How many glaciers are there currently in the world?
- (A) 198,000
- (B) 197,500
- (C) 298,000
- (D) 199,000
- (A) 198,000
According to the latest and most comprehensive inventories, such as the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) and the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) records, there are an estimated 198,000 glaciers worldwide. This is in addition to the huge ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica, and their combined area is about 700,000 to 726,000 square kilometers.
Who discovered UNIX Operating System?
- (A) Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thomson
- (B) Bill Joy and Chuck Haley
- (C) William Henry Gates III
- (D) Thomas Alva Edison
- (A) Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thomson
The UNIX operating system was first conceived back in 1969 at the Bell Labs, which is a part of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, or the AT&T for short. The two principal designers of the UNIX system are Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, although other researchers such as Douglas McIlroy and Joe Ossanna also played an important part in the development of the system. UNIX was designed to be a multitasker that could support multiple users. It became the first portable operating system when it was rewritten in the C programming language.
Maximum number of languages are spoken in which country?
- (A) Indonesia
- (B) Papua New Guinea
- (C) China
- (D) Australia
- (B) Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is known for its linguistic diversity, with about 840 living languages being spoken within the country. This represents about 12% of all known languages across the globe.
OCR stands for:
- (A) Optical Character Radiology
- (B) Optical Character Recorder
- (C) Optical Character Recognition
- (D) Optical Character Radio-wave
- (C) Optical Character Recognition
Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a tool that converts different types of documents, such as scanned documents, PDFs, or photos taken using a camera, into editable documents. Essentially, it is a tool that converts images of text into actual text.
Tasmania is the major island of which country?
- (A) Australia
- (B) Syria
- (C) England
- (D) China
- (A) Australia
Tasmania is the main island of Australia. Tasmania, being an island state within the Commonwealth of Australia, is situated about 240 kilometers to the south of the mainland, separated from it by the Bass Strait. Tasmania is the smallest state in Australia but serves as a major island territory.
What was the age of Prophet Noah (A.S)?
- (A) 950 years
- (B) 995 years
- (C) 945 years
- (D) 955 years
- (A) 950 years
Which of the following planet is called evening star?
- (A) Jupiter
- (B) Saturn
- (C) Venus
- (D) Mercury
- (C) Venus
Venus deserves its title as the evening star because, immediately after the sun sets, it is the brightest thing in the western sky. If it appears in the east just before dawn, we call it the morning star. The explanation for this phenomenon is that Venus orbits the Sun at a position that is closer to the Sun than the position of the Earth. Therefore, Venus is never more than a short distance from the Sun.
The Great Buddha of Kamakura is a temple located in:
- (A) India
- (B) Tibet
- (C) Japan
- (D) China
- (C) Japan
The Great Buddha of Kamakura is an outsized bronze statue of Amida Buddha located at Kotoku-in Temple in Japan. This 13.35-meter-tall National Treasure, located in the midst of the Kamakura city in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture, has dominated the open air since the 1400s. Cast around 1252, it originally stood inside a large hall, but the building was destroyed by natural disasters (including a major tsunami in 1498), leaving the Buddha in the open air ever since.
The approximate circumference of the Earth is:
- (A) 13,000 km
- (B) 20,000 km
- (C) 25,000 km
- (D) 40,000 km
- (D) 40,000 km
When was Lucknow recaptured by the British after War of Independence?
- (A) November 1857
- (B) March 1858
- (C) May 1857
- (D) July 1858
- (B) March 1858
The British forces, led by Sir Colin Campbell, finally captured Lucknow in March 1858. After a major decisive assault that had been building up earlier in the month, the city was declared completely cleared of rebel forces on the 21st of March, 1858. This victory marked a major turning point in the War of Independence, or the Indian Rebellion of 1857, as it effectively broke the back of the rebels in Awadh.