[1]  Who is known as a cragger?  [Hits: 7]
Tags: Cragger, Member of a carbon reduction action group, Carbon reduction, Carbon footprint, Growing lexicon of green terms, Collins Dictionary

[2]  Why does an iron work only when it is hot?  [Hits: 8]
Tags: Absorbs energy, Excite molecules, Heat makes metal softer, Ancient craftsmen, Producing iron implements, Iron

[3]  What causes ‘winterline’ and why is it visible only in a few places in the world?  [Vote Average: 4, Total Votes: 1, Hits: 13]
Tags: Western horizon, Myriad combination, False horizon, Refraction of sunlight, Mussoorie, Switzerland

[4]  What is Big Crunch theory?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 24, Hits: 110]
Tags: Stop expanding, Super hot, Super-dense singularity, Giant souffle, Big Bang Theory, Universe

[5]  Why does the touch-me-not shrink when touched?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 26, Hits: 131]
Tags: Loss of turgidity, Cell wall, Pulvini-specialised motor organs, Potassium ions, Osmosis, Cells to regain turgidity, Touch-me-not Plant

[6]  What is carbon dating?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 25, Hits: 94]
Tags: Method to determine the age of plants and fossils, C12 C13 and C14, C14 radioactive in nature, Half-life, Radio carbon dating, Willard Libby, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[7]  What are batholiths?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 20, Hits: 130]
Tags: Batholiths, Enormous Masses, Igneous rock, Molten material solidified, Earth surface, Sierra Nevada range of California

[8]  What is Industrial Melanism?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 26, Hits: 126]
Tags: Natural environment of an organism, Industrial pollution, Soot and smoke, Darken the landscape, Camouflage, Vulnerable to predators, Strong selective pressure, Darker colour

[9]  What is white noise?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 23, Hits: 168]
Tags: Combining sounds of different frequencies, Producing Noise, White noise, Masking sounds, Emergency siren, Individual voice, Crowd cheering in a stadium

[10]  Who founded YouTube?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 20, Hits: 250]
Tags: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, Employees of PayPal, YouTube, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Computer science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, YouTube LLC, Google Inc., Subsidiary of Google

[11]  Why do newspapers print a combination of four dots - blue, pink, yellow, black - at the bottom of each page?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 16, Hits: 294]
Tags: Print alignment, Registration marks used during printing, Offset printing technology, Multi-coloured image, Printing surface, Rubber blanket, Newspaper, News, Media, Printing

[12]  Why does the black box remain intact in an air crash?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 10, Hits: 252]
Tags: Flight Data Recorder (FDR), Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), Investigators reconstruct events preceding crash, FDR records values, Flight and controls, CVR records conversations taking place in cockpit, Crash survivable memory unit, Cylindrical casing, Underwater locator beacon, Extreme heat, High impact and pressure, Aircraft

[13]  What is a zwitter ion?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 17, Hits: 212]
Tags: Zwitter ion, Inner salt of amphoteric compound, Reaction between acidic and basic groups, Amino acids and proteins, Acidic (-COOH ) and alkaline (-NH2) groups, Salts with acid and alkali, Acid or alkali, Definite pH, Isoelectric pH, Inner salt or zwitter ions, Least soluble, Electrically neutral

[14]  Why does the sky look blue from the earth and black from the moon?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 7, Hits: 327]
Tags: Rayleighs Scattering, Causes light to scatter, Wavelength, Sunlight, Colour blue, Sky appear blue, Moon does not have atmosphere, Sky appears black, Moon, Atmosphere, Earth

[15]  What is a quadrillion?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 18, Hits: 210]
Tags: Quadrillion, Trillion, Short Scale countries, UK and USA, Long Scale countries, Some European nations

[16]  What is a mud bath?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 31, Hits: 210]
Tags: Mud from water sources, Wrapped around body parts, Body parts, Proper bath, Therapeutic value, Skin-related diseases, Psoriasis, Dead Sea in Israel, Sea famous for mud baths, Israel, Dead Sea

[17]  What is spider silk?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 27, Hits: 250]
Tags: Spider silk, Gossamer, Protein fiber spun by spiders, Use silk to make webs, Dynamic kiting spider lings, Upward winds, Spider, Web, Silk

