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The Oldest Capital In The World Damascus (Syria)

High juice taking country Canada

When was launched Chandrayaan-1 22nd October 2008

Who build the Red Fort in Delhi? Shahjahan

When established the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) 2nd Octber 1974

Satyam is taken over by: Tech Mahindra

Sun Microsystem was taken over by oracle

which IPL team consists of players from all the test playing nations (Excluding Zimbabwe)

MUMBAI INDIANS

What is the FULL FORM of NDTV New Delhi Television

which team crossed 200 runs in the IPL-2 Rajasthan Royals

who get the NASSCOM global leadership award for 2008? ratan tata

the longest river in the world nile

largest mammal blue whale

What does all beaches have in common?thet all have water and sand you fool !! hahaha

how many capitals does china have? Three!!!!

fastest jet plane? SR71 black bird.

how much rund did ab de villeirs score in the match of 23 april 2009 in the second season of indian premier league and how much did t dilshan score?

Ab de villeis-105 Dilshan-exact 50

Who has written the book Holes? LOUIS SACHER

Which is the most famous actress in india? Priyanaka Chopra

Who is wicker keeper of Chennai super kings? of course yaar apna dhoni

where is statue of libert? New York

Who is captain of deccan chargers? Adam gilchrist

fastest jet plane? SR71 black bird.

smallest breed of dog? chivava

tallest breed of dog? greatdane.

fastest land animal? cheetah

tallest building? Taipei one o one.

What is the shortest word which uses letters A, B, C, D, E and F? feedback

expand HSBCHongKong Shanghai Banking Corporation

capital of sikkim gangtok

Who is the Governor of Meghalaya? R.S. Mooshahary

When Tata Nano Launch 23rd March 2009

Expand WTO World Trade Organisation

Expand GATTGeneral Aggrement On Trade and Tariff

Five Permenate Countries OF UNO America,Britain,China,France&Russia

Expand TRIMs Trade Related Investment Measures

Expand UTI Unit Trust Of India

Expand RBI Reserve Bank Of India

Expand SIDBI Small Industries Development Bank Of India

Expand UNO United Nations Organations

Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi

how mani stiars comes when you enter in the fatehpur seekri fort

52

Which is the animal having two ivoris and a trunk the elephant

which animal has the largest eye of all giant squird

What are twins cakked when they are joined together at same part of body

sianese twins

the machine gun was invented by richard gatking

who is the father of english poetry geoffery chaucer

which gland produce tears lacrimal

which city in india is situated for its snakepal chennai

where the international olymipic commitrr headquarter situated lausanna, switharland

what is avarage length of ocean 3800m

What is the star which near to us apart from Sun Alpha Centauri

Expand NABARDNtional Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

Expand IDBI Industrial Development Bank of India

President Of India Prathiba Patil

The monsester of tamilnadu Koiambuture

which is the capital of tamilnadu chennai

What is the full mean of the PMKN Pathakamuri Muddukrishna Naidu

What is the name of Mumbai Blast operation? Black Tarnado

isro head office which place banglore

whos is Mr.Resul PookuttyA Keralite ,Academy Award nominated "Slumdog Millionaire"s sound designer and mixer

Full-form of BPL British Physical Laboratory

what is the full form of AMUL Anand Milk Union Limited

Who are the writers(scriptwriters) of movie "Slumdog Millionaire"

Simon Beaufoy & Vikas Swarup

becil brocasting engneering coporation India limited

bhel? bharath heavy electrical limited

what is the boling point of water? 100 degree cen

wat is game go

Who is the first Indian Musician to bag the Golden Globe award

A R Rehman

HR8799 New solar planet system

Forbes life time Achievement Awards 2008 Lakshmi Mittal

Company of year in Economic Time Excellene Awards 2007-2008

Tata Steel

MISS world 2008 Ksenya Sukhinova

MISS world 2008 Ksenya Sukhinova

NAG Anti tank missile

Haryana declare year 2009 as Year of Farmer

fifa footballer of 2008 Ronaldo

Malraria spread due to Plasmodium

Uva Yojana scheme by Bank of maharashtra

IT & communication Revoiution by Rajiv gandhi

Green Revolution by Indira Gandhi

Whats india ranks in Global Gender Gap Index Report 2008 113th

Rider of year 2008 Alberto Contador

deshikottama Award to kind of bhutan (jigme singye

Crystal Awards 2009 to Malika sarabai

who win Euro 2008 Football cup Spain

Kuno zoo is at madha pradesh

how many votes did Obama got to become president 364 votes

2006 Jnanpith Award bags to Ravindra Kelekar & Sankrit

2005 Jnanpith Award bags to kunwar Narain

2004 Jnanpith Award bags to Rahman rahi

How many tiger reserve are in india 28

what is the full form of ADIDAS All Day I Dream Sports

what is the full form of ADIDAS All Day I Dream Sports

LBW is related to ? Cricket

WHO IS THE CHAIRMAN OF CBSE VINEET JOSHI

Who was the brand ambassador of Accenture? Tiger Woods

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which film actor recently entered into politics in andhra pradesh . MEGASTAR CHIRANJEEVI

Capital of India New Delhi

Who is the father of History Herodotus

WHICH IS THE LARGEST MOUNTAIN RANGE IN THE WORLD ALPAS

Which 2 test player scored 100 among the all test cricket playing countries Rahul Dravid & Sachin Tendulkar

What is my name? My name is computer

What is my name? My name is computer

WHO IS OUR PRIME MINISTER MON MOHAN SINGH

which film punch line is come fall in love? dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge

what was the first avatar of lord vishnu ? Matsya avatar

where is the disney land located ? californa,USA

who got bharat ratna award 2008? bhimsen joshi

How many legs does a butterfly have? Six

Which is the nearest star? Sun

which is the first indian national park corbett national park un uttaranchal

which is the first indian national park corbett national park un uttaranchal

how much run did saurav ganguly scored in his last innings of his test career?

0

how much run did saurav ganguly scored in his last innings of his test career?

0

newcnew;cnew’cnew What is that?

who discovered bacteria? leeuenhoek.

HSBCHONKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

Who discovered chocolate? Daniel Craig

best chat site?? orkut

what is the height of khali??? 7 feet 3 inches

Who has the credit of scoring highest runs in a single ODI?? Saeed Anwar(194) pakistan team

Expand HSBC Hong Kong and Shangai Banking Corporation

WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF SARS?SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME

Bhilai Steel Plant located at Bhilai(Chaatisgarh) is installed with the help of which country

Sangameswara Rao

where is the famous Rock Garden Sutaiated ? Chhandigarh.

What was the capital of India, before New Delhi ? Vanastalipuram

first lady governor of state in indiaGandhi baga sarojinee naidu ni dengi state governer chesadu

spider has how many legs 8

which travels feaster-light or sound ? light waves

Name the youngest president of USA. Theodore Roosevelt

Actor Saif ali khan is the son of which famous cricketer? Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

In which state is Krishna Raja Sagar dam situated? Karnataka

Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?

South Korea

What is the expansion of YAHOO? Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

Who gave Mickey Mouse to the world? SIR.Walt Disney

Where is the INSAT master control facility? Hassan(Karnataka)

which is the only aquatic mammal? Blue Whale

Which is the longest national highway in india? NH-7 Kanyakumari-Varanasi

The oldest capital in the world Damascus (siriya)

The Textile City in India Bhilwara (Rajasthan)

How much teeth of Dog 36

How many legs of betterfly. 6 legs

IN which year was charlie chaplin born??????? 1889

What was the name given to the atom bomb which was dropped on hiroshima???????

LITTLE BOY

first governer general of independant india? Lord Louis Mountbatten

where was the worlds first missle launched?????srirangapatna(mandya district) launched by Tippu Sultan in 1782

where is the world’s tallest monolith??? shravanabelagola(hassan district) karnataka

Who is the famous musician who played his instrument in a concert at red fort 0n 15th aug 1947 and as well as 15 aug 1997????

BHARAT RATNA USTAD BISMILLAH KHAN

Tip of India Cape Comorin

Who is the Attorney General of India? Mr.Milon Kumar Bannerjee

AAEI--? All Are Eaten Illa.

Wat coms aftar inglis letar X da karect ansar:Y

Wat coms aftar 10 Ans:11

What is the full form of NRHM National Rural Health Mission

Who scored the maximum number of centuries is limited over cricket (one day cricket)?

Sachin

Only a mammel who can’t jump? Elephant

Who is the fastest man on land? Usain Bolt of Jamaica!!!!!!!!!

what is the oldest son of ravana indrajeet

Who is the Chief Minister of Karnataka? B.S.Yadyurappa

Who is the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh? Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy

how many istricts are there in u.s.a 50

CEO of APPLE? Steve Jobs

in military terminology ’0’ refers to? expected time to attact.

Full Name of Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

full form of ndtv? new delhi television

WHO IS THE NEW GOVERNOR OF RBI?DR DUVVURI SUBBARAO he was earlier finance secretary .....

INDIA HAS SUCCESSFULLY TEST FIRED AGNI III IN THE MONTH OF MAY 2008. WHICH TYPE OF MISSILE BELONGS TO AGNI III -

SURFACE TO SURFACE INTERMEDIATE RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE

.INDIA HAS SUCCESSFULLY TEST FIRED AGNI III IN THE MONTH OF MAY 2008. WHICH TYPE OF MISSILE BELONGS TO AGNI III -

- SURFACE TO SURFACE INTERMEDIATE RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE

No. of persons playing in polo? 4(four)

who is first president(woman)? subhaataryn yanjmaa(argentina) as post president

Which country is the richest in terms of Highest income per capita?

Switzerland, $21000.

Which is the longest highway in the world? Trans-Canada

Who wrote the famous book ’’unaccustomed earth’’? Jhumpa Lahri

who is the winner of US Tennis Open Tournament, 2008 Roger Federer (Switzerland)

who is the winner of US Tennis Open Tournament, 2008 Roger Federer (Switzerland)

Who was the political guru of Netaji C.R.Das

Abhinav Bindra is famous in which sport Shooting

Which is the highest gravity dam in the world Bhakra Dam in India

The country which gave first slogans of liberty, euality and fraternity was

France

WHO IS THE INDIAN TO GET THE HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARD (BHUMIPUTRA) OF INDONESIA?

SHRI BIJAYANANDA PATANIK( BIJUPATNIK) FORMOR CHIEF MINISTER OF ORISSA

Lake city in India? Udaypur

What is expansion of "ICICI ?" Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India

The authour of wings of fire Dr. Abdul kalam

Who is frist batsman cross the 10000 runs in Test&ODI matches?

Sachin Tendulkar

Who is frist Lady Driver in India? Vasantha kumari

The Length of English channel ? 564 K.M

THE BIGGEST DELTA IN THE WORLD? GANGAS DELTA

who is the second cricket player to get bharat khel ratna award other than sachin tendulkar?

M.S Dhoni

who got the higest civilian award of france recently MR.NarayanaMurthy(infosys)

which is known as king of chemicals? sulphuric acid

ISRO successfully conducted a rocket test using cryogenic engines in the year 2007. Where is the test stand used for the purpose located?

