A bolt of lightning, discharge of static electricity that occurs during thunder storms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms, can travel at speeds of 130,000 mph and can reach temperatures approaching 30,000 °C. There are some 16 million lightning storms in the world every year.  Ice inside a cloud is thought to be a key element in lightning development, and may cause a forcible separation of positive and negative charges within the cloud, thus assisting in the formation of lightning. The study of lightning is called

Beadology Ceraunoscopy Fulminology Photonology

Set in the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1996-1999, this $100,000,000 budget film, shows a country torn apart by the struggle between African government soldiers and rebel forces. The title of this movie refers to the diamonds mined in African war zones and sold to finance conflicts, and thereby profit warlords and diamond companies across the world. Name of this film that was Co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou is

Blood Diamond Blue Stratos Diamonds are forever King Solomon Mines

This theological system and approach to the Christian life is also called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology. In the 16th century the doctrines in the Reformed churches were developing in directions under the influence of numerous writers and reformers among whom this French exile in Geneva eventually became preeminent. This branch of Christianity that goes by the name of this true leader and starter is

Calvinism Isaccism Jehovahism Melancthon

Energy is added to the gas stream in the combustor, where fuel is mixed with air and ignited. Inside the high pressure environment of the combustor, combustion of the fuel increases the temperature. The products of the combustion are forced through a nozzle over turbine blades, spinning the turbine which powers the compressor and drives their mechanical output. This energy extract is used to power aircraft, trains, ships, generators, and even tanks. This form of turbine is called

Brayton cycle Chimney Jack Gas Turbine Holzwarth Impulse Turbine

A group of Iranian Zoroastrian descendents immigrated to Western India during 10th century AD due to persecution by Muslims in Iran. 96.1% of this community reside in urban areas and they have a current literacy rate of 97.9%. This community size is steadily declining and is projected to number only 23,000 in the year 2020 (less than 0.0002% of the 2001 population of India). The people who belong to this active, robust, prudent and persevering community which will cease to be called a community, because of its very low population, and will be labelled a Tribe are called

Badugaas Kodugoos Parsis Saurastrians

Human height is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body standing erect. When populations share genetic background and environmental factors, average height is frequently characteristic within the group. Exceptional height variation of around 20% deviation from average is usually gigantism or dwarfism that are medical conditions due to specific genes or to endocrine abnormalities. Vertical growth stops when the long bones stop lengthening because of the closure of the bone growth centres called as

Dimorphic Epiphyseal plates inter-vertebral discs somatotropin

What is the actual length of an auditorium in metres shown as 60mm in the drawing that has been drawn to the scale of 1millimeter equivalent to 50centimeter in real?

6 11 15 30

12.67, 13.75, 14.80, 15.83, 16.86, 17.88, _______?

18.89 18.90 18.91 18.92

These are by far the most common phase of matter in the universe, both by mass and by volume. All the stars are made of them, and even the space between the stars is filled with them.  The presence of a non-negligible number of charge carriers makes its state electrically conductive so that it responds strongly to electromagnetic fields. This state therefore has properties quite unlike those of solids, liquids, or gases and is considered to be a distinct state of matter called

Boson Crooke Ion Plasma

A country had a 28million population on the 1st of January last year. This country had a birth every 13 seconds and a death every 23 seconds that year. What approximately would be the increase in population by the 1st of January this year?

0.85 million 1.05 million 1.35 million 1.55 million

A gaming website has 360 million active user visits every month. In a month that has 30 days, it has 65 million visits, from its active users only, everyday and 5% of these everyday visitors actually visited the site only once that month. What approximate number of site visitors, in million, have come more than once into this website during this period?

97.25 184.75 262.5 342

Number of visitors from around the world who flock to Las Vegas every year is 40 million. 40% of these tourists are from within United States and they contribute 60% of the $40billion total revenue in Las Vegas. In the remaining revenue, if Japanese people, who are only 5% of the visitors every year to Las Vegas, contribute 60%, how much approximately would each Japanese visitor contribute if all of them contributed equally?
 