[18]  Why do food packages carry Kcal when they actually specify calories and not kilo-calories?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 16, Hits: 259]
Tags: Kilocalories, Calories, Abbreviation for kcal, Energy value, Kilojoules, Amount of energy

[19]  Why don’t we feel the tonnes of atmospheric pressure?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 16, Hits: 303]
Tags: Atmospheric pressure, fluid pressure from inside body, Hill stations, Higher fluid pressure, Blood oozes out in blood vessels, Under water

[20]  What is thigmotropism?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 17, Hits: 265]
Tags: Thigmotropism, Plant around a support, Tropism, Pea plant, Phytohormone, Tendrils, Coil-like structures, Auxin, Growth hormone, Devoid of auxin, Stimulus

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Total 'Science & Technology' Questions & Answers available now: 776

[1]  What does the bitten apple in the Apple Computers logo signify?  [Hits: 8]
Tags: Quotation by Wordsworth, Newton, Seas of thought, Rob Janoff, Multi-coloured bitten apple, Rainbow apple, Isaac Newton, Alan Turing, Father of modern computing, Cyanide-laced apple, Steve Jobs

[2]  What is weisure?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 24, Hits: 271]
Tags: Weisure time, Leisure time, Work and leisure, Online work, Smartphones, Work-life culture, Sociologist Dalton Conley, New lifestyle, Internet, Cellphone, Mobile Phone, Laptop

[3]  What is intexticated?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 35, Hits: 323]
Tags: Teenagers, Addicted to texting, Reading messages, Reading SMS, Sending SMS, Connotation of driving, Intexticated drivers, Intoxicated Drivers, British study

[4]  What are widgets?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 42, Hits: 385]
Tags: Widget, Blend of window and gadget, George S Kaufman, Beggar on Horseback, Hypothetical manufactured good or product, Computing, Anything embedded within a HTML page, Widgets, On-screen tools, Clocks, Event countdowns

[5]  What is Mediawiki?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 74, Hits: 357]
Tags: Wiki, Create and edit web page content, Web browser, Mediawiki, GNU General Public License, Free open source software, Mediawiki software, Popular web encyclopaedia Wikipedia, Projects of Wikimedia, wikis hosted by Wikia, Open source software

[6]  What is ‘The Magic of Scheherazade’?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 74, Hits: 385]
Tags: Magic of Scheherazade, Nintendo Entertainment System, Culture Brain, Famicom game Arabian Dream Scheherazade, Elements of adventure, RPG styles, Games Online, Computer Games

[7]  What is contact scraping?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 66, Hits: 358]
Tags: Social networking, Contact scraping, Person mail account, Online company, Company gets free publicity, Friendly mails from strangers, Credentials, New trends in Internet

[8]  What is telepresence?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 68, Hits: 368]
Tags: Telepresence, Next-gen videoconferencing, Videoconferencing technology, Telepresence technology, Superior video images, Telepresence solutions, Sending executives for meetings, Carbon footprint, Frequent flying, Telepresence suite, Cutting down frequent flying

[9]  What is crowd mining?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 51, Hits: 444]
Tags: Crowd mining, New business concept, Turning into database, Handy source of information, Online advances, Wireless technology, Internet for information, Internet surveillance, Public health field, Internet Survey, Database Collection, New Business Ideas

[10]  What is incognito browsing?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 95, Hits: 601]
Tags: Stealth Mode Browsing, Surprise Gifts and Holidays, File Downloading, Web Pages History Downloading, Incognito Window, Cookies

[11]  What is a wedsite?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 93, Hits: 576]
Tags: Wedsite, Wedding, Wedding Clothes, Bride and Groom, Wedding Album, Post-Wedding Events, Photo Gallery, Wedding Receptions

[12]  What is ratware?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 91, Hits: 470]
Tags: Ratware, Mass Email Software, Automates Spam Email, Mass-Mailers, Spam Email, What is ratware

[13]  What is spoofing in IT?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 94, Hits: 712]
Tags: Spoofing Online, E-Mail Spoofing, E-Mail Message, Spammers, ISP, Spam Mail, What is spoofing in IT