Mahendragiri

How many High Courts in India have jurisdiction over more than one State (Union Territories not included)?

3

What is the pH level of blood of a normal person? 7.35-7.45

rocket works on neuton third law

dandi march held on 1930

WHO IS THE INDIAN TO GET THE HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARD (BHUMIPUTRA) OF INDONESIA?

SHRI BIJAYANANDA PATANIK( BIJUPATNIK) FORMOR CHIEF MINISTER OF ORISSA

WHO IS THE INDIAN TO GET THE HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARD (BHUMIPUTRA) OF INDONESIA?

SHRI BIJAYANANDA PATANIK( BIJUPATNIK) FORMOR CHIEF MINISTER OF ORISSA

who is the "FATHER OF TAXONOMY"? Carolus Linnaeus

Who is considered as the father of Geography? Ptolomy

In which year Chinese revolt begun? 1911

In which year Magna carta signed? 1215

French revolution began in which year? 1789

Who is the founder of BRAHMA SAMAJ? RAJA RAM MOHAN ROY

Who is the father of history? Herodotus

Which State haw own LAW Jammu & Kashmir

who is the founder of Paper ? China

At which time Gandhi ji help the British Government? First World War

How many rings in Olympic symbol? 5 Rings

founder of zero aryabhatta

Who is the First prime minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

who is the first chief minister of karnataka K.C. Reddy

In which language ’Hortus Malabaricus’ was orginated compiled ? Latin

George Orwell was born in ? India

The Athens Olympics has beeen the _____________ edition of the modern Olympics 28th

which country is leading producer of mica india

First lady prime minister of India Smt. Indira Gandhi

First Kannadiga to get honoured with "Bharat Ratna" Sir M V Vishveshwariah

First person to get honoured with Dada Phalke award in Karnataka Dr. Rajkumar

Tip of India Kanyakumari

Which language got highest "Gnana Peeta Award" - Literature Kannada - 7 awards

Highest rainfall in karnataka Agumbe

Who best test engineer in the world? Sangam

Garden city and Silicon city of India Bangalore

Capital city of Karnataka Bangalore

Rice bowl of India Andhra Pradesh

Which is the smallest bird of the world ? Male Humming Bird

how many teeth are in a moskito 47

France’s new president? Nicolas Sarkozy

Who wrote "Wings of Fire"? APJ Abdul Kalam

ASAP.....? Aboriginal Support Assistance Program

White house? Official residence of American president.

White fort? Official residence of Yugoslavian President.

White Coal? Hydro-electricity.

White Gold? Cotton

Great White Way? Broadway.

White Mountain? Mauna-kea.

White Russia? Bellarus

White man’s grave? Guinea Coast.

White plague? Tuberculosis

White continent? Antartica

White city in India? Udaypur

White city? Belgrade

IUCN ?International Union for the Conservation of Nature & natural resources

Pravasi bharathi Day or overseas day ? January 9

Which is the first nation to give women the right to vote?

New Zeland

Earth Day? April 22

Who is known as the father of Economics? Adam Smith.

"IC" chips for computers are usually made of ? Silicon

"Hydro Power" is the term used for electricity produced through? Water.

The power of an ordinary torch cell is? 1.5volt

In a Doctor’s stethescope the sound is intensified because of? Reflection of sound.

THE REVERBERATION OF SOUND IN A HALL RESULT DUE TO CONTINUED?

REFLECTION

The scientific study of currency and its history in all its varied forms known as ?

Numismatics

ACPC-? Asian Council For Peoples Culture

ACCESS--?Arab Community Center For Economic And Social Services

ACAS------? Asian Community Aids Services

ABCC----? Australian British Chamber of Commerce

ABBA----? Aid Babies Battling Aids

AAWWTP----? Ann Arbor Waste Water Treatment Plant

AASD---? Assistance For Aids Specific Drugs

AAHC--? African American Heritage Committee

AAFE---? Asian Americans For Equality

AAFA---? African American Firefighters Association

AA-- ? Asian Avenue

AAAG ---? African American Advisory Group

AACOC--? Alliance Area Chamber of Commerce

AAEI--? Automobile Association Of Eastern India

AACSC --? Afro American Community Service Center

Present Governer of Kerala ? R. L. Bhatia

First Governor of Kerala ? Ramakrishna Rao

Who is the 20 Chief Minister of Kerala ? V.S. Achuthanandan

First Elected Chief Minister of Kerala?E. M. S. Namboodiripad (Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad)

International Airports in Kerala? Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, and Kozhikodu

In test cricket, which cricketer bagged maximum number of runs and centuries in a calender year?

Muhammad Yusaf

How many teams are participating in 2007 World Cup Cricket?

16

Which cricketer bagged ICC’s 2006 Gari Sobbers Award? Ricky Ponting (Australia)

World’s first heart transplantation was happend in? South Africa (in 1967)

----- in humen body does not affect by cancer? Heart

Pulse rate of a normal man? 72/minute

Normal pressure range? 120/80 mm Hg

Number of borns in the body of a newly borned baby? more than 300

The NAM summit 2006 was held at ? Havana

The Indian Contract Act came into force on: 1 st Sep. 1872

The Nobel Prizes are awarded at formal ceremonies held annually on --- (Date)?

December 10

First Nobel Prize awarded in? 1901

By which Scientist’s name Nobel prizes are given? Alfred Nobel (Sweden)

The Nobel Prizes are awards in :physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.

Who discovered the cause of malaria? Ronald Ross

From which plant is morphine obtained? Opium Poppy

What is an aardvark? An ant-eating animal

What is constellation?A cluster of fixed stars in the heaven like Great Bear, Orion.

What is herpetology? Study of reptiles

Memorial of Veera Pazhassi Raja situated in ? Mananthavady, Wayanad.

Which King is known as the "Lion of Kerala" ? Veera Pazhassi Raja

Who was the Pakistan Cricket Team Coach who died recently? Bob Woolmer

Who built the Agra Fort? Akbar

Who was the founder of Sikhism? Guru Nanak

Who was the last ruler of the Mughal dynasty? Bahadur Shah Zafar

Who was the first President of India? Dr. Rajendra Prasad

In whose memory was the Taj Mahal built? Mumtaz Mahal

Who was the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism? Vardhamana Mahavir

When did Jawaharlal Nehru die? 27th May 1964

I was born in Russia. I was the President of Soviet Union. I was succeeded by Boris Yelstin. Who am I?

Mikhail Gorbachev

I was born in Illinois, United States of America. I was the 40th President. Before becoming the President, I was the Governor of California. Who am I?

Ronald Reagan

The seeds of coniferous trees are contained in the _______. cones

The gas that is exhaled by plants is _______ (during respiration). Carbon Dioxide

Which of the following is not a herbaceous plant? Sycamore

Which of the following conifers is not an evergreen? Larch

Which of the following plants has no chlorophyll? Mushroom

Which of the following is not a deciduous tree/shrub? Holly

Allergy is treated by ? Antihistamine

Life of RBC in human blood is of? 120 days

Which of the following hormones contains iodine? Thyroxine

What is unit for measuring the pitch or frequency of sound? Decibel

Rayon is chemically ? Cellulose

In fireworks, gree flame is produced by? Barium

Carborundum is? Silicon Carbide

Land Of Pearls? Bahrain

Gift of Nile? Egypt

In which country will the 2008 Olympic games be held? China

Mercury also known as ? quick silver

Who got nobel prize in literature in 1913? Rabindranath Tagore

Iron lady of India? Indira Gandhi

Father of nuclear Physics? Rutherford

Father of economics? Adam Smith

City of palaces? Calcutta

Capital of Europe? Belgium

Biggest island of the world ? Greenland

First industrial minister of kerala? K.P.Gopalan

What is the unit of measuring radiation? Currie

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Who said this?

Benjamin Franklin

Who was called Bard of the Avon? William Shakespeare

Who is the creator of Jeeves? P G Woodhouse

What was the real name of authoress George Eliot? Mary Ann Evans

How many lines are there in a sonnet? 14

Who wrote Grapes of Wrath, a novel set in California describing John Steinbeck - For which he was awarded

the state "Flowing with milk and honey"? the Nobel Prize

Which Roman emperor build Byzantium? Constantine

What is the holy book of Parsis called? The Zend Avesta

What is the scientific name for study of handwriting? Graphology

What is Mach Number?Ratio of speed of the body to the speed of sound under similar conditions

Father of genetics? Gregor Johann Mendel

The largest zoo in Indiais at? Culcutta

K.L.M. a world wide airlines ,belongs to wich country? Netherlands

Namibia was earlier known as? Sout-west Africa

Coal is found in? volcanic rocks

Who was the first Indian to be elected to British Parliament? Dadabhai naoroji

Sunlight reaches the earth in about? 500seconds

The smallest sate in the world? Vatican city

Magnetic field of electric current was dicovered by? Faraday

what is epistamology? study of knowledge

who wrote chithirappavai? P V Akilandan

who wrote step across the line? Salman rushdie

who wrote himalayan blunder? J P dalvi

who wrote I am not an Island? k a abbas

who wrote half life? v s naipaul

Who wrote gods own country? sasi tharur

Who wrote India of our deams? K V kamath

Who wrote Years of pilgrimage? Dr Raja Rmanna

Who wrote Yama? Mahadevi Varma

Who wrote yayathi ? V S Khandekar

Length of a cricket pitch? 22 yards (20.12 m)

Taj Mahal built in ? 17th Century

Agmark is used for calculation of the standard of Agricultural products

Which British Prime Minister was awarded Nobel Prize in literature? Sir Winston Churchil

Who was the boy who never grew up? Peter Pan

Which is the worlds longest poem? Mahabharatham

Depth of Challenger Deep? 11,033 M

Which alphabet do the Russians use? Cyrillic

Where is the headquarters of the International Red Cross Society?

Geneva

Which was the first country to use paper? China

Which is the oldest known formally written language? Elamite, dating back to 3500 BC

In which year was the Nobel Prize instituted and which country awards it?

1901--Sweeden

Who put the first self propelled vehicle on the moon? Former USSR (on 7th Nov-1970; Vehicle-Lunokhod-I)

Which is the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world?

Great Britain

Why does a tennis ball bounce higher on hills than on plains?

Gravitational pull in the hills is less than that of plains

Which element has the highest boiling point? Tantalum (around 6000 C)

Who invented the jet engine? Sir Frank Whittle (England-1937)

Why we do not feel pains to cut our nails?Nails are not connected with cartilages/blood vessals, so the nervous system is not affected

Who invented the bifocal lens? Benjamin Franklin

At which temperature do both the Centigrade and Fahrenheit show the same reading?

-40C equals -40F

Which is the longest bone in the human body? Thigh Bone OR The Femur

Neutron was discovered? James Chadwick

Electron was discovered? J. J. Thomson

RDX means? Research Department Explosive (Explosive)

TNT means? Trinitrotoluene (Explosive)

First metal to be used by men? Copper

The winner of Dada Sahib Phalke award 2004? Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Which of the following countries is known as Cockpit of Europe? Belgium

Which district in Kerala has the highest population density? Alappuzha

The Iddukki dam is across the river Periyar

Who is the first Education Minister of Kerala? Joseph Mundassery

Kovilan is the pen name of: V. Ayappan

Who published ‘Horthus Malabaricus’ The Dutch

How many bones are there in the Human Body? 206

First Chief Election Commissioner of India? Sukumar Sen

Who is the first batsman to ever hit six sixes off an over in a One Day International?

