Fascinating facts about aolar system

 The solar system is comprised of the Sun, 8 major planets, 5 dwarf planets, over a 100 moons and count less asteroids and comets.

Here are some fascinating facts  ----

1.   The Sun is a medium sized star.  But big enough to take 1.3 millions Earths to fill  !!!

2.  Sun's light takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth.

3.  Venus is the hottest planet with temperature reaching upto 460 degree Celsius  !!!

4.  Mercury and Venus are the only 2 planets that don't have moons.

5.  Saturn has most number of moons upto 274  !!!

6.  Jupiter  is the largest planet.

7.  Jupiter has the shortest day among all the planets of solar system.

8.  Ganymede is the largest moon in solar system.

9.  Rings of Saturn are made up of ice.

10.  Oort cloud is the farthest point of solar system.

11.  Dwarf planet Pluto is the '  King of Kuiper belt  '  !!!

12.  Neptune is the coldest planet in solar system.

Which countries have no mountains ???

 Several nations around the world are remarkably flat. No natural mountains within their borders.

Such countries are   -----

1.    Vatican City 

                     Smallest independent state surrounded by Rome.  Elevation ranges between 19 to 79 meters too low to form mountains.

2.  Maldives 

                      World's flattest country.

3.   Kiribati 

                     Nation at sea level.

4.  Denmark 

                       Rolling hills but no mountains  !!!

5.  Estonia 

6.   Latvia 

7.  Lithuania 

8.   Gambia 

Which is the state ??

 This question was asked on Koun Banega Karodpati program.

Question 

Which of these cities is the capital of a state that is not bordered by any coastal state of India ??

1.  Lucknow 

2.  Jaipur

3.  Bhopal 

4.  Raipur 

Answer 

We will look at what are the coastal states of India.

They are      Gujarat ,  Maharashtra,      Goa  ,  Karnataka ,   Kerala ,  Tamilnadu ,  Andhra Pradesh ,  Odisha and West  Bengal.

Now we  analyse the given question.

They are asking for the capital of the state which is not bordered by any of coastal states.

That means they have given the names of capitals of 4 states.

We must find out the capital of a state which is not bordering the coastal states mentioned above.

We will look at one by one.

1.  Raipur 

           Raipur is the capital of Chattisgadh. Bordering states of Chattisgadh are  Odisha,  Jharkhand,  Madhya Pradesh,  Telangana ,  Uttar Pradesh,  Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Out of these ,  Odisha ,  Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra are coastal states bordering Chattisgadh.

So,  Raipur  ruled out  !!!

2.  Bhopal 

        Bhopal is the capital of Madhya Pradesh. Bordering states of Madhya Pradesh are   Uttar Pradesh ,  Chattisgadh,  Maharashtra,  Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Out of these,  Maharashtra and Gujarat are coastal states.

So,  Bhopal is ruled out   !!!

3.  Jaipur 

        Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan.  Bordering states of Rajasthan are  Punjab,  Haryana ,   Uttar Pradesh,  Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.

Out of these,  Gujarat is the coastal state.

So,  Jaipur is ruled out.

4.  Lucknow 

               Lucknow is the capital of  Uttar Pradesh.

               

              Bordering   states of Uttar Pradesh are  Uttarakhand,  Himachal Pradesh, Haryana,  Delhi , Rajasthan ,  Bihar,  Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgadh.

Uttar Pradesh don't have any bordering coastal states.

So ,   LUCKNOW which is the capital of Uttar Pradesh is the correct answer    !!!

              

India vs South Africa final T20

 Yesterday was the final and match decider T20 match between India and South Africa.

South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl first.

As India is batting first, I had decided to watch the match  !!!

Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson are at the crease.

First boundary of Indian innings by Abhishek !!!

India  6/0 at the end of first over.

First sixer by Abhishek off Marco Jansen.

One more boundary by Abhishek  !!!

Hatrik boundaries by Abhishek !!!

Sixer by Sanju   !!!

India  22/0

Sanju has hit a boundary.

One more boundary for Sanju !!!

After end of 4 overs, India  41/0

Boundary by Sanju.

With boundary by Abhishek, India reached 50.

After 5 overs,  India  56/0.

Abhishek has hit a sixer.

Abhishek is out !!! India  63/1

Tilak is on crease, first ball is  boundary.

India 76/1

With Silver by Sanju, Ind 86/1f

Rain of boundaries  !!!!

On field umpire got hurt on knees by passing ball.

Sanju Samson got out on 37..

Indian captain Soorya came to crease.

India  101/2 after 10 overs.

Boundary for Tilak.

Soorya got out, India 115/3.

Hardik had hit a 6 as soon as he comes !!!

Boundary for Tilak.

Boundary for Tilak.

Sixer for Tilak, catch by spectators   !!!

Hardik has hit a boundary,  15 off just 4 balls.

One more sixer for Hardik.

Again sixer!!!  28 off 6 balls 

India 158/3.

Hardik is on the roll  !!!

Tilak completed 50

South African players are clueless  !!!!

India 178/3

Massive sixer by Hardik.

Hardik 48 off  15 balls.

Fastest 50 in 16 balls by Hardik !!!

Tilak 62 off 36 balls.

India reached 200 runs ....

India  205/3 at the end of 18 overs.

Boundary for Tilak in beginning of 19th over !!!

India has got 54 run just in sixers !!!

Partnership between Tilak and Hardik is  100.

Boundary for Tilak.

Hardik got out  for 63 runs.

Shivam Dube has hit  a sixer as soon as he came to crease  !!!

Last ball was wide ,  Tilak was out  !!!

India 227/5

Boundary in last ball.

India finished at 231/5

 

South Africa batting was good.  Indian bowler Arshdeep has totally lost line and length.

Varun Chakravarti was successful in taking 4 wickets.

South Africa could mmanage to score only 211.

India has won the game thereby series   !!!

Bheja Fry question

 This Bheja Fry question I came across on TV.

Question 

If a clock strikes 1 time for first hour, 2 times for second hour and like that, then how many times it will strike on a new years day  ???

Answer 

A clock strikes 1 time at 1.00 am

                               2  times at 2.00 am

....

....

                                12 times at 12.00 pm, (  noon  )

Again strikes  1 time at 1.00 pm

                             2 times at 2.00 pm 

.....

....

                               12 times at 12.00 am ( mid night   )

 

Total strikes from 1.00 am to 12 pm

1 + 2 + 3 +...............+ 12  =  78 times 

Similarly, 

Total strikes from 1  pm to 12am

Clock strikes  78 times. 

Totally strikes from both the periods is 

 78   +     78      =    156 times.

So, the clock strikes 156   times on new year day   !!!!