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[DOUBLEPOST=1351388187][/DOUBLEPOST]Q: Which composer wrote The Water Music?

A: Handel

Q: What colour does acid turn Litmus paper?
A: Red

Q: What's the largest Scandinavian country?
A: Sweden

Q: What was Mickey Mouse's original name?
A: Mortimer Mouse

Q: Which metal do you get from bauxite?
A: Aluminium

Q: Which animal produces the biggest baby?
A: Blue Whale

Q: In Pop music, which two herbs go with 'Parsley & Sage'?
A: Rosemary and Thyme - Scarborough fair

Q: What was the name of the Benedictine monk who legend has it invented Champagne?
A: Dom Perignon

Q: In which Country is Auschwitz (Birkenau)?
A: Poland

Q: Who was Leonardo di Caprio's co-star in Titanic?
A: Kate Winslett

Q: Acid rain is composed mainly of the oxides of two elements. Give either.
A: Sulphur or Nitrogen

Q: What sort of creature is a bustard?
A: A bird

Q: What is calcium carbonate normally known as?
A: Chalk

Q: Who commanded the Allied forces, which invaded Europe on D-Day?
A: Dwight Eisenhower

Q: Who holds the record as being Britain's youngest ever Formula 1 Driver?
A: Jensen Button

Q: What word do we use to describe the Asexual reproduction of a genetic carbon copy of an animal or plant?
A: Clone

Q: Which chemical element has the shortest name - 3 letters?
A: Tin

Q: What is the state capital of Alaska?
A: Juneau

Q: How many holes are there in a ten pin bowling ball?
A: 3

Q: Which land did Puff The Magic Dragon live in?
A: Honalee


[DOUBLEPOST=1351388208][/DOUBLEPOST] No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

* The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
* Apples, not caffeine, are more efficien at waking you up in the morning
* The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
* The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
* Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
* The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
* The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
* Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
* Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
* The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
* During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
* The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
* The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
* Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
* The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died, Ever.[DOUBLEPOST=1351388232][/DOUBLEPOST] The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
*Banging your head against a wall uses an average of 900 calories an hour.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death
* "I am ." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
* Every time you lick a stamp,you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
* Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30's lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.
* You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
* There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.
* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

* If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,dogs only have about ten.
* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing[DOUBLEPOST=1351388270][/DOUBLEPOST] The Bible, the world's most-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

* Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
* More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
* In the U.S.A over eleven thousand people (up until the end of 2003) have visited a tortilla chip that appears to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it?
* Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.
* There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
* Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
* After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.
* There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
* There are more chickens than people in the world.
* The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
* The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
* Maine is the only American state whose name is just one syllable.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* There are only three words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, and stupendous.
* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
* The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.

* A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
* The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
* A person with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet
* The loudest sound produced by any animal is 188 decibels. The animal is the African Elephant.
* In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
* The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
* No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
* Chocolate can kill dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces are enough to kill a small dog.
* There are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia.
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The thickness of your skin varies from 1/2 to 6 millimeters, depending on the area of your body.

The four taste zones on your tongue are bitter (back), sour (back sides), salty (front sides), and sweet (front).
The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste.
Your body contains eight pints of blood.
You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle, which is located in the jaw.
Muscles normally account for 40 percent of one's body weight.
There are 230 joints in the body.
Kids have 20 first teeth. Adults have 32 teeth.
The small intestines are about 25 feet long.
The large intestines are five feet long and are three times wider than the small intestines.
Most people shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
Your body is 70 percent water.
Normal body temperature is 98.6° Fahrenheit.
When you sneeze, air rushes through your nose at a rate of 100 mph.
An eyelash lives about 150 days before it falls out.
Your brain sends messages at the rate of 240 mph.
About 400 gallons of blood flow through your kidneys in one day.
You blink your eyes about 20,000 times a day.
Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day.
Humans breathe 20 times per minute, more than 10 million times per year and about 700 million times in a lifetime.
You have about 100,000 hairs on your head.
There are 10 million nerve cells in your brain.
Each of your eyes has 120 million rods, which help you see in black and white.
Each eye has six million cones, which help you see in color.
One in 12 men is color blind.
Placed end to end, all your body's blood vessels would measure about 62,000 miles.[DOUBLEPOST=1351388404][/DOUBLEPOST]6. Currently, the performance of tasks by robots is based on preprogrammed algorithms.
Answer: True

77. Data can be a number, a word, a picture, or a sound.
Answer: True

78. Strictly defined, a computer is a data processing device.
Answer: True

79. The discrepancy between the “haves” and “have-nots” with regard to computer technology is commonly referred to as the digital society.
Answer: False (digital divide)

90. A Web browser is a special device that is installed in your computer that allows it to communicate with other devices on a network.
Answer: False (network adapter)

91. With a wireless network, it is easier to relocate devices.
Answer: True

92. The most common type of memory that the computer uses to process data is ROM.
Answer: False (RAM)


66. ____________is the application of computer systems and techniques to gather legal evidence.
Answer: Computer forensics


67. ____________ is the science that attempts to create machines that will emulate the human thought process.
Answer: Artificial intelligence (AI)

68. Macintosh computers use the Macintosh operating system (Mac OS), whereas PCs generally run ____________ as an operating system.
Answer: Microsoft Windows

69. A process known as ____________ tracks trends and allows retailers to respond to consumer buying patterns.
Answer: data mining
[DOUBLEPOST=1351388447][/DOUBLEPOST]6. ISO OSI model is used in
a. Stand alone PC
b. Network environment
Answer b

7. Network cable lies on _____ layer
a. Application
b. Network
c. Physical

8. ____ layer decides which physical pathway the data should take.
a. Application
b. Network
c. Physical
Answer c

9. ISDN is an example of ______ network
a. Circuit switched
b. Packet switched
Answer a

10. X.25 is an example of ______ network
a. Circuit switched
b. Packet switched
Answer b



[DOUBLEPOST=1351388461][/DOUBLEPOST]In the year 1811, Paraguay became independent from Spain.
The cross word puzzle was invented by Arthur Wynne.
The city which was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire was Persepolis.
WHO stands for World Health Organization.
WHO (World Health Organization) is located at Geneva.
FAO stands for Food and Agriculture Organization.
FAO is located at Rome and London.
UNIDO stands for United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
UNIDO is located at Vienna.
WMO stands for World Meteorological Organization.[DOUBLEPOST=1351388496][/DOUBLEPOST]WMO is located at Geneva.
International Civil Aviation Organization is located at Montreal.
The Angel Falls is located in Venezuela.
The Victoria Falls is located in Rhodesia.
Ice Cream was discovered by Gerald Tisyum.
The number regarded as lucky number in Italy is thirteen.
Napoleon suffered from alurophobia which means Fear of cats.
The aero planes were used in war for the first time by Italians. (14 Oct.1911)
Slavery in America was abolished by Abraham Lincoln.
The Headquarters of textile manufacturing in England is Manchester.

The Kalahari Desert is located in Africa.
The Patagonian desert is located in Argentina.
The person known as the father of aeronautics is Sir George Cayley.
The most densely populated Island in the world is Honshu.
The two nations Haiti and the Dominion Republic together form the Island of Hispaniola.
The largest auto producer in the USA is General Motors.
The largest auto producing nation is Japan.
The famous ?General Motors? company was founded by William Durant.
The country that brings out the FIAT is Italy.
The first actor to win an Oscar was Emil Jannings.[DOUBLEPOST=1351388594][/DOUBLEPOST]The longest river in Russia and Europe is Volga River.
The first Emperor of Germany was Wilhelm.
The last French Monarch was Louis Napoleon III.
"History is Bunk" was said by Henry Ford.
The term 'astrology' literally means Star Speech.
Togo is situated in Africa.
Coal is also known as Black Diamond.
The first Boxer to win 3 gold medals in Olympics was Laszlo Papp.
The first ruler who started war games for his soldiers was Genghis Khan.
The first cross word puzzle in the world was published in 1924 by London Sunday Express.[DOUBLEPOST=1351388660][/DOUBLEPOST]Victoria Falls was discovered by David Livingstone.
The technique to produce the first test tube baby was evolved by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards.
The oldest residential university of Britain is the Oxford University.
The name of the large clock on the tower of the House of Parliament in London is called Big Ben.
Prado Museum is located in Madrid.
The number of keys in an ordinary piano is Eighty eight.
'Man is a Tool Making Animal' was said by Benjamin Franklin.
The term 'anesthesia' was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The first man to reach Antarctica was Fabian Gottlieb.
The Kilimanjaro volcano is situated in Tanzania.
The invention that is considered to have built America is Dynamite.
Words that contains all the vowels: Authentication, Remuneration, Education, Automobile, Miscellaneous and many more.
Words that contain all the vowels in order: Facetious and Abstemious.
Words that contain all the vowels in reverse order: Uncomplimentary, Unproprietary, Unoriental and Subcontinental.
Words with no vowel in them: Myth, Fly, Sky, Dry, Cry, Rhythm, Crypt.
Which country declares independence on 18th Feb 2008? - Kosovo.
Who was the founder of the kindergarten education system? - German educator Friedrich Froebel.
What is the scientific name of Vitamin C? - Ascorbic Acid
What is the full form of GPRS? - General Packet Radio Service
Which was the first university established in the world? - Nalanda University
What is full form of CEO, CFO & CIO titles? Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Information Officer.

The first Prime minister of Bangladesh was Mujibur Rehman
2 The longest river in the world is the Nile
3 The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada
4 The longest highway in the world has a length of About 8000 km
5 The highest mountain in the world is the Everest
6 The country that accounts for nearly one third of the total teak production of the world is Myanmar
7 The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara desert
8 The largest coffee growing country in the world is Brazil
9 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[DOUBLEPOST=1351388711][/DOUBLEPOST]1 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

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
 

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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
 

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India General Knowledge Questions answers
Q. Antyodaya scheme is meant to help the
1 Muslims
2 Minorities
3 Poorest of the poor section of the society
4 Harijans
Ans: 3
Q. 'Dhanraj Pillay' was associated with
1 Hockey
2 Football
3 Cricket
4 Lawn Tennis
Ans: 1
Q. As per Census 2011, the highest populated State is
1 Bihar
2 Uttar Pradesh
3 Madhya Pradesh
4 Tamil Nadu
Ans: 2
Q. The upcoming Ultra Mega Power Projects(UMPPs) at Cheyyur and Sarguja are located respectively in
1 Kerala and Chhattisgarh
2 Tamil Nadu and Odisha
3 Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh
4 Kerala and Odisha
Ans: 3
Q. Andheri's newly constructed headquarters of anti-terror force was inaugurated by N. Kumar Reddy on August 13, 2012 in Hyderabad. What is the name of this counter-terrorist commando force?
1 Anti Terrorism Agency (ATA)
2 Organization to Counter Terrorist Operations (Octopus)
3 Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS)
4 Anti Terrorism Operations (ATO)
Ans: 2
Q. Which two countries signed Agreement for the Modernisation of Indian Railways?
1 India and Belgium
2 Indian and China
3 USA and India
4 Russia and India
Ans: 1
Q. Name the Indian telecom service company which had acquired US firm WPCS International?
1 Shyam Telecom
2 MTNL
3 Tata Teleservices
4 Kavvery Telecom
Ans: 4
Q. Which company was directed by the Supreme Court to refund an amount of 17400 crore of rupees to their Investors?
1 Sahara Group of Company
2 Reliance Industries
3 Air India
4 Vodafone
Ans: 1
Q. Isle of Wight rock yielded three fossil footprints of Dinosaurs. In which one of the following countries Isle of Wight located?
1 Germany
2 USA
3 Africa
4 UK
Ans: 4
Q. Which Indian Company signed a pact with French Energy company GDF Suez to import LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas)?
1 Indian Oil Corporation(IOC)
2 GAIL
3 ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation)
4 Reliance Petroleum Limited[DOUBLEPOST=1357438995][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. National Defence Academy is situated at
1 Pune
2 Kolkata
3 Mumbai
4 Dehradun
Ans: 1
Q. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
1 Bhangra-Punjab
2 Bihu-Nagaland
3 Garba-Gujarat
4 Tamasha-Maharashtra
Ans: 2
Q. India's largest museum is located at
1 Kolkata
2 Delhi
3 Bengaluru
4 Chennai
Ans: 1
Q. The Bhakra Dam is built across the river
1 Ravi
2 Chenab
3 Sutlej
4 Jhelum
Ans: 3
Q. Breeding and management of bees is called
1 Sericulture
2 Apiculture
3 Silviculture
4 Pisciculture
Ans: 2
Q. Excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks causes damage to
1 Liver
2 Lungs
3 Kidney
4 Heart
Ans: 1
Q. The headquarters of North Western Railway is located at
1 Allahabad
2 Jaipur
3 Mumbai
4 Jabalpur
Ans: 2
Q. Which award is given for excellence in sports?
1 Jamnalal Bajaj
2 Jnanpith
3 Arjuna
4 None of these
Ans: 3
Q. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
1 12
2 15
3 20
4 24
Ans: 4
Q. The normal term of office of UN Secretary-General is
1 3 yeras
2 4 years
3 6 years
4 5 years
Ans: 3
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439175][/DOUBLEPOST]Pakistan Quiz Questions

