Description : Why do we call 12 p.m. noon?
Last Answer : Midnight at least makes sense. What the heck is "noon"?
Description : Analogies are comparisons. Complete each analogy below. Here is an example: Ear is to hearing as eye is to? Sight.1. Cardinals is to St. Louis as Dodger is to?2. A.M. is to before noon as P.M. is to ... 8 is to?4. Tear is to tore as see is to?5. Springfield is to Illinois as Austin is to? -Riddles
Last Answer : 1. Los Angeles 2. Afternoon 3. Octagon 4. Saw 5. Texas
Description : The title of the problem tells you how to approach these four questions.(A). A bus leaves Moscow for Tula at noon. An hour later a cyclist leaves Tula for mosco, moving slower than the bus. ... Now check the answers. Did you fall into any of the traps which lurk in these simple problems? -Riddles
Last Answer : (A). Neither (B). A pound of metal is always more than half a pound of the same metal. (C). Six strokes took 30 seconds, therefore 12 strokes will take 60 seconds. But when the clock struck ... , therefore 12 strokes will take 66 seconds. (D). There is always a plane that contains any 3 points
Description : Kishore is travelling on his bike and has calculated to reach point P at 4 pm if he travels at 20 kmph. He will reach there at 12 noon if he travels at 30 kmph. At what speed must he travel to reach P at 2 pm? a) 18 kmph b) 12 kmph c) 24 kmph d) 16 kmph
Last Answer : C Let the distance be x km Travelling at 20 kmph, Kishore will reach point P at 4pm. Travelling at 30 kmph, Kishore will reach point P at 12noon. Therefore, time taken when travelling at 20km - ... his travelling time must be (12-2)=10 hours Hence, required speed =240/10=24 kmph
Description : John was very tired after a long day of work. He went to bed at 10 p.m., wound his alarm clock and set it for noon the next day. Since John fell asleep almost immediately, how many hours of sleep did he get before the alarm woke him? -Riddles
Last Answer : Two hours. Wind-up clocks can't be set more than 12 hours in advance.
Description : If Gowtham ride a bike at 30 km/hr, then he arrives at a certain place at 3 p.m. If he ride at 45 km/hr, he will arrive at the same place at 1 P.m. At what speed must he ride to get there at noon? a) 18 km/hr b) 24 km/hr c) 36 km/hr d) 28 km/hr
Last Answer : C When speed of gowtham = 30 km/hr =d/t and, When speed of the gowtham = 45 km/hr =d/(t−2) Equating the value of d: 30t =45(t-2) 30t=45t-90 15t=90 t=6 hours Finally desired speed =d/(t-1) =30t/(t-1) =30*6/(6-1) =180/5 =36 km/hr
Description : The formula Q = P - K [1.8T + 32] in which Q is runoff, P is annual rain fall in cm, T is mean annual temperature in centigrade and K is a constant, is known (A) Justin's formula (B) Khosla's formula (C) English formula (D) Vermule's formula
Last Answer : (B) Khosla's formula
Description : Which time of the day is generally the hottest period all over India? (a) Noon (b) 1 pm (c) 3 pm (d) One cannot say
Last Answer : Ans: (c)
Description : Four pipes can fill a reservoir in 15, 20, 30 and 60 hours respectively. The first one was opened at 6 AM, second at 7 AM, thir da t 8 AM and the fourth at 9 AM. When will the reservoir be filled ? (A) 11 AM (B) 12 Noon (C) 1 PM (D) 1:30 PM
Last Answer : Answer: C
Description : Siva leaves chennai at 3 am and reaches Hyderabad at 11 am . Anirudh leaves Hyderabad at 5 am and reaches chennai at 12:00 noon. At what time do they cross each other? a) 7 : 52am b) 8 : 25am c) 6 : 52am d) 9 : 25am
Last Answer : C Time taken by Siva = 8 h Time taken by Anirudh = 7 h For your convenience take the product of times taken by both as a distance. Then the distance = 56km Since, Siva covers half of the distance in 2 ... by them = 28/15 = 1 hr 52 min Thus , they will cross each other at 6 : 52am.
Description : If the velocities of flow of a stream of 10 m depth recorded by a current meter at depths of 2 m and 8 m are 0.7 m and 0.3 m respectively, the discharge per unit width of the stream in cubic metres, is (A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5
Last Answer : Answer: Option D
Description : I am something, I am nothing. I am short, I am tall. When you fall at your sport, then I stumble and fall. I have never been yet seen beneath a new moon. I thrive in the evening but vanish at ... than air, I weigh less than a breath. Darkness destroys me and light is my death. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : A shadow.
Description : Lin an experiment to determine the volume of an object, mass and density are recorded as m = (5 ± 0.15) kg and p = (5 ± 0.2) kg m^3 respectively.
Last Answer : Lin an experiment to determine the volume of an object, mass and density are recorded as ... Calculate percentage error in the measurement of volume.
Description : When it is 12:00 noon in India, what would be the time in San Francisco (USA)? -Do You Know?