[14]  What is viral mail?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 70, Hits: 580]
Tags: Viral Email, Online Chain Letter, Viral Mails, Humorous in Nature, Viral Marketing, What is viral mail

[15]  What is a google bomb?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 123, Hits: 766]
Tags: Case of Google bombing, Google Bomb, Websites Search Ranking, Pranksters, Miserable Failure, Homepage of George W Bush, White House

[16]  What is slow blogging?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 155, Hits: 760]
Tags: Emphasizes Blogging, Hammering, Slow Blogging, Successful Bloggers, Manifesto, Todd Sieling, Technology Consultant

[17]  What is grid computing?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 138, Hits: 1199]
Tags: Architecture, Shared Network, Supercomputer, Grid Computing, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Outer Space, Computing Power, Public Domain, Unused Processor Cycles

[18]  What does pharming refer to?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 128, Hits: 860]
Tags: Pharming, Weaknesses, Domain Name System, E-Commerce Sites, Anti-pharming, Safeguard Sites, Bogus Website, Rerouting the Traffic

[19]  How much data does the Internet contain?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 151, Hits: 2671]
Tags: Single Computer, Network of Networks, Digital Data, Distance Sun and Pluto, How much data does the Internet contain, Internet, Single Network

[20]  What is vishing?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 241, Hits: 944]
Tags: Words Voice and Phishing, Credit Card Holders, Fraudulent Activities, Criminal Configures, Financial Fraud, What is Vishing

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Total 'Internet' Questions & Answers available now: 43

[1]  What imparts fragrance to flowers, fruits and spices?  [Vote Average: 4, Total Votes: 2, Hits: 7]
Tags: Fragrance in flowers, Fragrance in fruits, Fragrance in spices, Flowers produce scent, Complex mixture of low molecular weight, Volatile compounds, Esters, Plants pollinated by bees, Sweet scents, Pollinated by beetles, Strong musty, Spicy, Fruity odours

[2]  Why does the WWF logo feature a panda?  [Vote Average: 2, Total Votes: 2, Hits: 13]
Tags: World Wildlife Fund, Sir Peter Scott, British naturalist and painter, WWF, Chi-Chi, Female giant panda, London Zoo, Furry animal, Black-patched eyes, Panda, Minimize printing costs, Excellent logo, WWF Logo

[3]  What is the chemical composition of ivory?  [Hits: 10]
Tags: Ivory tusks and teeth, Inner pulp cavity, Dentine, Minerals and collagen properties, Tusks of elephants, Teeth of mammals, Hippopotamus, Walrus, Boar, Sperm and killer whale, Ivory forms layers, Inorganic components, Mineralised tissues, Organic element, Collagen, Growth and repair of ivory, Blood vessels, Moisture

[4]  How did the polar bear evolved?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 431, Hits: 3541]
Tags: Polar Bear, Brown Bears, Glaciers, Arctic, Alaska, Greenland, How did the Polar Bear Evolved, Snow-Covered Mountains, Brutally Cold Weather, Zoologists, Brown bears in Siberia

[5]  Why do the eyes of some animals glow in the dark?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 48, Hits: 336]
Tags: Reflective surface right behind retinas, Tapetum lucidum, Photoreceptor, Transmit information to brain, Mirror

[6]  Who is a sexer?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 44, Hits: 306]
Tags: Professional in a hatchery, Male chick, Female Chick, Chick sexers, Different feeding programmes, Big hatcheries sex chickens, Physical appearance and vents, Chicken, Poultry Farms

[7]  Which is the world’s sleepiest animal?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 69, Hits: 693]
Tags: Sleepiest animal, Koala, Arboreal animal, Phascclarctos Cinerus, Australia, Teddy bear, Kangaroos, Carries its young in pouch, Eucalyptus trees, Sleeping in the fork

[8]  Why don’t the teeth of animals decay though they never brush their teeth?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 61, Hits: 867]
Tags: WHO, World Health Organisation, Decaying of teeth, Post-eruptive pathologic external process, Hard tooth tissue, Formation of cavities, Acids in the oral environment, Action of oral acidogenic bacteria, Carbohydrates, Herbivorous or carnivorous, Survive on uncooked, Raw food, Food rich in fibre, Needs chewing to digest, Brushing teeth and massaging gums, Pets like dogs, Cooked food, Junk food, Biscuits