1) What is the meaning of Pakistan?
a) Muslim Land
b) Land of five rivers
c) Desert
d) Holy Land
2) Who is the first Governor General of Pakistan?
a) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
b) Liaquat Ali Khan
c) Ayub Khan
d) Iskander Mirza
3) What was the major event of 1971?
a) Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan
b) Explosion of nuclear bomb
c) Tashkent Agreement
d) Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister
4) When Musharraf overthrew the government of Nawaz Sharif what designation did he take?
a) Dictator
b) Consul
c) Prime Minister
d) Chief Executive
5) In which year did Pakistan win the Cricket World Cup?
a) 1975
b) 1987
c) 1992
d) 1996
6) When did Pakistan win Olympic gold medal in Hockey for the first time?
a) 1948
b) 1952
c) 1960
d) 1964
7) Which party was in power in North West Frontier Province at the time of independence?
a) Muslim League
b) Congress
c) Justice Party
d) Communist Party
8) When Sindh was annexed by the British what message was sent by Charles Napier to headquaters?
a) The die is cast
b) Peccavi
c) Do or die
d) In hoc signo vinces
9) Where was General Pervez Musharraf born?
a) Lahore
b) Karachi
c) Delhi
d) Quetta
10) Where is the tomb of Mughal Emperor Jahangir?
a) Delhi
b) Agra.
c) Lahore
d) Karachi
11) Who succeeded Zia Ul Haque as President of Pakistan?
a) Rafiq Tarar
b) Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari
c) Ghulam Ishaq Khan
d) Benazir Bhutto
12) When did Pakistan become a Republic?
a) 14/8/1947
b) 23/3/1956
c) 16/12/1971
d) 12/10/1999
13) How many times did squash player Jansher Khan win World Open?
a) Six
b) Seven
c) Eight
d) Nine
14) Who sang Mujko bhi zara lift kara de?
a) Adnan Sami
b) Talat Aziz
c) Ataullah Khan
d) Arshad Sami
15) Who did the title role in the film Henna?
a) Ashwini Bhave
b) Shilpa Shirodkar
c) Zeba Bakhtiar
d) Meera
16) Which Indian Cardinal was from Karachi?
a) Ivan Dias
b) Simon Pimenta
c) Anthony Padiyara
d) Valerian Gracias
17) Which is the national flower of Pakistan?
a) Rose
b) Thistle
c) Jasmine
d) Camomille
18) Who designed Pakistan’s national flag?
a) Fatima Jinnah
b) Ameer-ud-din Khidwai
c) Wali Khan
d) Tikka Khan
19) Which military alliance had Pakistan as its member?
a) NATO
b) SEATO
c) CENTO
d) Warsaw Pact
20) Who wrote Pakistan’s first national anthem?
a) Hafeez Jallundhari
b) Abdul Rab Nishtar
c) Jagannath Azad
d) Ahmed Chagla
21) Which is the national language of Pakistan?
a) Hindi
b) Bengali
c) Tamil
d) Urdu
22) How is Pakistan’s film industry known?
a) Bollywood
b) Lollywood
c) Mollywood
d) Tollywood
23) Which is the national animal of Pakistan?
a) Markhor
b) Bear
c) Lion
d) Tiger
24) Which is the national bird of Pakistan?
a) Eagle
b) Crow
c) Chakor
d) Peacock
25) Which Pakistani Prime Minister received Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee when he arrived by bus to Lahore?
a) Benazir Bhutto
b) Nawaz Shariff
c) Shujat Hussain
d) Shaukat Aziz
Pakistan Quiz Questions with Answers

1) What is the meaning of Pakistan?
d) Holy Land
2) Who is the first Governor General of Pakistan?
a) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
3) What was the major event of 1971?
a) Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan
4) When Musharraf overthrew the government of Nawaz Sharif what designation did he take?
d) Chief Executive
5) In which year did Pakistan win the Cricket World Cup?
c) 1992
6) When did Pakistan win Olympic gold medal in Hockey for the first time?
c) 1960
7) Which party was in power in North West Frontier Province at the time of independence?
b) Congress
8) When Sindh was annexed by the British what message was sent by Charles Napier to headquaters?
b) Peccavi
9) Where was General Pervez Musharraf born?
c) Delhi
10) Where is the tomb of Mughal Emperor Jahangir?
c) Lahore
11) Who succeeded Zia Ul Haque as President of Pakistan?
c) Ghulam Ishaq Khan
12) When did Pakistan become a Republic?
b) 23/3/1956
13) How many times did squash player Jansher Khan win World Open?
c) Eight
14) Who sang Mujko bhi zara lift kara de?
a) Adnan Sami
15) Who did the title role in the film Henna?
c) Zeba Bakhtiar
16) Which Indian Cardinal was from Karachi?
d) Valerian Gracias
17) Which is the national flower of Pakistan?
c) Jasmine
18) Who designed Pakistan’s national flag?
b) Ameer-ud-din Khidwai
19) Which military alliance had Pakistan as its member?
b) SEATO
20) Who wrote Pakistan’s first national anthem?
c) Jagannath Azad
21) Which is the national language of Pakistan?
d) Urdu
22) How is Pakistan’s film industry known?
b) Lollywood
23) Which is the national animal of Pakistan?
a) Markhor
24) Which is the national bird of Pakistan?
c) Chakor
25) Which Pakistani Prime Minister received Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee when he arrived by bus to Lahore?
b) Nawaz Shariff[DOUBLEPOST=1357439285][/DOUBLEPOST]
Random General Knowledge Questions!
Q: Which composer wrote The Water Music?​
A: Handel

Q: What colour does acid turn Litmus paper?
A: Red

Q: What's the largest Scandinavian country?
A: Sweden

Q: What was Mickey Mouse's original name?
A: Mortimer Mouse

Q: Which metal do you get from bauxite?
A: Aluminium

Q: Which animal produces the biggest baby?
A: Blue Whale

Q: In Pop music, which two herbs go with 'Parsley & Sage'?
A: Rosemary and Thyme - Scarborough fair

Q: What was the name of the Benedictine monk who legend has it invented Champagne?
A: Dom Perignon

Q: In which Country is Auschwitz (Birkenau)?
A: Poland

Q: Who was Leonardo di Caprio's co-star in Titanic?
A: Kate Winslett

Q: Acid rain is composed mainly of the oxides of two elements. Give either.
A: Sulphur or Nitrogen

Q: What sort of creature is a bustard?
A: A bird

Q: What is calcium carbonate normally known as?
A: Chalk

Q: Who commanded the Allied forces, which invaded Europe on D-Day?
A: Dwight Eisenhower

Q: Who holds the record as being Britain's youngest ever Formula 1 Driver?
A: Jensen Button

Q: What word do we use to describe the Asexual reproduction of a genetic carbon copy of an animal or plant?
A: Clone

Q: Which chemical element has the shortest name - 3 letters?
A: Tin

Q: What is the state capital of Alaska?
A: Juneau

Q: How many holes are there in a ten pin bowling ball?
A: 3

Q: Which land did Puff The Magic Dragon live in?
A: Honalee[DOUBLEPOST=1357439442][/DOUBLEPOST]
Science General Knowledge Quiz!
Q. Carbon dioxide is called greenhouse gas because-
1 it is used in photosynthesis
2 its absorbs infrared radiation
3 it emits visible radiation
4 its concentration remains always higher than other gases
Ans: 2
Q. What is the major role of a greenhouse gas that contributes to temperature rise of the Earth's surface?
1 Stops both incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared radiation
2 Transparent to both incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared radiation
3 Lets incoming sunlight pass through but stops outgoing infrared radiation
4 Lets outgoing infrared radiation pass through but stops incoming sunlight
Ans: 3
Q. Name the process of production of energy in the Sun
1 Radioactivity
2 Nuclear fission
3 Ionization
4 Nuclear fusion
Ans: 4
Q. Which of the following in automobile exhaust can cause cancer?
1 Carbon monoxide
2 Oxides of nitrogen
3 Polyclinic hydrocarbons
4 Lead
Ans: 1
Q. Who invented chloroform as anaesthetic?
1 Edward Jenner
2 James Simpson
3 Alexander Fleming
4 Christian Barnard
Ans: 2
Q. Which of the following is biodegradable?
1 D.D.T.
2 Paper
3 Plastic
4 Aluminium
Ans: 2
Q. Which of the following countries has become first to pass Climate Act?
1 China
2 USA
3 Canada
4 Germany
Ans: 3
Q. Who invented the ball-point pen:
1 Lazzlo Biro
2 Curie
3 Newton
4 Baird
Ans: 1
Q. When did India Join the International Tsunami Warning System?
1 2005
2 2007
3 2006
4 2004
Ans: 4
Q. Electrostatic precipitator is used to control--
1 Water pollution
2 Solid waste
3 Noise pollution
4 Air pollution

 

