Each successive epoch of evolution has infused infinite variety in the plant kingdom. Out of hundreds of thousand species of vegetation, only a few occupy pride of place due to unique characteristics.

There is no better way of introducing a magician than by describing one of his patent tricks. Let’s introduce world’s greatest magician, Harry Houdini, who hailed from Hungary and later settled in the USA, in the same way.

The organisers of the quadrennial World Cup cricket tournament have been introducing some new features in the World Cup matches ever since the first World Cup cricket tournament was held in 1975.

Come summer and our refrigerators start getting loaded with chilled water bottles, juices, ice creams etc to beat the heat. But what do creatures like the squirrel, pigeon, elephant etc do to have some respite from the summer heat?

Questions & Answers

Its summer season and mercury is rising day by day. What could be hotter topic other than the summer itself for this month’s superquiz? Thirteen interesting questions (and equally interesting answers) are given here—all of them pertaining to summer. Get ready to sweat out your brain. The more your brain sweats, the higher goes the ‘mercury’ of your GK!

For some inexplicable reason it has become customary to denote any thing or situation connected with mystery or danger with the adjective black. Mysterious rituals are called black magic and money obtained from undisclosed sources is denoted as black money. When a horrible plane crash takes place (such as the one depicted in accompanying graphics) hardly any crew or passengers survive. Then there is no scope for ascertaining the cause of the crash from interrogation as according to the old idiom, dead men tell no tales. However, the mystery behind the gruesome crash is recorded in two sealed boxes known as cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data recorder. Mysterious cause of the crash can be revealed only when these two boxes are opened. Till the boxes are opened the recordings contained in them remain black, i.e. secret. From the foregoing at least one mystery must have been cleared that there is not one black box but there are two black boxes. Let's find out clearly the difference between the two and erase the prevalent belief that there is only one black box.