GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (7)

·    ‘The pharos of Alexandria ‘, an ancient wonder, was situated in an Island near Alexandria was a lighthouse.

·   The poetry of Jalal-ud-Din was in Persian language.

·   Aibak died while playing game, POLO.

·   General Rommel is called ‘desert fox’.

·   PM Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Sikhs in 1984.

·   Faiz Ahmed Faiz is the only Pakistani poet who got ‘LENIN PRIZE’.

·   ‘Blue mosque’, also known as the mosque of ‘Sultan Ahmad’, is the only mosque in the world that has six minarets, and it is situated in Istanbul.

·   Omar bin Abdul Aziz was a caliph of Umayyad dynasty.

·   Mizzini was known as the ‘the prophet of Italian Unification’.

·   Baba Farid Gang Shakar was the first Punjabi poet.

·   National game of Switzerland is skiing.

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·   UAE consists of seven independent states. Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Fujaira are three of the seven states.

·   Safety stock of the grains hold by the government is ‘overhead stock’.

·   General sales tax, under the constitution 1973 is a Federal subject.

·   Abdur Rasheed was the first chief Justice was the first chief justice of Pakistan.

·   Zafarullah khan was the first foreign minister of Pakistan.

·   House of lord is the final court of appeal in England.

·   Two terms tenure of US parliament was fixed in 1951.

·   The federalists later on assumed new name, Republicans.

·   The lower house of France consists of National assembly.

·   ‘Cherie Blaire’ is the 1^st day of England.

·   All light waves have same frequency.

·   Buddhism accounts for 100% total population in Bhutan.

·   Mauritius is the part of the world that is known as ‘star and key of the Indian ocean’.

·   Tower of silence is Place where dead remains of followers of Zoroastrian are placed after funeral rituals.

·   Who was Bismarck: German Politician and statesman.

·   Shale is not a metamorphic rock.

·   Shah Jehan is called the ‘master builder’.

·   Big Ben is a clock placed on British parliament.

·   Pristine is the capital of Kosovo.

·   To show the distribution of people of Pakistan we should use ‘Do method’.

·   Hieroglyphics is the script of Nile Civilization.

·   General Sherman is a living old tree in California State of U.S.

·   After persistent decay, radium would be finally changed into Lead.

·   World's largest delta is in Bangladesh.

·   Grand Canyon National Park in U.S.A. is located in the State of Arizona.

·   Marseilles is the seaport of France.

·   Robindranath Tagore was A Bengali novelist.

·   Who wrote 'Muslim Sufferings under Congress Rule': Maulvi Fazlul Haq.

·   Sindh Sagar is between the rivers of: Indus and Jhelum.

·   Nanga Parbat is commonly known as: Killer mountain.

·   Who invented CD. (Compact Disc: James T. Russell.

·   Bio-diesel is prepared: From oilcake.

·   Videotape used in camcorders to record audio and video signal employee Fine grains of Iron oxide.

·   The real brother of Hazrat Yousuf A.S was Bin-Yamin.

·   The founder of Falmid dynasty was Al-Mahdi.

·   Insulin drug was discovered by Paul Langerhans.

·   Taliban movement in Afghanistan emerged from Kandhar.

·   Largest coal deposits have been discovered in which Taluka of Sindh Province: Diplo.

·   Kalhora rulers of Sindh were originally Hashmi Sayeds.

·   Nubian Monuments are located in Egypt.

·   Pakistan's largest oil fields are located in District Badin.

·   The first American Astronaut to go into space was Allen Shepherd.

·   Annual Census in Pakistan is carried out every 10th year.

·   Shaheed Benazir Bhutto became first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan on December 2, 1988.

·   The D-Day operation during IInd World War was launched on the coast of Normandy.

·   Speed of sound in air is? 1200 KM/Hour

·   How many planets are is solar system? 8

·   Which cell does not have a nucleus? RBC

·   Abusive Drug Which Cells Of Body Most Effected? Brain

·   Crime rate is? 1,000 persons per year

·   Who killed Abu-Jahal? Maaz & Mauz

·   Pakistan Falls in? Golden Triangle

·   Major export of Pakistan is? Cotton

·   On US map Alaska State is on? Away from mainland

·   British occupied Punjab?. 1849

·    In English Dictionary Which Word Has Largest Words? S

·   What are Capital goods? Goods used for further production

·   Winter rains in Pakistan come from Mediterrenian Sea.