[9]  What does the phrase ‘chicken out’ mean?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 68, Hits: 607]
Tags: Stop doing something, Fear or lose courage, Are you chicken, Jack chickened out, Timid bird, Chicken, Chicken-hearted

[10]  What is a pink elephant?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 82, Hits: 990]
Tags: Business Communications, Pink Elephant in the Room, Disney Movie, Pink Elephants, Dumbo, Carpet

[11]  What is ambergris?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 101, Hits: 732]
Tags: Pygmy Sperm Whale, Ambergris, Indigestible Objects, Beaks of Squid, Cuttlefish, Cow Manure, Ambergris Oxidizes, Unpleasant Odour, Manufacture of Perfume, Pale White

[12]  Why are mosquitoes attracted to the colour black?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 92, Hits: 1428]
Tags: Mosquitoes, Dark Colours, Lighter Colours, Reflect Heat, Sophisticated, Sensitive Heat Sensors, Darker Clothes

[13]  What is the domino damsel fish?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 104, Hits: 802]
Tags: Domino Damsel Fish, Indo-West Pacific, Red Sea, Islands of Oceania, Three Spot Damsel Fish, Three-Spot Dascyllus, What is the domino damsel fish

[14]  What is panda porn?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 110, Hits: 2311]
Tags: Thailand Zoo, Pandas Mating, National Animal Reproduce, Chengdu Panda Breeding and Research Centre, Sichuan Province, Worlds Most Endangered Animals

[15]  What’s the medicinal value of eel?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 221, Hits: 1147]
Tags: Chinese Eel, Japan Eel, Sexual Debility, Eel skin, Kadaagel, Medicinal Value of Eel, Medicinal Properties

[16]  What is special about the Puli?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 171, Hits: 932]
Tags: Puli, Acrobatic Dogs, Watchdogs, Herding Dogs, Corded Coat, Hungarian Dog

[17]  What is a fish pedicure?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 131, Hits: 1340]
Tags: Fish Pedicure, Garra Rufa, Doctor Fish, Special Kind of Fish, Tiny Fish, Turkey, Dead Skin, What is a fish pedicure

[18]  What is chamois?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 174, Hits: 1251]
Tags: Chamois, Bovidae Family, Goat-Like Mammal, Rupicapra Species, Closest Horns, What is chamois, Chamois Skin, Live in Herds, Dark Patches

[19]  What is a wistar rat?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 196, Hits: 2725]
Tags: Wistar Rat, Outbred Strain, Albino, White Rat, Species Rattus Norwegicus, Rat Strains, Laboratory Research, Biological Medicinal Research, American Physiologist Henry Donaldson

[20]  How is an Amur tiger different from a Bengal tiger?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 256, Hits: 1393]
Tags: Amur Tiger, Panthera Tigeris Altaica, Bengal Tiger, Panthera Tigeris, Marshes and Grasslands, Indian Subcontinent

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Total 'Animal Kingdom' Questions & Answers available now: 252

[1]  What is the full form of SPA?  [Hits: 8]
Tags: Acronym, Roman Empire, Battle-weary legionnaires, Military wounds and ailments, Sanus Per Aquam (SPA), Town Spa in Belgium, Hot springs, Heal aching bodies, Aquae

[2]  What is the kanga?  [Vote Average: 5, Total Votes: 1, Hits: 10]
Tags: Kanga, khanga, Popular traditional garment, Women of East Africa, Colourful designs, Guinea fowl called kanga, East Africa, Indian Sari, Japanese Kimono

[3]  Who is Zorro?  [Hits: 7]
Tags: Zorro, Charismatic legend, 90 years of cinema, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel, French Aristocrats, Guillotine, France, Johnston Mc-Culley, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, McCulley, Don Diego Vega, Antonio Banderas

[4]  What is the dog house in the glass industry?  [Hits: 10]
Tags: Charging end of the glass furnace, Dog house, Glass batch, Conditioned glass, Glass industry