Hershelle Gibbs - South Africa

Capital of India Delhi

What is TERLS ?Thumba Equitorial Rocket Launching System

What is ADB Asian Development Bank

Who scored the maximum number of centuries is limited over cricket (one day cricket)?

Sachin Tendulkar

Capital of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram

Formula One is related to ? Car Racing

LBW is related to ? Cricket

President Of India Prathiba Patil

Who was the Captain of Indian Cricket Team in 2003-2004 World cup? Sourav Ganguli

1.Match the following columnsColumn 1 Column 2

A. Relative 1. Pyrometer humidity

B. Anemometer 2. High temperature

C. Navigation 3. Hygrometer

D. Direction of wind 4. Chronometer

1 2 3 4

a. B D A C

b. D B A C

c. A D B C

d. C A D B

2.3. Which of the following instruments is used to measure pressure of gases?

a. Barometerb. Manometerc. Ammeterd. None of these

4. Joule is the unit ofa. Temperature pressureb. Energyc. Heat

5. How many Dynes are there in one gram weight?a. 900b. 375c. 981d. 250

6. How many Ergs are these in 1 Joule?a. 102b. 104c. 106d. 107

7. The unit of current isa. Ohmb. Wattc. Ampered. None of these

8. The unit of energy in MKS system isa. Voltb. Ergc. Ohmd. Joule

9. The intensity of an earthquake is measured with aa. Barometerb. Hydrometerc. Polygraphd. Seismograph

10. Centigrade & Fahrenheit scales give same reading ata. - 40°b. - 32°c. - 273°d. - 100°

11. Match the following columnsColumn 1 Column 2

A. Anemometer 1. To measure underwater depth using sound

B. Aneroid barometer 2. To measure very small distances

C. Micrometer 3. Find out wind speed

D. Fathometer 4. Find out direction of wind

5. Measure atmospheric pressure

1 2 3 4

a. A4 B5 C3 D1

b. A3 B5 C2 D1

c. A5 B1 C3 D4

d. A3 B1 C5 D2

12.13. Who among the following described protoplasm as the physical basis of life?

a. T. H. Huxleyb. Leeuwenhoekc. Rudolf Virchow

d. J. C. Bose

14. The scientist who first discovered that the earth revolves round the sun wasa. Newtonb. Daltonc. Copernicusd. Einstein

15. Alexander Fleming discovereda. Penicillinb. X-rayc. Streptomycind. Telephone

16. Who among following invented the steam engine?a. Marconib. James Wattc. Thomas Saveryd. Wright Brothers

17. Who invented typewriter?a. Shockleyb. Pascalc. Sholesd. Waterman

18. Match the following columns:Column 1 Column 2

A. Proton 1. Chadwick

B. Neutron 2. Millikan

C. Charged Electron 3. Goldstein

D. Shelled nature of atom 4. Rutherford

5. Madam Curie

a. A1 B2 C3 D5

b. A2 B1 C4 D3

c. A2 B3 C1 D4

d. A4 B2 C3 D1

19.20. Who discovered circulation of blood in human body?

a. Edward Jennerb. Joseph Listerc. William Harveyd. Jonon Esals

21. The first attempt in printing was made in England bya. James Arkwrightb. James Wattc. William Caxtond. Isaac Newton

22. Who was the surgeon who pioneered antiseptic surgery in 1865?a. Edward Jennerb. Joseph Listerc. Henry Williamd. John Sleeman

23. The credit of inventing the television goes toa. Faradayb. Bairdc. Edisond. Marconi

24. The credit of developing the polio vaccine goes toa. Jonas Salkb. Alb E. Sabinc. Selman Waksmand. None of these

25. Mark the wrong combinationa. James Watt: Steam Engine

b. A.G. Bell: Telephonec. J. L. Baird: Televisiond. J. Perkins: Penicillin

26. Choose the correct combinationa. Typewriter: Remingtonb. Dynamite: Dunlopc. Evolution: Darwind. Aeroplane: Harway

27. Who invented the ball point pen?a. Watermanb. Oscarc. Wilsond. Lazlo Biro

28. Blaze Pascal is associated witha. Calculating machineb. Computerc. Cinemad. None of these

29. Wright Brothers are regarded inventors of thea. Balloonb. Bicyclec. Aeroplaned. None of these

30. Which of the following pairs is incorrect?a. Roentgen: X-rayb. Newton: Law of gravitationc. Faraday: Diffusion of gasesd. Pasteur: Bacteriology

31. Philology is the

a. Study of bonesb. Study of musclesc. Study of architectured. Study of languages

32. Anatomy is the branch of science which deals witha. Structure of animals and plantsb. Functioning of body organsc. Animal behaviord. Cells and tissues

33. Study of earthquakes is known asa. Ecologyb. Seismologyc. Numismaticsd. None of these

34. Ecology deals witha. Birdsb. Cell formationc. Relation between Organisms and their environmentd. Tissues

35. Meteorology is the science ofa. Weatherb. Meteorsc. Metalsd. Earthquakes

36. Oncology is the study ofa. Birdsb. Cancerc. Mammalsd. Soil

37. Study of life in outer space is known asa. Endobiologyb. Exobiologyc. Enterobiologyd. Neobiology

38. Numismatics is the study ofa. Coinsb. Numbersc. Stampsd. Space

39. Eugenics is the study ofa. Altering humans beings by changing their genetic componentsb. People of European originc. Different races of mankindd. Genetics of plants

40. Ornithology is thea. Study of bonesb. Study of birdsc. Study of smellsd. None of these

41. Who invented the Doctor’s thermometer?a. Fahrenheitb. Edisonc. Galileod. None of these

42. The velocity of light was first measured bya. Einsteinb. Newtonc. Romerd. Galileo

43. Who proposed the chemical evolution of life?a. Darwinb. Lammarckc. Oparind. Haechel

44. The telephone was invented bya. John Logie Bairdb. Alexander Graham Bellc. Thomas Elva Edisond. James Watt

45. Who among the following evolved the concept of relationship between mass and energy?

a. Einsteinb. Planckc. Daltond. Rutherford

46. Match the following columns:Column 1 Column 2

A. Radioactivity 1. Planck

B. Periodic Table 2. Thomson

C. Quantum Theory 3. Rutherford

D. X-Rays 4. Mendeleev

5. Roentgen

6. Becquerel

a. A1 B3 C5 D2

b. A6 B5 C3 D5

c. A3 B2 C1 D5

d. A6 B4 C1 D5

47.48. Match the following columns:

Column 1 Column 2

A. Marconi 1. Radio

B. Darwin 2. Natural selection theory

C. Laennec 3. Orthogenesis theory

D. Baird 4. Stethoscope

5. Television

a. A1 B3 C4 D5

b. A5 B4 C3 D2

c. A1 B2 C4 D5

d. A3 B5 C2 D

48. Robert Koch worked ona. Tuberculosisb. Cholerac. Malariad. Diabetes

49. Who discovered Uranus?a. Herschelb. Ganleoc. Copernicusd. None of these

50. Who among the following is associated with the invention of computers?a. Edisonb. Babbagec. Mac Millend. Rangabhashyam

Answers to General Science Quiz Questions

1. c 2. d 3. c 4. a 5. b

6. c 7. c 8. d 9. c 10. d

11. d 12. a 13. b 14. a 15. c

16. a 17. b 18. c 19. c 20. c

21. c 22. b 23. b 24. a 25. d

26. c 27. d 28. a 29. c 30. c

31. d 32. a 33. b 34. c 35. a

36. b 37. b 38. a 39. a 40. b

41. a 42. c 43. c 44. b 45. a

46. d 47. c 48. a 49. a 50. b

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Here are some ’General Science Quiz Questions’ along with answers to increase your general knowledge about science.Which instrument is used to measure pressure?

1.a. Saccharimeterb. Ammeterc. Manometerd. Lactometer

2. What does Angstrom measure?a. Quantity of liquidb. Length of light wavesc. Length of cablesd. Speed of ships

3. Light year is related toa. Energyb. Speedc. Distanced. Intensity

1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go - the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.

4. Alexander’s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body.

5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.

6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people.

7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days.

8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years.

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and ’buried’ in space.

10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.

1. What does `The Cherry Orchard’ have in common with old editions of `Startrek’? 2. In Australia, how is the date of Mothers’ Day calculated? 3. Which President of the USSR encouraged the policy of Glassnost? 4. What was built by inmates taken from Changi Prison Camp? 5. What is the world’s largest desert? 6. Nino Culotto was his pen-name. What was his REAL name? 7. What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet? 8. Who wrote `The Entertainer’, music made famous by the film,`The Sting’? 9. In Greek legend, what was eaten on the island of Jerba? 10. What was the name of Ulysses’ son, who grew to manhood in his absence? 11. Which Knight caused the death of the Lady of Shallott? 12. What monument occupies centre stage in Trafalgar Square? 13. Which book catapulted Germaine Greer to fame? 14. What was the classical standard language of ancient India? 15. Who directed and starred in films such as `The little Tramp’? 16. Name the three types of classical architectural column. 17. Who was Doctor Zhivago’s great love? 18. Name the commoner who ruled England in 1658-59. 19. Which ghost ship is the theme of an 1841 opera by Richard Wagner? 20. What career did the Duke of Wellington pursue after the Battle of Waterloo? 21. Which popular hymn was composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan of Opera Fame? 22. What is the literal meaning of `pince-nez’. glasses? 23. Beneath which Paris monument is the tomb of France’s unknown soldier? 24. What type of puppets are t hose whose movements are controlled by strings? 25. Which drug is best known for its use in preventing malaria? 26. Identify the 15th century British war fought by the Houses of Lancaster and YorkBR> 27. Which sea is so named because it is too salty to maintain life 28. What is the most indispensable instrument in astronomy? 29. Which literary doctor owns a parrot called `Polynesia’? 30. Name the Australian singer whose first hit, in the 1960s, was `I Remember You’. `Four On The Floor’ pertain? 31. What is Sydney’s equivalent to San Francisco’s `Bay To Breakers’ footrace’? 32. Which independent island is Australia’s nearest neighbour to the west? 

33. At the end of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’, which of the principals are dead? 34. Name two fictional or historical characters who fought with quarterstaffs on a log bridge ? 35. What is the name of Greg Norman’s business? 36. Name a state of U.S.A. beginning with `B’. 37. Whom did Yoko Ono marry only to lose to an assassin? 38. Wo dubbed Australia `The Lucky Country’ in one of his novels? 39. Which biblical event supports the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number? 40. How much was 240 pence in predecimal currency 41. Which comic- strip drake is a multi-billionaire? 42. What was the first event decided at the 1896 Olympics? 43. Which is the only continent occupied by one nation? 44. What inspired the convex golden disc as the Order of Australia ? 45. Which 1980 song hit was writen by Joe Dolce, an Italian migrant? 46. What is God called by the Islamic or Muslim faith? 47. Which radiation belt around the earth was named after an American physicist? 48. What is significant about a score of 4137 points in billiards? 49. Who was the famous Nez Perce Indian chief? 50. Which Slim Dusty ’hotel’ song is Australia’s only gold 78 record? 51. After Carruthers, Rose and Famechon, who was Australia’s fourth world boxing champion? 52. What is an ocarina whose size and shape resembles a goose egg? 53. In which American city was the world’s first skyscraper built in 1885? 54. What is the Christian name of Webster, who published a dictionary still used today ? 55. Outside of the Presidency, what is the highest American political office? 56. Name the only boxer to knock out Mohammed Ali 57. Which Australian state is host to the town of Gundagai? 58. On what date to Americans celebrate their Independence Day? 59. Who starred in the film version of To Kill A Mockingbird? 60. Which modern language gives us the term finito ? 61. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? 62. Which Australian city will host the 2001 Goodwill Games? 63. The prefix gastro refers to which bodily organ? 64. If you are celebrating your Diamond Anniversary, how many years have you been married ? 65. Boxers often suffer from a condition in which their ears are misshapen..what is this called? 66. Who wrote the famous poem Daffodils? 67. In what decade of this century was it decided US Presidents would be restricted to two terms? 68. What was the given name of Stalin’s daughter who defected to the US in 1967? 69. Name the South African surgeon who carried out the first heart transplant operation. 70. The revolutionary newspaper, Pravda was first published in 1912...but WHERE? 71. What the the first ship to reach Titanic after the disaster? 72. Where in the US did the dance , the Charleston originate? 73. Which American author wrote the novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? 74. Who piloted the US aircraft shot down byt he USSR in 1960 ? 75. Where were the 1960 Summer Olympics held? 76. In what year was the Rainbow Warrior sunk in New Zealand waters? 77. Who became the first Overlord Of England and Wales? 78. Which animal is likely to suffer from the disease, heaves ? 79. Who wrote The Happy Prince? 80. For what sport is a harrier bred?? 

81. Where in Australia is Palm Valley ? 82. What breed of farm animal is a Polwarth? 83. Who named Manly Cove , situated in Sydney Harbour? 84. Name the main ore of iron. 85. What is the study of heredity called? 86. Rose Hill was the original name of Australia’s second settlement ...what is it called now?? 87. What term is used to describe fertile land being ’rested’ for a season? 88. Who is the patron saint of children ? 89. Who did Amin overthrow in 1971? 90. What ancient unit of measurement is suppposedly the distance from the elbow to the tip of the index finger? 91. Which was the second James Bond novel to be made into a movie? 92. Can you name the only two countries to have declared independence from Britain? 93. What is the official language of Egypt? 94. On which continent is Vincon Massif the highest peak? 95. Do polar bears eat penguins? 96. In which country would you find Tabasco? 97. What is the more common name for the tympanic membrane ? 98. Name the street that is home to British journalism. 99. What was H.G. Wells’ first novel? 100. Which Australian city was host to the nations’s first steam train.and its first electric train? 101. What is the best-known university in Paris? 102. What is the birthstone for September? 103. Where did John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvery Oswald and Jack Ruby all die? 104. What is the last book of the Bible? 105. Which movie’s last line is " After all, tomorrow is another day"? 106. In Disney comics, who are Daisy Duck’s three nieces? 107. At which Melbourne hotel did the Beatles stay in 1964 ? 108. Who was the first New Australian to become, in 1961, Miss Australia? 109. Which edifice stands on the banks of the River Jumna, at Agra? 110. What does one call ornamental work in silver or gold thread? 111. Which Norse god had, as handmaidens, the Valkyrie? 112. Which British Battleship was sunk, in 1941, by The Bismark? 113. What is the alternative name for a beekeeper? 114. Which 1975 Dickens drama was planned as a musical but screened without any songs ? 115. Which British novel was the subject of "Sailor"? 116. How many books comprise the Old and the New Testaments? 117. At what angle above the horizon must the sun be to create a rainbow? 118. Which song is based on California’s 1849 gold rush? 119. What is the only crime for which church sanctuary is not available? 120. What was the full name of Brutus, one of Caesar’s murderers? 121. What was the American codename for the development of the atom bomb? 122. Which western law enfromcement agency’s motto was , "One riot-One Ranger?" 123. What is the Hebrew name of Calvary, where Christ was crucified ? 124. Which number on a roulette wheel is coloured green? 125. How many cannons are involved in a Royal Salute 126. What type of Moscow institution is GUM? 127. Which island is 50 times larger tha its mother country, Denmark? 128. Who was the first white man to climb Mt Kosciusko? 129. Name Australia’s first "Girlie" magazine, launched in 1936 130. What name is given to the Pope’s pontificial ring? 

131. What ingredient did Cap O’ Rushes order omitted from the wedding meats? 132. Who are the traditional inhabitants of Dovrafell?" 133. What was the name of Childe Rowland’s sister, whom he rescued ? 134. Which witch travelled in a mortar which she drove along with a pestle? 135. Who caught Tommy Grimes? 136. What was it that Princess Margaret was changed into by her wicked stepmother, the Witch-Queen of Bamborough Castle? 137. Who fought the Queen of the Fairies for Tamlane, her love..and won?? 138. Which fiend terrorized the Hall of Hrothgar? 139. And who freed Hrothgar’s Hall of this menace?BR> 140. What was kept in Iduna’s magic casket? 141. What was the name of the first patented contraceptive pill ? 142. What name is given, collectively, to the first five books of the Old Testament?" 143. In what year did Japan bomb Pearl Harbour ? 144. Ulan Bator is the capital of which nation? 145. What unit of heat is required to raise 1 gm of water by one degree Celsius? 146. Which airline owned the jet that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988? 147. What number did Michael Jordan make famous during his career with the Chicago Bulls?? 148. Which floor covering is constructed by covering hessian or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork and rosin? 149. In which American state would you find the city of Phoenix? 150. How many sides does a RHOMBUS have? 151. Which American state has its capital Harrisburg? 152. Which six letter word describes the number of members of a body required to be present to conduct business legally ? 153. Which company that developed the pentium processor for computers? 154. What name was given to the rockets used to launch the Apollo space missions? 155. Until the end of the 20th Century, what was the most popular name adopted by the popes? 156. In which year did Pope Benedict XV declare Joan of Arc a saint? 157. The mummies of Egyptian Pharaohs were often buried in what type of transport, believed to assist them to travel to the next world? 158. How many films did Charles Chaplin make during his 53-year carer, from 1914 to 1967? 159. Which band had a hit with the song ,California Dreamin’? 160. What name is given to the star that appears on the flag of Israel? 161. Which amusement park opened in Anaheim, California, on July 18th., 1955 ? 162. Name the wife of the Phillipines dictator, Ferdinand Marcos 163. K is the chemical symbol for what? 164. On what date is Australia Day celebrated? 165. Who wrote the play, "The Mousetrap"? 166. How old was Boris Becker when he won his first Wimbledon Singles title? 167. How many Spice Girls were there in 1997? 168. Who played the title role in the film "Gandhi"? 169. In the nursery rhyme, what do we ask Mary, mary, Quite contrary? 170. In what country would you find the Grand Prix circuit known as Silverstone? 171. Which American President was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz ? 172. Complete the proverb No kitchen is big enough to hold... 173. Who developed Meccano? 174. To which people did Delilah pass soon the secret of Samson’s strength? 175. Who wrote the shortest of the gospels? 176. Complete this proverb: The end justifies ......... 177. Who said: "A crank is a man with a new idea--until it catches on"? 178. Who wrote the song, Imagine? 

179. Name the first woman in space 180. Who was convicted of shooting and killing John F Kennedy? 181. In which country did the Volkswagon originate ? 182. "The Sound Of Music" is set in which European country.... 183. Which planet has the longest year? 184. In Earth terms , how long is that year? 185. What is the highest mountain in New Zealand? 186. What is the 12th letter of the English alphabet 187. Who teamed up with Neil Diamond to perfom the hit song, "You Don’t Send Me Flowers"? 188. 1974 saw Portugal involved in a revolution which became known by which floral name?? 189. What term is used to describe the wool cut from around a sheep’s eyes? 190. What type of creature is a beagle? 

191. In which Asian nation would you find the state of Punjab? 192. What is the wellknown French word for "pen"? 193. Ra is the chemical symbol for which element? 194. What five-letter word, beginning with q, is used to describe a lock or curl of hair on the forehead? 195. How many metres make a kilometre? 196. Who was the great Spanish Painter whose first name was Pablo? 197. Who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain? 198. Which 1970s band had a hit with "Mama Mia"? 199. In which year did Fred Astair die? 200. Which river did Johann Strauss describe as "blue"? 

201. For what crime is Vincent Perrugia best remembered? 202. Which Florentine woman was mother to 3 kings of France, and wife to another? 203. Who was the 3rd man on the moon? 204. Who designed Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding dress? 205. What was the name of Homer Simpson’s Bowling team? 206. Which 1970’s hit movie was based on a poem by James Dickey? 207. Which famous musician & singer was born McKinley Morganfield? 208. Who was the last person to be executed in the Tower of London? 209. In what film would you have seen a sword fight on the Cliffs of Insanity? 210. What is the world’s largest bird of prey? 

211. Sir Mark Oliphant was once Premier of which Australian State? 212. Near which Israeli city would you find the Mount Of Olives? 213. What colour are the towers of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge? 214. What is the sixth letter of hte English alphabet? 215. How many years of marraige are celebrated by a Golden Wedding Anniversary? 216. How many dwarves lived in the house discovered by Snow White? 217. By what short name were the Secret State Police of Nazi Germany known? 218. Musican Bo Didley is famous for playing which instrument? 219. Which acress began life as Doris Kapellhoff? 220. What name is given to the punctuation mark with a dot directly above a comma? 

221. What country produces Rioja wines? 222. Who was the favourite daughter of Shakespeare’s King Lear? 223. Which Australkian city includes the suburbs of Cottesloe and Subiaco? 224. Who discovered Oxygen in 1774? 225. Name the author of A Town Like Alice 

226. How many Earth years does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? 227. What name is given to the central part of a fleshy fruit, containing the seeds? 228. What letter appears to the right of Y on a keyboard? 229. What is it that makes soda water fizz? 230. What disease is the Sabin Vaccine used to prevent? 

231. Name the actor grandfathr of Drew Barrymore. 232. Who is the female host of the television show, Better Homes and Gardens? 233. Which comedian once said, "A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand"? 234. Complete this proverb: A growing youth has a ......? 235. What are the three given names of author JRR Tolkein? 236. Who portrayed Kevin Arnold in the television series, The Wonder Years? 237. With whom did Barbra Streisand team to release the hit song, "You Don’t Bring Me Flowers"? 238. Complete this proverb: Facts are .............. 239. Who portrayed Melanie Wilks in the film, Gone With The Wind? 240. Name the Australian artist who painted "The Rabbiters" 

241. In the famous ’White Horse’ FA Cup final of 1923, what was the name of the White Horse? 242. Which is the largest of the Trucial states? 243. Whose last words were ’The rest is silence’? 244. What was double-headed for Russia & Austria, but single-headed for Germany? 245. In the famous April Fools Day joke, where did Richard Dimbleby say that spaghetti was being grown on trees? 246. Which Florentine woman was mother to 3 kings of France, and wife to another? 247. Who designed Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding dress? 248. For what crime is Vincent Perrugia best remembered? 249. Who was the 3rd man on the moon? 250. In which sport are Bonspiel and Crampit common terms? 

THE ANSWERS 

1. Mr Checkhov! 2. It’s always the second Sunday in May. 3. Mr Gorbachov 4. The Burma Railway. 5. The Sahara 6. John O’Grady 7. Omega 8. Scott Joplin 9. Lotuses. 10. Telemachus 11. Sir Lancelot 12. Nelson’s Colums 13. The Female Eunuch 14. Sanskrit 15. Charlie Chaplin 16. Doric, Ionic and Coninthian 17. Lara 18. Richard Cromwell 19. The Flying Dutchman 20. Political: he was British PM 1828-30 

21. ’Onward Christian Soldiers’ 22. ’Pinch-nose’ 23. Arc De Triomphe 24. Marionettes 25. Quinine 26. War Of The Roses 27. Dead Sea 28. Telescope 29. Dr Doolittle 30. Frank Ifield 31. City To Surf race 32. Mauritius 33. Both Romeo and Juliet 34. Robin Hood and Little John 35. Great White Shark Enterprises 36. There is none! 37. John Lennon 38. Donald Horne 39. Thirteen people at the Last Supper 40. One pound 41. Scrooge McDuck 42. Triple jump 43. Australia 44. Wattle blossom 45. Shaddap You Face 46. Allah 47. (James) Van Allen Belts 48. It is Walter Lindrum’s world-record break 49. Chief Joseph 50. The Pub With No Beer 51. Rocky Mattioil,WBC Junior Middleweight 52. Wind musical instrument 53. Chicago 54. Noah 55. President of the United States Senate 56. Larry Holmes in 1980 57. New South Wales 58. July 4th 59. Gregory Peck 60. Italian 61. Michelangelo 62. Brisbane 63. The stomach 64. Sixty 65. Cauliflower Ear 66. William Wordsworth 67. The 6th., 1951 68. Svetlana 69. Dr Christian Barnard 70. Russia 71. The Carparthia 72. Charleston, South Carolina 73. Anita Loos 74. Francis Gary Powers 75. Rome 

76. 1985 77. Egbert of Wessex 78. A horse 79. Oscar Wilde 80. It is a hunting dog 81. The Northern Territory 82. A sheep 83. Governor Arthur Philip 84. Hematite 85. Genetics 86. Parramatta 87. Fallow 88. St Nicholas 89. Milton Obote 90. The cubit 91. From Russia With Love 92. The USA and Rhodesia 93. Arabic 94. Antarctica 95. No, Polar bears live in the Arctic, while Penguins inhabit the Antarctic and other southern areas 96. Mexico 97. The eardrum 98. Fleet Street 99. The Time Machine 100. Melbourne 101. The Sorbonne 102. Sapphire 103. Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas, USA. 104. Revelation 105. GoneWith The Wind 106. April, May and June 107. The Southern Cross 108. Tania Verstak 109. The Taj Mahal 110. Filigree 111. Odin 112. HMS Hood 113. Apiarist 114. Great Expectations 115. HMS Ark Royal 116. 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New 117. 40 degrees 118. Clementine 119. sacrilege 120. Marcus Junius Brutus 121. Manhatton Project 122. Texas Rangers 123. Golgotha 124. Zero 125. Twenty-one 126. The largest department-store 127. Greenland 128. Paul Strzlecki 129. Men 

130. The Fisherman’s Ring 131. Salt 132. The trolls of Denmark 133. Burd Ellen 134. Russia’s Baba Yaga 135. Mr Miacca 136. The Laidly Worm 137. Fair Janet 138. Grendel 139. Beowulf 140. The Apples Of Youth which kept the Aesir young 141. Enovid 142. The Pentaleuch 143. 1941 144. Mongolia 145. One calorie 146. Pan Am 147. 23 148. Linoleum 149. Arizona 150. Four 151. Pennsylvania 152. Quorum 153. Intel 154. Saturn 155. John,(6) 156. 1920. 157. Boats 158. 89 159. The Mamas and The Papas 160. The Star Of David 161. Disneyland 162. Imelda 163. Potassium 164. January 26th 165. Agatha Christie 166. 17 167. Five 168. Ben Kingsley 169. How Does Your Garden Grow? 170. England 171. William Mckinley 172. ...Two Women 173. Frank Hornby 174. The Philistines 175. Mark 176. ...The means 177. Mark Twain 178. John Lennon 179. Valentina Tereshkova 180. Noone. Lee Harvey Oswald was suspected but murdered before any conviction was recorded 181. Germany 182. Austria 183. Pluto 

184. 247 years, 255 days 185. Mt Cook 186. L 187. Barbara Streisand 188. Carnation Revolution 189. Eyeclip 190. Dog 191. India 192. Plume 193. Radium 194. Quiff 195. 1000 196. Picasso 197. Colonel Harlan Sanders 198. ABBA 199. 1987 200. The Danube. 201. He Stole The Mona Lisa 202. Catherine De Medici 203. Charles Conrad 204. Norman Hartnell 205. Pin Pals 206. Deliverance 207. Muddy Waters 208. Josef Jakobs 209. The Princess Bride 210. Californian Condor. 211. South Australia 212. Jerusalem 213. Red 214. F 215. 50 216. 7 217. Gestapo 218. Guitar 219. Doris Day 220. Semi-colon. 221. Spain 222. Cordelia 223. Perth 224. Joseph Priestly 225. Nevil Shute 226. 248 227. The core 228. U 229. Carbon Dioxide 230. Polio 231. John Barrymore 232. Noni Hazlehurst 233. Billy Connolly 234. Wolf in his belly 235. John Ronald Reuel 236. Fred Savage 237. Neil Diamond 238. Stubborn things 

239. Olivia De Havilland 240. Sir Russell Drysdale 241. Billy 242. Abu-Dhabi 243. Hamlet s 244. Imperial Eagle 245. Southern Switzerland 246. Catherine De Medici 247. Norman Hartnell 248. He Stole The Mona Lisa 249. Charles Conrad 250. Curling 

Lakshmi N Mittal

Steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is the richest Indian in the world, with an estimated wealth of $25 billion. He resides in London, has his company registered in the Netherlands, but still holds an Indian passport. Although Mittal Steel was already the world’s biggest steel company, his king-sized ambitions were evident when he took over steel giant Arcelor to create a new steel behemoth -- Arcelor-Mittal.

L N Mittal left India in the mid-1970s to start his career. He was sent to Indonesia by his father to shut down the family’s ailing steel plant and sell the land. Instead, young Mittal saw an opportunity and turned the plant around.

To prove that this was no fluke, Mittal acquired a 1.3 million tonne, Iscot Steel plant in Trinidad & Tobago, which was losing $100,000 a day. One year of Mittal-style management and it was making profits, the LN Mittal legend was born. That move helped him get into America.

The Mexican government seeing the success that Mittal made of Iscot, asked him to take over their ailing steel plants in 1992. But it was not all that smooth. In 1994 Mittal had differences with his brothers and father, and went on to form his own company. The following year Mittal entered the European market, acquiring the 5 million tonne Kazakh steel plant, Karmet. Meanwhile, Mittal had listed Ispat International on the New York and Amsterdam Stock Exchanges in 1997. Eight years later Mittal Steel became the world’s largest steel maker when he took over the US’s largest steel producer -- the International Steel Group. He then consolidated all his steel holdings into Mittal Steel.

Ratan Tata

Ratan Naval Tata, a bachelor, is the chairman of the Tata Group, India’s most respected conglomerate. He was born into a Parsi family in Mumbai (then called Bombay) to Soonoo and Naval Hormusji Tata on December 28, 1937.

He did a short stint with Jones and Emmons in Los Angeles, California, before returning to India in 1962. He had earlier turned down an IBM job offer. He joined the

family business in 1962 and worked with many of his group’s companies. He took over as group chairman from the legendary J R D Tata in 1991.

Since then, he has been instrumental in boosting the fortunes of the Tata Group, which has amongst the largest market capitalisations in the Indian stock markets.

Tata Motors developed the Tata Indica in 1998. This was the first ’entirely Indian’ passenger car. Ratan Tata’s dream now is to manufacture a car costing just Rs 100,000. Ratan Tata holds a degree in Architecture and Structural Engineering from Cornell University. He has also done the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School in 1974-1975.

Ratan Tata was honoured with one of India’s highest civilian awards, the Padma Bhushan, on January 26, 2000.

Mukesh D Ambani

Mukesh Ambani, the chairman and managing director of India’s largest private sector enterprise -- Reliance Industries Limited -- was born on April 19, 1957.

His father, the legendary Dhirubhai Ambani, was then a small businessman who later on rose to become one of the legends of Indian industry.

Mukesh joined Reliance Industries in 1981 and was the brain behind Reliance’s backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and into petrochemicals. During the process of backward integration, Mukesh Ambani led the creation of 51 new, world-class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that raised Reliance’s manufacturing capacities manifold.

The world’s largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar is his brainchild. He was also the in-charge of Dhirubhai’s dream project Reliance Infocomm. But after the split in the Reliance Empire, Reliance Infocomm went to his brother Anil.

Mukesh Ambani is now planning to enter retail sector in a big way and will launch a chain of ’Reliance Fresh’ retail stores. He also entered into an agreement with the Haryana government to establish a Special Economic Zone with an investment running into billions of rupees.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Bombay and a master’s in Business Administration from Stanford University, USA.

Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani is the CEO and managing director of Infosys Technologies. He, along with N R Narayana Murthy and five others, co-founded India’s IT jewel, Infosys. Born in Bangalore to Durga and Mohan Rao Nilekani, he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

After graduation, he met Narayana Murthy, who then led Patni Computer Systems’s software group, seeking a job. Murthy hired the young engineer. That was the beginning of a relationship that was to create Indian corporate history.

Three years later, seven enthusiasts (including Nandan) decided to start their own outfit (Infosys Technologies Ltd) with Murthy in the lead. Their decision rewrote the domestic software industry of India.

He became the chief executive officer of Infosys in March 2002. He now leads the company with Narayana Murthy having retired in August 2006. He is married to Rohini, an English-language novelist, and they have two children: daughter Janhavi and son Nihar. He speaks Konkani at home.

In 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. He is regarded by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in its issue of May 2006.

Azim H Premji  Azim Hashim Premji, the chairman of Wipro Technologies, is one of the richest Indians. He is an icon among Indian businessmen, especially in the software industry. Born on July 24, 1945, Premji was studying Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, USA when due to the sudden demise of his father; he was called upon to handle the family business at the age of 21.

Wipro was then Western Indian Vegetable Products, a small cooking oil company. Premji diversified into bakery fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products and hydraulic cylinders. And then shifted focus from soaps to software.

