In card games, the best-known deck internationally is the 52-card Anglo-American deck. It contains one card for each unique combination of thirteen ranks and the four French suits spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. The ranks are ace, king, queen, jack, and the numbers from ten down to two. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Diamonds - Julius Caesar and Hearts is

Charlemagne Genghis Khan Ithaca Napoleon

She is an English recording artist and songwriter who was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demonstration on Myspace in 2006. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success in the UK. 19 was certified four times platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, she received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She is

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins Britany Spears Lana Del Rey Lianne La Havas

This principle is a law of physics stating that the upward buoyant force exerted on a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid the body displaces. In other words, an immersed object is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it actually displaces. This principle is an important and underlying concept in the field of fluid mechanics. This principle is named after its discoverer

Archimedes Byron Charles Darwin

He was ordained a deacon in 1953, and the following year as a priest. In 1961 he was consecrated bishop of the Anglican Church Province of northern Uganda at Gulu. After five years he was appointed archbishop of the Metropolitan Province of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire, becoming the second African to hold this position. His leading voice in criticizing the excesses of the Idi Amin regime that assumed power in 1971 led him to be accused of treason and shot through the mouth and thrice in the chest a day after his arrest. He is

Charles Ofumbi Erinayo Oryema Henry Kyemba Janani Luwum

This North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories is located in the northern part of the continent. It extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. This federal state is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. This bilingual nation with both English and French as official languages at the federal level is

Canada France Ottawa United Kingdom

In mathematics and the arts, a golden ratio is if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. Famous art works with beautiful female & handsome male, their striking attractive features, often follows golden ratio. The famous Greek God of beauty & desire, Adonis follows similar ratio and hence this ratio is also called Adonis Index. Males who have Adonis Index are called as Adonians. The mathematical ratio is approximately

1.618 2.818 3.14 9.18

If provident fund, medical insurance, house rent, professional tax, dearness allowance, and other deductions amount to 55% or 55000/- from your salary, then what is your total monthly salary?

95000 100000 105000 110000

In general relativity, Lense–Thirring precession or the Lense–Thirring effect is a relativistic correction to the precession of a gyroscope near a large rotating mass such as the Earth. Italian Space Agency satellite made of tungsten alloy, housing 92 cube corner retroreflectors that are used to track the satellite via laser from stations on Earth was inserted in an orbit with 1,400 kilometres of perigee, an inclination from 60 to 86 degrees and reduced eccentricity. Its main scientific target mission is the measurement of this Lense-Thirring effect. The name of this scientific Satellite is

ISASLV ISR LARES VEGA

The height of Mount Olympus on Mars is 25 km or 15 miles, the diameter of the earth is 12756 km or 7926 miles, the diameter of Jupiter is 152 800 km or 88 700 miles, the height of Mount Everest is 8.9 km or approximately

4 miles 5.5 miles 6 miles 7.5 mile

Strongly flavoured foods infuse the cooking oil with distinctive tastes. To remove the errant flavour from the oil, you fry some pieces of raw potato, cool it to room temperature, strain with cheesecloth or layers of paper towels to remove food particles and this oil is good as new. It is safe to repeat this procedure for three or four frying sessions without the oil deteriorating. This procedure helps you buy only 1.5 litres cooking oil instead of 4 litres every month. If a litre of cooking oil is 195/- then how much money would you approximately save in a year?

2500/- 3510/- 5850/- 9360/-

A rice husk is responsible for almost 3% the gross weight of the rice. 1500 local farmers within a 30km radius together sell rice husks to a nearby power plant for 4500000/- every year to generate electricity and take back the left over ash free of charge to improve their soil quality. If a kilogram of rice has 36,590 rice grains and husk from each of these rice is sold to the power plant, then approximately at what price is a kilogram of husk sold to these power plants every year? Each farmer produces 50 metric tonnes of rice every year.

1/- 2/- 3/- 4/-

You complete 43200 kilometers around Earth at a speed of 8 kilometers per second.
If your family from home could see you for 5 seconds every time you passed by, then for how many seconds will they approximately be able to see you in a 24 hours?