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Q. A new technology which provides the ability to create an artificial world and have people interact with it is called -
1 Virtual reality
2 Televirtuality
3 Alternate reality
4 3-D reality
Ans: 2
Q. X-rays were discovered by -
1 Roentgen
2 H.Davy
3 Lavoisier
4 Faraday
Ans: 1
Q. Penicillin, an, antibiotic, is obtained from a
1 Fungus
2 Virus
3 Flowering plant
4 Bacterium
Ans: 1
Q. Which among the following elements (metals) pollutes the air of a city having large number of automobiles?
1 Lead
2 Nickel
3 Chromium
4 Cadmium
Ans: 4
Q. Where was India's first computer installed?
1 Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
2 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
3 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
4 Indian Iron & Steel Co.Ltd., Burnpur
Ans: 1
Q. Hydrogen bomb is based on the principle of
1 uncontrolled fusion reaction
2 controlled fusion reaction
3 uncontrolled fission reaction
4 controlled fission reaction
Ans: 1
Q. Which type of glass is used for making glass reinforced plastic?
1 Fibre glass
2 Quartz glass
3 Flint glass
4 Pyrex glass
Ans: 1
Q. Supersonic Jet causes pollution by thinning of
1 CO2 layer
2 O2 layer
3 O3 layer
4 SO2 layer
Ans: 3
Q. Who invented penicillin?
1 Louis Pasteur
2 Alexander Fleming
3 Dreser
4 Edward Jenner
Ans: 2
Q. The name of the white revolution is associated with
1 Kurien Verghese
2 C.Rangarajan
3 M.S.Swaminathan
4 J.V.Narlikar
Ans: 1
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439483][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. Scientists at the Tomato Genome Consortium (TGC) successfully sequenced the genomes of which of the following vegetables?
1 Brinjal
2 Onion
3 Potato
4 Tomato
Ans: 4
Q. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan was jointly awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the year 2009 for the:
1 theory of electron transfer
2 studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
3 palladium catalysed cross couplings in organic synthesis
4 work in the area of olefin metathesis
Ans: 2
Q. Consider the following statements with regard to the renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Mechanism launched in November 2010 by the Government of India:
1. It enables the obligated entities to meet their renewable purchase obligation.
2. It is one of the pioneering efforts in any developing country for mainstreaming the renewable energy generation through market mechanism.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1 1 only
2 2 only
3 Both 1 and 2
4 Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: 3
Q. Atomic Power Station is located in which of the following places in India?
1 Kalpakkam
2 Allahabad
3 Pune
4 Shimla
Ans: 1
Q. Solar energy is due to
1 fission reactions
2 combustion reactions
3 chemical reactions
4 fusion reactions
Ans: 4
Q. Which of the following branches deals with the interactions of same species of living organisms with their non-living environment?
1 Synecology
2 Ecology
3 Palaeontology
4 Autecology
Ans: 2
Q. A non-conventional source of power is—
1 Solar Power
2 Coal
3 Uranium
4 Petroleum
Ans: 1
Q. India's permanent Research Station 'Dakshin Gongotri' is located at -
1 Indian Ocean
2 Himalayas
3 Arabian Sea
4 Antarctica
Ans: 4
Q. Chittaranjan in West Bengal is well known for its -
1 Iron and Steel Industries
2 Locomotive Works
3 Cement Factory
4 Fertilizer Plant
Ans: 2
Q. Vulcanisation is the process of heating rubber with 3-5% of -
1 Lime
2 Sulphur
3 Naphthalene
4 Potassium permanganate
Ans: 2
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439502][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. Watson and Crick are famous for their discovery of -
1 Antibodies
2 Structure of DNA
3 Vaccinia
4 Life history of Plasmodium Vivax
Ans: 2
Q. Dimension of gravitational constant is -
1 gm cm-3 sec-2
2 cm sec-3 gm-2
3 cm4 sec-1 gm-2
4 cm3 sec-2 gm-1
Ans: 4
Q. The nuclear reaction involved in a nuclear reactor is--
1 Fusion
2 Fission
3 Spallation
4 Neutron absorption
Ans: 1
Q. The scientist associated with the success of Green Revolution is
1 Norman Borlaug
2 V.R. Rao
3 J.C. Bose
4 S.S. Bhatnagar
Ans: 1
Q. The first-ever robot spacecraft to probe planet Venus was named
1 Magellan
2 Galileo
3 challenger
4 Newton
Ans: 1
Q. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan was jointly awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the year 2009 for the:
1 studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
2 theory of election transfer.
3 palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
4 work in the area of ole fin metathesis.
Ans: 1
Q. Heavy Water is normally used by which of the following industries?
1 Pharma Industry
2 Paper Industry
3 Nuclear Power generation plants
4 Sugar plants
Ans: 3
Q. Which one of the following is a spacecraft?
1 Spitzer
2 Cassini
3 Apophis
4 TecSar
Ans: 2
Q. Norman Ernest Borlaug, who is regarded as the father of the Green revolution in India, is from which country?
1 New Zealand
2 USA
3 Mexico
4 Australia
Ans: 2
Q. World Environment Day is Celebrated Every Year on
1 January 15
2 August 26
3 June 5
4 July 10
Ans: 3
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439529][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. RDX is a
1 An instrument to measure blood pressure
2 A gene
3 A chemical used in the manufacture of fertilizers
4 An explosive
Ans: 4
Q. Centre for DNA Fingerprinting is located at
1 Bengaluru
2 New Delhi
3 Pune
4 Hyderabad
Ans: 4
Q. NASA's new space telescope is-
1 Wise
2 Rise
3 Barack
4 Telle
Ans: 1
Q. The Idea of motion pictures was propounded by-
1 N.R. Finsen
2 T. A. Edison
3 J.L. Baird
4 Berliner
Ans: 3
Q. The device used for locating submerged object sunder sea is-
1 Sonar
2 Radar
3 Laser
4 Maser
Ans: 1
Q. The branch of study dealing with old age and aging is called-
1 Oncology
2 Gerentology
3 Teratology
4 Ornithology
Ans: 2
Q. In July 2010' ISRO used the vehicle for Launching 5 Satellites-
1 GSLV
2 PSLV
3 ESLV
4 SLV
Ans: 2
Q. "Green House Effect" means
1 Pollution in houses in tropical regions
2 Trapping of solar energy due to atmospheric oxygen
3 Trapping of Solar energy due to atmospheric carbon dioxide
4 Cultivation in green houses so as to check pollution
Ans: 3
Q. Which one of the following scientists has carried out researches both in the field of biology and physics?
1 Jagdish Chandra Bose
2 Har Govind Khorana
3 C. V. Raman
4 Homi J. Bhabha
Ans: 1
Q. 2, 4-d is-
1 an insecticide
2 an explosive
3 a fungicide
4 a herbicide
Ans: 4
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439549][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. Nobel Alfred Bernhard after whom Nobe prizes are given was
1 Engineer
2 Chemist
3 Both (A) & (B)
4 Doctor
Ans: 3
Q. India's first remote sensing satellite (IRS 1A) was launched from
1 Baikonour
2 Cape Kennedy
3 French Guiana
4 Sri Harikota
Ans: 1
Q. Theorphrastus is called the father of
1 Botany
2 Zoology
3 Anatomy
4 Astrology
Ans: 1
Q. Uranium Corporation of India is located in
1 Mumbai
2 Delhi
3 Thiruvananthapuram
4 Jadugoda
Ans: 1
Q. The resources which can be used continuously, year-after-year are called
1 Biotic
2 Abiotic
3 Non-renewable
4 Renewable
Ans: 4
Q. Television broadcast for rural development programmes in India started in-
1 1947
2 1957
3 1967
4 1977
Ans: 4
Q. Radioactive element which has been found to have large reserves in India is
1 Uranium
2 Thorium
3 Radium
4 Plutonium
Ans: 2
Q. "Astra" which was in news in recent past is the name of a newly developed-
1 Air-to-air Missile
2 Battle Tank
3 Spy Rocket
4 Submarine
Ans: 1
Q. Which of the following is the short from of the name of the Indian Space Shuttle which puts various satellites into orbit?
1 RISAT
2 PSLV
3 ANUSAT
4 ISRO
Ans: 2
Q. The study which deals with secret writing is known as
1 Cryptography
2 Secretology
3 Cytography
4 Cryptology
Ans: 4
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439568][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. Acupuncture is widely practised in
1 India
2 America
3 China
4 Germany
Ans: 3
Q. Non-conventional source of energy best suited for India is
1 Solar energy
2 Wind energy
3 Tidal wave energy
4 Nuclear energy
Ans: 1
Q. The magnetic effect of electric current was first observed by
1 Henry
2 Oersted
3 Faraday
4 Volta
Ans: 2
Q. In 2010, China became the third country in the world to possess an anti satellite weapon system. The other two countries are
1 Germany and Russia
2 France and the USA
3 The USA and Germany
4 The USA and Russia
Ans: 4
Q. The acronym STD written on Telephone booth stands for
1 Straight Telephone Dial
2 Switch Telephone Dial
3 Subscriber Telephone Dialing
4 Save Telephone Dialing
Ans: 3
Q. Humidity is measured by which of the following instrument?
1 Barometer
2 Thermometer
3 Hygrometer
4 Hydrometer
Ans: 3
Q. Which of the following is not a missile tested in Indian Missile Programme?
1 Agni
2 Trishul
3 Prithvi
4 Arjun
Ans: 4
Q. Refrigerators keep food unspoiled because
1 At its low temperature, bacteria and moulds are inactive
2 At its low temperature, the germs are killed
3 At its low temperature, the germs are frozen
4 It sterilises the food
Ans: 1
Q. Water boils at a lower temperature on the hills because
1 It is cold on the hills
2 There is less carbon dioxide on the hills
3 There is a decrease in air pressure on the hills
4 there is less oxygen
Ans: 3
Q. The resources which can be used continuously, year-after-year are called
1 Biotic
2 Abiotic
3 Non-renewable
4 renewable
Ans: 4
 

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Q. Who Gave the First Evidence of the Big-Bang Theory?
1 Edwin Hubble
2 Albert Einstein
3 S. Chandrashekhar
4 Stephen Hawking
Ans: 1
Q. With reference to Indian Defence. Which of the statements is NOT correct?
1 With the induction of Prithvi-II, the IAF is the only air force in the world with surface-to-surface ballistic missiles under its command
2 Sukhoi-30 MKI jet fighters can launch air-to-air and air-to-surface precision missiles
3 Trishul is a supersonic surface-to-air missile with a range of 30 km
4 The indigenously built INS Prabal can launch surface-to-surface missiles
Ans: 4
Q. An oil tanker is partially filled with oil and moves forward on a level road with uniform acceleration. The free surface of oil then
1 Remains horizontal
2 Is inclined to the horizontal with smaller depth at the rear end
3 is inclined to the horizontal with larger depth at the rear end
4 Assumes parabolic curve
Ans: 3
Q. Consider the following statement: 1. India launched its first full fledged meteorological satellite (METSAT) in September 2002. 2. For the first time, the space vehicle PSLV-C4 carried a payload of more than 1000kg into a geosynchronous orbit. Which of these statement is/are correct?
1 Only 1.
2 Only 2.
3 Both 1 & 2
4 Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: 3
Q. Pokharan II took place on
1 May 9, 1998
2 May 10, 1998
3 May 11, 1998
4 May 12, 1998
Ans: 3
Q. The deepest location on the earth's surface on record is about 11.034 km beneath the sea level. It is located in -
1 Izu Ogasawara Trench, West Pacific Ocean
2 Yap trench, Pacific Ocean
3 Mid Oceanic Ridge, Atlantic Ocean
4 Marina Trench, west Pacific Ocean
Ans: 4
Q. The smallest functional and structural unit of kidney is called as -
1 Neuron
2 Nephron
3 Granulocyte
4 Reticulocyte
Ans: 2
Q. Ozone hole was first been discovered in 1980s, by the British scientist over -
1 Artic region
2 Polar region
3 Antarctica
4 Tropical region
Ans: 3
Q. The scientific name of Indian Tiger is -
1 Panthera tigris
2 Panthera pardus
3 Felis tigris
4 Felis chaus
Ans: 1
Q. German Silver is an alloy of -
1 Silver, Copper and Carbon
2 Copper, Zinc and Nickel
3 Silver, Zinc and Cobalt
4 Aluminium, Zinc and Nickel
Ans: 2
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439614][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. Chinese researches have recently discovered the fossils of a flying dinosaur with four wings, which can be an important missing link in the evolution of dinosaurs. It is named as-
1 Tyrannosaurus rex
2 Tyrannosaurus knowlesi
3 Archeopteryx
4 Anchiornis huxleyi
Ans: 4
Q. Which of the following antibiotic drug used extensively to treat cattle in India is found to be the main culprint of vanishing 99% population of India vultures -
1 Diclofenac
2 Penicillin
3 Streptomycin
4 Tetracycline
Ans: 1
Q. Recently British scientists have identified the enzyme that plays crucial role in clogging cup of arteries. It is called -
1 Peroxidase
2 Matrix metalloproteinase - 8
3 Succinic dehydragenase
4 Elastase - 1
Ans: 2
Q. What is clickjacking?
1 A malicious techique of tricking web users into revealing confidential information
2 A device that sends and receivers data in a bit second
3 A form of computer engineering
4 A digital process that in used to display an image on the monitor
Ans: 1
Q. Which of the following diseases is caused by the consumption of nitrate contaminated food and water?
1 Minamata disease
2 Osteoporosis
3 Asbestosis
4 Blue baby syndrome
Ans: 4
Q. Grantham Prize is constituted to felicitate the journalists working in the area of
1 Physics
2 Information Technology
3 Environment
4 Medicine
Ans: 3
Q. Which of the following falls in the category of endangered species under the Red Data list of IUCN?
1 Albatross
2 Crowned solitary eagle
3 Snow Leopard
4 All of the above
Ans: 4
Q. PSLV-C14 in its latest space quest had carried Oceasat-2 with how many foreign nano satellites
1 9
2 7
3 6
4 5
Ans: 3
Q. Which of the following subtype of Ultraviolet (UV) rays is 100% penetrable through the Ozone Layer?
1 UV-A
2 UV-B
3 UV-C
4 None of the above
Ans: 1
Q. Which of the following indigenously built payload carried on board with Chandrayaan - I helped NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) to detect water on moon surface is
1 Hyper Spectral Imager (HySI)
2 X-Ray spectrometer
3 Sus-KeV atom reflecting analyser
4 Radiation Dose Monitor
Ans: 1
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439632][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. The most commonly used chemicals for the "artificial rainmaking' or clod seeding are
1 Silver Iodine (AgI)
2 Sodium Cloride (NaCl)
3 Dry Ice (Frozen CO2)
4 All of the above
Ans: 4
Q. International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is presently headed by
1 Helene Pelosse
2 G. Vishwanathan
3 Lars Rasmussen
4 Peter Roebuck
Ans: 1
Q. What is the source of electric energy in an artificial satellite?
1 A mini nuclear reactor
2 A dynamo
3 A thermopile
4 Solar cells
Ans: 4
Q. In which district of Uttar Pradesh has solar energy plant been started?
1 Agra
2 Aligarh
3 Mathura
4 Etah
Ans: 2
Q. In which city is the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) located ?
1 Mumbai
2 Bengaluru
3 Chennai
4 Hyderabad
Ans: 4
Q. Which one of the following scientists was not associated with the wheat hybridization programme in India?
1 M. S. Swaminathan
2 Panchanan Maheshwari
3 Choudhary Ram Dhan Singh
4 Norman E. Borlaug
Ans: 4
Q. Who of the following won the Nobel Prize for his work on Photoelectric effect
1 Albert Einstein
2 Werner Heisenberg
3 Steven Weinberg
4 Max Planck
Ans: 1
Q. 'Rosatom' is the atomic energy agency of -
1 Canada
2 France
3 Britain
4 Germany
Ans: 4
Q. Solar-B satellite to study the sun has been launched by
1 Japan
2 China
3 Russia
4 America
Ans: 1
Q. The Multi-Lingual Natural Disaster Information System (NDIS) has been developed by
1 Geneva Software Technologies Ltd. (GSTL)
2 Infosys
3 Wipro
4 Microsoft
Ans: 1
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Physics General Knowledge Quiz
Q. The best colours for a Sun umbrella will be -
1 white on top and black on inside
2 red on top and black on inside
3 black on top and white on inside
4 black on top and red on inside
Ans: 1
Q. Before X-ray examination (coloured X-ray) of the stomach, patients are given suitable salt of barium because -
1 barium is a good absorber of X-rays and helps stomach to appear clearly
2 barium salts are white in colour and this helps stomach to appear clearly
3 barium allows X-rays to pass through the stomach
4 barium salts are easily available
Ans: 1
Q. In SONAR, we use -
1 radio waves
2 audible sound waves
3 infrasonic waves
4 ultrasonic waves
Ans: 4
Q. A liquid is kept in a regular cylindrical vessel up to a certain height. If this vessel is replaced by another cylindrical vessel having half the area of cross-section of the bottom, the pressure on the bottom will -
1 be increased to twice the earlier pressure
2 be reduced to one-fourth the earlier pressure
3 remain unaffected
4 be reduced to half the earlier pressure
Ans: 1
Q. The time period of a simple pendulum having a spherical wooden bob is 2 second. If the bob is replaced by a metallic one twice as heavy, the time period will be -
1 more than 2 second
2 1 second
3 2 second
4 less than 1 second
Ans: 3
Q. Which one among the following statements about an atom is not correct?
1 Atoms are the basic units from which molecules and ions are formed
2 Atoms always combine to form molecules
3 Atoms aggregate in large numbers to form the matter that we can see, feel and touch
4 Atoms are always neutral in nature
Ans: 3
Q. The working principle of a washing machine is -
1 Dialysis
2 Centrifugation
3 Reverse osmosis
4 Diffusion
Ans: 2
Q. A spherical ball made of steel when dropped in mercury container will
1 sink in mercury
2 will be on the surface of mercury
3 will be partly immersed in mercury
4 will dissolve in mercury
Ans: 3
Q. The sounds having a frequency of 20 Hertz to 20,000 Hertz are known as
1 Ultrasonics
2 Audible sounds
3 Infrasonics
4 Megasonics
Ans: 2
Q. Pure water is bad conductor of electricity because it is
1 not volatile
2 feebly ionized
3 a non-polar solvent
4 a very good solvent
Ans: 2
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439786][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. The metals commonly used for electroplating are
1 Gold, Sodium & Chromium
2 Chromium, Copper & Nickel
3 Nickel, Lead & Chromium
4 Gold, Sodium & Potassium
Ans: 2
Q. Gamma rays have greatest similarity with
1 a-rays
2 b-rays
3 X-rays
4 U.V.rays
Ans: 3
Q. Two 220 V, 60 W bulbs are used for 5 hours a day for 10 days. If each unit (1 kilowatt hour) costs Rs. 3.50, find the total expense for it -
1 Rs. 10.50
2 Rs. 38.50
3 Rs. 77.00
4 Rs. 21.00
Ans: 4
Q. There are four statements gives below explaining why mercury is chosen as a thermometric liquid. which of these statements is wrong?
1 Volume of mercury increases equally for equal rises of temperature
2 Mercury is a good conductor of heat
3 Mercury does not stick to glass
4 Mercury has a large specific heat
Ans: 1
Q. The internal energy of a body means -
1 Sum total of its kinetic and potential energy of its constituent molecules.
2 its kinetic energy
3 Total kinetic energy of its constituent moleules
4 Sum total of its kinetic and potential energy
Ans: 1
Q. Which of the following is a dimensionless quantity?
1 Acceleration
2 Volume
3 Refractive Index
4 Kinetic energy
Ans: 3
Q. Four wires of same material and different dimensions are stretched under the equal weight, which one will suffer greater elongation? The dimensions are given below -
1 Length 100 cm, diameter 1 mm
2 Length 200 cm, diameter 2 mm
3 Length 300 cm, diameter 3 mm
4 Length 400 cm, diameter 0.5 mm
Ans: 4
Q. Water is used in hot water bags because
1 it is easily obtained
2 it has high specific heat
3 it is cheaper and is not harmful
4 it is easy to heat water
Ans: 2
Q. Water drops cannot stick to the oily surface due to
1 surface tension
2 lack of adhesive force
3 water is lighter than oil
4 cannot mix each other
Ans: 2
Q. Energy in reflected light
1 does not depends on the angle of incidence
2 decreases with the increase in angle of incidence
3 increases with the increase in angle of incidence
4 becomes maximum for angle of incidence equal to 45 degree
Ans: 1
 

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Q. The unit of power is called -
1 Watt
2 Dyne
3 Erg
4 Ohm
Ans: 1
Q. The sound produced by a bat is -
1 Ultrasonic
2 Infrasonic
3 Audible
4 Subsonic
Ans: 1
Q. When a bar magnet is cut into two equal halves, the pole strength of each piece -
1 Becomes zero
2 Remains the same
3 Becomes Half
4 Becomes Double
Ans: 2
Q. In a refrigerator, cooling is produced by
1 the evaporation of a volatile liquid
2 the sudden expansion of a compressed gas
3 the ice which deposits on the freezer
4 None of the above
Ans: 1
Q. Which principle states that when a body is partially or totally immersed in a fluid, it experiences an upward thrust equal to the weight of fluid displaced by it:
1 Archimedes'
2 Hooke's
3 Pascal's
4 Newton's
Ans: 1
Q. Cream gets separated from milk when it is churned because of:
1 Gravitational force
2 Centrifugal force
3 Frictional force
4 Cohesive force
Ans: 2
Q. Speed of sound is maximum in:
1 Gas
2 Same in all cases
3 Liquid
4 Solid
Ans: 4
Q. Newton is a unit of:
1 Force
2 Acceleration
3 Work
4 Energy
Ans: 1
Q. The mass of a body at the centre of earth is:
1 Zero
2 Remains constant
3 More than at the surface
4 Less than at the surface
Ans: 2
Q. 1 Joule is equivalent to
1 103ergs
2 105 ergs
3 107ergs
4 1011
Ans: 3
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439824][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. The coating of a thin layer of zinc on steel or iron objects is known as
1 Galvanising
2 Hot dipping
3 Tinning
4 Electroplating
Ans: 1
Q. Electric current in a metal wire is due to the flow of
1 Protons
2 Electrons
3 Ions
4 None of these
Ans: 2
Q. Optic fibres are mainly used for
1 Weaving
2 Communication
3 Musical instruments
4 Food industry
Ans: 2
Q. Which among the following is a chemical change?
1 A wet towel dries in the sun
2 Lemon juice added to tea causing its colour to change
3 Coffee is brewed by passing steam through ground coffee
4 Hot air rises over a radiator
Ans: 2
Q. Which of the following is a vector quantity?
1 Force
2 Temperature
3 Energy
4 Momentum
Ans: 1
Q. At what point the Centigrade and the Fahrenheit temperatures are the same?
1 10 degree
2 0 degree
3 -10 degree
4 -40 degree
Ans: 4
Q. Which among the following is an element?
1 Alumina
2 Brass
3 Graphite
4 Silica
Ans: 3
Q. In lathe machine, taper turning can be done by
1 Set over arrangement
2 Taper turning attachment
3 Swiveling compound rest
4 All of the above
Ans: 4
Q. In electro discharge machining, cutting tools are usually made of
1 High speed steel
2 Tool steel
3 Carbide-tipped tool
4 Graphite
Ans: 4
Q. Glass is made of
1 Sand & Silicate
2 Quartz & Mica
3 Sand & Silt
4 None of these
Ans: 2
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439844][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. Which of the following is called strategic metal?
1 Silicon
2 Titanium
3 Uranium
4 Germanium
Ans: 3
Q. Heavy water is
1 Sea water(H2O + salt)
2 D2O2
3 H2O2
4 None of the above
Ans: 2
Q. The operation of threading a drilled hole is called
1 Tapping
2 Broaching
3 Lapping
4 Reaming
Ans: 1
Q. The first symbol in a grinding wheel code is the
1 Bond Type
2 Grain size
3 Structure
4 Abrasive Type
Ans: 4
Q. Thermit welding is a form of
1 Gas welding
2 Fusion welding
3 Resistance welding
4 Arc welding
Ans: 2
Q. Electrode gets consumed in which type of welding process?
1 Arc
2 Thermit
3 T.I.G.
4 Gas
Ans: 1
Q. Which of the following metals can be easily drawn into the wire?
1 Lead
2 Copper
3 Tin
4 Zinc
Ans: 2
Q. Base of a transistor is
1 Heavily doped
2 Moderately doped
3 Lightly doped
4 None of the above
Ans: 4
Q. Lube oil is used in diesel engines
1 To ignite
2 To cool the engine
3 To reduce friction
4 2 and 3 both
Ans: 4
Q. Air is charged in the cylinder of diesel engine by
1 Exhaust valve
2 Inlet valve
3 Injector
4 Air Box
Ans: 2
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439863][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. Type of filter fitted in a tractor is
1 Paper Type
2 Cotton Type
3 Oil-bath Type
4 Wire Mesh Type
Ans: 1
Q. Nichrome is commonly used for
1 Transformer windings
2 Battery connetions
3 Lamp filament
4 Heater coils
Ans: 4
Q. For a flexible cable, most suitable insulation is
1 Glass fibre
2 Magnesium oxide
3 Polyvenyl chloride
4 Insulating tape
Ans: 3
Q. Function of a carburator is
1 To mix petrol with air
2 To supply petrol to the engine
3 To purify the air
4 To purify the petrol
Ans: 1
Q. The supply which cannot pass through condensor
1 Is DC supply
2 Is 12 volt AC
3 Is AC supply
4 Depends on the type of circuit
Ans: 3
Q. The terminal impedance of folded dipole television antenna is kept
1 300 ohms
2 75 ohms
3 0 ohm
4 100 ohms
Ans: 2
Q. The efficiency of an air-conditioning plant is expressed by
1 Percentage
2 Temperature
3 C.P.O.
4 Tonnes
Ans: 4
Q. A plug guage is used to measure the
1 Pitch of thread
2 Bores of cyclinders
3 Angles
4 Flatness
Ans: 2
Q. An optical gauge works on the principle of
1 Interference of light
2 Reflection
3 Dispersion
4 Polarisation
Ans: 1
Q. A fluorescent tube contains
1 Argon
2 Nitrogen
3 Neon
4 Oxygen
Ans: 3
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439882][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. The feeding of a job in planner is done by
1 Table movement
2 Tool movement
3 Ram movement
4 Movement of a clapper box
Ans: 4
Q. Which of the following machines utilises fly cutters?
1 Planner
2 Milling machine
3 Lathe machine
4 Shaper
Ans: 2
Q. Crater wear takes place in single point cutting tool at
1 Flank
2 Rake
3 Side
4 Both Flank & Rake
Ans: 4
Q. It is difficult to magnetise steel because of its
1 Low permeability
2 High retentivity
3 High permeability
4 High density
Ans: 1
Q. In electric machines, laminated cores are used with a view to reduce the
1 Friction loss
2 Copper loss
3 Eddy current loss
4 Hysteresis loss
Ans: 3
Q. In DC generators, the brushes are always placed
1 Along the Geometric Neutral Axis (GNA)
2 Along the Magnetic Neutral Axis (MNA)
3 Perpendicular to MNA
4 Perpendicular to GNA
Ans: 2
Q. Critical resistance of a DC generator RC is
1 Inversely proportional to speed
2 Proportional to speed
3 Inversely proportional to the square of speed
4 Proportional to the square of speed
Ans: 1
Q. If the current and the voltage are out of phase by 90 degree, then the power is
1 Minimum
2 Maximum
3 1.1 VI
4 Zero
Ans: 4
Q. Megger is an instrument to measure
1 Very low resistance
2 Insulation resistance
3 Q of a coil
4 Inductance of a coil
Ans: 2
Q. The forward resistance of a diode is
1 Zero
2 Infinity
3 Very small
4 Very large
Ans: 1
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439902][/DOUBLEPOST]Q. For lubricating roller bearing, lubricant generally required is
1 Semi-solid
2 Solid
3 Liquid
4 None of the above
Ans: 1
Q. Which type of reaction produces the most harmful radiation?
1 Fusion reaction
2 Chemical reaction
3 Fission reaction
4 Photo-Chemical reaction
Ans: 3
Q. The velocity of sound is maximum in -
1 Vacuum
2 Metal
3 Liquid
4 Air
Ans: 2
Q. When you pull out the plug connected to an electrical appliance, you often observe a spark. To which property of the appliance, is this related?
1 Capacitance
2 Resistance
3 Inductance
4 Wattage
Ans: 1
Q. The focal length of a convex lens is
1 shorter for blue light than for red
2 the same for all colours
3 shorter for red light than for blue
4 maximum for yellow light
Ans: 1
Q. When a ball drops on to the floor it bounces. Why does it bounce?
1 The floor heats up on impact
2 Newton's third law implies that for every action there is a reaction
3 File floor exerts a force on the ball during the impact
4 The floor is perfectly rigid
Ans: 2
Q. A body has a mass of 6 kg on the Earth; when measured on the Moon, its mass would be
1 nearly 1 kg
2 6 kg
3 less than 1 kg
4 less than 6 kg
Ans: 2
Q. Transformer is a kind of appliance that can 1. increase power 2. increase voltage 3. decrease voltage 4. measure current and voltage Select the correct answer using the code given below:
1 2 and 3 only
2 1 and 4
3 4 only
4 2, 3 and 4
Ans: 1
Q. Which of the following is used for correcting myopic eyes?
1 Convex Lens
2 Concave Lens
3 Cylindrical Lens
4 None of the above
Ans: 2
Q. The sky appears blue due to-
1 Scattering of light
2 Reflection of light
3 Refraction of light
4 Diffraction of light
Ans: 1
 