$480 $4800 $48000 $480000

This planet rotates once every 243 Earth days around the sun. At the equator, its surface rotates at 6.5 km/h; on Earth, the rotation speed at the equator is about 1,670 km/h thus making its sidereal day last longer than its year (243 versus 224.7 Earth days). However, because of its retrograde rotation, the length of a solar day on this planet is significantly shorter than the sidereal day. As a result of its relatively long solar day, its one year is about 1.92 days long. We know this planet named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty as

Mercury Neptune Uranus Venus

This species lives throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. They are an ancient lineage believed to be 200 million years old. They survived the great extinction events that made dinosaurs become extinct 65 million years ago and have changed little since then. Though they have week set of jaw muscles that can be held shut with a rubber band around them, they can bite with more than 5000 pounds per square inch. These large aquatic reptiles are

Anacondas Blue Whales Crocodiles Pythons

150 experts from the recording industry hold reviewing sessions to determine the eligibility of a work to be entered under a proper category. After series of voting, five high vote ranking recordings are nominated under each category. Accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu tabulates these votes and the one with maximum votes is declared the winner in their respective category. These winners are announced annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry since 1958. The award is

Emmy Awards Grammy Awards Tony Awards Oscar Awards

Kublai Khan founded Yuan Dynasty in China in the 13th Century.  This first non-Chinese Emperor who conquered all of China was also the one who welcomed Marco Polo to China that made him a legend in Europe. This Mongol whose realm reached from the Pacific to the Urals, from Siberia to Afghanistan – one fifth of the world's inhabited land area was the grandson of

Bora Khan Genghis Khan Jia Sidao Wonjong

The organization is based in Paris, with over 50 field offices and many specialized institutes and centres throughout the world. Projects sponsored by them include literacy, technical, teacher-training programmes, international science programmes, promotion of independent media and freedom of the press, regional and cultural history projects, promotion of cultural diversity, international cooperation agreements to secure the world cultural and natural heritage and to preserve human rights, and attempts to bridge the worldwide digital divide. They are

ICIC OANA NGO UNESCO

Speech is the secondary function of a tongue. It is sensitive and kept moist by saliva, and is richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels to help it move. They are made of eight different muscles. Four of which are intrinsic muscles that help in changing the shape of itself and are not attached to any bone. The remaining four are extrinsic muscles that help in changing the position and are anchored to bone. The primary function of a tongue is to

Salivate Supply blood Swallow Taste

30, 56, 90, 132, 182, _______?

219 225 240 268

The term supersonic is used to define a speed that is over the speed of sound (Mach 1). In dry air at 20 °C (68 °F), the threshold value required for an object to be travelling at a supersonic speed is approximately 343 m/s. Speeds greater than 5 times the speed of sound (Mach 5) are often referred to as

Hypersonic Pentosonic Supercruise Tupolev Tu-160

In order to lose 1 pound of stored body fat, we need to burn approximately 3500 calories. If you cycle for 1 hour, jog for 45 minutes and power walk for 2 hours and 5 minutes continuously and they help in burning 30 calories per minute, 60 calories per minute and 20 calories per minute respectively, how many pounds of stored body fat would you have approximately lost totally?

1 2 3 4

$6 million of the total $38 million bribery amount in this city is because of the 70% poor people who live in this 1.5 million population city. The remaining bribery amount in this city is equally shared between rich class and middleclass of this city. All 7% rich class and only 60% of the middle class are a part in the bribery act. If the middle class people who took part in the bribery act all paid equal share, then how much approximately did each middle class person pay?

$51.7 $77.3 $94.6 $121.0

A 20 member project team finishes a 1500 man hours project in 2 weeks and each member of the team is paid $8 per man hour for their 10 man days work (8 man hours per day, 5 working days a week). Generally, in software projects, 20% project team does 80% of the project work while the remaining does the other 20%. Going by this, if the 20% that did 80% of the work received an equal share of the 80% amount, how much more would each of this 20% get above the money that have been split equally among the entire 100%?

$1270 $1460 $1750 $1920

80% population of a country lives in villages that covers 95% of the land in that country. If the remaining live in cities, what approximately will be the area per person in square meters in the cities? Total population of the country is 250million and the land area is 8500 square kilometer.

