan. Today this language has around 2 million fluent speakers. The language is

Ashkenazi Esperanto Unua Libro Zamen

On a particular picnic if you spent 1/3rd of the money you had on games, 1/5th of the remaining for drinks & 1/4th of the remaining for food, and if you still were left with Rs.1000/- How much did you have in the beginning?

Rs.1500/- Rs.2500/- Rs.3500/- Rs.4500/-

Velocity of blood flow measurements allow assessment of cardiac valve areas and function, communications between the left and right side of the heart, leakage of blood through the valves, and calculation of the cardiac output. An echocardiogram can, within certain limits, produce accurate assessment of the direction and the velocity of blood flow and cardiac tissue at any arbitrary point using

Archimedes Principle Buoyancy Doppler Effect Newton’s 3rd Law 

2, 6, 30, 260, 3130, ________?

9864 18562 26628 46662

A dose of 60 milligram of nicotine is lethal to human life and an average cigarette contains 1.2 milligrams. 10% of the 90% of the nicotine delivered to the lungs, gets absorbed and goes directly to the brain in only 7 seconds. If these cigarettes are chain smoked, how long does it approximately take to send 60 milligrams of Nicotine to the brain if one cigarette takes 5 minutes to smoke completely?

12 Hrs & 10 Mins 30 Hrs & 40 Mins 46 Hrs & 25 Mins 50 Hrs & 15 Mins

A mall manager says that they face four and a half hours of power cut every day and this is managed by running the three generators that they have. These generators are of 1,500 KVA and consume 200 litres of diesel each per hour. A litre of Diesel costs Rs 37, and all 50 shops in the mall have to equally divide this cost among themselves. How much does each shop spend on diesel in the mall every week?

9851 13986 17972 22100

4.5million people living in a million homes in a particular town face acute water shortage every year for a period of 60 days. Every house hold has 6 taps out of which 3 taps leak water at a rate of a drop a second all the time. If this town had continious supply of water for 305 days in a year, what is the approximate amount of water wasted in litres during this period if 16drops of water make a milli litre?

10054000 Litres 240869200 Litres 3710000000 Litres 4941000000 litres

A new born human baby is considered to have 300 bones most of which are soft and are not fused.  But this bone does not appear until the child reaches 2 years (sometimes even until 6 years) of age. This bone is

Humerus Kneecap Tibia Upper Jaw 

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease in cattle, that causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and spinal cord. It is believed, but not proven, that the disease may be transmitted to human beings who eat infected carcasses as many people died with similar neurological symptoms. This disease is also known as

Bornham Dead Beef Hamdead Mad Cow

Three years after being established as BANK OF CALCUTTA on 2nd June 1806, it was redesigned as BANK OF BENGAL. This bank then amalgamated with BANK OF BOMBAY (15th April 1840) and BANK OF MADRAS(1st July 1843) as the IMPERIAL BANK OF INDIA on 27th January 1921. This bank is now known as

Indian Bank Reserve Bank of India State Bank of India Union Bank of India

It is one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting 17 million passengers and over 2 million tonnes of freight daily. With its rail routes covering over 104,000km, this world's largest utility employer staffs more than 1.6 million people to run more than 18000 trains daily. This Organisational structure is 

Chinese Railways Indian Railways Milan Railways Newyork Railways

His first computer program was an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play against the computer on ARS-33 teletype terminal. He studied the source codes for various programs, FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language at Computer Center Corporation which once had him banned for exploiting bugs in PDP-10 to obtain free computer time. He wrote computer program for his school such that he was placed in classes with mostly female students. He is

Bill Gates Larry Page Paul Allen Sergey Brin

The amount of lift generated by the wings of an airplane or the rotors of a helicopter is reduced, sometimes preventing them from becoming airborne at all, in these conditions. Airliners offered variants with larger wings, powerful engines and less heavy fuselage to tackle this problem. The problem is

Cloud Burst Cold Climates Low Air Density Thunderstorm

81, 729, 6561, 59049, ____________?

65619 317621 531441 1587459 [multiples of 9 ]

This film was inspired by the true story of the players of Dynamo Kyiv, who defeated German soldiers in a football match while Ukraine was occupied by German troops in World War II. The ‘Prisoners Of War’ team and the ‘German team’ had great many professional footballers and actors in the movie like Michael Caine, Pele, Osvaldo Ardiles, John Wark, Silvestor Stallone etc. This movie released in 1981 is titled

American Soldier Escape to Victory Football War Winners are Losers

One plane from Texas and another from Tokyo start at the same time towards one another. They reach Tokyo and Texas 1 hour and 4 hours respectively after passing each other. How fast is one from the other?