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Q. Decibel unit is used to measure-
1 Light intensity
2 Sound intensity
3 Magnitude of Earthquake
4 None of the above
Ans: 2
Q. What does an air conditioner installed in a room control?
1 Humidity and temperature only
2 Temperature only
3 Pressure and temperature only
4 Humidity, pressure and temperature
Ans: 1
Q. The minimum height of a plane mirror to see the full image of a person is equal to-
1 the height of the person
2 half the height of the person
3 one-fourth the height of the person
4 double the height of the person
Ans: 2
Q. Which one among the following will you put in to pure water in order to pass electric current through it?
1 Mustard oil
2 Sugar
3 Lemon Juice
4 Kerosene
Ans: 3
Q. In the case of nuclear disaster, which of the following options for cooling the nuclear reactors may be adopted?
1. Pumping of water to the reactors.
2. Use of boric acid.
3. Taking out the fuel rods and keeping them in a cooling pond.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:

1 1 and 2 only
2 1, 2 and 3
3 1 and 3 only
4 3 only
Ans: 1
Q. A close bottle containing water at room temperature is taken to the Moon and than the lid is opened. The water will
1 boil
2 freeze
3 decompose into oxygen and hydrogen
4 not change at all
Ans: 1
Q. The blackboard seems black because it
1 does not reflect any colour
2 reflects every colour
3 absorbs black colour
4 reflects black colour
Ans: 1
Q. A body is charged negatively. It implies that
1 it has lost some of its protons
2 it has lost some of its electrons
3 it has acquired some electrons from outside
4 None of these
Ans: 3
Q. A devastating Cloud Burst swept over Leh in August 2010. Which one of the following statements with regard to cloud Burst is not correct?
1 There is no satisfactory technique till now for predicting Cloud Burst
2 Cloud Burst is a localised weather phenomenon representing highly concentrated rainfall over a small area in a short duration of time
3 Cloud Burst occurs due to upward movement of moistureladen air with sufficient rapidity to form cumulonimbus clouds
4 Cloud Burst occurs only in hilly areas
Ans: 1
Q. In scuba-diving, while ascending towards the water surface, there is a danger of bursting the lungs. It is because of
1 Boyle's law
2 Archimedes' principle
3 Gay-Lussac's law of combining volumes
4 Gram's law of diffusion
Ans: 1
[DOUBLEPOST=1357439935][/DOUBLEPOST]. Most of the communication satellites today are placed in a geostationary orbit. In order to stay over the same spot on the Earth, a geostationary satellite has to be directly above the
1 Equator
2 Tropic of Cancer
3 either North or South Pole
4 Tropic of Capricorn
Ans: 1
Q. Viewfinders, used in automobiles to locate the position of the vehicles behind, are made of
1 convex mirror
2 plane mirror
3 concave mirror
4 parabolic mirror
Ans: 1
Q. Why do you feel cool under a tree but not so under a tin shed on a sunny day?
1 The leaves give out water which vapourises absorbing some heat as latent heat
2 The greenness of the tree gives the cool feeling
3 Photosynthesis absorbs heat
4 The leaves convert water vapours into water which is a heat-absorbing process
Ans: 1
Q. Which one among the following would expand the most on being heated?
1 Air
2 Water
3 Alcohol
4 Glass
Ans: 1
Q. If a ship moves from freshwater into seawater, it will
1 rise a little higher
2 sink completely
3 sink a little bit
4 remain unaffected
Ans: 1
Q. Mr.X was advised by an architect to make outer walls of his house with hollow bricks. The correct reason is that such walls
1 help keeping inside cooler in summer and warmer in winter
2 make the building stronger
3 prevent seepage of moisture from outside
4 protect the building from lightning
Ans: 1
Q. Water is a good coolant and is used to cool the engines of cars, buses, trucks, etc. It is because water has a
1 high specific heat
2 low surface tension
3 high boiling point
4 low expansivity
Ans: 1
Q. Half portion of a rectangular piece of ice is wrapped with a whit piece of cloth while the other half with a black one. In this context, which one among the following statements is correct?
1 Ice melts more easily under black wrap
2 Ice melts more easily under white wrap
3 No ice melts at all under the black wrap
4 No ice melts at all under white wrap
Ans: 1
Q. Which one among the following statements is correct?
1 Concave mirrors are used as reflectors
2 Convex mirrors are used by doctors to examine oral cavity
3 Convex mirrors are used as reflectors
4 Convex mirrors should be used as shaving
Ans: 1
Q. Which one among the following is the major cause of blurring and unsharp images of objects observed through very large telescope at the extreme limit of magnification?
1 Air turbulence of earth's atmosphere
2 Poor optical polish achievable on large mirrors
3 Poor tracking capacities of telescopes
4 Varying density of air in the Earth's atmosphere
Ans: 1
 

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pakistan Quiz
1- Where the biggest Salt Mine located in Pakistan?
Karachi​
Mangora​
Jehlum​
Quetta​
2- The second highest cliff in the world is?
Nanga Parbat​
Karakoram - 2​
Mount Everest​
Deusai​
3- The most beautiful stone-Marble is extracted from Province?
Punjab​
NWFP​
Baluchistan​
Sindh​
Kashmir​
4- The longest river in Pakistan is?
River Jehlum​
River Sutlaj​
River Channab​
River Biyas​
River Sindh​
5- In which year did Pak win the circket world cup ?
1975​
1987​
1992​
1996​
6- When did Pakistan win Olympic gold medal in Hockey for the first time? 1948​
1952​
1960​
1964​
7- Where is the tomb of Mughal Emperor Jahangir?
Delhi​
Agra.​
Lahore​
Karachi​
8- Which is the national flower of Pakistan?Rose​
Thistle​
Jasmine​
Camomille​
9- Which military alliance had Pakistan as its member?
NATO​
SEATO​
CENTO​
Warsaw Pact​
10- Which is the national animal of Pakistan?
Markhor​
Bear​
Lion​
Tiger​
11- Which is the national bird of Pakistan? Eagle​
Crow​
Chakor​
Peacock​
12- The Second largest city of Pakistan is?
Islamabad​
Faisalabad​
Peshawar​
Lahore​
Answers
1. Jhelum
2. Karakoram 2
3. Balouchistan
4. River Sindh
5. 1992
6. 1960
7. Lahore
8. Jasmine
9. Cento
10. Markhor
11. chakor
12. Lahore
 

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Top Ten --The World's Billionaires 2012

Rank Name Net Worth Age Source Country of Citizenship​

1 Carlos Slim Helu & family $69 B 72 telecom Mexico

2 Bill Gates $61 B 56 Microsoft United States

3 Warren Buffett $44 B 81 Berkshire Hathaway United States

4 Bernard Arnault $41 B 63 LVMH France

5 Amancio Ortega $37.5 B 75 Zara Spain

6 Larry Ellison $36 B 67 Oracle United States

7 Eike Batista $30 B 55 mining, oil Brazil

8 Stefan Persson $26 B 64 H&M Sweden

9 Li Ka-shing $25.5 B 83 diversified Hong Kong

10 Karl Albrecht $25.4 B 92 Aldi Germany
 
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Where "THESE NAMES" come from

Apple Computers
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.

CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'

Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.


Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.


Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.


Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.


Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos[DOUBLEPOST=1359254012][/DOUBLEPOST]
Abbreviations of International Organizations

ABBREVIATION OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION


1. AL = Arab League
2. APEC = Asia – Pacific Economic Cooperation
3. AsDB = Asian Development Bank
4. ASEAN = Associate of Southeast Asian Nations
5. CW = Common Wealth
6. CE = Council of Europe
7. CIS = Common Wealth of Independent States
8. CY = Calendar Year
9. DC = Developed Country
10. EC = European Community
11. ECA = Economic Commission for Africa
12. ECE = Economic Commission for Europe
13. ECO = Economic Corporation Organization
14. EU = European Union
15. FAO = Food and Agriculture Organization
16. FAX = Facsimile
17. f.o.b = Free on board
18. FY = Fiscal Year
19. FZ = Franc Zone
20. GATT = General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade now WtrO
21. GCC = Gulf Cooperation Council
22. GDP = Gross Domestic Product
23. GNP = Gross National Product
24. GRT = Gross Register Ton
25. GWP = Gross World Product
26. HF = High-Frequency
27. ICC = International Chamber of Commerce
28. IDB = Islamic Development Bank
29. IEA = International Energy Agency
30. IMF = International Monetary Fund
31. IOC = International Olympic Committee
32. KHz = Kilohertz
33. Km = Kilometer
34. KW = Kilowatt
35. KWh = Kilowatt hour
36. m = Meter
37. MHz = Megahertz
38. NA = Not Available
39. NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization
40. NEA = Nuclear Energy Agency
41. NM = Nautical Mile
42. NZ = New Zealand
43. OAPEC = Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
44. OECD = Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
45. OIC = Organization of the Islamic Conference
46. PFP = Partnership for Peace
47. RG = Rio Group
48. SAARC = South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation
49. SHF = Supper-high-frequency
50. SPC = South Pacific Commission
51. SPF = South Pacific Forum
52. Sqkm = Square Kilometre
53. Sqm = Square mile
54. TAT = Trans-Atlantic Telephone
55. UAE = United Arab Emirates
56. UHF = Ultra High Frequency
57. UK = United Kingdom
58. UN = United Nations
59. UNESCO = United Nations Educational, Scientific and Culture Organization
60. UNICEF = United Nations Children’s Fund
61. UNIDO = United Nations Industrial Development Organization
62. UNU = United Nations University
63. UPU = Universal Postal Union
64. US = United States
65. USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (Soviet Union).
66. USSR/EE = Union of Soviet Socialist Republic / Eastern Europe
67. VHF = Very High Frequency
68. VSAT = Very small aperture terminal
69. WCL = World Confederation of Labor
70. WEU = Western European Union
71. WFC = World Food Council
72. WFP = World Food Program
73. WFTU = World Federation of Trade Union
74. WHO = World Health Organization
75. WTO = World Trade Organization
76. WPC = World Peace Council
77. WWF = World Wild Life Fund
78. ZC = Zakat Council
79. AJK = Azad Jammu and Kashmir
80. ANF = Anti-Narcotics Force
81. BEL = Banker Equity Limited
82. CAA = Civil Aviation Authority
83. CBR = Central Board of Revenue
84. CEO = Chief Executive Officer
85. CJ = Chief Justice
86. CID = Criminal Investigation Department
87. DFS = Duty free Shop
88. DMI = Dar-ul-Mal-al-Islami
89. DPR = Director of Public Relation
90. ECL = Exit Control List
91. FC = Federal Council
92. F.O.R = Free on Rail
93. GEMS = Global Environment Monitoring System
94. GST = General sales Tax
95. HBFC = House building Finance Corporation
96. HC = High Court, High Commission
97. HE = His/Her Excellency
98. HTV = Heavy Transport Vehicle
99. ICU = Intensive Care unit
100. ID = Intelligence Department[DOUBLEPOST=1359254173][/DOUBLEPOST]Weight and Measures

