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Daily quiz: on nuclear fusion reaction This undated image provided by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows a sphere in the window at the center, inside a cylindrical hohlraum container about 0.4 inches tall. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Sustainable nuclear fusion requires the conditions in a fusion reactor to meet the ______…
Daily Quiz: on T.S. Eliot 1 / 7 | An easy one to begin with. Expand the initials T.S. in the great poet’s name. 2 / 7 | Of the four parts of Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’, two are ‘Burnt Norton’ and ‘East Coker’. Name the other two. Answer : The Dry Salvages’ and ‘Little Gidding’…
Q: On the morning of September 11, 19 terrorists hijacked how many commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast to California? A: Four Q: The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of the WTC, and the third team succeeded in striking the Pentagon. Where did the fourth plane crash?…
Former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (‘Work makes you free’) in Oswiecim, Poland. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Q: Zyklon B was originally ‘Cyclone B’. While the ‘B’ distinguished the product from Zyklon A, it was also the first letter of the German name for the substance. How did this…
A still from the new Netflix show IC814 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Q: In 1981, five people hijacked an Indian Airlines flight and were later captured by Pakistan. Following the incident, the Indian government banned this religious symbol, which the hijackers had threatened ti use as a weapon, on flights. Name it. A: Kirpans…
Daily Quiz: On rationalists 6 / 1 | Founder of the Committee for the Eradication of Blind Faith (Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, or MANS) after leaving his medical practice, he was also the editor of the Marathi weekly magazine Sadhana, which promoted scientific temperament and liberal thought. Name this rationalist who took up cudgels against…
This is “Retroreflector”, the device that Pragyaan rovers on both Chandrayaan 2 and Chandrayaan 3 carried. It reflects light incident on it in a specific direction. | Photo Credit: NASA Q: The landers of the Chandrayaan 2 and the Chandrayaan 3 missions both aimed for a patch on the moon’s surface between the craters X…
Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaska | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Q: Sunil Gavaskar is the only player to have scored a century in the first innings and a double century in the second innings. Against whom and in which ground did he achieve this remarkable feat? A: West Indies, Queen’s Park Oval, Port of…
Daily Quiz | On M.S. Dhoni 1 / 11 | In which city was M S Dhoni on 07 July 1981? Answer : Ranchi, Bihar (now Jharkhand) DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO SHOW ANSWER 2 / 11 | Which division of the South East Railways was M.S. Dhoni initially stationed as a Ticket…
Daily Quiz | On July 3 events 1 / 5 | This movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, was released in American theatres on this day. It went on to become a huge hit. Which was the film? 2 / 5 | This American singer and songwriter died…