Two Times Four Times Six Times Eight Times

Paper is produced by pressing together moist fibres derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. US produced approximately 5,000,000 tons and 9,000,000 tons of paper material in 1900 and 2000 respectively. If the estimation of paper material for 2020 is 500,000,000 tons, approximately how many acres of land approximately need to be cleared of 5year old trees that produce 1.6 tonne of paper material each, if 1 acre fit 120 trees?

0.9million acres 1.7million acres 2.6million acres 3.1million acres 

Lion, Tiger, Zebra, Elephant, Panda, Bear, and Snake etc. are hunted by men these days specifically for their skins. Skin obtained from purposefully aborted young ones or the very young ones boiled alive are soft and considered especially luxurious. One Tiger’s skin can give 1 jacket or 3 hand bags or 4 hiking boots or 10 Wallets or 25 belts. If Tiger skin made 15 jackets, 39 hand bags, 8 hiking boots, 10 wallets and 75 belts are required to be showcased this weekend in a fashion show, how many Tigers have to be killed?

34 38 42 46

You buy 1 ground [2400sq.ft.] of land for Rs.2.5 million and at the same time buy a kilo of gold at Rs.4 million. The value of gold rises by 10% every year. If after 10 years you want to sell your land that has risen to Rs.8.5 million and buy gold instead, approximately how much gold can you buy?

0.800kg 1.000kg 1.250kg 1.400kg

Adi, a high school drop out, lived in Vienna on an orphan's pension and support from his mother in his teens. Later in life, he copied postcards and sold them to tourists while living in a shelter for the homeless. Moved to Munich after inheriting his father’s estate and became a German citizen at 42. Adi is

Adolf Hitler Albert Einstein Marlene Dietrich Johannes Gutenberg

The relative head size of a premature foetus is significantly greater than its buttocks. The increasing baby size near term traps the foetus into the head down position normally. But at times the babies are delivered buttocks first as opposed to the normal head first position. This is referred to as

Blue Baby Breech Birth Stood Birth U-turn Delivery

Karol Józef Wojtyla was born on 18 May 1920 in the Polish town of Wadowice.
In his youth he was an athlete, actor, playwright and did compulsory military training in the Academic Legion. From 1940 to 1944 he worked as a messenger for a restaurant, a manual labourer in a limestone quarry, and a salesman for a chemical factory. As Bishop of Rome, he took possession of his Cathedral Church on 12 November 1978. He is

 Bishop TuTu Pope John Paul II Pope Pius IX St. Faustina

This flag is a horizontal bicolor with equal bands of blue and red with a white equilateral triangle based at the hoist side. In the center of the triangle is a golden yellow sun with eight primary rays containing three individual rays. At each corner of the triangle is a five-pointed golden yellow star. This flag that is displayed with blue field on top in times of peace, and with the red on top in times of war belongs to

Indonesia North Korea Philippines South Korea

The distance of the Earth from the Sun, its orbital eccentricity, rate of rotation, axial tilt, geological history, sustaining atmosphere and protective magnetic field, moon’s presence, liquid water, ensemble of complex organic molecules, all contribute to the conditions compulsorily necessary to originate and sustain

Hydrogen Life Nitrogen Ozone

At temperatures above 768°C, Iron’s applied magnetic field has a paramagnetic effect on magnetization. This effect is used in magneto-optical storage media, where it is used for erasing and writing of new data in Minidisc format and defunct CD-MO format. This temperature above which the ferromagnetic material loses its characteristic ferromagnetic ability is called

Curie Point Defunct Point De-magnetization Point Turning Point

Noble gases Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon and Radon are colourless, odourless, monatomic gases with very low chemical reactivity having a very low boiling and melting point that are placed in group 18 of the periodic table. In October 2006, a seventh element in the group 18 was synthetically created by bombarding Californium with Calcium named

Ununbium   Ununoctium Ununpantium Ununquadium

2, 3, 5, 7, 13, X. The value of X is

17 19 23 31

SMTW, MTWT, TWTF, WTFS, -----------

TFSS TFSM TFST TFSW

Every person sheds about 1.5 grams of skin cells every day, feed for a million dust mites, making it a large component of household dust. Dust mites, cause for asthma and allergic symptoms worldwide, that feed on these dead skin cells do not have a stomach and so end up eating the same particle several times and produce 2000 fecal matter each in their 10week life span. Approximately how many fecal matter will be produced in the room that housed 7 persons for 3 days if filled with dust mites in 10 days?

