General Knowledge Questions

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Chemically marble is known as Calcareous rock as it is composed of carbonate minerals like calcite or dolomite.

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, formerly Latinized as Algorithmi,was a Persianscholar who produced works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography under the patronage of the Caliph Al-Ma'mun of the Abbasid Caliphate.

He also developed the concept of the algorithm in mathematics, which is why some have called him the "grandfather of computer science".

His name gave rise to the terms algorism and algorithm.

Protecting data by copying it from the original source to a different destination is called as Backup. When an original data is lossed, to restore the information by copying the data from the source to other destination is called as Backup or Data backup.

Bengaluru becomes the first Indian city to get its very own logo

• Much like New York and Singapore, Bengaluru is set to get its own logo, becoming the first Indian city to do so.

Sound intensity or level is measured by a unit called a decibel. An 85 decibel noise level is not a safe standard for the public.

Hence, Acceptable noise level for human ear is less than 85 db.

The International Day of Happiness (known as Happiness Day) is celebrated throughout the world on the 20th of March. The International Day of Happiness was founded on June 28, 2012, by the United Nations General Assembly when all 193 member states unanimously adopted UN resolution 66/281.

It was celebrated for the first time in 2013.