Last Answer : answer:
Description : When it is 12:00 noon in India, what would be the time in San Francisco (USA)?
Last Answer : 8 : 30 p.m. of previous day
Description : When it is 12 noon at-Greenwich, what is the time at New York (74 ° W)?
Last Answer : 7.04 a.m.
Description : When it is noon along 82° 30’ longitude, along what degree of longitude it will be 6.30 a.m.?
Last Answer : 0°E or W
Description : 1. What is the main constituent of haemoglobin? 2. By whom is the Prime Minister appointed? 3. Which substance is a bad conductor of electricity but a good conductor of heat? 4. When it is noon ... maps of India? 20. By whom the Mahatma Gandhi was referred to Father of the Nation' first?
Last Answer : Answer : 1. Iron 2. President 3. Mica 4. 0°E or W 5. Gandhara 6. National income 7. Faiz Ahmed Faiz 8. 8 9. Divergent movement 10. Shahjahan 11. The President 12. Black 13. Amir ... Ram Das 16. Prime Minister 17. Artery 18. Defence Minister 19. Geographical Survey of India 20. Subhash Chandra Bose
Description : In India the recording type rain gauge generally used, is (A) Weighing type (B) Tipping type (C) Float recording type (D) None of these
Last Answer : Answer: Option C
Description : A recording type rain gauge (A) Produces a mass curve of rain fall (B) Records the cumulative rain (C) Is sometimes called integrating rain gauge or continuous rain gauge (D) All the above
Description : Hydrograph is a graphical representation of (A) Surface run off (B) Ground water flow (C) Rain fall (D) Discharge flowing in the river
Description : Pick up the correct statement from the following: A. Inlets are provided on the road surface at the lowest point for draining rain water B. Inlets are generally provided at an interval of ... along straight roads C. Inlets having horizontal openings, are called horizontal inlets D. All the above
Last Answer : ANS: D
Description : Pick up the correct statement from the following: (A) Rain which is intercepted by buildings, vegetations and other objects, is generally known as rainfall interception (B) The difference between ... the interception rainfall, water reaches the ground and infiltration starts (D) All the above
Description : Non-recording rain gauges (A) Collect the rain whose volume is measured by means of graduated cylinders (B) Collect the rain which is directly measured by means of graduated cylinders in centimetres of water depth (C) Are generally used in hilly terrain (D) Are cylindrical in shape
Last Answer : Answer: Option B
Description : The time required by rain water to reach the outlet of drainage basin, is generally called (A) Time of concentration (B) Time of overland flow (C) Concentration time of overland flow (D) Duration of the rainfall
Last Answer : Answer: Option A
Description : In a combined footing, in the zones where the shear stresses are less than 5 kg/cm2 , stirrups to be provided are generally (a) 2 – legged (b) 4-legged (c) 8 – legged (d) 12 legged
Last Answer : (b) 4-legged
Description : Pick up the correct statement from the following: (A) Detention period for plain sedimentation tanks ranges between 4 to 8 hours (B) Detention period for sedimentation tanks, using coagulants usually ... in sedimentation tanks, is generally limited to 0.3 m/minute (D) All the above
Last Answer : (D) All the above
Description : Pickup the incorrect statement from the following: (A) The invert of pressure conduit is independent of the grade of the hydraulic gradient line (B) The pressure conduits may be taken uphill ... m (C) Aqueducts and tunnels sections are generally kept circular (D) None of these
Last Answer : (D) None of these
Description : The maximum harbour depth below lowest low water is generally equal to (i) Loaded draft +1.2 m when bottom is rock (ii) Loaded draft +1.8 m when bottom is soft (iii) Loaded draft +1.2 m when bottom is ... ) and (iii) are correct (C) (ii) and (iv) are correct (D) (iii) and (iv) are correct
Last Answer : (D) (iii) and (iv) are correct
Description : Trade Payables are recorded in................ a) Asset side of B/S b) Liability side of B/S c) P & L a/c d) None ofthe above
Last Answer : b) Liability side of B/S
Description : Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 35 m/s. Wind starts blowing at a speed of 12 m/s in east to west direction. In which direction should a boy
Last Answer : Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 35 m/s. Wind starts blowing at a speed of 12 m/s ... should a boy waiting at a bus stop hold his umbrella?
Description : Which city in india never experiences Vertical rays of the sun during noon?
Last Answer : New Delhi
Description : 1. Which is India's oldest iron and steel plant? 2. Belladona medicine is obtained by which part of Atropa belladona? 3. To whom does UPSC submit its annual report on its work? 4. ... 19. Where is the greatest average annual precipitation? 20. Alberuni lived during the period of which king?
