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Yisrael Kristal, who died recently was certified by Guinness World Records as the _________.

A) World's Tallest Man B) World's Oldest Man
C) World's Youngest Man D) World's Smallest Man
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) World's Oldest Man

Explanation:
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_______ creates history, becoming leading run-getter in Women’s ODIs ?

A) M.M. Lanning B) S.R. Taylor
C) Mithali Raj D) Charlotte Edwards
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Mithali Raj

Explanation:

1. Mithali Raj has been India’s premier player ever since she made her debut in 1999.

2. In the crucial game against Australia, Mithali became the woman cricketer who has scored most runs in ODIs. Mithali Raj became the first women’s player to reach 6000 ODI runs. England’s Charlotte Edwards was the previous leading run-getter in ODIs with 5992 runs.

3. She has 48 not-outs to her name, which is the most in women’s cricket.

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Q:

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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Q:

Every year " National Maritime Day of India " is observed on

A) 1st April B) 2nd Aril
C) 4th April D) 5th April
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 5th April

Explanation:

National Maritime Day of India is observed every year on 5th April. On this day in 1919, S S Loyalty, the first ship of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company, journeyed to the United Kingdom.

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The term Upari refers to which one of the following?

A) A category of proprietary tenure under the Mughal rule B) A category of tenancy tenure under the Maratha rule
C) A soldier in the Maratha army D) A village headman in the Mughal period.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) A category of tenancy tenure under the Maratha rule

Explanation:

Upari refers to a category of tenancy tenure held under the Maratha Regime.The Government used to assign land to various cultivators for cultivation and getting maximum revenue. The land allotted to original settlers of villages came to be known as Mirasi land whereas the land assigned to the migrant settlers was known as the Upari land.

 

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Q:

When a computer prints a report this output is called

A) Soft copy B) Hard copy
C) Printing D) Program
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Hard copy

Explanation:

Hard copy is the output which is printed by the computer.

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Q:

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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