General Knowledge Questions

This can be interpreted from these lines of the passage, “Sanctions also play a dramatic role as an offensive militaristic manoeuver” and "Indeed, economics is often used directly as a weapon of war and conflict via trade sanctions."

AIDS is caused by the Human Immuno deficiency Virus (HIV), a member of a group of viruses called retrovirus, which have an envelope enclosing the RNA genome. Transmission of HIV-infection generally occurs by (a) sexual contact with infected person, (b) by transfusion of contaminated blood and blood products, (c) by sharing infected needles as in the case of intravenous drug abusers and (d) from infected mother to her child through placenta.

Damdamaa reservoir in Sohna, district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is one of the biggest lakes in Haryana and with an area of 3,000 acres. Damdama Lake was formed when a stone and earthen dam constructed by the British was commissioned for rain water harvesting in 1947. 

Henry VIII started the process of creating the Church of England after his split with the Pope in the 1530s. Henry was anxious to ensure a male heir after his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, had borne him only a daughter.