·   Horse is the Chinese name given to the year 2000.

·   Pollen is produced in a part of the flower called the Calyx.

·   After drinking contaminated water you would be most apt to develop symptoms of ‘typhoid fever’.

·   Panini was a great scholar of Sanskrit language.

·   Hundred years war fought between France and Britain during 1338-1453.

·   Wenceslas square is in Prague.

·   The first Afro-Asian conference held in April 1955.

·   Hot money is said for money, which moves from one place to another to seek profit or high rate of interest.

·   Eritrea gained independence on 24^th May 1993.

·   Under an agreement with Italy, Vatican City came into being as a sovereign state on 11^th February 1929.

·   Charles K Rhodes developed an X-Ray emitting laser in 1990.

·   Son meter is an instrument used to study the behavior of vibrating string.

·   Liver receives blood from the alimentary canal through hepatic portal vein.

·   At the equator, the equation of the day is 12 hours.

·   Singapore city is known as ‘lion city’.

·   The instrument used for measuring the velocity of wind is known as anemometer.

·   The chemical name of baking soda is sodium bicarbonate.

·   Pharaoh is the title of the king of ancient Egypt. They ruled Egypt for 25 centuries.

·   National Institute of Oceanography Karachi was established in 1983.

·   Lord Chesterfield quoted ‘idleness is only the refuge of weak minds’.

·   Dr.Abdussalam was awarded Nobel Prize in 1979.

·   The largest city of South Africa is Cape Town.

·   Two boundary commissions were appointed to demarcate the boundaries between two new states, Pakistan and India.

·   After joining congress, Muslim League joined the interim government in October 1946.

·   NPT came into force on 1970.

·   The Bofors scandal occurred in India.

·   Czar is the title used by the ruler of Russia from 1547 to 1721.

·   Gorgon is a terrible monster of Greek mythology.

·   Flying foxes are tropical foxes that can fly.

·   The reduction or elimination of inflation is called creeping inflation.

·   Canada is a leading producer of wood pulp in the world.

·   London carnival was first started in 1964.

·   Indira Gandhi was the famous PM who first used the popular slogan ‘gharibi hatao’.

·   The successful cloning of a sheep was reported by scientist from Roslin Institute Edinburgh (UK) in 1998.

·   The new name of Yalamlam is As-Sadiya.

·   Czar title was used by the rulers of Russia from 1547 to 1721.

·   Gulf Stream is an ocean current named after the Gulf of Mexico.

·   Gorgon is a terrible monster of Greek mythology.

·   A pair of scissors is an example of a lever.

·   Pair of doors belongs to the second class of lever.

·   During the winter months 90% of fallen leaves are taken underground by earthworm.

·   Dick Turpin was a highwayman.

·   Jamaica was granted full independence on 6^th August 1962.

·   Four US presidents are so far assassinated.

·   Sinai Peninsula was vacated and returned to Egypt in 1982.

·   Incident ‘Boston Tea Party’ took place in America.

·   Initially, Arab league has seven countries.

·   Nixon Doctrine was outlined in July 1969.

·   King of Malaysia is the only king in the world who is elected for 5 years term.

·   Timbola is a kind of lottery.

·   The maximum limit of sound beyond which a person can become deaf is 129 lbs.

·   Dr. James Watson discovered the structure of DNA in 1953.

·   Sir William Howard Russell was the first Great War correspondent.

·   A meteorological term for a high pressure is called anticyclone.

·   Zenda Vesta is a holy book of Parsis.

·   Islamic summit Minar is erected in Lahore.

·   Privatization program began in Pakistan is 1991.

·   National anthem of Pakistan was played for the first time on August 13, 1954.

·   Spirograph is an apparatus used for recording the movement of the lungs.

·   Chomas festival is held in Kalash valley near Chitral.