14 Billion 37 Billion 48 Billion 63 Billion

Nathan meets with an accident on an expressway and has to be taken to a hospital within the next 3 hours if he has to survive. Distance from the place of his accident and the nearest hospital is 100kms. All vehicles go past Nathan at 75kms per hour speed, 1 every 2 minutes. Vehicles going past Nathan see that he requires immediate help if he has to survive. If only 1 in 36 vehicles would actually stop to offer help, then what is the maximum time within which Nathan could reach the hospital after his accident?

2 Hours 2 Hours & 30 Minutes 3 Hours 3 Hours & 30 Minutes

A match is typically a wooden stick coated at one end with a material containing the element phosphorus, which will ignite from the heat of friction if rubbed against a suitable surface. 250000 match sticks cold be derived out of one tree. Every one of the 250 million population of a country use one match box a month(contains 50 match sticks each). How many trees could be saved by the country if everybody switched to gas lighters on day 1 in 4 years?

1.2 Million 1.8 Million 2.4 Million 3 Million

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, a Dutch, studied to be a kindergarten teacher but turned an exotic dancer and courtesan and posed as a princess from Java. Her relationships with powerful men took her across international borders frequently. An intercepted radio message to Berlin described her as a German spy, code named H-21. She was found guilty and was executed by firing squad at the age of 41. Her stage name is

Greta Garbo Mata Hari Sylvia Kristel Tamara Bleszynski

World War I, which was an important factor in the outbreak of World War II, took place between1914 to 1918 resulting in 40 million causalities. The immediate cause of World War I was the June 28, 1914 assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary and member of the Young Bosnia. The assassinated heir of Austro-Hungarian throne was

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Enver Pasha Fritz Fischer Mikhail Areshian

Disruption of water cycle, flooding and drought, rise in sea level, Soil erosion, Depletion of ground water table, Ozone layer depletion, Global warming, Reducing planetary gene pool etc., are some of the direct effects of

Deforestation Rise in Human Population Nuclear Reactors Plastic Pollution

He is the head of Q branch, the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service. This Q character appears only fleetingly in Ian Fleming's novels, but comes into his own in successful Bond movie series. ‘Q’ stand for

Quarter Master Quest Master Quick Master Quiet Master

Oscar Gomer Swahn, a Swedish shooter competed at three Olympics and altogether won 3 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals. At 64years of age in 1912 Olympics, he became the oldest gold medallist ever. Later he also became the oldest Olympic medallist when he won silver in double shot running deer contest at the age of

64 Years 68 Years 72 Years 76 Years

This Academy Award of Merit, presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, is 34 cm tall and weighs 3.85 kg. It depicts a knight holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes. The five spokes each represent Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians for whom the merit is awarded. This award is popularly known as

Emmy Award Golden Globe Award Grammy Award Oscar Award

Three people wiped their joint bank account of all its cash and divided it amongst them equally. All three invested their entire share into real estate and lost 4 million USD each. The sum of money that remained with all three equalled the amount each had after division. What was the amount in their joint account before they closed the account?

Elementary particles such as protons, neutrons, electrons, neutrinos, photons and gravitons are divided into two fundamental classes depending on their possibility of existence at the same location at the same time without any problem. They are

nnuuoossxx , oossxxuunn , xxuunnssoo , __________ . Fill in the blank.

nnssoouuxx nnssooxxuu ssoouunnxx ssooxxuunn

Our world currently houses close to 854 million people that is hungry. Almost 16000 children die every day due to hunger related causes. Every year millions of Surface-to-air missiles are used across the world. If 500 children could be fed everyday for 5 years(365days) with the cost incurred in buying one surface-to-air missile, how many missile’s cost could approximately feed 854 million for a single year (365days)?

121460 278420 341600 564000

Elections were held to select a candidate for Modaurichi assembly constituency in 1996. The ballot paper was in the form of a booklet as there were 1033 candidates fighting for this single seat in Tamil Nadu. There are 5,26,540 people living in that constituency of which 17% of the 57% who had voting rights failed to show up to cast their votes.  If the elected person won by getting 5062 votes and the last four candidates in the contest received 102 votes each, how many votes did the other candidates receive if the remaining votes were equally divided amongst them?

