Explanation

Total categories: 6

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Physiology or Medicine
• Literature
• Peace
• Economic Science

First awarded: 10 December 1901

Location: Stockholm, Sweden (the Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway)

Additional information

• Original categories (1901) were 5 
• 6th category was added in 1968 as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Explanation

• Location: Between England and France
• Connects: Atlantic Ocean (via the North Atlantic) and the North Sea
• Narrowest point: Strait of Dover
• Max. length: 560 km (350 mi)
• Max. width: 240 km (150 mi)

Explanation

• Author: Mario Puzo
• Novel: The Godfather
• Published: 1969
• Genre: Crime fiction
• Story: The Corleone crime family and its leader, Don Vito Corleone.

Explanation

• Full Form: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
  • Founded: 15 June 2001
  • Headquarters: Beijing, China

Founding Members:

1. China
2. Russia
3. Kazakhstan
4. Kyrgyzstan
5. Tajikistan
6. Uzbekistan

Pakistan & India: Became full members on 9 June 2017

Explanation

• Full Form: Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
• Established: 1985
• Founding Members: Pakistan, Iran, and Türkiye
• Headquarters: Tehran, Iran
• Member States: 10
• Official Language: English
• Main Purpose: Regional economic cooperation and development.

ECO 10 member states:

1Turkiye

2 Iran

3 Pakistan 

4 Afghanistan

5 Azerbaijan

6 Kazakhstan

7 Kyrgyz Republic

8 Uzbekistan

9 Tajikistan

10 Turkmenistan

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Explanation

• The BMP file format, also known as a bitmap image file
• Developed by: Microsoft Corporation
• Initial release: December 1987
• Type of format: Raster graphics

Explanation

• Waterloo is located in Belgium, near the capital Brussels.
• The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815.
• It marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.
• Napoleon was defeated by the allied forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington and Prussian forces under Gebhard von Blücher.

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Explanation

• Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is based on the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, UK.
• The Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude) passes through Greenwich.
• The international system of standard time zones was established at the International Meridian Conference in 1884.

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Explanation

• Queen Victoria became the Empress of India (Kaisar-e-Hind) in 1876.
• Although she was officially proclaimed Empress of India on January 1, 1877.
• This change in title was the result of the British government passing the Royal Titles Act.

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Explanation

• Famous field: Medicine
• His famous medical work Kitab al-Hawi (The Comprehensive Book of Medicine) was widely influential.
• He also wrote an important treatise distinguishing smallpox and measles.

Additional information:

• Full name: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
• Born: c. 865 CE, Rayy, Persia
• Died: c. 925 CE

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