General Knowledge Questions

Gujarat

i. India’s Virat Kohli was named Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World for 2016.

ii. Kohli had also won the prestigious ‘Polly Umrigar award’ presented to the ‘International Cricketer of the Year’ at the BCCI Annual Awards.

iii. Kohli was additionally declared Wisden India Almanack’s Cricketer of the Year for the second time in its 2017 edition.

There are 13 colonies and are ruled by England.

The farthest north colony - Massachusetts

The farthest south colony - Georgia

The oldest colony - Virginia

The colony between the 2 parts of Massachusetts - New Hampshire

The Aufbau Principle states that in the ground state of an atom, an electron enters the orbital with lowest energy first and subsequent electrons are fed in the order of increasing energies.

The absence of a landmass within these latitudes in the southern hemisphere eliminate friction and lends force to these winds and hence derives the name

Concatenation of text means adding a word with other word. It can be done using Ampersand (&).

For example :

'Amper' & 'sand' = Ampersand 

World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) was initiated in 2006 and is an annual awareness-raising campaign highlighting the need for the conservation of migratory birds and their habitats. It has a global outreach and is an effective tool to help raise global awareness of the threats faced by migratory birds, their ecological importance, and the need for international cooperation to conserve them.

Day for World Migratory Bird Day celebrations is 10 May.