80 100 120 140

This American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, and NASA astronaut became the second person, and the first American, in space in 1961. Ten years later, he commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and became the fifth person to walk on the Moon. He also served as chief of the Astronaut Office from November 1963 – July 1969 and from June 1971 – August 1, 1974. He was then promoted from captain to rear admiral on August 25, 1971. He retired from the US Navy and NASA in 1974. He is

Alan Shepard Fred Haise James Lovell Ken Mattingly

This Russian-Ukrainian and former Soviet gymnast is the only female athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals. She holds 18 total medals, more Olympic medals than any other competitor in any sport, and was responsible for establishing the Soviet Union as the dominant force in gymnastics. She also held the record for most individual medals in Olympic history - 14 outside of team events, until Michael Phelps beat her record in 2008. She is
Larisa Latynina Nadia Comaneci Paavo Nurmi Vera Caslavska

This crisp cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or a vague prophecy wrapped inside is said to have been introduced by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. This paper inside may also include a Chinese phrase with translation or a list of lucky numbers used by some as lottery numbers. They are often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants in the United States and some other countries. These cookies are fondly referred to as

Astrology Biscuits Fortune Cookies Luck Bites Paper Biscuits

This 2011 French romantic drama film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo is a story that takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on the relationship of an older silent film star and a rising young actress, as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the talkies. Most of the film itself is silent and was produced in black-and-white. Dujardin won the Best Actor Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered. The film is

Silent World The Artist The Lost World The Transition

After obtaining a degree in English literature, she formed the - Ladies Climbing Club: Japan (LCC) - in 1969. She then climbed Mt. Fuji as well as the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps, among others. By 1972 she was a recognized mountain climber in Japan. After a long training period, in 1975 they travelled to Katmandu and found local Sherpa people guide them in the same route Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay took in 1953 to reach the summit of Mount Everest. On May 16, 1975, she became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. She is

Anshu Jamsenpa Dicky Dolma Junko Tabei Wanda Rutkiewicz

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles ejected from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. It mostly consists of electrons and protons with energies usually between 10 and 100 keV. These particles can escape the gravity of the Sun because of their high kinetic energy and the high temperature and cause geomagnetic storms that can knock out power grids on Earth. The extended outer layer of the Sun, a region of plasma that is heated to over a million degrees Celsius is called

Aurorae Carrington Limit Corona Heliosphere

The term THE WHOLE 9 YARDS came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got THE WHOLE 9 YARDS. Measure of 1 yard is

3 Feet 5 Feet 7 Feet 9 Feet

You go to a shop that sells five flavours of ice-cream. Each flavour comes in a separate tub. You decide to buy two tubs, each one containing a different flavour. How many choices of unique combinations are possible?

10 15 20 25

In a classic Rubiks Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, among six solid colours. A pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid colour. Rubiks Cube was first called the Magic Cube, Buvuos Kocka in Hungary. This 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture is

Erno Rubik Frank Fox Larry Nichols Terutoshi Ishigi

Some educational specialists thought of teaching history at school with mathematics, literature, grammar, science and other subjects intertwined in it. This would make schooling more interesting with reduced burden on children as this meant less formal and more informal form of education. To make this program effective, they train 6000 teachers of 100 schools in a city, a teacher from a school per month. Government sponsors 60% of this total training cost and the remaining is borne by the schools equally. If each school sends equal number of teachers and spends 2200/- on each, then what is the total Government spent on this training program?

15.21 million 19.80 million 22.22 million 33.00 million

A vehicle whose engine is idling doesn’t operate at its peak temperature and the fuel combustion is unfinished. Your vehicle gives a mileage of 8Km/lit if it travels continuously. What approximately would be the fuel consumption of your vehicle if it travels for 15kms through 11 major signal points and your vehicle engine is idling all the time when it waits at every signal for three minutes? There is a 0.14 litre of fuel loss in your vehicle per 10 minute idling.

2.155 litre 2.201 litre 2.337 litre 2.483 litre

You filter clean river water, bottle it and sell it in the nearby towns for 10/- each, every day. You pay 1% of 10000/- to the bank that you borrowed this amount from as initial infrastructure expense for this business, everyday. If your everyday operational cost is 250/- and you are left with 100/- every end of the day, after the above deductions, then how many cans do you sell each day?

