General Knowledge Questions

A stupa is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics that is used as a place of meditation.Buddhist sources claim that during the 3rd century BCE, the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka the Great ordered these eight stupas to be opened, further distributed the relics of the Buddha into 84,000 portions, and had stupas built over them all over the expanding Buddhist world.They were located on trade routes in order to propagate Buddhism.However, there were no evidence of them being located in rural areas.

Yakshagana is a traditional Indian dance drama form developed in Karnataka state of India.

Mitochondria is the Organelle in which Cellular Respiration Occur.

Deleted files are not permanently removed from the hard drive or the computers memory. Before they are permanently removed from the system they are stored in Recycle Bin. Recycle Bin is a folder or directory where deleted items are temporarily stored. It is also called as trash.

Beavers Can Hold Their Breath for 15 Minutes Underwater.

The behavior of beavers means that they need to be able to remain underwater for several minutes at a time.

In the early 1950s two scientists, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, studied DNA using x-rays. Franklin produced an x-ray photograph that allowed two other researchers, James Watson and Francis Crick to work out the 3D structure of DNA. The structure of DNA was found to be a double helix.