8.5 12.3 15.4 17.8

The three monkeys that embody the proverbial principle – SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL - are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil. Sometimes there is a fourth monkey depicted with the three others; the last one that symbolizes the principle of – DO NO EVIL. He may be shown crossing his arms. His name is

Akizawa Sanbiki Saru Shizaru 

Revealing something hidden from the majority of humankind to privileged few is today often referred to Armageddon. In the Christian tradition, this term refers to the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible. The disclosure of destructive future, in the last book of the Bible, though there has hardly been a true incident is termed as

Antiochus Apocalypse Baruch Dooms Day

In Human, this organ is a dual-chambered protuberance of skin and muscle containing the testicles divided by a septum. This extension of abdomen is located between the penis and anus. Its main function appears to be to keep the testicles at a temperature lower than the rest of the body as higher temperatures may damage sperm count. The testicles temperature is controlled by the cremaster muscle that moves them closer to the abdomen when cold, and further when hot. The organ is

Scrotum Sternum Tunica Vaginalis

This 192km long man-made sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, opened in November 1869. Seawater that flows freely through this waterway into the Great Bitter Lake from both the Mediterranean Sea in the north and the Red Sea in the south is owned and maintained by Authorities in the Arab Republic of Egypt. This water way that under international treaty, may be used in time of war and peace by every vessel without distinction of flag is?

Ballah By-Pass Buckingham Channel Red Sea Suez Canal

Australia has a total area of 7,617,930 square kilometres and a current human population density of less than 3 per square kilometre. This prosperous developed country that is the world's thirteenth largest economy, ranks highly in many international comparisons of national performance such as human development, quality of life, health care, life expectancy, public education, economic freedom and the protection of civil liberties and political rights. This continent country whose name as Australia was officially agreed in the year

1533 1652 1708 1824

The objective of this number placement puzzle is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid, which typically has a unique solution. The name of this puzzle is popularly known as

Kinji Maki Kaji Nikoli Sudoku

What approximate percentage does Mumbai (a major city in India) harbour line, that sees 6 people die in its train tracks everyday, constitute in the almost 18000 people that die in train accidents every year in the whole of India?

5.43% 8.56% 12.17% 18.12%

In mammals, this hormone is primarily secreted in the testes of males and ovaries of females. This hormone production that is 40 to 60 times more in adult male than a female, plays a key role in health and well-being as well as preventing osteoporosis. Studies show that, this hormone level decreases in male when in love or during fatherhood. It is speculated that the reduction in this hormone level result in the temporary reduction of differences in behaviour between the sexes. This hormone is

Insulin Oestrogen Progesterone Testosterone

An author starts writing a book between 2pm to 3pm. He writes for around 4 hours and finishes writing between 6pm to 7pm. After finishing, he found that the position of the Hour and the Minute hand of the clock inter changed. Approximately what time did he finish writing?

6:02pm 6:13pm 6:24pm 6:37pm

A clothing company enjoys 2 months credit period from its suppliers for the materials received from them. There are 17 suppliers that supply raw material in the beginning of every month to this company totally worth $1.5million. Though the money is available with this company, it holds it for 2 months in its bank that attracts 2.44% monthly interest before paying it to its suppliers. How much approximately would this company make on interest on the raw material supplied in 4 months?

296372 357632 458900 556781

80feet deep, perfect square dam with sides 1 kilometer each, with 60% capacity water is sufficient for a million population for an entire year. If the population increases to 1.25 million then what approximate % dam capacity of water should be sufficient for the entire population for a year? 

65% 70% 75% 80%

During the holy month of Ramzan, Muslims offers alms to the beggars generously. Every beggar makes $25 every hour during this period. If a family of 4 decide to beg 12hours a day for 30 days period Ramzan and live on this earning the entire year doing nothing else, then what would be the annual income of this family?

This British explorer, navigator and cartographer who mapped the complete New Zealand coastline became the first recorded European to have encountered the eastern coastline of Australian continent on 19 April 1770. This first to cross the Antarctic Circle on 17 January 1773, who sailed around the Pacific Ocean for 12 years, came up with the theory that Polynesians (people dwelling is the over 1000 islands scattered over central and southern Pacific Ocean) originated from Asia. He is

James Cook Pembroke Robert Craig Samuel Batts

He was born in 356 BC to King of Macedon, Philip II and his fourth wife Olympia. This person who was tutored by the famed philosopher Aristotle is one of the most famous figures of antiquity, and is remembered for his tactical ability, his conquests, and for spreading Greek culture into the East, marking the beginning of Hellenistic civilization. He is