He transformed Wipro into one of India’s most successful IT companies. Under Azim Premji’s stewardship, Wipro has grown from a fledgling Rs 70 million oil company into an IT giant with a turnover of $2.4 billion and an employee strength of 57,000.

Azim Premji has regularly featured in the Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people. He was also rated among the world’s 100 most influential people by the Time magazine. In 2005, the Indian government honoured him with Padma Bhushan, one of the nation’s highest civilian awards.  Anil D Ambani  The fourth richest Indian today, with a net worth of about $13.5 billion, Anil Ambani is chairman of Reliance Communications, Reliance Capital, Reliance Energy and Reliance Natural Resources Limited.

Before the Reliance Empire split, he was vice chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Limited. The Reliance group was founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani.

Anil was born on June 4, 1959. He joined Reliance in 1983, two years after his elder brother Mukesh, as co-chief executive officer. He is credited with leading India’s foray into overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depositary receipts, convertibles and bonds. He also directed RIL’s efforts to raise $2 billion from global markets.

Anil was elected as an independent Member of the Rajya Sabha with the support of the Samajwadi Party, but resigned on March 25, 2006. Ambani who was once ridiculed for being overweight at a shareholder’s meeting is now a fitness freak and runs the Mumbai marathon regularly.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Science from the University of Bombay and a master’s in Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is married to former Bollywood actress Tina Munim.

Sunil Mittal  Sunil B Mittal is chairman and managing director of Bharti group. Bharti is India’s largest GSM-based mobile phone service. Son of a politician, he built his Bharti group, along with two siblings, into India’s largest mobile phone operator in just ten years. Vodafone and SingTel both own stakes in recently renamed flagship Bharti Airtel. The group also has partnerships with Axa for insurance and with the Rothschild family for exporting fruits and vegetables. He plans to go into retailing along with the world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart.

The 49-year-old has always been a pioneer. A first generation entrepreneur, he started his first business in 1976 with a capital investment of Rs 20,000. He decided not to be a politician and set up a small bicycle business in Ludhiana. By 1979, Sunil Mittal realised that his ambitions could not be fulfilled in Ludhiana, so he moved out to Mumbai. He initially founded a number of trading concerns, and established the first company to manufacture push button telephones in India.

In 1982, Mittal started a full-fledged business selling portable generators imported from Japan. He was one of the first entrepreneurs to identify the mobile telecom business as a major growth area and launched services in Delhi in 1995. Under his leadership the company has gone from strength to strength.  K V Kamath  Kundapur Vaman Kamath is the managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank, the largest private bank in India. Kamath, born on December 2, 1947, began his career with ICICI -- the parent body of ICICI Bank -- in 1971 and has since then worked to take ICICI

places. He has helped the financial institution evolve into a modern, tech-savvy organisation.

He joined the project finance division of ICICI in 1971 and moved on to different departments to gather rich experience. In 1988, he joined the Asian Development Bank, Manila in their private sector department. He worked in most of the developing countries in the region including China, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. In May 1996, he returned to ICICI as its managing director and chief executive officer. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.  Kumar Mangalam Birla  Kumar Mangalam Birla, born on June 14, 1967, is among the richest persons in India and the eighth youngest billionaire outside India. He is chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of India’s largest business groups. Some of the AV Birla group’s companies are: Grasim, Hindalco, UltraTech Cement, Aditya Birla Nuvo and Idea Cellular.

He took over as chairman of the group in 1995, at the age of 28, after the sudden demise of his father, Aditya Birla. When he took charge, there were doubts about his ability to handle the giant business house, but he proved all naysayers wrong.

In the 11 years that he has led the group, he has won admiration, recognition and praise for his management acumen and contribution to the industry.

Under his leadership, the group has consolidated its position in existing businesses and ventured into cellular telephony, asset management, software and BPO. He is a chartered accountant and also holds an MBA from the London Business School.

Rahul Bajaj Rahul Bajaj is the chairman of the Bajaj Group, which ranks among the top 10 business houses in India. He is one of India’s most distinguished business leaders and internationally respected for his business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit.

He took over the reins of Bajaj group in 1965. Under his leadership, the turnover of the Bajaj Auto the flagship company has risen from Rs 72 million to Rs 46.16 billion. The initiation of liberalisation in India posed great challenges for Bajaj Auto. Liberalisation brought the threat of cheap imports and FDI from top companies like Honda. Rahul Bajaj became famous as the head of the Bombay Club, which opposed liberalisation.

The scooter sales plummeted as people were more interested in motorcycles and the rival Hero Honda was a pioneer in it. The recession and stock market collapse of 2001 hit the company hard and it was predicted that the days of Bajaj Auto were numbered.

However, Bajaj Auto re-invented itself, established a world-class factory in Chakan, invested in R&D and came up with Bajaj Pulsar Motorcycle. Bajaj Pulsar is currently a leader in its segment.

Recently, Rahul Bajaj was elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. He is an alumnus of Harvard, St. Stephen’s and Cathedral.

1. In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

2. The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth’s magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

3. The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

4. Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

5. Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

6. Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

7. The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

8. The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

9. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there’s no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

10. Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.

11. Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don’t do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

12. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.13. Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.14. Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will

overwhelm the sender’s system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

15. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.16. The first McDonald’s restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh,

Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.17. The Air Force’s F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research

into how bumblebees fly.18. You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent

bauxite.19. Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex

condoms were produced. It’s not widely publicized for obvious reasons.20. Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

21. The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

22. The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

23. A cat’s purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

24. The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

25. The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

26. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.27. Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the

Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

28. In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

29. Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

30. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.31. Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President

Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.32. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-

hour baseball game.33. Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.34. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your

pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.35. To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.36. Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a

game. For Canadians who don’t play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

37. A dog’s naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

38. A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one’s nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

39. Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden’s headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

40. Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

41. At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

42. Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

43. If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

44. Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

45. Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

46. Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

47. When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

48. Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.49. Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in

his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to therecipe used today.

50. If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

51. When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

52. In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models’ turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

53. Although difficult, it’s possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

54. Napoleon’s favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.55. The world’s smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI,

memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.56. Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim

backwards.57. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth

to keep them hairless throughout their lives.58. It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville,

Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.59. The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary

whiskers.60. The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by

German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

61. The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

Countries with Capital and Currency of Asia

Country Capital Currency

Afghanistan Kabul Afghani

Bahrain Manama Bahraini Dinar

Bangladesh Dhaka Taka

Bhutan Thimpu Ngulturm

Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Ringgit

Cambodia Phnom Panh Rile

China Beijing Yuan

Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus Pounnd

India New Delhi Indian Rupee

Indonesia Djakarta Rupiah

Iran Tehran Riyal

Iraq Baghdad Iraqi Dinar

Israel Tel Aviv Shekel

Japan Tokyo Yen

Jordan Amman Lordan Dinar

Kazakhstan Akmola Tenge

Korea (North) Pyongyang Won (KPW)

Korea (South) Seoul Won (KRW)

Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwait Dinar

Kyrgystan Bishkek Som (KGS)

Laos Vientiane Kip

Lebanon Beirut Lebnanesse Pound

Malaysia Kuala Lumpu Malaysian Ringgit

Maldives Male Rufiyaa

Mongolia Ulan-Bator Tugrik

Myanmar Yangoon Kyat

Nepal Kathamandu Nepalese Rupee

Oman Muscat Omani Rial

Pakistan Islamabad Pakistani Rupee

Philippines Manila Piso

Qatar Dola Qatari Riyal

Saudi Arabia Riyadh Riyal (SAR)

Singapore Singapore Singapore Dollar

Sri Lanka Colombo Sri Lanka Rupee

Syria Damascus Syrian Pound

Taiwan Taipei New Taiwan Dollar

Tajikistan Dushambe Tajik Rouble

Thailand Bangkok Baht

Turkemenistan Ashkabad Manat (TMM)

Turkey Ankara Turkish Lira

United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Dirham

Uzbekistan Tashkent Som (UKS)

Vietnam Hanoi Dong

Yemen Sana Riya (YER)

Countries with Capital and Currency of Europe

Country Capital Currency

Albania Tirana Lek

Andorra Andorra-la-vella Franc Pesta

Armenia Yerevan Dram

Austria Vienna Schilling

Belarus Baku Manat

Belgium Brussels Belgian Franc

Bosnia-HerzegovinaSarajevo Konvertibilna Marka

Bulgaria Sarajevo Dinar

Croatia Sofia Lev

Czech Zagreb Koruna

Denmark Copenhagen Danish Krone

Estonia Tallinn Kroon

Finland Helsinki Marakka

France Paris Franc

Georgia Tbilisi Lari

Germany Berlin Deutsche Mark

Greece Athens Drachma

Hungary Budapest Forint

Iceland Reykavik Krona

Ireland Dublin Euro

Italy Rome Euro

Kosovo Pristina Euro

Latvia Riga Lats

Leichtenstein Vaduz Swiss Franc

Lithuania Vilnius Litas

Luxemburg Luxemburg Luxemburg France

Macedonia Skopje Dinar

Malta Valletta Maltese Lira

Moldova Chisinau Leu

Monaco Monaco French Franc

Montenegro Podgorica Euro

Netherlands The Hague Guilder

Norway Oslo Norwegian Krone

Poland Warsaw Zloty

Portugal Lisbon Escudo

Republic Prague Koruna

Romania Bucharest Lei

Russia Moscow Rouble

San Marino San Marino Italian Lira

Slovakia Bratislava Slovak Koruna

Slovania Ljubljana Tolar

Spain Madrid Peseta

Sweden Stockholm Krona(SEK)

Switzerland Berne Swiss Franc

Ukraine Kiev Karbovanets

United Kingdom London Pound Sterling

Vatican City State Vatican City Italian Lira

Yugoslavia Belgrade New Dinar

Countries with Capital and Currency of Africa

Country Capital Currency

Algeria Algiers Algerian Dinar

Angola Luanda Kwanza

Benin Porto Novo Franc (CFA)

Bostwana Gaborone Pula

Burkina Faso Ouagadougou Franc (CFA)

Burundi Bujumbura Burundi Franc

Cameroon Yaoundi Franc (CFA)

Cape Verde Prala Cape Verde Escudo

Central African Republic

Bangul Franc (CFA)

Chad N’D’ Jamena Franc (CFA)

Comoros Moroni Comorian Franc

Congo Brazzaville Franc (CFA)

Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti Franc

Egypt Cairo Egyptian Pound

Equatorial Guinea Malabo Franc (CFA)

Eritrea Asmara Etheopian Birr

Gabon Libereville Franc (CFA)

Ghana Accra Cedi

Guinea Conakry Guinean Franc

Guinea Bissau Bissau Peso

Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro Franc (CFA)

Kenya Nairobi Kenya Shilling

Lesotho Maseru Loti

Liberia Monorovia Liberian Dollar

Libya Tripoli Libyan Dinar

Madagascar Antananrivo Malagasy Franc

Malawi Lilongwe Kwacha

Mali Bamako Franc (CFA)

