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Which forests are called "Lungs of the Earth"?

A) Tongass	B) Congo
C) Nile	D) Amazon

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Amazon

Explanation:

The world’s largest tropical rainforest Amazon rain forests are called "Lungs of the Earth". It is so called because it produces 20% of the Earth's oxygen, and is also a vast carbon sink, absorbs more than 1 billion tons of atmospheric carbon which is emitted by the burning of fossil fuels annually.

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How would you free the memory allocated by the following program?

#include "alloc.h"

#define MAXROW 3

#define MAXCOL 4

main()

{

int **p, i;

p = (int **) malloc (MAXROW * sizeof (int *));

for ( i = 0; i < MAXROW ; i++)

p[i] = (int *) malloc (MAXCOL * sizeof (int ));

}

Answer

for ( i=0; i < MAXROW ; i++)

free (p[i]);

free (p);

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The rate of heartbeat is accelerated by the harmone

A) adrenaline	B) acetylcholine
C) thyroxine	D) pituitrin

Answer & Explanation Answer: A) adrenaline

Explanation:

The hormone adrenaline also called epinephrine is known as a stress harmone. In emotional upset (like fear, anger etc.) this harmone is poured into the blood and it accelerates heart beat. The hormone acetylcholine decelerates heartbeat rate.

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What is silly window syndrome?

Answer

It is a problem that can ruin TCP performance. This problem occurs when data are passed to the sending TCP entity in large blocks, but an interactive application on the receiving side reads 1 byte at a time.

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What do you call a bear without an ear?

Answer

Given BEAR, if you remove EAR only remains with 'B'.

Hence, we call it as 'B', a bear without an ear.

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Which among the following is the resting place of Morarji Desai?

A) Abhay Ghat	B) Ekta Sthal
C) Shakti Sthal	D) Vijay Ghat

Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Abhay Ghat

Explanation:

The resting place of Morarji Desai is Abhay Ghat.

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The Mughals ruled India for one and half centuries effectively and gave Political unity to the country. In which of the following fields could they not succeed fully?

A) An efficient system of administration	B) Political stability
C) Development of trade and industry	D) Establishment of a common culture and unification of all communities to become a homogeneous nation

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Establishment of a common culture and unification of all communities to become a homogeneous nation

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What is the capital of Greece?

A) Roseau	B) Malabo
C) Athens	D) None

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