Achilles Alexander Bucephalus Cleitus

New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement. It had its first settlers of approximately 270 people from Governors Island in 1625 when the construction of a citadel comprising Fort Amsterdam was commenced. This place situated on the southern tip of the island of Manhattan received its municipal rights on February 2, 1653 and became a city and was unilaterally reincorporated under English law in June 1665 as

California New York City Texas Washington DC

These secular vocal music compositions are through-composed, with music written to best express the sentiment of each line of poetic text. They are mostly polyphonic and unaccompanied by instruments. With the number of voices varying from three to six, it reached its fullest development in the second half of the 16th century. Choral groups continue to sing them to the present day and they are popular among high school and college groups in the US. These compositions are called

Balata Canzonetta Madrigal Pietro Bembo

2700 years back a huge university existed in ancient India where over 10,500 students from all across the world came to attain specialization in over 64 different fields of study like vedas, grammar, philosophy, ayurveda, agriculture, surgery, politics, archery, warfare, astronomy, commerce, futurology, music, dance, statecraft, economic policies, art of discovering hidden treasure, decrypting encrypted messages, etc. The name of this University is

Artha Shastra  Shisyalokha TakshaShila Thantrikshiksha

More than 14 billion pencils are produced every year in this world, enough to circle the earth 62 times. The lead inside the wood casing in the pencil is not actually lead but a combination of a finely ground black substance and clay, mixed with water and pressed together at high temperatures into thin rods. We call it lead because the Englishmen who first discovered this black substance in the mid 16th century believed they had found lead. We know this carbon type today as

Black Salt Ebony Humus Soil Graphite

12345, 12390, 12480, 12560, 12620, _________?

12640 12670 12710 12730

Large Hadron Collider is the energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams. This experiment shall help find answers to questions in physics, concerning the laws governing the interactions and forces among the elementary objects, deep structure of space and time, intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity, etc. On 23 November 2009, the first particle collisions recorded were between

Boson-Boson Electron-Electron Gluon-Gluon Proton-Proton

1 US dollar is valued at 48 Indian Rupees. 1 Singapore Dollar is valued at 26 Indian Rupees. What approximately will the value of 6 US dollars against Singapore Dollars?

7 9 11 13

An appliance with a power consumption of 1kW would consume 1 kWh (1 kilowatt hour) every sixty minutes.  $6 is paid to light up a bulb for exactly 5 hours a day for 30 days. If the cost of 1KWh usage is $0.20, then what is the wattage of the bulb?

100 Watts 200 Watts 300 Watts 400 Watts 

A big container ship at its full load capacity consumes 6275 litres of fuel per hour. What would be the approximate distance between two different locations, if this ship travelled continuously for 4days to reach one location from the other at its full load capacity at a constant fuel consumption of 0.0075Km per litre?

3948 Km 4518 Km 5255 Km 6110 Km

A Town of a 5000 people save electricity in an innovative way. Each street bulb in this town is battery lit that is connected to a battery charger which in turn is connected to a generator. Batteries are charged every morning when people of this city, turn the wheels of stationary cycles connected to these generators and produce electricity. What will the approximate cost saved in 30 days by 6800 street bulbs in this town that burns for 12 hours every day? Each bulb consumes 100watts per hour and 1 kilowatt is $0.25

49300 54700 61200 68400

This flightless bird related to pigeons and doves stood about a meter tall, weighed about 20 kilograms, lived on fruits and nested on the ground in Mauritius. When humans arrived on Mauritius in the 17th century, they brought with them dogs, pigs, cats, rats and Crab-eating Macaques, that plundered these Mauritius bird nests, while humans destroyed the forests where these birds made their homes. This extinct bird used by many organizations to promote endangered species protection is

Dodo Ground Gull Macau Bird Swan  

The Niagara Falls has more than 6 million cubic feet of water falling over its crest line every minute during high flow. This potential source of power helps produce more than 4.4 GW of electricity. This voluminous waterfall on the Niagara River straddles between New York of United States and a province in the world second largest country Canada. The province is

Alberta Manitoba Ontario Quebec

At the poles, the sun only rises once and sets once each year as the axis of the Earth is tilted with respect to the ecliptic by approximately 23 degrees 27 minutes. In this particular northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August. We know this land of midnight sun as