25 35 45 55

Current research identifies this ailment as extremely prevalent but also highly variable in its severity of manifestation. According to an American Association, 9 out of 10 Westerners will suffer some form of psychological disorder that inhibits an individual's ability to articulate his or her thoughts by temporarily forgetting key words, phrases or names in conversation, during their lifetimes. Severity amongst sufferers is dependent upon a variety of factors including stress, physical fitness, social interaction and base memory capacity. This ailment is

Lethologica Pharyngeal Phase Tongue Tip Disorder Upper Limb Syndrome

He joined the Royal Navy in 1941, serving in World War II with the ranks of Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, and Leading Torpedo Operator. This Scottish Novelist learned English as his second language after his mother tongue, Scottish Gaelic. He has written 2 novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. His other popular thrillers such as The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, both having been made into successful films, have their author’s name as

Alistair MacLean Ian Gould Robin Sharma Timothy Dalton

It is defined as a game in which a pitcher, or combination of pitchers, pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and in which no opposing player reaches base. Thus, the pitcher, or pitchers cannot allow any hits, walks, hit batsmen, or any opposing player to reach base safely for any other reason—in short - 27 up, 27 down. The feat has been achieved 20 times in the history of major league baseball—18 times since the modern era began in 1900. In Major League Baseball, this is called a

Base Runner Perfect Defense Perfect Game Yogi

He owns some of the largest rubies in the world. His collection includes the Raviratna ruby, the largest ruby in the world at 3,600 carats (720g), the Rajaratna ruby and the Neelanjali ruby. He is a direct descendant of the rulers of the Vijayanagar raja of Hampi in Karnataka, which is where he claims the rubies originate from. This, now retired advocate residing in Bangalore, India is

G Vidyaraj R Ratnakumar S Manjunath T Lingaraj

With America entangled in the Persian Gulf War, She performed THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER at Super Bowl XXV at Tampa Stadium on January 27, 1991. Due to overwhelming response to her rendition, it was released as a commercial single, and reached the Top 20 on the US Hot 100, making her act to turn the national anthem into a pop hit of that magnitude. She donated all her share of the proceeds to the American Red Cross Gulf Crisis Fund. She is

Aretha Franklin Chaka Khan Jermaine Jackson Whitney Elizabeth Houston

An average American adult is assaulted by a minimum of 560 advertising messages each day out of which only 76 is noticed. In other words 484 advertisements preserve his attention for other matters. In the above scenario, what approximate percentage of advertising messages gets noticed?

13.57% 15.62% 17.75% 19.91%

In physics, escape velocity is the speed at which the kinetic energy plus the gravitational potential energy of an object is zero. It is the speed needed to break free from a gravitational field without further propulsion. On the surface of the Earth, the escape velocity is about is approximately 34 times the speed of sound (Mach 34) which in kilometers per second is about

6.96 9.8 11.2 12.5

Ac, Th, Pa, U, Np, Pu, Am, Cm, Bk, Cf, Es, Fm, _______?

Md No Zn Pb

These are elementary particles and fundamental constituents of matter. The best known of all among these particles is the electron which governs nearly all of chemistry as it is found in atoms and is directly tied to all chemical properties. Two main classes of these particles exist: charged and neutral. Charged ones can combine with other particles to form various composite particles such as atoms and positronium, while neutral ones rarely interact with anything, and are consequently rarely observed. These elementary particles are called

Bosons Gluons Leptons Mesons

In a city of 1 million population, every single individual litters public places in the city with 3 junk pieces every day. 50000 people set out to clean this city by spending 1 hour of their time in picking up 100 junk pieces each, every day. If there are already 50 million junk pieces today, and these 50000 start their act from today, then approximately on which day from today will this city give these cleaners less junk then they could clean on a daily basis?

24 days 29 days 33days 36 days

A picture is worth 1/- today is sold at 1500/- 100 years later. If another picture after 100 years would be sold at 3250/- then what approximately would be its worth today? Both the pictures increased by the same percentage over the years

2.17/- 3.67/- 5.05/- 8.25/-

For people to better understand one another and to promote peace, 5000 employees in an office decide to part with 500/- of their salary every month. This amount would fund 2000 people of any one town in their country to travel and spend 5 days in a religion and culturally different town on the other side of their country. After 2 years time, the country that saw communal violence claiming 500000 lives every year was reduced by 80%. How many more lives approximately will each employee save in the third year if the number of lives lost is reduced from 80% in the second year to 90% in the third year?

