What is Zero Rupee Note

1. What is Zero Rupee Note ?

A zero rupee note is a banknote imitation issued in India as a means of helping to fight systemic political corruption. The notes are "paid" in protest by angry citizens to government functionaries who solicit bribes in return for services which are supposed to be free. Zero rupee notes, which are made to resemble the regular 50 rupee banknote of India, are the creation of a non-governmental organization known as 5th Pillar which has, since their inception in 2007, distributed over 2.5 million notes as of August 2014. The notes remain in current use and thousands of notes are distributed every month.

2. What is the electrical conductivity of acids and bases?

Acid and Bases have different different electrical conductivity based on density of free ions present in it. A strong acid/base conduct electricity easily. More strong means more the number of ions. Let us suppose, if you are connecting a bulb in a circuit with strong acid/base solution, bulb will glow accordingly.. if you are connecting it with weak acid/base solution, bulb will not glow significantly.

It just depends on strength of acid/base.Both can conduct electricity.

3. How hot does it get on Mars?

The temperature on Mars may reach a high of about 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) at noon, at the equator in the summer, or a low of about -225 degrees Fahrenheit (-153 degrees Celsius) at the poles.

4. How many Sudoku puzzles are there?

There are a total of 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible solutions, yet when mathematicians took away rotations, reflections, permutations and relabeling, which takes away the same puzzle in just a different form, the number of solutions was 5,472,730,538.

5. Which is the only country crossed by both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn?

The Tropic of Capricorn lies at 23.5° South of the equator and runs through Australia, Chile, southern Brazil (Brazil is the only country that passes through both the equator and a tropic), and northern South Africa.

6. What makes hot peppers hot?

It is an irritant for mammals, including humans, and produces a sensation of burning in any tissue with which it comes into contact. Capsaicin and several related compounds are called capsaicinoids and are produced as secondary metabolites by chili peppers, probably as deterrents against certain mammals and fungi.

7. How many genes does a human being have?

Before the completion of the human genome project, many scientists were expecting to find 100,000 or more genes in our genome. This was based on the assumption that because we are one of the most complex creatures on Earth we should have lots of genes. However, it turned out we only have around 24,000 genes.

8. How many times was Harry Potter rejected by publishers?

J.K Rowling was famously rejected by a mighty 12 publishers before Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone was accepted by Bloomsbury - and even then only at the insistence of the chairman's eight-year-old daughter.

9. What is the chemical in diapers?

Some brands enhance the inner lining with aloe and vitamin E, skin-friendly compounds that are often found in diaper rash creams. The absorbent center contains wood pulp and super-absorbent polymers, usually sodium polyacrylate.

10. Who was the first man to fly around the world?

Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was a famed American aviator during the period known as the Golden Age of Aviation, the first pilot to fly solo around the world.

11. What is Sardine Run ?

Every year, between the months of May and July, many millions of silvery sardines travel north from the cold southern oceans off South Africa's Cape Point forming this huge cluster of running fishes.

12. what is Lenticular clouds ?

A lenticular cloud is a lens-shaped cloud that normally develops on the downwind side of a mountain or mountain range. This occurs when stable, moist air flows over a mountain, creating a series of oscillating waves.

13. what is Catumbo lightening?

It is a continuous (high frequency) lightning from a near-daily thunderstorm complex that forms in the Catatumbo River. Electrical conductivity of the clouds, which cause these extended lightning strikes which can upto last 10 hours.

14. How long would it take you to run around the world?

Hence, Earth circumference is 2*Pi*r is about 40,030 km. Now is up to you to decide the amount of running per day. If you run a marathon 42.2 km per day, you'll be done in around 2.5 years.

15. Why is Greece first in the Olympic parade?

Traditionally (starting at the 1928 Summer Olympics), Greece enters first, because of its historical status as the progenitor of the Olympics, while the host nation marches last. In the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the Greek flag led the parade, while the Greek team marched in last, as the host nation.

16. What causes hail to form?

 Hail is caused when raindrops are lifted up into the atmosphere during a thunderstorm and then supercooled by temperatures below freezing, turning them into ice balls, says Dr. Dick Orville of Texas A&M University. "The faster the updraft on these balls of ice, the bigger they can grow," he adds.

17. What colour is hippo milk ? 

The color of Hippo's milk is bright pink. The reason why it is pink is that hippo secretes two kind of unique acids called “Hipposudoric acid” and “Norhipposudoric acid“. The two acids got their names from the word Hippopotamus.

18. What animal has the shortest gestation period?

The shortest known gestation is that of the Virginian opossum, about 12 days, and the longest that of the Indian & African Elephant, about 22 months.

19. When was the first website created?

The first website built was at CERN within the border of France, and was first put online on 6 August 1991: Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN.

20. What was the first fast food restaurant?

Arguably, the first fast food restaurants originated in the United States with A&W in 1919 and White Castle in 1921. Today, American-founded fast food chains such as McDonald's and KFC are multinational corporations with outlets across the globe.

21. Which bird is the fastest swimmer?

In flight, the fastest bird is the spine-tailed swift of Siberia which can reach speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, but the fastest bird in the water is the Gentoo penguin, which swims at about 22 mph. (Watch this video of a Gentoo swimming madly to avoid a pod of hungry orcas.)

22. How long would your DNA be if you stretch it out?

Each of us has 60 – 90 trillion cells so our DNA is very, very tiny when coiled up. If you could take it out of a cell and stretch it into a line, our DNA would be more than six feet long. That's almost two meters.

23. Which African country is not a member of the African Union?

Morocco is the only African country not to have joined the AU. It left the Organisation of African Unity in 1984, after the OAU granted membership to the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic set up by the independence movement in the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

24. What product had the first barcode stamped on it?

George J. Laurer is considered the inventor of U.P.C. or Uniform Product Code, which was invented in 1973. In June 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner was installed at a Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to have a barcode included was a packet of Wrigley's Gum.

25. Do your eyes ever grow?

Answer: The eyeball is the only organism which does not grow from birth. It is fully grown when you are born. When you look at a baby's face, so see mostly iris and little white. As the baby grows, you get to see more and more of the eyeball.