Copenhagen Dubai Helsinki Norway

She entered the Tang palace at 13 and became a concubine of Emperor Taizong. After Taizongs death, through an unlikely fortuity, Empress Wang, the wife of Emperor Taizongs son and successor Emperor Gaozong, brought her back to the palace as concubine of Emperor Gaozong. Subsequently when Empress Wang was killed, she was made the Empress and on Emperor Gaozongs death she became the only women in the history of China to become the Empress Regnant of the Zhou Dynasty. She is

Qianjin Taiping Wu Zetian Xiao

This American movie is based on the book by Paul Brickhill. The novel is a true story of a mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany. The characters in this movie are composites of real men and it was made by the Mirisch Company, released by United Artists, produced and directed by John Sturges, and stars Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. This Movie is titled as

Decathlon consists of the Long Jump, High Jump, Discus Throw, Shot Putt, Javelin Throw, 100mts Running Race, 400mts Running Race, 1,500mts Running Race, 110mts Hurdle Race and

Boxing Equestrian Free Style Swimming Pole Vault

There are 20 pit stops with a equal distance between each pit stop. A formula 1 racing car traveling at constant speed of 250kmph takes 24hrs to reach the 12th pit stop from the first pit stop. How approximately long will it take to reach the last pit stop from the first pit stop?

40Hrs & 48Mins 41Hrs & 28Mins 43Hrs & 39Mins 48Hrs 0Mins

The Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus are Peter, Andrew, James the Greater, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the Lesser, Simon, Judas and

127, 150, 184, 229, 285, 352, 430, ______?

Every time your mobile vibrates, it reduces your mobile charge by 32.17 seconds. For every call not attended, your phone would vibrate 15 times continuously. If once, you left your fully charged mobile phone at home by mistake, then approximately how many missed calls, one after another, could your mobile phone have taken before the entire battery power drained off? Your fully charged mobile phone has a charge capacity of 24 hours

80 180 280 380

A product development company charges $280 per man day and shows only 200 man days for a particular project. If this company makes a 35% profit on this project, then what is the approximate markup on each man hour if 8 man hours make a man day?

5 7 9 11

A city has a population of 63 500. 41% and 39% of population are men and women respectively below 70 years and above 15 years of age. In the remaining numbers 10% are people above 70 years and 90% are children below 15 years of age. If 10% of these children are affected with acute asthma, then what is the approximate acute asthma affected children numbers in this city?

- Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to - Such no-win situation or a double bind of any type has a common idiomatic phrase usage which is

Absurdity Principle Been There, Done That Catch -22 Military Rule

People with this disorder are compelled to steal things, generally objects of little or no significant value, such as pens, paper clips, tape, traffic cones, signs, mascara, drugs and small toys. Such condition of not being able to resist the urge to collect or hoard things and may not even be aware of having committed the theft was first officially recognized in the US as a mental disorder in the 1960s and is called

Clip Syndrome Kleptomania Kline Syndrome Megalomania

This term is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion. This type over-dramatizes events or downplays legitimate news in favour of eye-catching headlines that sell more copies of ones publication. This unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists is called

Baked Fakes Cooked news Sensationalism Yellow Journalism

This form of word play deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect. Arousal of ambiguity from the intentional misuse of homophonical, homographical, homonymic, polysemic language or an involuntary substitution of similar words is called a

Idiom Irony Metaphor Pun 

Mesopotamia has been home to continuous successive civilizations since the 6th millennium BC. The region between its two major rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, is identified as the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of writing and the wheel.
This land that shares its borders with Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia is known to us today as

Baghdad Dubai Iraq Israel

Most publication houses give 15% as agency commission to the advertising agencies that bring business to them. If these agencies pay only 85% to the publication but have to charge the client their full 100%, then what percentage does it include on this 85% paid to the publication to make it 100%?

15% 16.45% 17.65% 19.15%

A book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describes a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system. The term used in the novel to describe ideal community or society that is sometimes used pejoratively, in reference to an unrealistic ideal that is impossible to achieve is

Ecology Houri Plato Utopia

A1B2C3D4, AD1B2C34, A3D1B2C4, AC3D1B24, A2C3D1B4, ___________?

