General Knowledge Questions

• Cactus spines are also known as modified bud scales, which are also called modified leaves.

• Cactus spines occur in clusters in the axil of leaves.

Light year is the unit of to express astronomical distances, that light can travel in one year. Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000 kilometers (km) each second. So in one year, it can travel about 10 trillion km. More precisely, one light-year is equal to 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers.

Approximately, 1 light year = 10^16 mts.

Baburnama was the autobiography of founder of the Mughal Empire Babur. It is wrtten in Chagatai Turkic language, which is his mother tongue.

Volatile memory is computer memory that requires power to maintain the stored information. It is a temporary memeory which cannot contain information permanently.

Example :: RAM or Random Access Memory

For the first time in Sri Lanka, the United Nation Vesak Day celebration will be held in Colombo and Kandy from May 12 to 14. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest of the opening ceremony which will be held at BMICH in Colombo while Nepali President Bidhya Devi Bhandari will attend for the closing ceremony which is scheduled to be held at the Sri Dalada Maligawa premises in Kandy.