Mauritania Nouakchott Ouguiya

Mauritius Port Louis Mauritius Rupee

Morocco Rabat Dirham

Mozambique Maputo Metical

Namibia Windhock Rand

Niger Niamey Franc

Nigeria Lagos Naira

Rwanda Kigali Franc

Senegal Dakar Franc

Seychelles Victoria Rupee

Sierra Leone Freetown Leone

Somalia Mogadishu Shilling

South Africa Cape Town Rand

Sudan Khartoum Pound

Swaziland Mbabane Lilangeni

Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam Shilling

The Gambia Banjul Dalasi

Togo Lome Franc

Tunisia Tunis Dinar

Uganda Kampala Shilling

Zambia Lusaka Kwatcha

Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe Dollar

Countries with Capital and Currency of North America

Country Capital Currency

Antigua and Barbuda St. Johns Dollar

Bahamas Nassau Dollar

Barbados Bridgetown Dollar

Belize Belmopan Dollar

Canada Ottawa Canadian Dollar

Costa Rica San Jose Colon

Cuba Havana Peso

Dominica Roseau Sterling

El Salvador San Salvador Colon

Grenada St. George Dollar

Guatemala Guatemala City Quetzal

Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde

Honduras Tegucigalpa Lempira

Jamaica Kingston Dollar

Mexico Mexico City Peso

Nicaragua Managua Cordoba

Panama Panama City Balboa

St. Kitts and Nevis Basseterre Dollar

Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain Dollar

United States of America

Washington D.C. Dollar

Countries with Capital and Currency of South America

Country Capital Currency

Argentina Buenos Aires Austral (Pesu)

Bolivia La Paz Boliviano

Brazil Brasilia Cruzeiro

Chile Santiago Peso

Colombia Bogotá Peso

Ecuador Quito Suere

French Guyana Koenne Franc

Guyana Georgetown Dollar

Paraguay Asuncion Guarani

Peru Lima Nuevosol

Surinam Paramaribo Guilder

Uruguay Montevideo Peso

Venezuela Caracas Bolivar

Countries with Capital and Currency of Oceania

Country Capital Currency

Australia Canberra Australian Dollar

Fiji Suva Fiji Dollar

Nauru Nauru Dollar

New Zealand Willington New Zealand Dollar

Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Kina

Solomon Island Honiara Dollar

Tonga Nukualofa Panga1. Which metal is heavier, silver or gold? 

2. How many legs do butterflies have? 3. Which is the country with the most people? 4. Which state is the biggest in the US? 5. Which country has the largest area of land? 6. Which is the country hosting the 2008 Olympic Games? 7. Which indoor sport is the most popular in the US? 8. Which golf player’s mother is from Thailand? 9. What is Aurora Borealis commonly known as? 10. Which is the non-contagious disease that is the most common in the world? 11. Which was the album the Beatles recorded the last time together? 12. Which instrument did Miles Davis, the jazz musician, play? 13. What is the sport in which you could get into a headlock? 14. In which country was golf first played? 15. Which is the sport where you could be out ‘leg before wicket’, or ‘hit a six’? 16. When did baseball originate in the US? 17. Which is the sport wherein you would use a ’sand iron’? 18. What is the largest mammal in the world? 19. Which is the country where reggae music originated? 20. Who was the creator of Jeeves and Wooster? 21. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? 22. Who was the writer of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? 23. After which famous person was the teddy bear named? 24. Which is the smallest ocean in the world? 25. What is the rhino’s horn made of? 

Answers 

1. Gold 2. Six 3. China 4. Alaska 5. Russia 6. China 7. Basketball 8. Tiger Woods 9. Northern Lights 

10. Tooth Decay 11. Abbey Road 12. Trumpet 13. Wrestling 14. Scotland 15. Cricket 16. 19th Century 17. Golf 18. Blue Whale 19. Jamaica 20. P.G. Wodehouse 21. Michelangelo 22. Lewis Carroll 23. Theodore Roosevelt 24. Arctic Ocean 25. Hair

2. No. General Knowledge Question 01 The first Prime minister of Bangladesh was Mujibur Rehman 02 The longest river in the world is the Nile 03 The longest highway in the world is the Trans Canada 04 The longest highway in the world has a length of About 8000 km 05 The highest mountain in the world is the Everest 06 The country that accounts for nearly one third of the total teak production of the world is Myanmar 07 The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara desert 08 The largest coffee growing country in the world is Brazil 09 The country also known as "country of Copper" is Zambia 10 The name given to the border which separates Pakistan and Afghanistan is Durand line 11 The river Volga flows out into the Caspian sea 12 The coldest place on the earth is Verkoyansk in Siberia 13 The country which ranks second in terms of land area is Canada 14 The largest Island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily 15 The river Jordan flows out into the Dead sea 16 The biggest delta in the world is the Ganges Delta 17 The capital city that stands on the river Danube is Belgrade 18 The Japanese call their country as Nippon 19 The length of the English channel is 

564 kilometres 20 The world’s oldest known city is Damascus 21 The city which is also known as the City of Canals is Venice 22 The country in which river Wangchu flows is Myanmar 23 The biggest island of the world is Greenland 24 The city which is the biggest centre for manufacture of automobiles in the world is Detroit, USA 25 The country which is the largest producer of manganese in the world is China & South Africa 26 The country which is the largest producer of rubber in the world is Malaysia 27 The country which is the largest producer of tin in the world is China 28 The river which carries maximum quantity of water into the sea is the Amazon River 29 The city which was once called the `Forbidden City’ was Peking 30 The country called the Land of Rising Sun is Japan 31 Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest 32 The volcano Vesuvius is located in Italy 33 The country known as the Sugar Bowl of the world is Cuba 34 The length of the Suez Canal is 162.5 kilometers 35 The lowest point on earth is The coastal area of Dead sea 36 The Gurkhas are the original inhabitants of Nepal 37 The largest ocean of the world is the Pacific ocean 38 The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolkol at Kremlin, Moscow 39 The biggest stadium in the world is the Strahov Stadium, Prague 40 The world’s largest diamond producing country is South Africa 41 Australia was discovered by James Cook 42 The first Governor General of Pakistan is Mohammed Ali Jinnah 43 Dublin is situated at the mouth of river Liffey 44 The earlier name of New York city was New Amsterdam 45 The Eifel tower was built by Alexander Eiffel 46 The Red Cross was founded by 

Jean Henri Durant 47 The country which has the greatest population density is Monaco 48 The national flower of Britain is Rose 49 Niagara Falls was discovered by Louis Hennepin 50 The national flower of Italy is Lily 51 The national flower of China is Narcissus 52 The permanent secretariat of the SAARC is located at Kathmandu 53 The gateway to the Gulf of Iran is Strait of Hormuz 54 The first Industrial Revolution took place in England 55 World Environment Day is observed on 5th June 56 The first Republican President of America was Abraham Lincoln 57 The country famous for Samba dance is Brazil 58 The name of Alexander’s horse was Beucephalus 59 Singapore was founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles 60 The famous British one-eyed Admiral was Nelson 61 The earlier name of Sri Lanka was Ceylon 62 The UNO was formed in the year 1945 63 UNO stands for United Nations Organization 64 The independence day of South Korea is celebrated on 15th August 65 ’Last Judgement’ was the first painting of an Italian painter named Michelangelo 66 Paradise Regained was written by John Milton 67 The first President of Egypt was Mohammed Nequib 68 The first man to reach North Pole was Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary 69 The most famous painting of Pablo Picasso was Guermica 70 The primary producer of newsprint in the world is Canada 71 The first explorer to reach the South Pole was Cap. Ronald Amundson 72 The person who is called the father of modern Italy is G.Garibaldi 73 World literacy day is celebrated on 8th September 

74 The founder of modern Germany is Bismarck 75 The country known as the land of the midnight sun is Norway 76 The place known as the Roof of the world is Tibet 77 The founder of the Chinese Republic was San Yat Sen 78 The first Pakistani to receive the Nobel Prize was Abdul Salam 79 The first woman Prime Minister of Britain was Margaret Thatcher 80 The first Secretary General of the UNO was Trygve Lie 81 The sculptor of the statue of Liberty was Frederick Auguste Bartholdi 82 The port of Baku is situated in Azerbaijan 83 John F Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald 

84 The largest river in France is Loire 85 The Queen of England who married her brother-in-law was Catherine of Aragon 86 The first black person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph Johnson Bunche 87 The first British University to admit women for degree courses was London University 88 The principal export of Jamaica is Sugar 89 New York is popularly known as the city of Skyscrapers 90 Madagascar is popularly known as the Island of Cloves 91 The country known as the Land of White Elephant is Thailand 92 The country known as the Land of Morning Calm is Korea 93 The country known as the Land of Thunderbolts is Bhutan 94 The highest waterfalls in the world is the Salto Angel Falls, Venezuela 95 The largest library in the world is the United States Library of Congress, Washington DC 96 The author of Harry Potter Books is JK Rowling 97 Nickname of New York city is Big Apple 98 What do you call a group of sheep? A Flock of Sheep 99 In which sport do players take long and short corners? Hockey 100 Who was the youngest President of the USA? Theodore Roosevelt 

101 How many legs do butterflies have? 6 Legs & 2 Pair of Wings

Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?Answer: Vinod Khosla

Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today’s computers run on it)?Answer: Vinod Dahm

Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?Answer: According to the latest report Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is the 3rd richest man in world in 2005.

Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world’s No.1 web based email program)?Answer: Sabeer Bhatia

Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?Answer: Arun Netravalli

Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?Answer: Rajiv Gupta

Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000,responsible to iron out all initial problems?Answer: Sanjay Tejwrika

Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?Answer: Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

*We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives. There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,

38% of doctors in USA are Indians.12% scientists in USA are Indians.36% of NASA scientists are Indians.34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.28% of IBM employees are Indians.17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with world history.

WORLD HISTORY - FACTS ABOUT INDIA

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.3. The world’s first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than

10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken

and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem.British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan’s works dates to the 6th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.

10. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.13. Chess was invented in India.14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of

his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley(Indus Valley Civilisation).

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

Quotes about India

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.- Albert Einstein.

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.- Mark Twain.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.- French Scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.- Hu Shih (Former Chinese ambassador to USA).

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.

