GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (1)

·   Ambati Balamyrali is the youngest (17-years old) doctor of Indian origin in the world who received his medical degree from Mount Sinai, New York.

·   Ambedkar, B.R is known as the architect of the Indian Constitution.

·   Apsra is the first nuclear reactor of India.

·   Aquaculture refers to fish-farming or fish culture.

·   Baden Powel was the founder of Boy Scout and Civil Guides Movement.

·   Baku is famous for the production of petroleum.

·   Blue revolution relates to fish farming.

·   Borlaug, Norman Ernest was American agricultural scientist t and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1970. He was one of those who laid the groundwork of the Green Revolution.

·   Buoy stands for a man serving in any hotel for luggage transportation or as a guide.

·   Chakmas are refugees from Bangladesh settled in India.

·   Charar-e-Sharief is the Dargah of Sufi saint Sheikh Nooruddin Wali in Kashmir.

·   Charminar is located in Hyderabad (India).

·   Chernobayl is a Russian city having a nuclear power plant where a tank of readioactive waste exploded in April 1993. This explosion is known as “Chernobyl Disaster”.

·   Chris Patten was the last British Governor of Hong Kong.

·   It is summer season in Australia during Christmas.

·   Churchill was PM of U.K during WWII. He is known to have said, “ I have nothing to offer except blood, sweat and tears.”

·   CIS are 11 independent states of the former Soviet Union known as Commonwealth of Independent States.

·   Conditioned Reflex is the term mainly discussed in Psychology.

·   Crossbreeding is to be done for achieving quick increase in milk production.

·   Crystal oscillator is in electric watch, the component corresponding to pendulum of a pendulum clock.

·   The production of cultured pearls is an important cottage industry of Japan.

·   Debenture is a certificate issued by a company promising the payment of a specified amount at a fixed rate of interest after a specified period.

·   A deflector is a technique of adjusting for changes in price level.

·   Moraji Desai, former PM of India was the only Indian leader awarded the highest award of Pakistan for a civilian.

·   Desdemona is a character in the Shakespeare’s play Othello.

·   Dicky Dolma is the youngest woman climber of Mt. Everest.

·   Dr. Watson is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

·   Dunkel Draft relates to international trade.

·   Dzongkha is the official language of Bhutan.

·   E.T.A is a terrorist organization in Spain.

·   Elephant’s tusks are called enlarged cartilaginous bones.

·   Erasmus was a Dutch writher. His Praise of Folly is still read.

·   ESCAP is Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific. Its head office is at Bangkok.

·   Esperanto is an artificial international language created to act as world language.

·   Euro is the name of New Single European Currency launched on January 1, 1999.

·   Every Street is paved with Gold was authored by Kim Woo-Chung, founder of Daewoo.

·   Exfoliation is a type of weathering common both in the cold and in the hot climate regions.

·   Exit Poll is a term used to denote a post-election survey of voters regarding the candidate in whose favour they had exercised their franchise.

·   The reading of a Fahrenheit and a Centigrade temperature is the same at -40°.

·   Gregory Mendel is called the Father of Genetics.

·   Fenugreek seeds can benefit a patient of diabetes mellitus by normalizing his blood sugar level.

·   Powder-type fire extinguisher is used for petroleum fire.

·   India occupies first position in the world in the production of tea.

·   Fleet Street is the centre in London from where the British newspapers are published.

·   It is the President and not the PM who presides over the cabinet meetings in France.

·   Sigmund Freud founded the technique of pshychoaralysis.

·   Garunda is an Airline of Indonesia.

·   Geostationary Orbit is at a height of 36,000 km.

·   Guemica is a painting by Pablo Picasso.

·   Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.

·   Inflation means an increase in the amount of paper money, which tends to raise general price level of commodities. It is a comparative figure showing cost of living, production prices, etc as compared with a base year. Debtors are likely to benefit by Inflation.

·   Zero Rate Inflation obtains necessarily in a year where the annual rate of inflation is constant in every week of the year.

·   Inquilab Zindabad slogan was given by Mohammd Iqbal.

·   ISBN: International Standard Book Numbering is an internation system by which a distinct identifying number is assigned to each book.

·   Isochrones are the lines joining the places of equal labour and transportation costs.

·   Jain Commission was associated with probing the conspiracy angle of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination.

·   James Bond is a character in the novels written by Ian Fleming.

·   Jana-gana-mana is India’s National Anthem.

·   Jantar Mantar is an observatory in Delhi constructed in 1724 during the days of Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber.

·   Thomas Jefferson authored American Declaration of Independence.

·   Steven Spielberg directed Jurassic Park.

·   Kabalega is a National Park of Uganda.

·   Kalidas was the greatest of the Sanskrit daramatist. He authored Shakukntala, etc.

·   Kalinga Prize is awarded for popularization of science each year by UNESCO.

·   Gary Kasparov is associated with Chess.

·   Dr. V. Kurein is associated with Dairy Farming.

·   Bhutan is called the “Land of Thunder Dragon”.

·   Laos is the only land-locked country in South-East Asia.

·   Last Supper is a famous Renaissance painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

·   Leningrad is a famous town in Russia situated on the bank of river Neva.

·   LIBOR is the basic interest rate on interbank loans in London.

