General Knowledge Questions

The Cold War started with building tensions between the US and the USSR during World War II. As Stalin began to annex more countries and spread communism throughout Eastern Europe, the US began to feel threatened and feared that they would start a war amongst the capitalist nations. The US started an attempt to limit the spread of communism and protect capitalism, which led to a series of passive aggressive and indirectly hostile exchanges between the two nations.

The beginning of the end of the cold war, the Berlin Wall came down. The USSR began to collapse the following year, in 1990.

Panama Canal is called the 'Gateway of the Pacific'.

China recently unveiled the world's first underground hotel.

Roger Federer, a star tennis player won his 99th career title in his hometown, Switzerland.

Consumption is the largest component of GDP.

Supply curves tend to be more elastic in the long run, because there is time for firms to enter or leave the industry.

Abhinandan Varthaman who shot down the Pakistan's F-16 jet has chosen for the first "Bhagwan Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar".

Laterite soils are a tropical soil and possess a great amount of iron and aluminum. Due to its high iron oxide content they look like rusty-red coloration.