Questions

BRICS is basically an association of 5 major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia,China, India and South Africa.

BRIC was coined in Foreign Ministerial meeting of Brazil,Russia,China and India in Newyork in Sept 2006. BRIC officialy came in existance in 2009 at Yekaterinburg,Russia.

At start group was named as BRIC, but after being formally invited by the BRIC countries to join the group, South Africa officially became a member nation on 24 December 2010, and the group was renamed BRICS.

The main group number for an element can be found from its column on the periodic table. For example, carbon is in group 4 and has 4 valence electrons. Oxygen is in group 6 and has 6 valence electrons.

Ostrich

Adding the corresponding numbers in first and last figures gives the corresponding number in the middle figure.

i.e, 4 + 3 = 7

13 + 2 = 15

2 + 4 = 6

9 + 1 = 10

A river which can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps.