General Awareness Questions

The Sahara is the largest non-polar desert in the world. The Sahara is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It covers 9 million square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), amounting to 31% of Africa.

Its borders include the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Red Sea to the east.

Light Year is related to Distance. It is the unit of Distance.

It is about 9.5 Trillion Kms or 5.9 Trillion miles.

• It is the distance that light travels in vaccum in one julian year i.e, 365.25 days.

There are 12 Indian origin persons in the "House of Commons".

• The House of Commons is the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom. The UK public elects 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to represent their interests and concerns in the House of Commons. MPs consider and propose new laws, and can scrutinise government policies by asking ministers questions about current issues either in the Commons Chamber or in Committees. 

Farsightedness is more properly called Hyperopia.

There are 33 districts in Telangana state at present.

Belarus is a European country whose capital city is Minsk.

In Chennai, Tamil Nadu place India's first HIV case reported in 1986 amongst the female sex workers.