Social Science Questions & Answers

The Union Jack, the official flag of Britain since 1801, is really three separate flags in one, for it combines the English cross of St George, the Scottish cross of St Andrew and the Irish cross of St Patrick. England, Scotland and Ireland were originally independent countries, and the Union Jack symbolizes the fact that they now from the United …

In ancient times, colours were assigned to the cardinal directions – with black referring to the north. The Black Sea is an inland sea bound by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus, and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and various straits. It was also called “inhospitable” (dark area, black) before Greek colonization, because …

The royal python, a snake of equatorial West Africa, has an unusual way of protecting itself when disturbed. It can roll of into an almost perfect ball, and so has earned itself the name of ball python. Tame specimens can even be rolled along in this undignified manner!

The arrow-poison frog’s skin contains poison. The bright colors of skin, which include yellow, red, orange, and blue warn predators that the frog is poisonous to eat.

This is because world like pig, cow, sheep and calf come from the Anglo-Saxon or Old English language. After the Norman conquest in 1066 the wealthy French-speaking landowners called these animals by their French names when they ate them, giving us the words pork, beef, mutton and veal. The Anglo-Saxons, however, carried on calling the animals by their original names, …

In 1539 a large Spanish force get out from the town of Quito, in Ecuador, to find out what could be discovered to the east. As their supplies were running out, Gonzalo Pizarro, a brother of the conqueror of Peru, ordered a small party to retrace their route by boat and return with fresh supplies. Commanded by Francisco de Orellana, …

The name of the police headquarters is derived from its original location on Great Scotland Yard, a street within Whitehall. According to a 1964 article in The New York Times, the name derives from buildings in the area used to accommodate Scottish kings when they visited English royalty. The original commissioners of the Metropolitan police, Colonel Charles Rowan and Richard …

The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in summer months at latitudes north and nearby to the south of the Arctic Circle, and south and nearby to the north of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Given fair weather, the sun is visible for a continuous 24 hours, mostly north of the Arctic …

Nagpur is a city in the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in the central India and the third largest city by population in the state of Maharashtra.Nagpur lies precisely at the center of the country with the Zero Mile Marker which indicates the geographical center of India. Nagpur is also a major commercial and political center of the Vidarbha …

John Bull originated as a creation of Dr John Arbuthnot, Queen Anne’s physician, who in 1712, wrote a collection of pamphlets entitled ‘The History of John Bull’ but wanted to remain anonymous. The term became a national personification of England, and in particular, Great Britain, especially in political cartoons. It sometimes refers to the whole of the United Kingdom, but …