GENERAL

GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE
KNOWLEDGE
Dr. T.K. Jain.
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 What is Human Rights
day?
• 10 December

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 Farmer’s Day?
• 23 December

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 World Labour Day?
• 1 May.

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 What is the gap between
world water day and world
earth day?
• One month – as world water day is on
22 March, world earth day is on 22
April.

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Founder of Rotary Club?
• Paul Harris

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 World’s second largest
desert?
• Libyan Desert in North Africa (1.6
ml. sq. km. area) (Sahara is the
largest with 9 million sq. km.)

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 What is Tera in
measurement?
• 10^12
• Mega is 10^6 Giga 10^9 Kilo 10^3
• Hecto 10^2 and Deca is 10^1

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 On which river is Tehri
Bridge located?
• Bhagirathi River

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On which river is Theene
Bridge located?
• Ravi River in the Punjab.

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 On which river are Gandhi
Sagar, Ranapratap Sagar
and Jawahar Sagar
Bridges located?

• Chambal River.

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On which river is Nagarjun
Sagar Bridge located?
• Krishna River in A.P. near nandikona
village.

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On which river is Bhakra
Bridge located?
• Satluj River in the Punjab.

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Who has written Meghdut,
can you name his other
creations also?
• Author = Kalidas, his other creations
are: Raghubansh,Kumar Sambhav,
Ritusanhar, Malvikagnimitra etc. (5th
century)

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 Who has written Geet
Govinda?
• Jaidev (12th century)

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 What is the capital of
Ukrayina?
• Keeve

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What is BT? When did it
come to India?
• BT is more popular for BT cotton – it
was allowed in 2002 in India in MP
and south India to be grown.

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Why are these ladies famous in
corporate world –
Anu Aga
Mallika Srinivasan
Naina Lal Kidwai
Chanda Kochhar
Amrita Patel
Nandini Rangaswami
Anuradha Desai
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• Anu Aga - Thermax
Mallika Srinivasan - Tafe
Naina Lal Kidwai - HSBS
Chanda Kochhar – ICICI Bank
Amrita Patel- Dairy Industry
• Nandini Rangaswami – Chandra Textile
Anuradha Desai – Venkateshwar
Hatcheries

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 Where (name the company)
are these ladies working:
• Usha Thorat
• Indira Nui
• Ilaben Bhatt
• Ilaben Pathak
• Lalita Gupte
• Kalpana Motaria
• Kiran Shaw Majumdar
• Bidya Chhabaria
• Mehar Aga

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• Usha Thorat - RBI
• Indira Nui - PEPSI
• Ilaben Bhatt - SEWA
• Ilaben Pathak - AWAG
• Lalita Gupte - ICICI
• Kalpana Motaria - ICICI
• Kiran Shaw Majumdar - BIOCON
• Bidya Chhabaria - JAMBO
• Mehar Aga - THERMAX

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 Who was the first lady
cabinet secretary in India?
• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

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First lady ambassador from
India – later she became
first lady chief of UN
general assembly?

• Vijay Laxmi pandit

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 First miss world from
India?
• Rita Faria (1966)

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 When did first election
take place in independent
India?
• 1952 for 499 seats – in this women
captured 24 seats.

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No. of Union Territories
in India?
• Six (excluding Delhi as it is a
separate place - NCT )
• The union territories are Andaman,
Chandigarh, Dadar, Daman,
Pondicherry, and Laxdeep
• We have 28 states.

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What is the ratio of men
to women in India?
• 1000 men – 933 women.

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Average Per capita Income
(approx.) in India?
• 440$ per annum

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 Which State has third
largest population in India?
• Bihar (the first is UP, second is
Maharastra).

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 Which is third largest
state as per area?
• Maharastra (the first is Rajasthan,
Second is MP)

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 Which is largest Union
Territory as per area?
• Andaman and Nikobar (8.2 th. Sq.
k.m.)

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 Who wrote National
Anthem?
• Ravindra Nath Tagore (only the first
five stanza have been adopted as
national anthem). It was adopted on
24 jan. 1950

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Which country started civil
services examinations first
time?
• China – 6 AD

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 When was Jesus
crucified?
• 29 AD

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Which language is the third
most popular language in the
world?
• Hindi
• (the first is Mandarin, second is
English)

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 Who is the head of
Amnesty International?
• Ms. Irene Jubeda Khan
• Amnesty is located in London with
150 branches in different countries –
it was started in 1961.

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 Who is the head of Red
Cross?
• Jacob Kelenberg
• This organisation has got Nobel Prize
thrice. (1917,44,63)
• It was set up in 1863 by J H Dunant
and has headquarter in Jenewa.

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 Who is the head of the
World Bank?
• Paul Volfovitz
• Its headquarter is in Washington DC
USA.
• It was set up in 1946 as per Bretton
Woods Agreement 1944 – to
reconstruct world after II world
war.

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 Where is the
headquarter of UNIDO?
• Vianna (Austria)
• Its head is Carlos Alfredo Megarinos

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Where is headquarter of
ADB?
• Asian Development Bank has
headquarer in Manila (Philippines)
• Head is Haruhiko Kurido

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 Where is the
headquarter of ASIAN?
• Djakarta ( Indonesia)
• It was set up in 1967
• Its head is Ong Keng Yang

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 Where is the headquarter
of Commonwealth?
• London
• It is an association of 53 nations
(which were earlier governed by
Britain). It was set up in 1926.
• Head is Don Maquinn.

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 Where is the
headquarter of SAARC?
• Kathmandu (Nepal)
• Head is C. Dorji (Bhutan)
• Started in 1985
• Members are India, Myamar,Pak,
Bangladesh,Srilanka, Bhutan,Nepal.

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 Where is the
headquarter of NATO?
• Brusseles (Belgium)
• It was started in 1949 by group of
countries – now there are 19
members.

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 Where is the
headquarter of WMO
• Jeneva
• World meterological organisation is
headed by Kaje Postale.

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 Where is the
headquarter of WIPO?
• World Intellectual Property Org. was
started to promote intellectual
property (Patents, copyrights, etc.)
its head quarter is in Geneva
• Its head is Kamal Indrees.

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 Where is the
headquarter of WTO?
• World Trade Org. has its
headquarter in Geneva
• It was started in 1995 to replace
GATT.
• Its head is Supachal . Panichapakadi

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 Where is the
headquarter of IMF?
• International Monetary Fund has
headquarter in Washington DC
• Its head is Rodrigo De Rato
• It was started in 1945.

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 Where is the
headquarter of WHO?
• World Health Org. is situated in
Geneva.
• Its head is John Buk Lee
• It was started in 1946.

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 Thanks
• Afterschoool conducts three year integrated PGPSE
(after class 12 along with CA & CS) and 18 month PGPSE
(Post Graduate Programme in Social Entrepreneurship)
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conducts workshops on social entrepreneurship in
schools and colleges all over India – start social
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