A1B2C3D4 AB3C2D14 AB2C3D14 AC3D1B24

You picked a mobile plan that gives Local calls at $0.05/minute, STD calls at $0.5/minute, ISD calls at $5/minute and all SMS at $0.02/message. Every month you make only 300 local calls for 1 minute each, 200 STD calls for 2 minutes each, 80 ISD calls for 3 minutes each and sends 400 SMS. How much approximately would you have gained or lost if you chose a plan that gave you maximum of 300 ISD, 300STD, 400 Local calls and 500 SMS for $1500 instead?

$50 gain $75 loss $100 gain $125 loss

In a particular highly populous and busy city there are .55 million people who travel by 800 busses everyday within the city. 4% of the people in this city travel ticketless everyday and the cost of travelling anywhere to anywhere within the city in these busses is $1.0/person. What is the approximate loss incurred due to these ticketless travelers per day in terms of diesel that can be bought with that value? Take the cost of Diesel per litre as $0.84.

24100 litre 25300 litre 26200 litre 27400 litre 

Marina Beach along the Bay of Bengal runs a distance of about 12 km. Every 10mts of this beach stretch contains 2kgs of discarded plastic items. If 3000 top IT companies with offices along this beach line clean the entire beach of these plastic items on a Sunday and sell them to a plastic recycler for $1.20/kg and split it amongst themselves equally to feed the poor people nearby with this money, what approximate money would be each company s share?  

Territorial waters or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending from the baseline of a coastal state. This territorial sea, the airspace over and seabed below it, regarded as the sovereign territory of the state extends at most how many nautical miles into the costal waters?

3 7 12 16

Silkworm caterpillars are fed mulberry leaves and are made 10,000 times heavier within 25 days of their hatching. These worms then spin approximately 1 mile of filament and completely enclose themselves in a cocoon in about two or three days. 5500 such cocoons are approximately required to make 1 kg of silk. The cultivation of this strongest natural fibre that loses up to 20% of its strength when wet is called

Bombyx Mori Filature Mulberrology Sericulture 

On July 1, 1963, non-mandatory ZIP codes were announced for the whole country of United States by the United States Postal Service. Robert Moon, an employee of the post office, who is considered the father of the ZIP code, submitted his proposal for ZIP codes, in 1944 while working as a postal inspector, for the mails to travel more efficiently and quickly. ZIP stands for

Zone Improvement Plan Zone In Place Zone In Post Zone Inside Plot 

Colour blindness, a colour vision deficiency, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colours that others can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or exposure to certain chemicals. This condition is often referred to as

Colourision Daltonism Eyelor Occulation  

Around 600 BC, the then rulers of Greece decided that all the cruel laws passed whenever the impulse seized them should be arranged in a single plainly stated system so that the nobles could no longer twist them and a poor might know what the law really was. But when these laws were put together, people were horrified at the severity of them that, even today its significance to unflinchingly severe rule go by the name of the man summoned to codify these laws, which is

Draconian Heinous Maniac Psychopath   

If ISOTHERM is a contour line or surface on a map that connects or indicates points of equal temperature, then a line drawn on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of sunlight is

Isobar Isogram Isohel Isopleth 

123, 139, 162, 181, 201, _________?

214 219 222 225

Water is the only common substance found naturally in all three common states of matter. This tasteless, odourless liquid when cooled from room temperature becomes increasingly dense, just like other substances and reaches its maximum density. At approximately what temperature does it reach maximum density that helps it to have important consequences in its role in the ecosystem of our Earth?

-2°C 0°C 2°C 4°C

A1B2C3D4, AD1B2C34, A3D1B2C4, AC3D1B24, A2C3D1B4, ___________?

A1B2C3D4 AB3C2D14 AB2C3D14 AC3D1B24

Cost of transferring all your office goods to another city by train is $4500 and involves 6 days. Also, transfer of all office goods from the old office to the train and train to new office is $1000 each including loading and unloading charges. Instead, you hire a Packers & Movers company that charges you $30000 totally to move all your office goods from old office to new office in 2 days via air and road transport. If your cost of inconvenience per day without your office goods is $4800/day, what approximate amount you might have saved if you use train to transfer your office goods?

