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KNOWLEDGE AND
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Dr. T.K. Jain.
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 When was aryabhatta
launched by India?
• 1975, april 19

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 Which was the first
experimental earth
observatory by India?
• Bhaskar I launched in 1981

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 When did first post
office start in India?
• 1727 at Kolkata by east India
company

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 First women foreign
secretary of India?
• Chokila Iyer

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 First women to cross
English channel twice
(Indian)?
• Bula Choudhary

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 India’s first regular
oilwell?
• Digboi (Assam) 1890

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First woman IPS officer in
India why is she in news
now?
• Kiran Bedi, became IPS in 1972,
• Recenly she took VRS.

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 First women president of
INC (Indian national
congress)?
• Annie Besant 1917

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First nobel laureate from
India?
• Rabindra Nath Tagore 1913

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First women ambassador
from India?
• Vijay Laxmi Pandit (1947 to USSR)

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First space rocket to hit
the moon was?
• Lunik II.

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 The first Indian to win
world billiards trophy?
• Wilson Jones

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First Indian to win medal in
world Atheletics
championship?
• Anju George

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First president of USA?
• George Washington

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 First president of China
republic?
• Sun Yat Sen

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 Who started Khilafat
Andolan?
• Ali Brothers
• Supported by others including Azad
and Gandhi.

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 Who started Khudai
Khidmatgar?
• Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (Frontier
Gandhi).

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 Who started Hindustan
Republican Association?
• Chandrashakher Azad in 1928

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 Who started Indian
National Congress?
• A.O. Hume

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 Who started Gadar
Party?
• Lal Hardayal in 1913 in San Fransisco

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 First Chinese to visit
India?
• Fahien

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 First european to visit
China?
• Marco Polo

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 First US president to
resign?
• Richard Nixon.

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 Where is Indian Institute
of petroleum located?
• Dehradun

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Where is National Institute
of Design located?
• Ahmedabad.

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 Where is central Potato
Research Institute located?
• Shimla

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 Where is CAZRI?
• Jodhpur, with branch office in
Bikaner also.

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 Where is central leprosy
research institute located?
• Chennai

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 Where is Indian Cancer
Research Centre located?
• Mumbai.

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Where is central sheep and
wool research statistics
organisation located?
• Delhi
• In Bikaner also there is a branch of
central sheep and wool research
centre.

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 Where is central tuber
crops research institute?
• Thiruvananthapuram

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 Where is Nutrition
research laboratory?
• Hyderabad.

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 Where is national physical
laboratory is India?
• Delhi,
• Branch is Ahmedabad.

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Where is central building
research institute?
• Rurkee

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Where is central glass and
ceramics research
institute?
• Jadavpur

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 Who won Gandhi Peace
prize in recent times?
• 2005 Deshmond Tutu
• 2006 Shabana Azmi

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 Who won recent IIFA
awards (International
Indian Film Academy)
• 2006 best film award to Black

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 Mention the Indian who
have won booker prize?
• Salman Rushdie
• Arundhati Roy
• And recently Kiran Desai has won
(2006) for her novel the inheritance
of Love.

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 Luftansa belongs to
which field?
• It is the leading airlines from
Germany.

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 When does Indian
National calender start?
• 22 March (as per the Indian system)
.
• In leap year it starts on 21 March.

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Which is the first month in
Indian and in Hijri
calender?
• Chaitra is in Indian
• Muharram is in Hijri calender

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 Which are the national
holidays of the following
nations?
• USA
• UK
• Japan
• India
• Germany
• Russia
• Nepal

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 the national holidays of
the following nations:
• USA 4 July
• UK June 1
• Japan 23 Dec.
• India 26 Jan.
• Germany3 Oct.
• Russia 12 June
• Nepal 28 Dec.

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Who invented geometry?
• Euclid in 300 bc.

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 Who invented paper?
• Ts Ai Hun from China invented paper
in 105 a.d.

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 Who invented algebra?
• Diophantus of Greece invented it in
250 A.d.

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Who invented LOG table?
• John Napier from Scotland in 1614

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 Who invented
thermometer?
• Zacharias Janssen from Netherlands
in 1590

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 Who invented pressure
cooker?
• Denis Papin from france in 1675

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 Who invented bicycle?
• Karl von Sauerbronn from Germany
invented it in 1816

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 Who invented Radar
• Robert Watson Watt from scotland
in 1935

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 Who invented Jet
Engine?
• Frank Whittle from England in 1930

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 Who invented diesel
engine?
• Rudolf Diesel invented it in 1897
(Germany)

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 Who invented wireless?
• G. Marconi from Italy in 1895

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 Who invented TV
• J.L. Baird from Scotland in 1925

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 Who invented laser?
• Theodore Maiman from USA n 1960

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Who invented transistor?
• John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and
William Shockley from USA in 1948

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Who invented Aeroplane?
• Wright Brothers from USA in 1903

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 Who invented Safety
Razor?
• K.C. Gillette from USA in 1895

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 Who invented Kodak
Camera?
• George Eastman from USA 1888

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 Who invented radio
telephone?
• Reginald Fessenden from USA in
1902

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 Which are the seven
wonders of the world
Modern Age?
• Taj
• Pyramid with sphynx of Gizeh
• Hagia Sophia of Istanbul
• Washington Monument
• Eiffel tower of Paris
• Empire state building
• Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.

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 Which are the seven
wonders of the world
Ancient Age?
• Colossus of Rhodes
• Pharos at Alexandria
• Hanging Garden of Babylon
• Temple of Artenis / diama at Ephesus
• Pyramid of Khalu
• Tomb of Mausolus
• Statue of Zeus at Olymbia

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 Which are the seven
wonders of the world
Middle Age?
• Great wall of China
• Colosseum of Rome
• Catacombs of Alexandria
• Pagoda of Nanking (china)
• Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy
• Sancta Sophia of Constantinoble
• Stonehenge

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First european to invade
India?
• Alexander

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 Three great Rs of
Europe?
• Renaissance, Reformation and
Revolution (in eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries)

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 Who wrote Declaration
of Independence (USA)?
• Thomas Jefferson on 4 July 1776.

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 Why is battle of
waterloo famous
• Napoleon suffered his final defeat in
1815 (against combined armies of
England, Germany, Dutch). He finally
died on 5 may 1821.

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 Last viceroy of India?
• Lord Mountbatten

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 Quit India resolution was
passed by whom and when?
• By INC on 8 Aug. 1942

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 Why did Lala Lajpat Rai
die?
• He was demonstrating against Simon
commission which had come to India
in 1928 against wishes of the nation.
He died due to police beating on 17
December 1928.

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 When did partition of
Bengal take place?
• 16 Oct. 1905

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When was Muslim league
formed?
• All India Muslim League was formed
in 1906 at Dhaka.

• The word Swaraj was also used first

time in 1906.

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 When Did Capital Shift
from Kolkata to Delhi?
• 1 April 1911.

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 Which is the famous
treatise from Tagore for
which he got Nobel prize?
• Gitanjali published in 1911.

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 How many languages are
recognised by constitution
of India?
• As per eighth schedule, 22 languages
are recognised.

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