General Knowledge Questions

Eating raises blood sugar levels, insulin stimulates the lowering of blood sugar level. In this example the response to the stimulus (increased blood sugar levels) opposes that stimulus (by lowering blood sugar levels).

The 4 components all computers have in common are Input, Output, Storage and Processing. 

The ore which is found in abundance in India is monazite.

By 712 AD, Arabs conquered Sindh.

Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd at Jamshedpur, became the first Indian and the fifth woman in the world to reach the summit of Mt. Everest on May 23, 1984.

In Spain, where there were no protestants, a soldier named lgnatius Loyola started an organisation for clergymen to work wholly as 'soldiers of jensus' in the service of the Church. Its members came to be called jesuits. They went from place to place and won back followers in France and Germany. They established missions in india, china, Africa and the Americas to gain new adherents. The Jesuit Schools which they started to strengthen the Roman Catholic  Church are still in existence in many countries of the world.