General Knowledge Questions

• The Habeas Corpus writ is issued to produce a person who has been detained, whether in prison or in private custody, before a court and to release him if such detention is found illegal.

• The right to habeas corpus has been used by the Indian judiciary effectively only in order to secure the release of a person from illegal detention.

• If the detained person is unable to seek the writ of habeas corpus, someone else mayact so on his behalf.

Pitot tube is used to measure stagnation pressure.

2020 summer Olymic games to be held in Tokyo, Japan.

3 May

Silver chloride is a chemical compound with the chemical formula AgCl is also called as Horn Silver. It is also called as cerargyrite. It is a gray, very heavy halide mineral and an ore of silver.

Jeff Bezos is the richest person in modern history. The Amazon.com Inc. founder’s net worth broke $150 billion in New York on 16th July 2018 morning, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

That’s about $55 billion more than Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s second-richest person.

1st copper wire: R = pl/A = pl/ πr2

2ndcopper wire: R’ = p’l’/A’ = pl/(4 πr2) = R/4

If joined in parallel, (1/Req) = (1/R) + (1/R’)

= 1/R + 4/R1/Req= 5/R

Req= R/5