General Knowledge Questions

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo city in Norway while other Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Medicine,... are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.

The three main functions of Kidneys are ::

* Regulating and filtering minerals from blood.

* Maintaining overall fluid balance.

* Filtering waste materials from food, medications, and toxic substances.

Plants wilt due to excess of Transpiration.

The India's commerce and industry ministry has started the exercise to revise base year to 2017-18 for computation of wholesale inflation with a view to present more realistic picture of the price situation

In May last year, the government revised the base year for WPI-based inflation to 2011-12 to give a better indication of changes in prices of commodities.

The new index, with 2017-18, is expected to have new items, which would provide a more realistic picture of price rise and its impact on people.

Most of the additions could be in the manufactured products category. Currently, the index has a total of 697 items, including primary articles, fuel and power and manufactured products.

The photon is a type of elementary particle, the quantum of the electromagnetic field including electromagnetic radiation such as light, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force. The photon has zero rest mass and always moves at the speed of light within a vacuum.