61 237 553 1028

Every product from the place of manufacture, excluding itself, changes minimum 4 hands before getting to the market place in a big city like Delhi. The manufacturer sees a margin of 10% on his production cost as profit and each of the 4 hands (mediator) mark up 15% over the price that they buy the product for until it reaches the market. The outlet at the market place that buys it from the final mediator hikes the product price by 10% of its buying cost and sells it to the end consumer. If we buy a pen for Rs.10/- what will be its actual production cost?

Rs.3.15/- Rs.3.75/- Rs.4.12/- Rs.4.73/-

Symptoms that leads to one child’s death every 5 seconds in our world is stunted growth, slow thinking, energy sap, hindered foetal development leading to mental retardation, high susceptibility to illness, physical and cognitive disabilities. The cause is

Food Poisoning Hunger Malaria Smallpox

This worm cocoons are made of a single continuous thread of their saliva secretion from 300 to 900 meters. If allowed to survive, this insect cuts the thread and ruins the filament to emerge as a moth. But the world boils them instead and unravels the fiber to the tune of 70 billion miles of filament. These insects are

He married a 14 year old girl at 13 years and became a father at 15 years. This average student at school became a Barrister, which was not of his choice, but had limited success in establishing a law practise. After being turned down for a part-time job as a high school teacher, he made a living drafting petitions for litigants, but was forced to close down when he ran afoul of a British officer. His birthday is commemorated world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence. He is

The rotation of the Earth creates the equatorial bulge so that the equatorial diameter is 43 km larger than the pole to pole diameter. The largest deviation on rocky earth surface is Mount Everest (8,848 m above sea level) and the Mariana Trench (10,911 m below local sea level). But because of the bulge, the feature farthest from the center of the Earth is actually

Chimborazo K2 Himalayas Olympus

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar (the Gregorian Calendar) to replace the old Julian Calendar. The new calendar called for New Year's Day to be celebrated on January 1. People who did not know about this continue to celebrate New Year's Day on

The electrical resistance of a conductor decreases gradually as the conductor temperature is lowered. In some material the resistance drops abruptly to zero when the material is cooled below a certain temperature and electric current flowing in a loop in them can persist indefinitely. This quantum mechanical phenomenon is called

Bogoliubov Theory Josephson Effect London Moment Superconductivity

2357, 11131719, 23293137, 41434753, 59616771, __________

73778189 73778389 73798189 73798389

This metal is typically stored under the cover of oil as it corrodes quickly in moist air and becomes black tarnish. This silver-white coloured soft alkali metal which is the lightest metal and the least dense solid element on earth is

Beryllium Lithium Plutonium Uranium

If at 5 ‘O’ clock a clock chimes 5 times and the time between the first chime and the last chime is 24 seconds, what would be the time between the first chime and the last chime at 8 ‘O’ clock if it chimes 8 times?

36 seconds 42 Seconds 48 Seconds 54 Seconds

The U.S. as a whole used 3,883 billion kWh in 2003, or 13,868 kWh per person based on a population of 280 million. The median household income in 2003 was $44,603 dollars per year. If 1 kWh was 8 cents in 2003, what median percentage of monthly income was spent on electricity if 4 persons constituted a house?

The lights in kitchen and living room together use 400 watts per day. The window AC in hall and two bedrooms use 1440 watts per day each. The television, lights in 2 bedrooms and two bathrooms together use 100 watts per day. Refrigerator and washing machine together use 200 watts per day. Other electrical appliances together use 20 watts per day. If the window AC is intelligently used such that they each consume only 1200watts a day, then what money is saved in a year (365 days) if 1KiloWattHour is 10¢?

$ 3.15 $ 13.87 $ 26.28 $ 35.21

In 2006, you ate out once every day for US $8 and tipped US $1 every time you did that. In 2006, you drank 3 mugs of beer ( US 90 Cents each) in a pub twice every week paying US 10 cents more for every mug beer and tipping the bar tender US $ 2 on your every pub visit. Suddenly your life takes a turn and you have to live on US $1.85 meal. How many full meals could you have bought with the money you tipped and paid extra on buying beer in 2006 (52 weeks)?