What does herding the cat mean ??

  Herding cats is an idiom used to describe a task that is extremely difficult, chaotic and nearly impossible to manage.

It refers to the challenge of trying to organise or control a group of  individuals who are uncooperative.

We can keep a cow or sheep together. They naturally stay together in a herd.

But not cats   !!!!

Cats are solitary and headstrong.

If we try to push them in one direction, they are likely to scatter around or hide.

Or they just simply ignore us    !!!!

To describe an impossible task to do ,  this idiom is used.

Countries that border 3 oceans

 Three countries border three oceans outright. 

These countries have continues mainland coastlines on 3 oceans. 

They are   ----

1.  Russia 

2.  Canada

3.  United States of America

Bordering oceans are  Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic. 

Australia, South Africa and Chile also can be considered as bordering 3 oceans. 

If South Africa is considered, why not India  ??!! 

4 oceans through overseas territories are

 France and United Kingdom. 

Fastest rivers in the world

  These are the fastest rivers -----

1. Amazon river

2. Brahmaputra river

3. Colorado river 

4. Congo river

5. Franklin river

6. Futaleufu river

7. Yangtze river

8. Zambezi river

Why Titan is weird ??

 Titan is Saturn's biggest moon. 

Titan is weird because it is the only world besides Earth, with stable liquids on surface, an Earth like cycle and complex organic chemistry.

Everything is made up of ice and gasoline instead of water  !!!

Titan has rivers, lakes and seas.  But not of water !!!

They are made of liquid methane and ethane.

Rain falls, cloud forms and there are seasonal storms too. Titan is the only place besides Earth with full weather cycle !!!

Titan has dense atmosphere. Atmosphere mainly comprised of Nitrogen just like Earth  !!!

Titan is Earth like, but super cool. Cold enough that water ice is as hard as rock  !!!

National symbol of which country ??

  This question was asked on Koun Banega Karodpati program.

Question 

Soyombo which is derived from Sanskrit word Swayam Bhu,  meaning

 self born is a national symbol featured in which country's flag ??

1.  Mongolia 

2.  Kazakhstan 

3.  China

4.  South Korea

Answer 

We will look into each county's flag  !!!

Flag of Kazakhstan features a sky blue background with a gold Sun and 32 rays above a soaring eagle in centre.

Kazakhstan ruled out !!!

In Chinese flag, we see one large gold star and 4 smaller gold stars  !!!

China is ruled out.

In South Korean flag, red and blue circle in the center and 4 black trigrams.

South Korea ruled out.

Flag of Mongolia is a vertical triband with a red stripe at each side and Mongolian Soyombo symbol centering on left most stripe.

Answer      Mongolia     !!!

I searched web for more information.

Soyombo DOES come from Sanskrit  !!!

A Mongolian Buddhist scholar created a new writing system.

He named that script  SOYOMBO  script  !!!

He took the Sanskrit word Swayam Bhu, and adapted it to Mongolian as Soyombo.

Soyombo means THE UNIVERSE   !!!!