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES


One foot (ft) = 12 inches = 0.3048 metre
One yard (yd) = 3 feet = 0.9144 metres (exactly)
One metre (m) = 39.37 inches = 1.094 yards
One furlong (far) = 660 feet = 220 yard
1/8 statute mile = 201.168 metres
One inch (in) = 2.54 centimetres (exactly)
One kilometer (km) = 0.621 mile = 3.281.5 feet
One mile (mi) (statute or land) = 1.609 kilometer
8 furlongs = 1760 yards = 5.280 feet


LIQUID MEASURES

One imperial gallon = 4.56 litre = 1.20094
American Gallon
One American Barrel = 34.9726 = Imperial Gallon =
42 American Gallons


YEARS

Calendar Year = January 1 to December 31
Fiscal / Trade / Agriculture Year = July 1 to June 30



CROPPING SEASONS

Kharif = Crops sown in late spring or in the beginning of summer and harvested
in autumn

Rabi = Crops sown in autumn and harvested in the following spring.

Lakh = One hundred thousand = 100.000
 

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Country, capital, currency

COUNTRY CAPITAL LOCATION CURRENCY
1. Afghanistan Kabul Asia Afghani
2. Albania Tirana Europe lek
3. Algeria Algiers Africa Dinar
4. Argentina Buenos Aires South America Peso
5. Armenia Yerevan Asia Dram
6. Australia Canberra Australia Dollar
7. Austria Vienna Europe Euro
8. Azerbaijan Baku Asia Monat
9. Behrain Al-Manamah Asia(Persian Gulf) Dinar
10. Bangladesh Dhaka South Asia Taka
11. Belgium Brussels NW Europe Franc
12. Bhutan Thimphu Asia Ngultrum
13. Bolivia Suere(legal) South America Bolivianos
La Paz (defacts)
14. Bosnia &
Herzegovina Sarajevo S.E. Europe Marka
15. Brazil Brasilia South America Real
16. Brunei Bandar Asia Brunei Dollar
Darussalam Seri – Begawan
17. Bulgaria Sofia Europe Lev
18. Combodia Phnom Penh Asia Riel
19. Canada Ottawa, Ontario North America Dollar
20. Central African Bangui Africa C.F.A. France
Republic
21. China Beijing Asia Yuan
22. Colombia Santafe de Bogota South America Peso
23. Cuba Havana North America Peso
24. Cyprus Lefkosia (Nicosia) Asia Cyprus Pound
25. Czechoslovakia Prague Europe Koruna
26. Denmark Copenhagen Europe Krone
27. Egypt Cairo Africa Egyptian Pound
28. Ethiopia Addis-Ababa Africa Birs Birr
29. Finland Helsinki Europe Euro (formely Markka)
30. France Paris Europe Euro (formely Franc)
31. Germany Berlin Europe Euro
32. Ghana Accra Africa Cedi
33. Greece Athens Europe Drachma
34. Grenada St. George’s North America East Caribbean Dollar
35. Guyana George-town South America Guyanese Dollar
36. Hungary Budapest Europe Forint
37. India New-Delhi Asia Rupee
38. Indonesia Jakarta Asia Rupiah
39. Iran Tehran Asia Rial
40. Iraq Baghdad Asia Iraqi Dinar
41. Ireland Dublin Europe Euro
42. Italy Rome South Europe Euro (formely Lira)
43. Jamaica Kingston Europe Jamaican Dollar
44. Japan Tokyo Asia Yen
45. Jordan Amman W-Asia Jordanian Dinar
46. Kenya Nairobi Coast of East Africa Kenya Shilling
47. Kuwait Kuwait Middle East Kuwaiti – Dinar
48. Lebanon Beirut Eastern end of Lebanese Pound
Med. Sea
49. Liberia Monrovia S. West Africa Liberian Dollar
50. Libya Tripoli Md. Coast N. Africa Libyan Dinar
51. Malaysia Putra Jaya Asia Ringgit
52. Maldives Male S.W of India Rufiya
53. Malta Valletta Centre of Md. Sea Maltese Lira
54. Mexico Mexico City Southern North Mexican Peso
America
55. Morocco Rabat N.W. Coast Rasit Dirham
56. Mozambique Maputo S.E. Coast Africa Metical
57. Myanmar Rangoon S. East Asia Kyat
(formely Burmah)
58. Nepal Kathmandu Himalaya Rupee
59. Netherland Amsterdam N.W. Europe Euro (formely Guilder)
60. New Zealand Wellington S.W. Pacific Newzealand Dollar
61. Nicarague Managua C. America Gold Cordoba
62. Nigeria Abuja S.C. Africa Naira
63. North Korea Pyong Yang N.E. Asia Won
64. Norway Oslo N.W. Europe Norwegian Krone
65. Uman Muscat S.E. C. Arabian Omani Rial
Peninsule
66. Pakistan Islamabad West Asia Pakistani Rupee
67. Panama Panama City Central America Balboa
68. Paraguay Asuncion S. America Guarani
69. Phillippines Manila Asia Peso
70. Poland Warsaw Europe Zloty
71. Portugal Lisbon Europe Euro (formely Escudo)
72. Qatar Duha Asia Qatari Riyal
73. Romania Bucharest S. E. Europe Leu
74. Russia Moscow Asia Ruble
75. Saudi Arabia Riyadh Asia Riyal
76. Senegal Dakar Africa CFA Franc
77. Singapore Singapore S.E. Asia Singapore Dollar
78. Somalia Mogadishu Africa Somalia Shilling
79. South Africa Cape-Town Africa Rand
80. South Korea Seoul N. East Asia Won
81. Spain Madrid Europe Euro (formly Peseta)
82. Sri Lanka Colombo Asia Rupee
83. Sudan Khartoum Africa Dinar
84. Sweden Stockholm Europe Krone
85. Switzerland Bern Europe Swiss Franc
86. Syria Damascus Asia Syrian Pound
87. Taiwan Taipei Asia New Taiwan Dollar
88. Thailand Bangkok Asia Baht
89. Tanzania Dares Salaam Africa Tanzanian Shilling
90. Turkey Ankara Asia & Europe Turkish Lira
91. Uganda Kampala Africa Ugandan New Shilling
92. United Arab Abu-Dhabi Asia U.A.E. Dirham
Emirate
93. United Kingdom London Europe Pound Sterling
of Great-Britain
94. Uruguay Montevideo South America New-Peso
95. Vietnam Hanoi Asia Dong
96. Yemen Sana`a Asia Riyal
97. Yugoslavia Belgrade Europe Dinar
98. Zaire Africa Zaire
99. Zimbabwe Harare Africa Zimbabwean Dollar
100. Zambia Lusaka Africa Kwacha[DOUBLEPOST=1359254377][/DOUBLEPOST]Important Geographical Surnames

IMPORTANT GEOGRAPHICAL SURNAMES
  • Land of rising Sun Japan (Asia)
  • Land of RiversBangladesh (Asia)
  • Land of Midnight SunNorway (Europe)
  • Land of White ElephantsThailand (Asia)
  • Land of thousand Lakes Finland (Europe)
  • Land of Golden Fibre Bangladesh (Asia)
  • Land of Five Rivers Punjab (Pakistan, Asia)
  • Land of Many Races Colombia (South America)
  • City of Dead Moenjodaro (Pakistan)
  • City of Palaces Calcutta (India, Asia)
  • City of Bazars Cairo (Egypt, Africa)
  • City of Roses and Nightingales Shiraz (Iran, Asia)
  • City of Popes Rome (Italy, Europe)
  • City of lights Paris (France, Europe)
  • City of Eagles Sargodha (Pakistan, Asia)
  • City of Mosques Dhaka (Bangladesh, Asia)
  • City of Graveyards Multan (Pakistan, Asia)
  • City of Parks Kiev (Ukraine, Europe)
  • City of Canals Osaka (Japan, Asia)
  • City of Angels Bangkok (Thailand, Asia)
  • Dark ContinentAfrica
  • Father of Waters Mississipi River (USA)
  • Holy LandPalestine
  • Isle of Pearls Bahrain (Asia)
  • Isle of Death Kahoulawe (Hawai, USA)
  • Island Continent Australia
  • Key to Mediterranean Gibraltar (Europe)
  • Manchester of the Orient Osaka (Japan, Asia)
  • Manchester of Pakistan Faisalabad (Pakistan, Asia)
  • Paradise on Earth Kashmir Valley (Asia)
  • Pearl of East Penang (China, Asia)
  • Queen of the South Sydney (Australia)
  • Gift of Nyle Egypt
  • Land of morning calm Korea
  • Land of KangroosAustralia
  • Land of perpetual greenness Denmark
  • Land of maple Canada
  • Land of contrasts Columbia
  • Land of Queen Sheba Ethiopia
  • Land of Silver fibre Pakistan
  • Land mighty rivers Nigeria
  • Land of golden place Australia
  • Land of million elephants Laos
  • Land of deserts Africa
  • Land of free people Thailand
  • Land of milk and honey Lebanon
  • Land of thunder holt Bhutan
  • Land of south slaves Yugoslavia
  • City of seven hills Rome (Italy)
  • City of space flights Cape kennedy (USA)
  • City of skyscrapers New York (USA)
  • City of colleges Lahore (Pakistan)
  • City of ghosts and temples Benaras (India)
  • City of water Stockhulm (Sweden) Amsterdam
  • City of Romance Uenice (Italy)
  • City of Magnificent distances Washington (USA)
  • City of stars The cosmonant space centre (Moscow)
  • A city of solution Brasilia (Brazil)
  • Bengal’s sorrow Damodar River
  • Blue River The Yangstsekiang (China)
  • Blue Mountain The Nilgiri Hills (India)
  • Capital of cooperation Brussels (Belgium)
  • China’s sorrow Hwang-Ho-River
  • Cockpit of Europe Belgium
  • Emerald IslandIreland
  • Empire CityNew York (USA)
  • Farbidden city lhasa (Tibet)
  • Flower garden of Europe Netherland
  • Free and Hanseatic city Hamberg (Germany)
  • Gate way of tears Strait of belel mandab (Jerusalem)
  • Gate way of India Bombay
  • Gate way of East Beirut (Lebanon)
  • Gate way of Pakistan Sindh (Karachi)
  • Gate way of Gulf Abu Dhabi
  • Garden of South IndiaTanjore (India)
  • Gibraltar of the West Quebec
  • Gibraltar of the Indian ocean Aden
  • Garanite City Abereen Scotland
  • George Cross IslandMalta
  • Homeland of Gaucbas Argentina
  • Hospital CityChicago (USA)
  • Human Equator of the Earth The Himalayas
  • Hermit KingdomKorea
  • Isle of death Kahoulawe (Hawai USA)
  • Isle of June Bahaman
  • Land of CakesScotland
  • Meeting place of world Vienna (Austria)
  • Most serene republic San Marino
  • Never Never land Vast prairies of Northern Australia
  • Pearls of East Penany (China)
  • Pearl of Antilles Cuba
  • Pearl of Srinea’s Southern Coast Yalta (USSR)
  • Queen of Adriatic Venice (Italy)
  • River in the sea The gulf stream
  • Rome of India Delhi
  • Rose pink city Jaipur (India)
  • Star and key of Indian Ocean Mauritius
  • Sickman of Europe Turkey
  • Silver CityAlgiers
100. Venice of the North Stockholm (Sweden)
101. Venice of the East Bangkok (Thailand)
102. White CityMerida (Mexico)
103. Windy City Chicago (USA)
104. Whitman’s Grave Guinea coast of
105. Wilderness of Bamboo and Paper Tokyo (Japan)
106. World’s loveliest Island Tristan de Cunna (Mid Atlantic)
107. Yellow River The Hwang-Ho (China)
 