$2800 $4300 $6500 $8800

A company invests $7.5million on its infrastructure during its inception and $2.5million as its working capital that year. This company sees an income of $7.5million the first year that increases by 28% every year then. The initial investment attracts a compound interest of 8% per year and every year the working capital increases by 10% which is taken from the income generated by the company the previous year. If this company repays the total initial investment with interest immediately after the end of 8 years, what will be the approximate money left with the company then?

Due to unnecessary extra checking software codes in a financial software, any computer is made to run 6 seconds extra for computing data every time someone uses this software. What will be the approximate current wastage because of these extra codes in a year if 1% of 1.1billion population of a country uses this software 5 times everyday? Current consumption by any computer is .001watt /sec and 1kilowatt usage equals $0.25

Premonitory urge of brief and repetitive facial grimacing, shoulder shrugging, head or shoulder jerking, eye blinking, throat-clearing, grunting, sniffing, touching, hopping, jumping, bending, etc. are some effects of this syndrome. Though its cause is genetic and environmental, the condition is not degenerative or life threatening. The affected individuals have a normal life regardless of the severity. This syndrome is called

Conn Syndrome Hunt Syndrome Reiter Syndrome Tourette Syndrome

The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth opposite the Prime Meridian where the date changes as one travels east or west across it. This time zone boundary separating -12hours and +12 hours, Coordinated Universal Time, is otherwise known as

Anna Dominie Greenwich Mean Time Sun Uniform Time Trespass Time Zone

United States offered to buy this largest and least densely populated island country in the world located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans from Denmark for $100,000,000 in 1946. Internationally, on 21 June 2009, this place assumed self-determination with responsibility for self-government of judicial affairs, policing, and natural resources, marking a step towards full independence from Danish rule. It is

Greenland Iceland Netherland Norway 

Many tropical plants depend entirely on these mammals with webbed forelimbs developed as wings, for the distribution of their seeds. Though some of these naturally capable of true and sustained flight mammals, have a well-developed visual cortex and show good visual acuity, most rely on a perceptual system where ultrasonic sounds are emitted specifically to produce echoes for navigation and finding prey. They are

Bats Emus Flying Squirrels Tiger Moths

Lung alveoli filled with fluid, keeping oxygen from reaching the bloodstream can be of variety of causes, including infection with bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites, and chemical or physical injury to the lungs. It is the leading cause of death in children under five years old and the elderly who are chronically and terminally ill, worldwide. Cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty in breathing are some typical symptoms associated with this illness named as

Fibrosis Hypothermia Pneumonia Tuberculosis 

Act naturally, Clearly misunderstood, Exact estimate, Found missing, Fully empty, Only choice, Original copies, Pretty ugly, Seriously funny, Small crowd are some phrases in which two words of contradictory meaning are brought together. These are usually definitions for

Irony Metaphor Oxymoron Slimily

stegas, ssdfbs, srcecs, sqbdds, ___________?

spaces spades spares spoons

This most intense black wood sinks in water. The combination of its very high density, fine texture, and ability to polish very smoothly, has made it very valuable as an ornamental wood. This wood is

Ebony Mahogany Sal Teak

24, 39, 416, 525, 636, 749, _____?

854 864 871 881

Almost half of electricity consumed in developing countries is tapped illegally by rich and poor alike. 1million villages with 100 houses each pool in $100/ village to the electricity linesman and get 60% of their electricity supplied free. Each house in these villages use 100 units of electricity/ month and government charges them $0.3/unit while the actual production cost is $0.4/unit. What is monthly loss incurred due to power pilferage and governments reduced selling cost in these 1million villages?

$1.5billion $2.1billion $2.8billion $3.3billion

Drip or trickle irrigation system with good water management practices saves 90% of water usage over other conventional methods of irrigation. If a ten-acre farm saves 1.35million gallons of water per year through this well managed drip or trickle irrigation system, then what is the water consumption of this patch in 3 years if the same method of well managed drip or trickle irrigation method is followed?

350000 Gallons 400000 Gallons 450000 Gallons 500000 Gallons

Your Television, Video Recorder cum Player, Direct To Home instrument, 2500watts Stereo System, your Personal Computer and Internet Cable connection are all connected to one multi pin socket board. This board is in turn connected to the main power socket with a single plug. You switch on to only use your computer and internet connection for 8 hours everyday, while all other appliances connected are also switched on but not used. What is the total power wasted in a week if 1unit is $0.20? Each of the above appliances consumes 1 unit power/5hours.

