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 

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