[5]  Who is an ecotarian?  [Hits: 7]
Tags: Ecotarian, Diet of food grown, Eco-friendly manner, Locally produced food, Minimal impact, Vegetarian, Poultry and pork

[6]  Who is known as the ‘Pumpkin King of Britain’?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 12, Hits: 67]
Tags: Ralph Upton, Village of Slindon, West Sussex, South England, Pumpkin King of Britain, Market gardener, Slindon, Pumpkin capital of Britain

[7]  What is the anchor investor concept?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 20, Hits: 75]
Tags: Initial Public Offer (IPO), category of investor, Qualified Institutional Buyer, Institutional quota, Anchor investor, Higher degree of confidence, Investing community, Anchor investment, Brand ambassador

[8]  What is peep culture?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 20, Hits: 84]
Tags: Pop culture, television and radio as entertainment, peep culture, Reality TV, Internet, Private lives on blogs and social networking sites, Social isolation, Virtual world

[9]  Who are stags in the stock market?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 19, Hits: 121]
Tags: An investor, A speculator, Price of the stock, Start of trading, Sell the shares, Allotment, Realise a quick profit, Stag, Stock Market

[10]  What is the Tate?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 23, Hits: 101]
Tags: National Gallery of British Art, Tate art gallery, Millbank in Pimlico, London, Henry Tate, Sugar refineries, Gallery devoted to Modernism, Tate Galleries, Original gallery, Tate Britain

[11]  What is Greenmail?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 21, Hits: 105]
Tags: Greenmail, Business tactic, Buying good number of shares, Exorbitant rate, Greenback, Blackmail, Goodbye kiss

[12]  What is Dervish music?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 25, Hits: 167]
Tags: Dervish word, Turkish word, Darvis, Poor or mendicant, Dervish music, Muslim religious groups, Energetic dancing, Whirling, Chanting or singing, Signing, Music, Dervish

[13]  Who is a digital nomad?  [Vote Average: 2, Total Votes: 23, Hits: 126]
Tags: Digital nomad, Consultant, Freelancer, A writer on the move, Free spirit who like a remote lifestyle, Person with remote lifestyle, Correct technology, Person sitting in office, Economic downturn

[14]  On what basis are pincodes distributed?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 21, Hits: 151]
Tags: Postal Index Number, PIN, Pincode, Post office numbering, Postal code system used by India Post, Nine PIN zones in India, Second digit in Pin code, Sub-region, Third digit of Pin Code, Sorting by district, Individual post offices

[15]  What is a black blizzard?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 16, Hits: 196]
Tags: Drought of the 1930s in America, Large dark clouds, East Coast cities, New York and Washington DC, Atlantic Ocean, Black Blizzards, Dust Bowl, Dirty Thirties, Black Rollers, Drought, Decades of extensive farming, Crop rotation

[16]  Who is a frenemy?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 16, Hits: 174]
Tags: Friend and enemy, Frenemy, Fiercely competitive, Chicklit and television serials, Feminine world, One who secretly works against your interests, Friend, Enemy

[17]  Who is an exceptor?  [Vote Average: 4, Total Votes: 20, Hits: 198]
Tags: One chooses to eat meat, Special occasions, Vegetarian by habit, Exceptor makes exceptions, Weddings, Festivals, Celebrations, Vegan, Eggetarian, Flexitarian, Basically vegetarian

[18]  What are Jack-o-lanterns?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 33, Hits: 188]
Tags: Soul of a dishonest farmer called Jack, Protect houses from evil spirits, Irish folk tale, Jack-o-lantern

[19]  What are Perseides?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 17, Hits: 158]
Tags: Greek mythology, Descendants of Perseus, Prolific meteor shower, Comet Swift-Tuttle, Tears of St Lawrence, Saint martyrdom

[20]  What is a boomburb?  [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 26, Hits: 168]
Tags: Booming suburb, Satellite townships, Boomburg, Self-sufficient Towns, Edge city, California State, Master-planned community development, Colorado Front Range, North of Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Atlanta, Greater Toronto Area, Canadian cities

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Total 'Society Records' Questions & Answers available now: 412

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