General Knowledge Questions

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) chooses P.V. Sindhu as the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent for the opening ceremony of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

The opening ceremony will be held on April 4, 2018.

We know that, the collection of programs which performs specific tasks in a computer is called as software. Software in a computer is of two types. They are :

1. Aplication Software

2. System Software

System software is a computer program that performs the basic functionaility of a computer i.e, running a systems hardware and applications like loading programs, saving data, displaying, etc...

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The most important polymer present in the nucleus is DNA- the master molecule. It is a polymer of Nucleotides.

In chemistry, the term transition metal has three possible meanings: The IUPAC definition defines a transition metal as "an element whose atom has a partially filled d sub-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete d sub-shell".

Any of the set of metallic elements occupying a central block (Groups IVB–VIII, IB, and IIB, or 4–12) in the periodic table, e.g. iron, manganese, chromium, and copper. Chemically they show variable valency and a strong tendency to form coordination compounds, and many of their compounds are coloured.

Here in the given options, only iron (Fe) is a transition metal since Strontium is an alkaline earth, arsenic is a metalloid, hydrogen is (normally) a diatomic gas.

The US state California's  economy has surpassed that of the UK to become the world’s fifth largest, according to new federal data released.

With a GDP of $2.7 trillion, California is now only behind the US, China, Japan and Germany.