GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

• 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.
• 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.”
• Conditioned Reflex is the term mainly discussed in Psychology.
• Cross-breeding 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.
• 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.
• 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 readings 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.
• It is the President and not the PM who presides over the cabinet meetings in France.
• Sigmund Freud founded the technique of pshychoaralysis.
• 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.
• ISBN: International Standard Book Numbering is an internation system by which a distinct identifying number is assigned to each book.
• 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.
• Jurassic Park was directed by Steven Spielberg.
• 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.
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• Montesquieu gave the theory of separation of power.
• Mother Teresa was born in Albania in 1910.
• New Moore Island is situated in the Bay of Bengal.
• Parliament of Switzerland is known as Federal Assembly.
• Pasumpatinath temple is in Nepal.
• 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.
• Postal Zone is indicated by the first two digits from left of the Pincode.
• 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.
• Red Cross Movement was launched by J.H. Dunant.
• Saw-scaled viper is the only snake that builds a nest.
• Scenes from a writer’s life is the autobiography of Ruskin Bond.
• The average salinity of sea water 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.
• USA is the world’s principal producer of Soyabean.
• Stromboli is a volcano in Sicily.
• Tape worm 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, Scotland & Wales.
• Wheatstone Bridge is used to measure resistances.
• Xenophobia is fear of today’s technology.
• 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 44th President.
• Pea can fix nitrogen from air.
• Exbiology is the study of life or its possibility on other planets.
• 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 only one is benefited by the other, 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.
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