10 30 50 70

He was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, and self-imposed exile. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He later died from a fever contracted while in Messolonghi in Greece. This British who is regarded as one of the greatest poets and remains widely read and influential is

Don Juan George Gordon Byron Pablo Neruda William Wordsworth  

Involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks encompassing words and phrases that is culturally taboo or generally unsuitable for acceptable social use, when used out of context, can be very distressing. The term that is used to refer to such expression of social or emotional context that may be spoken in a louder tone or different cadence or pitch than normal conversation is

Cingulate Comorbid Coprolalia Pallidus

Approximately 2,500,000 visitors every year visit this city that was partially buried under 4 to 6 meters of ash and pumice since 79 AD. This Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days. This, one of the most popular tourist sites in Italy is

Bombay Oscans Pompeii Stabiae

Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environment and system functions and how these affect society and its inhabitants. Following the success of his novel, Hotel, during 1965, he moved to California from Canada. In 1969, he moved to the Bahamas to avoid Canadian and U.S. income taxes, which were claiming 90% of his income. This English writer who served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947 is

Arthur Hailey Ken Follet Perry Mason Richard Burton

She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great. She ruled jointly with her father Ptolemy XII Auletes and later with her brothers, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, whom she married as per Egyptian custom, but eventually she became sole ruler. As pharaoh, she consummated a liaison with Julius Caesar that solidified her grip on the throne. She later elevated her son with Caesar, Caesarion, to co-ruler in name. This last pharaoh of ancient Egypt who called herself as the reincarnation of an Egyptian goddess, Isis is

Berenice Cleopatra VII Pothinus Tryphaena

September 2012

The tipping point for Twitter popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest festival. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000. The Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages. Hundreds of conference-goers kept tabs on each other via constant twitters. This website enables its users to send and read messages called TWEETS displayed on the user profile page. How many characters in length can these TWEETS be up to?

100 120 140 160

A group of 500 retired people decide to do something for the safety of the whistle blowers. They place a drop box in every bank ATM centre where any whistle blower can drop in information while remaining anonymous. This group work on the collection made every day and genuine and culpable cases are handed over to concerned authorities on their behalf. In 2 years time, the crime rate reduced by 80% and the whistle blowers increased by 3500numbers. If each retired person in this group shared equal load of work amongst them, then what % reduction is the contribution by each person in this group in this 2 years time?

0.16% 0.4375% 16% 43.75%  

Find the next number in the series : 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, _____?

98 126 144 175

The primary objective of this doctrine was to free the newly independent colonies of Latin America from European intervention and control, thus ensuring US national security. It stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention. This Doctrine was issued at a time when many Latin American countries were on the verge of becoming independent from the Spanish Empire. This Doctrine that is a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823 is

American Doctrine European Doctrine Monroe Doctrine Spanish Doctrine

Usain Bolt clocked 9.63secs for his 100meters sprint in London Olympics 2012 to win his gold medal. Thomas Bruke clocked 12.0secs in 1896 Athens Olympics to claim his gold medal for the same distance. If both were to run in the same race today and did the same time, how far approximately would Thomas Bruke be behind Usain Bolt when he finishes his 100meters?

10meters 15meters 20meters 25meters

To water your plants during your 6 day absence, twice a month, you take a steel container, fill it with water, seal it with a tube outlet that leads straight to your potted plants. This container, placed in the sun light on a higher level than the potted plants, gets heated when sun rays fall on it and evaporates the water inside, which then rises into the tube, condenses and goes as water to the potted plants. If every hour of sunlight causes 82ml of water to be transferred from the container to the potted plant, then what minimum amount of water should the container contain to water the plants for 6 days? 6 hours of sunlight falls on this container every day.

1 Litre 2 Litres 3 Litres 4 Litres

A cold drink is sold at 1/- . If 40% of this is advertising cost, 20% is a mark-up cost by the selling outlets, 15% is the cost of manufacture of the cool drink container and 5% is the manufacturer profit, then what approximately is the cost of this cool drink without all the frills mentioned above?

0.20/- 0.25/- 0.30/- 0.35/-