·   Docking means rendezvous and link up of spacecraft.

·   Defense day is celebrated in Pakistan since 1966.

·   Name of a famous mosque in Beijing is Niujie Mosque.

·   Flag flown at half-mast means national mourning.

·   Maginot line divides France from Germany.

·   Declaration of human rights was adopted on 10^th December 1984.

·   Olive branch is a sign of peace.

·   Cox orange pippen is a biological name of an apple.

·   Christopher Wren designed St. Paul’s cathedral in London.

·   Planetary winds consist of doldrums, trace winds and westerlies.

·   Afghanistan was known as Ariana.

·   Anundsen discovered South Pole in December 14, 1911.

·   The first European scientist, who refuted the belief that the earth was the centre of the universe, was Copernicus.

·   The hundred-year war actually lasted for 114 years.

·   Lenin was the founder of the Russian socialist state.

·   Prior to independence, Ghana was called ‘Gold Coast’.

·   Tanzania was formed by the unification of two countries, Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

·   The first atomic power station of Pakistan was installed in Karachi.

·   Starfish is not a starfish but a spiny-skin (Echinodermata) marine animal.

·   760 miles/hr is the speed of sound.

·   1480, 00,000 km is the distance from sun to earth.

·   Temperature of Sun is 6000 degree C.

·   Necent state in which atomic state of an element as a result of chemical reaction in which it a more active than in ordinary molecular state.

·     Islam was introduced to China in the middle period of the seventh century.

·   Drinker’s apparatus is for measuring the amount of Alcohol in the blood.

·   Atomic pile is a place where nuclear fission is made.

·   Dewar’s flask is called as thermos.

·   Atomic weight of chemical compounds is determined by Mass spectroscopy.

·   Chief food of mosquito larva is microorganism found in water.

·   Chief food of butterfly larva is leaves of plants.

·   Corn adds more oxygen to the atmosphere than it removes.

·   Euspongia is known as natural bath sponge.

·   Live Fluke, biologically called Fasciola, is found in liver of sheep.

·   Earthworm is a bi-sexual.

·   Eyes of insects are compound.

·   Silk is obtained from cocoon of silkworm.

·   Clinical thermometer usually measures in Fahrenheit.

·   Tube light emits radiation even after it is disconnected. It is due to Fluorescence.

·   The conversion of gases into liquid under high pressure and low temperature is called regulation.

·   If a green leaf is seen in a red light its color will be black.

·   Emerge of VIBGYOR from one side of the prism is due to refraction and dispersion of light.

·   Skin does not excrete oil.

·   Plants growing in extremely dry condition are called Xerophytes.

·   Roots absorb water from soil, which is Hygroscopic.

·   Legumes increase the fertility of the soil by adding nitrogen to the soil.

·   New varieties of organisms can be brought about by hybridization.

·   Male child is born if xy chromosomes are united.

·   Fertilization is fusion of two game tics of different strains.

·   Fruit developed from single ovary is called simple fruit.

·   Seeds are developed from Ovule.

·   Parthenocarpic fruits are seedless fruits.

·   Grains swell in water due to imbibitions.

·   Chlorophyll contains magnesium.

·   Mahalanobis model laid great emphasis on development of heavy industries.

·   Oxidation is the process in which electron is lost.

·   The rate of transpiration depends upon frequency of Stomata.

·   Light is necessary for photosynthesis because it produce ATP and reducing substance.

·   Oxygen liberated from photosynthesis comes from water.

·   Red light is most suitable for photosynthesis.

·   Respiration means food oxidation and evolution of energy.

·   Chemical preservation of dead organisms in liquid is called Cryo-Bilogy.

·   The organisms, which are the only living membrane of their group and link two major groups, are called Living Fossil.

·   Mammals cannot be cold blooded.

·   Trypanosome a parasite causing sleeping sickness.

·   Half time is a time of radioactive substance taken by that substance to decompose radioactivity to half of its weight.

·   Watson and Crick gave structure of DNA.

·   In Nuclear DNA is concentrated in chromatin.

·   Proteins are synthesized by golgi bodies.

·   Cellulose respiration is done by Mitochondrion.

