General Awareness Questions

Inventors and their Inventions ::

• Sir Richard Arkwright - Father of industrial revolution.

• Michael Faraday - Discovered Benzene and invented Bunsen Burner.

• Thomas Alva Edison - Invented Phonograph and motion picture camera.

Farsightedness is more properly called Hyperopia.

The Sahara is the largest non-polar desert in the world. The Sahara is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It covers 9 million square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), amounting to 31% of Africa.

Its borders include the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Red Sea to the east.

Speed has been identified as a key risk factor in road traffic injuries, influencing both the risk of a road crash as well as the severity of the injuries that result from crashes.

Speeding is a factor in 30 % of all fatal accidents.

A conception of right and wrong is the definition of Ethics.

Ethics are societal norms adopted by a group which deals with the fundamental human relation ships.

Uniform civil code is the ongoing point of debate within Indian mandate to replace personal laws based on the scriptures and customs of each major religious community in India with a common set of rules governing every citizen.

Goa is the only state in INdia where Uniform Civil Code is applied. Laws are equal to all religion. Polygamy and triple talaq are illegal.