WORKOUTABLES is not a routine quiz that merely tests your memory. This one is work-outable by thinking through popular relevant facts and current news. Here we go...
1. Indian Army - facing out (open); Indian Air Force - 45 degrees; Indian Navy - facing down — Which common practice of the defence forces is being discussed here?
2. According to the Vedas, X is the first mortal who died. Therefore, just by precedence, X became a god. Who is X?
3. 222.6 hours, 2,802 hours, X, 24.6597 hours, 9.9259 hours, 10.656 hours, 16.11 hours and 17.24 hours. The numbers mentioned are specific time periods and we are perhaps most familiar with X. What is X?
4. This word is derived from Italian words meaning ‘bad air’. According to Oxford Dictionaries, the term originally denoted “the unwholesome atmosphere caused by the exhalations of marshes, to which the disease was formerly attributed”. Name the disease.
5. The person in the photo (refer photo below) was an aviator and a fighter pilot during World War I. He drove his airplane into a German Zeppelin thereby destroying the aircraft, in what was considered to be the first air battle in world history.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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Answers:
1 . These are the salutes by the three defence forces.
2 . Yama.
3. X: 24 hours, these are the durations of a day on different planets from Mercury to Neptune.
4 . Malaria. From ‘mal’ meaning bad and ‘aria’ meaning air.
5 . Roland Garros.
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