General Knowledge Questions

The size of the pupil of the eye automatically adjusts itself  according to the intensity of light passing through it;if the intensity is more , the size is less, if less, it is more. So in our case the pupil should dilate i.e, increase in size to be able to see in the dark . This switchover takes sometime. But here the entry into the dark room is immediate . So the eye has no time to adjust itself and hence is not able to see at all for a while.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India, who served from 15 August 1947 until 2 February 1958.

Indira Gandhi - First Women Prime minister of India

Durba Banerjee - The first woman Airline Pilot

Sucheta Kripalani - The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State.

Because of its being pollution free and  combustion efficient, Hydrogen gas is  called fuel of future. Because of its origin in marshy places, Methane is called as 'Marsh Gas'.

The outermost layer of the sun is called The Corona.

The inner layers are the Core, Radiative Zone and Convection Zone. The outer layers are the Photosphere, the Chromosphere, the Transition Region and the Corona. IRIS will focus its investigation on the Chromosphere and Transition Region.