·   Lifeline Express is the world’s first hospital on rails operated in India.

·   G.J. Mendel is known as founder of genetics.

·   Meri Ekyaven Kavitayen is collection of poems of Atal Behari Vajpayee.

·   Milk is an example of emulsion.

·   Missionaries of Charity is the religious order established by Mother Teresa.

·   Montesquieu gave the theory of separation of power.

·   Mother Teresa was born in Albania in 1910.

·   My Experiments with Truth is autobiography of Mahtma Gandhi.

·   New Moore Island is situated in the Bay of Bengal.

·   Parliament of Switzerland is known as Federal Assembly.

·   Pasumpatinath temple is in Nepal.

·   Pathfinder is robot craft that landed on Mars in 1997.

·   Photolysis is dissociation of water molecule in the chemical reaction of photosynthesis.

·   Pierry Cardin is famous fashion designer.

·   Pondicherry is the Union Territory of India, which has a legislature.

·   India has 16% of world’s population.

·   The first two digits from left of the Pincode indicate Postal Zone.

·   Eyes of potato are used for vegetative propagation.

·   Prunning is associated with the cultivation of tea.

·   The concept of Public Interest Litigation originated in UK.

·   Pulitzer Prizes are awarded to Americans for excellence in journalism.

·   Quill feathers are on the wing and tail of birds and are helpful during their flight.

·   J.H. Dunant launched Red Cross Movement.

·   Saw-scaled viper is the only snake that builds a nest.

·   Scenes from a writer’s life are the autobiography of Ruskin Bond.

·   The average salinity of seawater is 3.5%.

·   Gram, Pea and Soyabean group of seeds are richer in protein than Rice and Maize.

·   A team of men in opposition to take over the different portfolios in case the party is able to wrest power is known as Shadow Cabinet.

·   Shahtoosh is the finest, warmest and lightest wool in the world produced in Uzbekistan.

·   If a ship desires to travel the shortest route, it must follow longitude connecting the two joints b/w which travel is to be undertaken.

·   Vatican is the smallest country in the world in terms of area.

·   Snake is a limbless reptile.

·   Sodium Benzoid is used for the preservation of grains.

·   USA is the world’s principal producer of Soyabean.

·   Stromboli is a volcano in Sicily.

·   Tapeworm has no digestive system because it is a saprophyte.

·   The Road Ahead is written by Bill Gates.

·   Torah is the sacred book of the Parsis.

·   United Kingdom consists of England, Northern Island, and Scotland & Wales.

·   Wheatstone Bridge is used to measure resistances.

·   Xenophobia is fear of today’s technology.

·   Bermuda triangle extends up to South Florida & Puerto Rico.

·   In Lawrence of Arabia Nobel Laureate Pearl S.Buck collaborated.

·   Length of a terrestrial mile is lesser than that of a nautical mile.

·   Bhakta Tukaram was a contemporary of Aurangzeb.

·   Universal Product Code (UPC) is adopted against adulteration in eatables.

·   Dolby B or Dolby C is printed on tape recorders and other sound systems refers to Noise reduction circuit.

·   The new administrative capital proposed for Myanmar is Pyinmana.

·   Bulgaria and Greece are disputing over the historical Macedonian territory.

·   Historical materialism is a tenet of Marxims- approach to study mankind with respect to society, economy and history.

·   Lightning is formed when strong opposite charges in different clouds break down the resistance offered by intervening air.

·   John Locke published a famous pamphlet known as ‘Right of Mass’ and urged the people in England, America and France to fight for their liberty.

·   Eli Whitney of America invented the cotton gin that separates seeds from cotton three hundred times faster that by hand in 1793.

·   In terms of the evolution of organism bat is the most advanced among pigeon, shark & vultures.

·   Large aperture telescopes are used for greater resolution.

·   Anton van Leeuwenhoek first time saw bacteria through a microscope made by him in 1683.

·   A seed is a ripened ovule.

·   Mr. Barack Hussein Obama is America’s 44^th President.

·   Pea can fix nitrogen from air.

·   Exbiology is the study of life or its possibility on other planets.

·   Kohler and Milstein discovered monoclonal antibodies.

·   Sandy soil is dry in comparison to clay due to Capillary action.

·   The framers of the Constitution borrowed the idea of judicial review from the Constitution of USA.

·   Savana grasslands are found in Africa.

·   The production of cultured pearls is an important cottage industry of Belgium.

·   When two organisms exit in such a way that the other benefits only one, the relationship is called Parasitism.

·   Qutub Minar made by Iltutmish, Gol Gumbaz made by Mohammad Adil Shah, Buland Darwaza made by Akbar and Moti Masjid made by Aurangzeb.

·   El Nino is associated with world weather.

·   Shahjehan built the Red Fort.

·   200th anniversary of the scientist in 2009.... Charles Darwin

·   BIN is the intelligence agency of.... Indonasia

·   Silicon valley in California is famous because of.. Software Industry

·   In 2008 monarchy ended in a country after 240 years... Nepal

·   Country celebrating 50th anniversary of communist revolution... Cuba

·   Pearl Harbor is in the state of USA.... Hawaii

·   Blue House is the official residence in .. South Korea...))