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Inventions and Inventors


A


Air Brake :
George Westinghouse, U.S.A. 1911.
Air Conditioning :
Willis Carrier, U.S.A. 1911.
Airplane :
engine-powered, Wilbur & Orville Wright, U.S.A., 1903.
Airship :
Henri Giffard, France, 1852; Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany, 1900.
Antibiotics :
Louis Pasteur, Jules-Francois Joubert, France, 1887; (discovery of penicillin) Alexander Fleming, Scotland, 1928.
Antiseptic :
(surgery) Joseph Lister, England, 1867.
Aspirin :
Dr. Felix Hoffman, Germany, 1899.
Atom :
(nuclear model of) Ernest Rutherford, England, 1911.
Atomic Structure :
Ernest Rutherford, England, 1911; Niels Bohr, Denmark, 1913.
Automated Teller Machine (ATM) :
Don Wetzel, U.S.A., 1968.
Automobile :
(first with internal combustion engine, 250 rmp) Karl Benz, Germany, 1885; (first with practical highspeed internal combustion engine, 900 rpm) Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, 1885; (first true automobile, not carriage with motor) Rene Panhard, Emile Lavassor, France, 1891; (carburetor, spray) Charles E. Duryea, U.S.A., 1892.
Autopilot :
(for aircraft) Elmer A. Sperry, U.S.A., c.1910, first successful test, 1912, in a Curtiss flying boat.





B



Bacteria :
Anton van Leeuwenhoek, The Netherlands, 1683.
Bakelite :
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, U.S.A., 1907.
Ball Bearing :
Philip Vaughan, England, 1794.
Ballon, Hot-air :
Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, France, 1783.
Bar Codes :
Monarch Marking, U.S.A. 1970.
Barometer :
Evangelista Torricelli, Italy, 1643.
Bicycle :
Karl D. von Sauebronn, Germany, 1816; (first modern model) James Starley, England, 1884.
Big Bang Theory :
(the universe originated with a huge explosion) George LeMaitre, Belgium, 1927; (modified LeMaitre theory labeled “Big Bang”) George A. Gamov, U.S.A., 1948; (cosmic microwave background radiation discovered) Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson, U.S.A. 1965.
Blood, Circulation of :
William Harvey, England, 1628.
Bomb, Atomic :
J. Robert Oppenheimer et al., U.S.A., 1945.
Bomb, Thermonuclear (hydrogen) :
Edward Teller et al., U.S.A., 1952.
Boyle’s Law :
(relation between pressure and volume in gases) Robert Boyle, Ireland, 1662.
Braille :
Louis Braille, France, 1829.
Bridges :
(suspension, iron chains) James Finley, Pa., 1800; (wire suspension) Marc Seguin, Lyons, 1825; (truss) Ithiel Town, U.S.A., 1820.
Bullet :
(conical) Claude Minie, France, 1849.


C



Calculating Machine :
(logarithms) John Napierm Scotland, 1614; (digital calculator) Blaise Pascal, 1642; (multiplication machine) Gottfried Leibniz, Germany, 1671; (“analytical engine” design, included concepts of programming, taping) Charles Babbage, England, 1835.
Camera :
George Eastman, U.S.A., 1888; (Polaroid) Edwin Land, U.S.A., 1948
Car Radio :
William Lear, Elmer Wavering, U.S.A. 1929.
Cells :
Robert Hooke, England, 1665.
Chewing Gum :
John Curtis, U.S.A., 1848; (chicle-based) Thomas Adams, U.S.A., 1870.
Cholera Bacterium :
Robert Koch, Germany, 1883.
Circuit, Integrated :
(theoretical) G.W.A. Dummer, England, 1952; Jack S. Kilby, Texas Instruments, U.S.A., 1959.
Clock, Pendulum :
Christian Huygens, The Netherlands, 1656.
Clock, Quartz :
Warren A. Marrison, Canada/U.S.A., 1927.
Cloning, Animal :
John B. Gurdon, U.K., 1970.
Coca-Cola :
John Pemberton, U.S.A., 1886.
Combustion :
Antoine Lavoisier, France, 1777.
Compact Disk :
RCA, U.S.A., 1972.
Compact Disk (CD) :
Philips Electronics, The Netherlands; Sony Corp., Japan, 1980.
Computed Tomography
(CT scan, CAT scan) :
Godfrey Hounsfield, Allan Cormack, U.K. U.S.A., 1972
Computers :
(analytical engine) Charles Babbage, 1830s; (ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, first all-electronic, completed) John Presper Eckert, Jr., John Mauchly, U.S.A., 1945; (UNIVAC, Universal Automatic Computer) 1951; (personal computer) Steve Wozniak, U.S.A., 1976.
Computer Laptop :
Radio Shack Corp., U.S.A., 1983.
Concrete :
Joseph Monier, France, 1877.




D



DDT :
Othmar Zeidler, Germany, 1874.
Detector, Metal :
Gerhard Fisher, Germany/U.S.A., late 1920s.
Deuterium :
(heavy hydrogen) Harold Urey, U.S.A., 1931.
DNA :
(deoxyribonucleic acid) Friedrich Meischer, Germany, 1869; (determination of double-helical structure) F. H. Crick, England and James D. Watson, U.S.A., 1953.
Dye :
William H. Perkin, England, 1856.
Dynamite :
Alfred Nobel, Sweden, 1867.




E



Electric Generator (dynamo) :
(laboratory model) Michael Faraday, England, 1832; Joseph Henry, U.S.A., c.1832; (hand-driven model) Hippolyte Pixii, France, 1833; (alternating-current generator) Nikola Tesla, U.S.A., 1892.
Electron :
Sir Joseph J. Thompson, U.S.A., 1897.
Electronic Mail :
Ray Tomlinson, U.S.A., 1972.
Elevator, Passenger :
Elisha G. Otis, U.S.A., 1852.
E=mc2
equivalence of mass and energy) Albert Einstein, Switzerland, 1907.

Engine, Internal Combustion :
No single inventor. Fundamental theory established by Sadi Carnot, France, 1824; (two-stroke) Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860; (ideal operating cycle for four-stroke) Alphonse Beau de Roche, France, 1862; (operating four-stroke) Nikolaus Otto, Germany, 1876; (diesel) Rudolf Diesel, Germany, 1892; (rotary) Felix Wanket, Germany, 1956.
Evolution :
: (organic) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, France, 1809; (by natural selection) Charles Darwin, England, 1859.




F



Facsimile (fax) :
Alexander Bain, Scotland, 1842.
Fiber Optics :
Narinder Kapany, England, 1955.
Film Photographic :
George Eastman, U.S.A., 1884.
Flashlight, Battery-operated Portable :
Conrad Hubert, Russia/U.S.A., 1899
Flask, Vacuum (Thermos) :
Sir James Dewar, Scotland, 1892.
Fuel Cell :
William R. Grove, U.K., 1839




G



Genetic Engineering :
Stanley N. Cohen, Herbert W. Boyer, U.S.A., 1973.
Gravitation, Law of :
Sir Issac Newton, England, c.1665 (published 1687).
Gunpowder :
China, c.700.
Gyrocompass :
Elmer A. Sperry, U.S.A., 1905.
Gyroscope :
Jean Leon Foucault, France, 1852.







H



Helicopter :
(double rotor) Heinrich Focke, Germany, 1936; (single rotor) Igor Silorsky, U.S.A., 1939.
Helium First Observed on Sun:
Sir Joseph Lockyer, England, 1868.
Home Videotape Systems
(VCR) :
(Betamax) Sony, Japan, (1975); (VHS) Matsushita, Japan, 1975.


I



Ice Age Theory :
Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American, 1840.
Insulin :
(first isolated) Sir Frederick G. Banting and Charles H. Best, Canada, 1921; (discovery first published) Banting and Best, 1922; (Nobel Prize awarded for purification for use in humans) John Macleod and Banting, 1923; (first synthesized), China, 1966.
Internet :
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) at the Dept. of Defense, U.S.A., 1969.
Iron, Electric :
Henry W. Seely, U.S.A., 1882.
Isotopes :
Frederick Soddy, England, 1912.





J



Jet Propulsion :
(engine) Sir Frank Whittle, England, Hans von Ohain, Germany, 1936; (aircraft) Heinkel He 178, 1939.


L



Laser :
(theoretical work on) Charles H. Townes, Arthur L. Schawlow, U.S.A. Basov, A. Prokhorov, U.S.S.R., 1958; (first working model) T. H. Maiman, U.S.A., 1960.
LCD (liquid crystal display) :
Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland, 1970.
Lens, Bifocal :
Benjamin Franklin, U.S.A., c.1760.
Light-Emitting Diode (LED) :
Nick Holonyak, Jr., U.S.A., 1962.
Light, Speed of :
(theory that light has finite velocity) Olaus Roemer, Denmark, 1675.
Locomotive :
(steam powered) Richard Trevithick, England, 1804; (first practical, due to multiple-fire-tube boiler) George Stephenson, England, 1829; (largest steam-powered) Union Pacific’s “Big Boy”, U.S.A., 1941.
Loud Speaker :
Chester W. Rice, Edward W. Kellogg, U.S.A., 1924.





M



Machine Gun :
(multibarrel) Richard J. Gatling, U.S.A., 1862; (single barrel, belt-fed) Hiram S. Maxim, Anglo-American, 1884.
Magnet, Earth is :
William Gilbert, England, 1600.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) :
Raymond Damadian, Paul Lauterbur, U.S.A., early 1970s.
Matchstick/box :
(phosphorus) Francois Derosne, France, 1816; (friction) Charles Sauria, France, 1831; (safety) J. E. Lundstrom, Sweden, 1855.
Metric System :
Revolutionary government of France, 1790-1801.
Microphone :
Charles Wheatstone, England, 1827.
Microscope :
(compound) Zacharias Janssen, The Netherlands, 1590; (electron) Vladimir Zworykin et al., U.S.A., Canada, Germany, 1932-1939.
Microwave Oven :
Percy Spencer, U.S.A., 1947.
Missile, Guided :
Wernher von Braun, Germany, 1942.
Motion, Laws of :
Isaac Newton, England, 1687.
Motion Pictures :
Thomas A. Edison, U.S.A., 1893.
Motion Pictures, Sound :

Motor, Electric :

Motorcycle :
(motor tricycle) Edward Butler, England, 1884; (gasoline-engine motorcycle) Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, 1885.
Moving Assembly Line :
Product of various inventions. First picture with synchronized musical score : Don Juan, 1926; with spoken diologue : The Jazz Singer, 1927; both Warner Bros.

Michael Faraday, England, 1822; (alternating-current) Nikola Tesla, U.S.A., 1892.


O



Ozone :
Christian Schonbein, Germany, 1839.







N



Neutron :
James Chadwick, England, 1932.
Nuclear Fission :
Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann, Germany, 1938.
Nuclear Reactor :
Enrico Fermi, Italy, et al., 1942.
Nylon :
Wallace H. Carothers, U.S.A., 1937.
 

