Social Science Questions & Answers

Synonyms are words with similar meanings. However, it’s difficult to say which word has most number of synonyms because the synonyms of a particular word tend to be subjective and their meanings tend to vary from the original word.

If we define war as a large-scale violent conflict between two states employing the military, the earliest recorded wars might have taken place between various city states in the Mesopotamian region during the period 3,000-2,300 BC in the Bronze Age. The first recorded evidence of such a war was the one between the two city states Lagash and Umma, estimated …

For obvious reasons, this is a contentious issue, Allen Funt’s ‘Candid Camera’, which started in 1948 on ABC, is popularly regarded as the grand daddy of all reality shows. In fact, ‘Candid Camera’ itself has its roots in a radio programme called Candid Microphone’, where Allen Funt taped and broadcast the complaints of fellow servicemen on Armed Forces Radio. However, …

Most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family; another major family is the Finno-Ugric. The Turkic family also has several European members, while the North and South Caucasian families are important in the southeastern extremity of geographical Europe. Basque is a language isolate directly related to ancient Aquitanian, while Maltese is the only national language in Europe, but …

The Buddhist flag, or the flag of Chabbannarangsi, as approved by the World Fellowship of Buddhists at its inaugural conference in B.E. 2493 (1950) consists of six colours. The first five colours are arranged vertically as follows: blue, yellow, red, white, and orange. The sixth colour, called in Pali “Pabhassara”, which means “brilliant” or “radiant”, cannot be depicted but is …

Siberia, much of northern Siberia lies inside the Arctic Circle. Most of the population live close to the Trans-Siberian Railways, which runs from Moscow to Vladivostok.

The Taj Mahal is one of the world’s most beautiful buildings. It is covered with marble and unlaid with semiprecious stones. The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, built this magnificent building in the memory of her wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631.

The Tibetan loach. This fish is found in water at an altitude of 5,200 m (17,060 ft) in the Himalayan mountains.

France, the largest country in Western Europe has many very famous wine-growing regions, including Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne. France is also well-know for it’s good food, particularly cheese such as Brie and Camembert, and goat’s cheese.

The badger, a member of the weasel family, lives in sett. It uses its strong claws to build the tunnels of the sett in the side of a bank or among tree roots. Over the years more tunnels are added. A large sett may be 100 years old.