Last Answer : Answer : 1. TISCO at Jamshedpur 2. From leaf 3. The Union Home Minister 4. New Delhi 5. Akbar 6. Due to absence of gravity 7. 1975 8. 2009 9. Cyclonic 10. Shahjahan 11. Cycus 12. British ... 15. Copper-stone Age 16. Jute and Cotton 17. Gully 18. Dolomite 19. In Philippines 20. Mahmud Ghaznavi
Description : Gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a weighted piston as the stop boundary. The gas is heated and expands from a volume of 0.04 m^3 to 0.10 m^3 at a constant pressure of 200kPa.Calculate the work done by the system. A. 8 kJ B. 10 kJ C.12 kJ D.14 kJ Formula: W = p(V2-V1)
Last Answer : 12 kJ
Description : Englishmen eat their dinner at __________ (A) 12 a.m. (B) 2 p.m. (C) 6 p.m. (D) 8 p.m
Last Answer : (C) 6 p.m.
Description : A bakery P can sold 500 breads in 4 hours, bakery Q can sold the same number of bread in 5 hrs while bakery R can sold them in 6 hrs. All the bakeries are opened at 8 a.m while bakery P is closed ... complete their target. Approximately at what time will the work be finished? a) 10 b) 8 c) 12 d) 6
Last Answer : A (P+Q+R)'s 1 hour work = (1/4 +1/5+ 1/6) =(15+12+10)/60 =37/60 Remaining work = 1- 37/60 = 23/60 (Q+R)'s 1 hour work = (1/5 +1/6) =11/30 Now 11/30 work is done by Q and R ... R in(30/11*23/60) =23/22 hrs = 1hr So the work will be finished approximately 1 hr after 9.am i.e., around 10 a.m
Description : The thickness of a laminar boundary layer over a flat plate at two different sections P and Q are 0.8 cm and 2.4 cm respectively. If the section Q is 3.6 m downstream of P, the distance of section P from the leading edge of the plate is (a) 0.32 m (b) 0.22 m (c) 0.40 m (d) 0.53 m
Last Answer : Ans: (c) Correct Answer is: 0.45 m
Description : Service connections to consumers houses, are generally provided with (A) Copper pipes (B) Hume pipes (C) Galvanised iron pipes (D) P.V.C. pipe
Last Answer : (C) Galvanised iron pipes
Description : In India, tropical rain forests are generally found in
Last Answer : In India, tropical rain forests are generally found in A. Western Ghats B. North-eastern Himalayas C. Gangetic Plains in India D. Both (1) and (2)
Description : While surveying a plot of land by plane tabling, the field observations (A) And plotting proceed simultaneously (B) And plotting do not proceed simultaneously (C) And recorded in field books to be plotted later (D) All the above
Last Answer : (A) And plotting proceed simultaneously
Description : During last phase of the reconnaissance, details of the grade line is recorded on 2 metre poles to indicate (A) Direction of the proposed alignment (B) Distance between the previous and forward pegs (C) Relative elevations of pegs (D) All the above
Description : Please tell me where can I get a lamp , preferably online, that is bright as high noon indoors?
Last Answer : You might like this one at Amazon. The brightest is bright enough for me that I can see well up to 10 feet away. The dimmest is soft enough that I can sleep with it on. It's waayyy under ... you can charge your phone while sleeping. I've been using mine for about 10 months with NO complaints!!!
Description : You accidentally lock yourself out of your own house NAKED at noon tomorrow. How old are you, male/female and how embarrassed on a scale of 1 to 10?
Last Answer : Forget locking myself out, What in the hell am I doing outside at noon in my birthday suit in the first place that is what I want to know. Blush??? The freakin neighbours would think I was on drugs being outside in the buff at that time of day.
Description : If you woke up in the middle of a forest at noon standing on a road that split into two routes, would you go right or left?
Last Answer : Usually, being right handed, I would tend to choose to go right. Probably removing the outerware, reserving it to cannibalize for what I need.
Description : Is it okay to drink before noon?
Last Answer : i started drinking every day on spring break in mexico at about 10:00 am. nothing wrong with that. now, if you are shitfaced before noon, that might be a bad thing
Description : What makes 'Book, Box and Noon' the same? -Riddles
Last Answer : There all nouns.
Description : Mr. Brown was killed on Sunday after noon. The wife said she was reading a book. The butler said He was taking a shower. The chef said he was making breakfast. The maid said she was folding clothes, and the gardener said he was planting tomatoes. Who did it? -Riddles
Last Answer : The chef killed Mr. Brown because he said he was cooking breakfast but it was a Sunday afternoon.
Description : An alarm clock runs 4 minutes slow every hour. It was set right 3 1/2 hours ago. Now another clock which is correct shows noon. In how many minutes, to the nearest minutes, to the nearest minute, will the alarm clock show noon? -Riddles
Last Answer : In 3 1/2 hours the alarm clock has become 14 minutes slow. At noon the alarm clock will fall behind approximently an additional minute. Its hands will show noon in 15 minutes.
Description : I welcome the day with a show of light, I steathily came here in the night. I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn, But by the noon, alas! I'm gone.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : The morning dew!
Description : Trains travel from one town to another town all day, always on the same track, always going nonstop and at the same speed. The noon train took 80 minutes to complete the trip, but the 4 PM train took an hour and 20 minutes. Why? -Riddles
Last Answer : 80 minutes is the same as an hour and 20 minutes.