GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1.What do you know about Black holes?

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A Black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. They are one of the greatest mysteries in space.

2.What do you know about X-radiation?

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X-rays are a form of invisible, high-frequency electromagnetic radiation. X-rays are very small and energetic. They are used in different branches of science.

X-ray beams can pass through the human body, and they are absorbed in different amounts depending on the density of the material they pass through. Dense materials, such as bone and metal, show up as white on X-rays. The air in your lungs shows up as black. Fat and muscle appear as shades of gray.

3.What do you know about Milky Way?

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name "milky" is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars.

Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610.

4.What do you know about Formula One or F1?

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Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

5.What do you know about Iron Curtain?

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The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas during Cold War. Iron Curtain divided countries in the capitalist West and the socialist countries of East.

6.What do you know about Wimbledon?

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The Wimbledon Championships or simply Wimbledon is the tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. Established in 1877, Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is named after the London suburb where it first started.


Wimbledon takes place every year and is held for a period of two weeks, starting from late June until early July.

7.what do you know about The Great Wall of China ?

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The Great Wall of China is a series of Fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth , wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese States and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian steppe . Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century bc; these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built 220–206 bc by Qin Shihuang , the first Emperor of China. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty .

8.What do You Know About Christopher Columbus?

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Christopher Columbus was an European explorer and trader who by coincidence discovered America in the 15th Century.

9.What do you know about Tsunamis?

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A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake.

10.What do you know about Sumo?

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Sumo is a traditional Japanese sport where wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring.

11.What do you know about Snooker?

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Snooker is a sport that is typically played on a table covered with a green cloth or baize, with pockets situated in each of the four corners and a further two, commonly referred to as the middle, or side pockets, that sit in the middle of each of the long side cushions.

12.what do you know about fossil ?

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Fossils are the remains of once living animals or plants. People have been finding fossils in rocks for thousands of years, but until quite recently they didn't understand what they were.

Today we recognise that the fossils we find in rocks represent the ancestors of the animals and plants that are alive today.

13.what do you know about fossil fuel?

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Fossil fuel is a general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years.