General Knowledge Questions

The chemical name of common is sodium chloride. Its chemical formula is NaCl.

The India's commerce and industry ministry has started the exercise to revise base year to 2017-18 for computation of wholesale inflation with a view to present more realistic picture of the price situation

In May last year, the government revised the base year for WPI-based inflation to 2011-12 to give a better indication of changes in prices of commodities.

The new index, with 2017-18, is expected to have new items, which would provide a more realistic picture of price rise and its impact on people.

Most of the additions could be in the manufactured products category. Currently, the index has a total of 697 items, including primary articles, fuel and power and manufactured products.

According to Gandhiji, A sound body means one which bends itself to the spirit and is always a ready instrument at its service. Such bodies are not made, in my opinion, on the football field. They are made on cornfields and farms.

All enzymes are proteins but all proteins are not enzymes since, enzymes are subset of proteins.

Members of Congress has five main functions:

1. lawmaking,

2. representing the people,

3. performing oversight,

4. helping constituents, and

5. educating the public.

General education policy is set by multiple levels of the government like Federal, state and local governments. 

The Bantu were comprised of more than 500 ethnic groups of Africa for migrations. The Bantu were experts in the form of iron metallurgy.