Writer/Author Books

1. Pt. Vishnu Sharma Panchatanra

2. Vishakhadatta Mudra Rakshas

3. Raskhan Prem Vatika

4. Panini Ashtadhyayi

5. Shudrak Mrichhakatikam

6. Kalidasa Raghuvansham, Kumarsambhavam, Meghdootam, Abhugyanshakuntalam

7. Vatsyayana Mitakshara

8. Vigyaneshwar Kama Sutra

9. Jeemootwahan Daybhag

10. Kalhana Rajtarangini

11. Plini Natural History

12. Kautilya Arthashastra

13. Dandi Avanti Sundari, Dashkumaracharitam

14. Ved Vyas Bhagwat Gita, Mahabharata

15. Ashwaghosh Buddha Charitam

16. Jayadev Geet Govind

17. Bana Bhatt Kadambari

18.Bhavabhuti Malti Madhav

19. Amar Singh Amar Singh

20. Bhartihari Niti-Shatak, Shringar Shatak, Vairagya Shatak

21. Firdausi Shahnama

22. Abul Fazal Ain-i-Akbari, Akabarnama

23. Surdas Sahityalahri, Sursagar

24. Kabirdas Bijak, Ramayani, Sabar

25. Gulbadan Beghum Humanyunama

26. Al-Beruni Kitab-ul-Hind

27. Malik Mohammed Jayasi Padmavat

28. Mulk Raj Anand Coolie, Confession of a lover, Two leaves and a bud

29. Nirad C. Chaudhury Hinduism, Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, A Passage to England, Culture in the Vanity Bag, Continent of Crime

30Rabindra Nath Tagore Chitrangada, Gitanjali, Gora, Chandalika, Visarjana, Hungry Stones

31. Kuldip Nayyar The Judgment, Distant Neighbours; India, The Critical Years; In Jail, Indai after Nehru, Between the Lines

32. Sumitranandan Pant Jyotsana, Yugwani, Chidambara

33. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh Life Divine Essays on Gita

34. Swami Shivanand Divine Life

35. Amrita Pritam Death of a City , Kagaz te Canvas, Forty nine Days

36. Munsi PremChand Godan, Gaban, Karmabhumi, Rangbhumi

37. Khushwant Singh Indira Gandhi Returns, Indira Gandhi; Badhate Kadam, The Company of woman

38. B.M Kaul Untold Story, Confronation with Pakistan

39. Vijay Tendulkar Sakharam Binder

40 R.K. Narayanan The Darkroom, Malgudi Days, Guide, My Days, Swami and Friends

41. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Indian Philosophy

42. Sarojini Naidu Golden Threshold, Broken wings

43. Suryaknt Tripathi Nirala Anamika, Parimal, Gunjan, Jusi ki kali

44. Yashpal Jhootha Sach

45. Jai Shankar Prasad Kamayani, Aansoo, Skandagupa, Ajatshatru

46. Kazi Nazrul Islam Agni Veena

47.Mainthilisharm Gupt Bharat Bharati

48. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Kurukshera, Urvashi

49. Mrs. Indira Ghandhi Eternal India

50. S.H. Vatsyayan’Agyeya’ Kitni Nawon Mein Kitenee Bar, Aangan Ke paar, Dwar, Shekhar: Ek Jivani, Nadi Ke Dweep

51.Mahadevi Verma Yama, Niharika, Neeraja

52. Amrit Lal Nagar Amrit Aur Vish

53. Nayantara Sehgal A Voice of Freedom

54. V.S. Naipal Area of Darkness, A House for Mr.Biswas A Million Multinies Now, A Bend in the River

55. Devkinandan Khatri Chandrakanta Santati

56. Sharat Chandra ChattopadhyayDevdas, Charitraheen, Shrikant, Parineeta

57. Vrindavanal  Verma Jhansi Ki Rani

58. Jainendra Kumar Sunita, Tyagpatra

59. Bhagwati Charan Verma Chitralekha

60. Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’ Maila Aanchal, Mare Gaye Gulfam

61. Gajanan Madhav ‘Muktibodh’ Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai

62. Bhartendu Harischandra Bharat Durdasha, Satya Harischandra

1. A Joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament is Presided over by the

a) President b) Chairman of the Rajya Sabha c) Speaker d) Vice-Chairman of the Rajya Sabha

2. In the History of Independent India , the first State Governor to be dismissed by the President was

a) Ram Lal b) Prabhudas Patwari c) M.M. Thomas d) Mohammad Younus Saleem

3. The election of the President of India can be set aside by the Supreme Court under Article

a) 71 b) 75 c) 12 d) 21

4. A High Court for a Union Territory may be constituted by the

a) President b) Union Parliament c) Supreme Court of India d) Union Law Ministry

5. Suffrage means

a) the right to suffer b) the right of the citizen to expose the sufferings of others c) the right to vote

d) none of these.

6. The youngest High Court in the country is the

a) Delhi High Court b) Sikkim High Court c) Guwahati High Court d) Shimla High Court

7. The right to prorogue the two Houses of parliament rests with the

a) President b) Prime Minister c) Union Council of Ministers d) Minister for Parliamentary Affairs

8. A member of a Joint Service Commission shall address his letter of resignation to

a) the President b) the Governor c) the Chairman of the UPSC d) none of these authorities

9. How many members of every Public Service Commission should have served the Union/State

Governments for at least ten years?

a) One-fourth b) One-third c) One-half d) Two-thirds

60. Who, among the following , is/are not appointed by the President?

a) District and Sessions Judge b) High Court Judges c) Supreme Court Judges d) Attorney-General

of India.

61. In the case of a stalemate over a bill in a joint sitting of Parliament , the power to cast the deciding

vote lies with the

a) Prime Minister b) Chairman of the Rajya Sabha c) Union Law Minister d) Speaker of Lok Sabha

62. June 25 , 1975 was a significant date in the history of the nation , because

a)Emergency was clamped on the nation on this date by Mrs.Gandhi b)it wasthe date of death of

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru c) the Indian Rupee was devalued on that day d) the Tashkent

Agreement was signed on that day.

63. The Chairman of the Public accounts Committee of Parliament is appointed by the

a) Prime Minister b) Speaker of Lok Sabha c) President d) Union Finance Minister.

64. Next to Hindi, the largest linguistic unit in India is

a) Tamil b) Marathi c) Telugu d) Bengali

65. The Justice D.P.Wadhwa Commission was appointed to enquire into the

a)violence against Christians in Gujarat b) attacks on churches in Madhya Pradesh c)murder

of an Australian missionary and his sons d)burning of churches in Orissa

66. The Indian Administrative Service and The Indian Police Service have been created by the

a)Union Public Service Commission b) Union Parliament c) Union Home Ministry d)Constitution

67. Who among the following became president of India after having held the office of the Vice-

President of India?

a) Dr.Rajendra Prasad b) R.Venkataraman c) Zail Singh d) N.Sanjeeva Reddy

68. With a view to resolve the differences relating to certain provisions of the Dowry prohibition Bill,

the two houses of parliament sat in a joint session for the first time in

a) 1960 b) 1961 c) 1962 d) 1958

69. The speaker of Lok Sabha will address his letter of resignation to the

a) President b) Prime Minister c)Deputy Speaker d) Minister for Parliamentary Affairs

70. The first non-congress Government to be formed in any Indian state was the

a)Communist Govt. in Kerala b) CPI(M) Govt. in West Bengal c) Swatantra Party Govt. in Orissa

d) DMK Govt. in Tamilnadu.

71. The National Security Council is headed by the

a) Union Home Minister b) Defence Minister c) President d) Prime Minister

72. The first Vice-chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi was

a) Dr.S.Radhakrishnan b) G.Parthasarathy c) Dr.Rajendra Prasad d) Md.Hidayatullah

73. The Constitution of India makes a reference to village panchayats in the chapter on

a)Fundamental Rights b) Directive principles of State Policy c) Union and its Territory

d) Special provisions

74. The most powerful Upper House , among the following , is the

a) Rajya Sabha Iin India b) Senate in the USA c) House of Lords in the UK d) Council of

States in Switzerland.

75. For a successful and effective functioning of the parliamentary system , it is necessary to have a

a) strong opposition party b) Presidential form of Govt. c) multi-party system d)no-party system

76. Who, among the following, was the first recognized leader of the opposition in the Union

Parliament?

a)Dr.S.P.Mukherji b)A.K.Gopalan c) Y.B.Chavan d) Prof.N.G.Ranga

77.Which of the following countries provided the lead to the development of modern constitutional

government?

a)France b) Britain c) the USA d) Spain

78. The CAG does not audit the receipts and expenditure of

a)Municipal Undertakings b) State Governments c) Governments Companies d) Union Government

79. The timetable of Parliament is controlled by the

a)President b) Union Cabinet c) Prime Minister c) Speaker

80. The House of People shall have not more than ____members to represent Union Territories.

a) 20 b) 25 c) 30 d) 35

81. If a political party is recognized in ___ or more states, it is deemed to be a National Party.

a) one b) two c) three d) four

82. The principal organ of the United Nations is the

a) Security Council b) General Assembly c) Secretariat d) UNESCO

83.”Sare Jahan Se Achcha, Hindustan Hamara” was composed by

a) Mohammed Iqbal b) Mrs.Sarojini Naidu c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Bankm Chandra Chatterji

84. The model for Fundamental Rights in India has been taken from the

a)Constitution of India b) British Constitution c) Irish Constitution d) Constitution of New Zealand

85. The procedure for removing the judges of the Supreme Court of India is by an /the

a)decision by a majority of the Lok Sabha b)order by the President for their removal c)address to

the President for their removal passed by a special majority of Parliament d)removal from office

after an impeachment.

86.The first Governor-General of Free India was

a)C.Rajagopalachari b) Lord Mountbatten c)Lord Wavell d) Lord Linlithgow

87. Who, among the following painters, was invited to draw sketches on the theme of national

integration in the first copy of the constitution of India?

a)Nandalal Bose b) M.F.Hussain c) Satyajit Ray d) J.Swaminathan

88. The late Mrs.Vijaylakshmi Pandit was the first

a) Indian to become President of the UN General Assembly b) women cabinet minister of a State

in Free India c) woman ambassador of free India to a foreign country d)all the three given above.

89. An Advocate General is a/an

a)State Government Official b) Union Govt.Official c) Extra-constitutional authority d) subordinate of the Attorney-General of India.

90. Which, among the following Union Territories , has a legislature and a Council of Ministers?

a)Lakshadweep b) Dadra & Nagar- Haveli c) Pondicherry d) Chandigarh

91. Who,among the following, acted as Prime Minister of India for 12 days, on the death of Nehru?

a)Morarji Desai b) Gulzarilal Nanda c) Mrs.Indira Gandhi d) Lal Bahadur Shastri

92. A meeting of the Union Council of Ministers was held outside NewDelhi for the forst time during

Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure.The venue of the meeting was

a)Kottayam(kerala)b) Sariska (rajasthan) c) Santiniketan(west Bengal)d)Shimla (Himachal pradesh)

93. Money can be advanced out of the Contigency Fund of India, to meet unforeseen expenditures, by

a) the Parliament b) the President c) the Prime Minister d) The Finance Minister

94. The de jure head of a State administration is the

a)Chief Minister b) Law Minister c) Home Minister d) Governor

95. The chief minister of a State is not eligible to vote in the Presidential election if he

a)himself is candidate b) is yet to prove his majority on the floor of the State Assembly

c)is a member of the Upper house of the State Legislature d) is a caretaker Chief Minister.

96. Normally, no person can be held under preventive detention for more than _____ months.

a) two b) three c) six d) twelve

97. The 44th Amendment to the constitution provides for

a)suspension of individual liberty during an emergency b) right to property as no longer a

fundamental right c) barring of courts from interfering in disputes regarding election of prime

Minister d) more importance to Directive Principles over Fundamental Rights

98. The Uttar Pradesh Govt. has accorded the second official language status to _____ in the State.

a) English b) Sanskrit c)Maithili d) Urdu

99. The Chief Justice and other Judges of the Supreme Court of India hold Office until they attain

the age of ______ years. a)58 b) 60 c) 65 d) 70

100. The provisions relating to the suspension of fundamental rights by the President during

emergencies were borrowed from the

a) Constitution of Canada b) Constitution of USA c) British Constitution d) Weimer Constitution of Germany

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