GENERAL

KNOWLEDGE
Dr. T.K. Jain.
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 Which state has highest
forest cover in terms of
percentage of land?
• Arunachal Pradesh havind over 81%
forest cover with over 68000 sq. km.
of area under forest.

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 What is forest cover in
India (in percentage)?
• Over 20% with over 678000 sq. km.
of area under forest.
• It is below our target of 33.33%
forest cover.

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 What is Part III of Indian
constitution about?
• It is about fundamental rights.
• Article 14 is on equality,15 on non-
discrimination on any ground, 16 on equality
of opportunity, 17 on abolition of
untouchability, 18 on abolition of titles, 19
on speech,20 & 21 on personal liberty, 22
on physical freedom, 23 on forced labour
24 on child labour etc. 25 to 28 on
freedom on religion, 29,30 on cultural and
educational rights of minorities.

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What is Part IVof Indian
constitution about?
• It is about directive principles. Part
IV A is on fundamental duties. (10
fundamental duties).

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 Mention full form of :
WIPO
• World intellectual property
organisation

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 TIN
• Tax payers Identification Number.

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 UNCTAD
• UN conference on trade and
development

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 UNICEF
• UN international children emergency
fund.

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 UNIDO
• UN Industrial development
organisation.

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 RDX
• Research Development Explosive

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 SAIL
• Steel Authority of India Ltd.

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 WTO
• World trade organisation –
headquarter in Geneva, set up in 1995
replacing GATT (general agreement
on trade and tariff).

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 CNG
• Compressed natural gas.

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 FICCI
• Federation of Indian chamber of
commerce and industry.

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 FIEO
• Federation of indian exporters
organisation.

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 Who wrote the book:
“Rajniti ke uss par’?
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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 Who wrote: out of my
confort zone?

• Steve Waugh

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 Who wrote Ayodhya – 6
december
• PV narsimha Rao

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 Who wrote : manzil se
jyada safar
• VP Singh

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 Who wrote : travels in
transoxiana
• Jaswant Singh

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 Who wrote :
argumentative India
• Amartya Sen.

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Who wrote : falling over
backwards.
• Arun Shourie

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 Who has written : suitable
boy, and Golden Gate?
• Vikram Seth

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Who has written – the road
ahead and Business@ speed
of thought
• Bill Gates.

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What is operation flood?
• It was launched to increase milk
production in India – twice – once in
seventies and again during late
eighties.

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 Operation leap forward
• Joint initiative of India and Srilanka
against LTTE.
• Similar operations were operation
Pawan.

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 Operation Khukhari
• It was to save 222 Indian soldiers in
siera leone.

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 Operation Cobra?
• Againsts terrorists in J&K.
• Other such operations wer
eoperation Ujala, operation sarp
vinash, operation amarnath track, and
operation psycho.

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 World wildlife day?
• 6 Oct.

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 World food day
• 16 oct.
• 17 oct – world poverty eradication
day.

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 UN day?
• 24 Oct.
• 10 Dec. Is Human Rights day.
• 11 Dec. Unicef day.

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 Hiroshima Day
• 6 august.

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 Small industry day?
• 30 august

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 Who started swaraj
party?
• By motilal Nehru and CR Das in 1922.

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 Who started Vishwa
Bharati.
• R.N. Tagore in 1912.

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Who started Servants of
India Socity?
• Gopal Krishna Gokhle in 1905.

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 Who started Asiatic
Society?
• William Jones in 1784.

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 Who started Young
Bengal Movement?
• H.V. Derozio 1831.

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 Who started Muslim
League?
• Aga Khan and Salimudiah in 1906.

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 Who started Central
Hindu School in Banaras?
• Annie Besant in 1915

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 Who started East India
Association in London:
• Dada Bhai Nauroji in 1866.

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 Who started Brahma
Samaj, Atmiya Samaj, and
Vedanta College, and
Unitarian Mission?

• Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

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 Who started Aligarh
Mohammadan Anglo oriental
college?
• Sir Sayyed Ahmed Khan in 1875.

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 Who started Hindu
Mahasabha?
• Madam Mohan malviya in 1915.

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Who started Bahishkrit
Hit Karni?
• B.R. Ambedkar in 1924
• His other institution is Independent
labour party. In 1936.

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 Who started Abhinava
Bharati.
• V.M. Savarkar in London in 1906.

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 Who started Rehnumai
Majdayasan.
• Dada Bhai Dauroji in 1851.

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 Who got Bharat Ratna
for first time?
• C. Rajagopalachari, Dr. S.
Radhakrishnan, and Dr. C.V. Raman
together got it in 1954

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 Who got Bharat Ratna
last time?
• Lata Mangeshkar and Bismillah Khan
in 2001.

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 Who got the first Data
Saheb Phalke Award ?
• Smt. Devika Rani in 1969.

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How will you convert celsius
to kelvin (temperature)?
• By adding 273.15.
• Similarly, it can be converted to
fahrenheit by the following formulae:
• 9/5 (Tc) +32.

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 What is speed of falling
matter ?
• Distance in feet: 16t^2
• Where t = time in seconds.

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 What is measurement of
sound of jet plane when it
takes off ?
• 100 decibels.

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 What is Newton?
• Force
• It is equal to accelerate 1kg mass 1
meter/second squared.
• Similarly other measures are Pascal,
Poundal, Atmosphere, Dyne etc.

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