- 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