General Awareness Questions

The Study of human beauty and the ways in which beauty influences the society is called as Kalology.

• This study is focused primarily on human attractiveness, rather than the broader field of aesthetics.

• Opposite of beauty is Ugly.

Papayas are yellow due to the presence of carotene and xanthophyll pigments i.e, Caricaxanthin present in the chromoplasts of the fruit pulp.

The coloration of the different tissues in plants is due to the plastids which are present in the cells. Leucoplasts are white in colour, chloroplasts are green in colour and chromoplasts are of various colours. These plastids can take any colour at different time. Therefore, green fruits ( chloroplasts) turn colurful (chromoplasts) at maturity.

Arundhati Roy was the first Indian woman to win the Man Booker Prize in the year 1997.

An Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was awarded England's prestigious Booker Prize this evening for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things,'' a soaring story about a set of twins struggling to make sense of the world, themselves and their strange and difficult family in southern India.

Kiran Desai was the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize.

Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970. Man Booker Prize is one of the world's richest literary prizes.