GATE Questions

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The great Sahara Desert created an opportunity for wealth by trading to peoples who live in and around the region. The city of Timbuktu was built as a result of this trade.

Hundreds of years ago, salt was a very valuable commodity. It was valued for its taste as well as its ability to preserve food. One of the most productive areas for producing salt was the Sahara Desert, and the city of Timbuktu was built to capitalize upon this trade.

Sport played on horseback is called as Polo. It is the national sport of Iran.

5th generation of computers are still under development depending on the artificial intelligence.

Vienna has become the world's most pleasant city to live in by topping the Global Liveability Index of the Economist Intelligence Unit by dislodging Melbourne, the Austrian capital.

While Damascus retained the last place and Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital was in second last place in the annual survey examined 140 metropolitan cities.

Helium has the lowest freezing point of all the elements. When coming to metals, mercury has the lowest freezing point of all the metals.

Norway is called as the land of midnight sun.

The genetic material of HIV consists of two single stranded RNA molecules.