This United States Naval officer and a NASA astronauts recreational interests include running, swimming, biking, triathlon, windsurfing, snowboarding and bow hunting. Among the personal items that she took with her to the International Space Station on December 9, 2006 were a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a small figurine of Ganesha and some samosas. This longest spaceflight (195 days) record holder for female space travellers is

Peggy Whitson Sunita Williams Svetlana Skavitskaya Valentina Tereshkova

In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, whom Charles Babbage had met while travelling in Italy, wrote a description of Babbage’s analytical engine in French. In 1843, the description was translated into English and extensively annotated by then Countess of Lovelace who had also added a way to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the machine. This person who is described as the first computer programmer and has a computer programming language named in her honour is

Ada King Harvard Mark Henry P. Babbage Neal Stephenson

This endocrine gland about the size of a pea and weighing 0.5 g is located at the base of the brain in a small bony cavity. Some of its functions are Growth, Blood pressure, Some aspects of pregnancy and childbirth, Breast milk production, Sex organ functions in male & female, Thyroid gland function, Conversion of food into energy, Water absorption in kidneys, Temperature regulation etc. This master gland is

Adrenal Pineal Pituitary Thyroid

The discovery of this planet made headlines across the globe in 1930s. The Lowell Observatory, who had the right to name the new object, received over 1000 suggestions from all over the world, ranging from ATLAS to ZYMAL. Finally Venetia Burney, an eleven-year-old in Oxford, England proposed the alternate name of Hades, the Greek god of the Underworld, appropriate for the planet, which is

Neptune Pluto Saturn Uranus

This former employee of NASA paid $20million to be set off from Kazakhstan at 1338hrs local time (0838 GMT) for an eight-day holiday aboard the International Space Station when he was aged 60 in 2001 and became the first space tourist. Only two other people so far have paid to go into space - South African computer millionaire in 2002, and US businessman and scientist in October 2005. The first space tourist as

Dennis Tito Greg Olsen Mark Shuttleworth Yuri Baturin

Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks having millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope linked by electronic and optical networking technologies. The standard Internet Protocol Suite used to serve billions of users worldwide is

IPTV TCP/IP URL WWW

In mathematics, the logarithm of a number to a given base is the power or exponent to which the base must be raised in order to produce the number. If logarithm of 1000 to the base 10 is 3, because 3 is the number of 10s that must be multiplied together to get 1000: thus 10 × 10 × 10 = 1000; the base 2 logarithm of 32 is

3 4 5 6

Instead of the familiar temperature scales such as Fahrenheit and Celsius, Kelvin scale is used for this low temperature study. Liquefied gases such as liquid hydrogen, liquid helium & liquid nitrogen is commonly used as they allows for the lowest attainable temperatures. This branch of physics that involve the study of production of very low temperatures, and how materials behave at these low temperatures is

Cryogenics Flaskology Freezology Glushkonics

1120, 3336, 5548, 7756,______?

9960 9962 9964 9968

Election commission in India managed 838000 polling booths in 2009 parliamentary elections from Ladakh to Kanyakumari using almost 7 million temporary poll workers and 8Lakh booth officers to control 850million electorate in scorching May heat. Cost to handle one electorate including infrastructure, all incidental charges, booth officers pay and temporary poll workers pay of $0.050 per electorate, which is 75% lesser than the booth officers pay, is $10. How much was each booth officer paid per electorate?

$0.125 $0.150 $0.175 $0.200

Your car consumes 60ml fuel per 5 minute idling. You have 12 signals between your office and home where you stop in each signal for 1min & 45 sec. If you take exactly 1hr & 25 min to reach your office and you switched of your car for 1min & 30 sec at every signal, then what would be the approximate fuel worth you would have saved if you kept your engine running all through from home to office and back in a day. Fuel per liter cost is $1.5.

$0.45 $0.55 $0.65 $0.75

Maintenance service for a particular branded Laptop in the city of Nusu is $2500 per month. A company eyes this as an opportunity and recruits 100 people at $1000 a month. This company shells $15000 per month on renting a place, $20000 per month on electronic components & furniture and $10000 per month on transportation and refreshment for its employees. If the company handles 2088 customers per month and sees 80% above its monthly expenditure, what will be the pricing of their service?

$110 $125 $130.5 $135