·   Light energy is stored in the form of chemical energy due to the activity of Chloroplast.

·   Protoplasm is a colloidal solution.

·   Voltammeter is an electrolytic cell for conducting electrolytic dissociation of electrolyte.

·   In cryptograms, the sex organs are primitive and hidden.

·   Thallophytia include algae, fungi, and lichens.

·   Carl Linneus is famous for binomial system of nomenclature.

·   Angiosperm includes the plants, which have covered flowers and covered seed.

·   Plant cells resembles animal cell because having a cell membrane made up of protoplasm.

·   Snake have been evolved from lizard.

·   510 million square kilometers is the total surface area of the earth.

·   At 7050 km per hour, Sun rotate on its axis.

·   The northern polar lights are called Aurorae Borealis, and southern polar lights are called Aurorae Australis.

·   The pulsating universe theory explains the evolution of universe.

·   Plants in which seed are outside the fruit are called Gymnosperms.

·   0.200 grams are equal to one carat.

·   One million cycles per second is called Megahertz.

·   Linseed oil is used while oil painting.

·   Smell is the weakest sense in Birds.

·   Owl can rotate his head to 180 degrees on either side.

·   Ostrich eat pebbles for helping digestion by grinding up the ingested food.

·   The cuckoo sneaks its eggs into other birds’ nest to hatch.

·   Dyne is a unit of Force.

·   Birds are warm-blooded animals.

·   Birds bones are hollow.

·   Oven birds build strong nests.

·   Weaver birds are called to the birds who build their nests.

·   Male birds are more colorful than females.

·   Birds do not fly are penguins, emus, kiwis, ostriches.

·   Breitling orbiter 3 was the first balloon to fly non-stop around the world.

·   Aircraft designers test their model of aircraft in with tunnel.

·   Flaps are used as air brakes.

·   Amphibians were the first vertebrates.

·   There are three stages of frog. Egg-tadpole-adult frog.

·   Metamorphosis - > a series of changes.

·   Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) was one of the first to study animal behavior.

·   Survive very cold weather or very dry weather by going into a deep sleep. Surviving cold condition like this is called hibernation. Sleeping through hot, dry condition is called aestivation.

·   A.D means in the year of our Lord.

·   Amal is radical Lebanese Shi’ite military force established in 1970 by Musa Sadr.

·   Balfour Declaration was issued in 2 Nov: 1917.

·   Yugoslavian city Skopije was destroyed by earthquake in 1963.

·   Bootlegging is a form of smuggling.

·   Religion of Chinese people is Confucianism.

·   Frescois a method of painting on plaster (usually a wall) meaning fresh.

·   Kleptomania is an irrational urge to steal.

·   Intifada is Palestinian uprising.

·   Long March was 9600 km journey organized by Mao Tse Tang in the year of 1931-1934.

·   Vnukovo Airport is located at Moscow.

·   Mercury Project first manned space programme of USA, carry the first American into space lauched on 5^th May 1961.

·   Pan-Islam originated in 1880 in Ottomon Empire was a movement for uniting the Islamic Nations.

·   Chinese invented paper in 3500 BC.

·   Printing was invented by Chinese.

·   Unity, faith & discipline was used by Quaid on Dec: 28, 1947.

·   Philately is the hobby of stamp collection.

·   Oscar Award was introduced by Louis B Mayer of Metro Goldwin-Mayer Academy Award in 1927.

·   First black president of South Africa was Nelson Mandela his party was banned in 1961 and he was imprisioned.

·   Feminism is the belief that women subordination to men should end.

·   Nickname of Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was Little Boy and on Nagasaki=Fat Man.

·   Balfour Declaratoin issued in 2 Nov: 1917.

·   Yougoslavian city Skopije was destroyed by earthquake in 1963.

·   Bootleggin is a form of smuggling.

·   Riverboat Gondola is used in Italy’s city Venice.

·   Hydaspes River is now called the Jhelum River.

·   Dinosaur means “Terrible” lizard.

·   The name of heaviest dinosaur was Branchiosaurus.

·   Fresco is a method of painting on plaster it means fresh.