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Pacemaker :
Clarence W. Lillehie, Earl Bakk, U.S.A., 1957.
Paper :
China, c.100 A.D.
Parachute :
Louis S. Lenormand, France, 1783.
Pen :
(fountain) Lewis E. Waterman, U.S.A., 1884; (ball-point) John H. Loud, U.S.A., 1888; Lazlo Biro, Argentina, 1944.
Phonograph :
Thomas A. Edison, U.S.A., 1877.
Photography :
(first paper negative, first photograph, on metal) Joseph Nicephore Niepce, France, 1816-1827; (discovery of fixative powers of hyposulfite of soda) Sir John Herschel, England, 1819; (first direct positive image on silver plate) Louis Dagauerre, based on work with Niepce, France, 1839; (first paper negative from which a number of positive prints could be made) William Talbot, England, 1841. Work of these four men, taken together, forms basis for all modern photography. (First color images) Alexandre Becquerel, Claude Niepce de Saint-Victor, France, 1848-1860; (commercial color film with three emulsion layers, Kodachrome) U.S.A. 1935.
Photovoltaic Effect :
(light falling on certain materials can produce electricity) Edmund Becquerel, France, 1839.
Planetary Motion, Laws of :
Johannes Kepler, Germany, 1609, 1619.
Plastics :
(first material nitrocellulose softened by vegetable oil, camphor, precursor to Celluloid) Alexander Parkes, England, 1855; (Celluloid, involving recognition of vital effect of camphor) John W. Hyatt, U.S.A., 1869; (Bakelite, first completely synthetic plastic) Leo H. Baekeland, U.S.A., 1910; (theoretical background of macromolecules and process of polymerization on which modern plastics industry rests) Hermann Staudinger, Germany, 1922; (polypropylene and low-pressure method for producing high-density polyethylene) Robert Banks, Paul Hogan, U.S.A., 1958.
Polio, Vaccine :
(experimentally safe dead-virus vaccine) Jonas E. Salk, U.S.A., 1952; (effective large-scale field trials) 1954; (officially approved) 1955; (safe oral live-virus vaccine developed) Albert B. Sabin, U.S.A. 1954; (available in the U.S.A.) 1960.
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) :
Eugen Baumann, Germany, 1872.
Printing :
(block) Japan, c.700; (movable type) Korea, c.1400, Johann Gutenberg, Germany, c.1450; (lithography, offset) Aloys Senefelder, Germany, 1796; (rotary press) Richard Hoe, U.S.A. 1844; (linotype) Ottmar Mergenthaler, U.S.A., 1884.
Printing Press, Movable Type :
Johannes Gutenburg, Germany, c.1450.
Proton :
Ernest Rutherford, England, 1919.
Pulsars :
Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell Burnel, England, 1967.





Q



Quantum Theory :
(general) Max Planck, Germany, 1900; (sub-atomic) Niels Bohr, Denmark, 1913; (quantum mechanics) Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Germany, 1925.




R



Rabies Immunization :
Louis Pasteur, France, 1885.
Radar :
(limited range) Christian Hulsmeyer, Germany, 1904; (pulse modulation, used for measuring height of ionosphere) Gregory Breit, Merle Tuve, U.S.A., 1925; (first practical radar-radio detection and ranging) Sir Robert Watson-Watt, England, 1934-1935.
Radio :
(electromagnetism theory of) James Clerk Maxwell, England, 1873; (spark coil, generator of electromagnetic waves) Heinrich Hertz, Germany, 1886; (first practical system of wireless telegraphy) Guglielmo Marconi, Italy, 1895; (first long-distance telegraphic radio signal sent across the Atlantic) Macroni, 1901; (vacuum electron tube, basis for radio telephony) Sir John Fleming, England, 1904; (regenerative circuit, allowing long-distance sound reception) Edwin H. Armstrong, U.S.A., 1912; (frequency modulation-FM) Edwin H. Armstrong, U.S.A., 1933.
Radiocarbon Dating, Carbon-14 Method :
(discovered) Willard F. Libby, U.S.A., 1947; (first demonstrated) U.S.A., 1950.
Razor :
(safety) King Gillette, U.S.A., 1901; (electric) Jacob Schick, U.S.A., 1928, 1931.
Refrigerator :
Alexander Twining, U.S.A., James Harrison, Australia, 1850; (first with a compressor) the Domelse, Chicago, U.S.A., 1913.
Remote Control, Television :
Robert Adler, U.S.A., 1950.
Richter Scale :
Charles F. Richter, U.S.A., 1935.
Rifle :
(muzzle-loaded) Italy, Germany, c.1475; (breech-loaded) England, France, Germany, U.S.A., c.1866; (bolt-action) Paul von Mauser, Germany, 1889; (automatic) John Browning, U.S.A., 1918.
Rocket :
(liquid-fueled) Robert Goddard, U.S.A., 1926.
Rotation of Earth :
Jean Bernard Foucault, France, 1851.
Rubber :
(vulcanization process) Charles Goodyear, U.S.A., 1839.


S



Saccharin :
Constantine Fuhlberg, Ira Remsen, U.S.A., 1879.
Safety Pin :
Walter Hunt, U.S.A., 1849.
Saturn, Ring Around :
Christian Huygens, The Netherlands, 1659.
Seismograph :
(first accurate) John Bohlin, Sweden, 1962.
Sewing Machine :
Elias Howe, U.S.A., 1846; (continuous stitch) Isaac Singer, U.S.A., 1851.
Spectrum :
Sir Isaac Newton, England, 1665-1666.
Steam Engine :
Thomas Savery, England, 1639; (atmospheric steam engine) Thomas Newcomen, England, 1705; (steam engine for pumping water from collieries) Savery, Newcomen, 1725; (modern condensing, double acting) James Watt, England, 1782; (high-pressure) Oliver Evans, U.S.A., 1804.
Steel, Stainless :
Harry Brearley, U.K., 1914.
Stethoscope :
Rene Laennec, France, 1819.
Submarine :
Cornelis Drebbel, The Netherlands, 1620.




T



Tank, Military :
Sir Ernest Swinton, England, 1914.
Tape Recorder :
Valdemar Poulsen, Denmark, 1899.
Teflon :
DuPont, U.S.A., 1943.
Telegraph :
Samuel F. B. Morse, U.S.A., 1837.
Telephone :
Alexander Graham Bell, U.S.A., 1837.
Telephoe, Mobile :
Bell Laboratories, U.S.A., 1946.
Telescope :
Hans Lippershey, The Netherlands, 1608; (astronomical) Galileo Galilei, Italy, 1609; (reflecting) Isaac Newton, England, 1668.
Television :
Vladimir Zworykin, U.S.A., 1923, and also kinescope (cathode ray tube) 1928; (mechanical disk-scanning method) successfully demaonstrated by J. L. Baird, Scotland, C. F. Jenkins, U.S.A., 1926; (first all-electric television image) Philo T. Famsworth, U.S.A., 1927; (color, mechanical disk) Baird, 1928; (color, compatible with black and white) George Valensi, France, 1938; (color, sequential rotating filter) Peter Goldmark, U.S.A., first introduced, 1951; (color, compatible with black and white) commercially introduced in U.S.A., National Television Systems committee, 1953.
Thermodynamics :
(first law : energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one from to another) Julius Von Mayer, Germany, 1842; James Joule, England, 1843; (second law : heat cannot itself pass from a colder to a warmer body) Rudolph Clausius, Germany, 1850; (third law : the entropy of ordered solids reaches zero at the absolute zero of temperature) Walter Nernstm Germany, 1918.
Thermometer :
(open-column) Galileo Galilei, c.1593; (clinical) Santorio Santorio, Padua, c.1615; (mercury, also Fahrenheit scale) Gabriel D. Fahrenheit, Germany, 1714; (centigrade scale) Anders Celsius, Sweden, 1742; (absolute-temperature, or Kelvin, scale) William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, England, 1848.
Tire, Pneumatic :
Robert W. Thompson, England, 1845; (bicycle tire) John B. Dunlop, Northern Ireland, 1888.
Transformer, Electric :
William Stanely, U.S.A., 1885.
Transistor :
John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, William B. Shockley, U.S.A., 1947.
Typewriter :
Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, U.S.A., 1867.




V



Velcro :
George de Mestral, Switzerland, 1948.
Video Disk :
Philips Co., The Netherlands, 1972.
Vitamins :
(hypothesis of disease deficiency) Sir F. G. Hopkins, Casimir Funk, England, 1912; (vitamin A) Elmer V. McCollum, M. Davis, U.S.A., 1912-1914; (vitamin B) McCollum, U.S.A., 1915-1916; (thiamin B1) Casimir Funk, England, 1912; ( riboflavin, B2) D. T. Smith, E. G. Hendrick, U.S.A., 1926; (niacin) Conrad Elvehjem, U.S.A., 1937; (B6) Paul Gyorgy, U.S.A., 1934; (vitamin C) C. A. Hoist, T. Froelich, Norway, 1912; (vitamin D) McCollum, U.S.A., 1922; (folic acid) Lucy Wills, England, 1933.




W



Wheel :
(cart, solid wood) Mesopotamia, c.3800-3600 B.C.
Windmill :
Persia, c.600.
World Wide Web :
(developed while working at CERN) Tim Berners-Lee, England, 1989; (development of Mosaic browser makes WWW available for general use) Marc Andreeson, U.S.A., 1993.




X



X-ray Imaging :
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, Germany, 1895.
Xerography :
Chester Carlson, U.S.A., 1900.



Z



Zero :
India, c.600; (absolute zero temperature, cessation of all molecular energy) William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, England, 1848.
 

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Introduction to study branches!

Social Science

Any discipline or branch of science that deals with the sociocultural aspects of human behaviour.

The social sciences generally include
cultural anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, criminology, and social psychology. Comparative law and comparative religion (the comparative study of the legal systems and religions of different nations and cultures) are also sometimes regarded as social sciences.



Political Science

Academic discipline concerned with the empirical study of government and politics.

Political scientists have investigated the nature of states, the functions performed by governments, voter behaviour, political parties, political culture,
political economy, and public opinion, among other topics. Though it has roots in the political philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, political science in the modern sense did not begin until the 19th century, when many of the social sciences were established. Its empirical and generally scientific orientation is traceable to the work of Henri de Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte. The first institution dedicated to its study, the Free School of Political Science, was founded in Paris in 1871.


Economics

Social science that analyzes and describes the consequences of choices made concerning scarce productive resources.

Economics is the study of how individuals and societies choose to employ those resources: what goods and services will be produced, how they will be produced, and how they will be distributed among the members of society. Economics is customarily divided into
microeconomics and macroeconomics. Of major concern to macroeconomists are the rate of economic growth, the inflation rate, and the rate of unemployment. Specialized areas of economic investigation attempt to answer questions on a variety of economic activity; they include agricultural economics, economic development, economic history, environmental economics, industrial organization, international trade, labour economics, money supply and banking, public finance, urban economics, and welfare economics. Specialists in mathematical economics and econometrics provide tools used by all economists. The areas of investigation in economics overlap with many other disciplines, notably history, mathematics, political science, and sociology.


Cultural anthropology

Branch of anthropology that deals with the study of culture.

The discipline uses the methods, concepts, and data of
archaeology, ethnography, folklore, linguistics, and related fields in its descriptions and analyses of the diverse peoples of the world. Called social anthropology in Britain, its field of research was until the mid 20th century largely restricted to the small-scale (or "primitive"), non-Western societies that first began to be identified during the age of discovery. Today the field extends to all forms of human association, from village communities to corporate cultures to urban gangs. Two key perspectives used are those of holism (understanding society as a complex, interactive whole) and cultural relativism (the appreciation of cultural phenomena within their own context). Areas of study traditionally include social structure, law, politics, religion, magic, art, and technology.


Sociology

Science of society, social institutions, and social relationships, and specifically the systematic study of the development, structure, interaction, and collective behaviour of organized human groups.

It emerged at the end of the 19th century through the work of
Émile Durkheim in France, Max Weber and Georg Simmel in Germany, and Robert E. Park and Albion Small in the U.S. Sociologists use observational techniques, surveys and interviews, statistical analysis, controlled experiments, and other methods to study subjects such as the family, ethnic relations, schooling, social status and class, bureaucracy, religious movements, deviance, the elderly, and social change.


Criminology

Scientific study of nonlegal aspects of crime, including its causes and prevention.

Criminology originated in the 18th century when social reformers began to question the use of punishment for retribution rather than deterrence and reform. In the 19th century, scientific methods began to be applied to the study of crime. Today criminologists commonly use
statistics, case histories, official records, and sociological field methods to study criminals and criminal activity, including the rates and kinds of crime within geographic areas. Their findings are used by lawyers, judges, probation officers, law-enforcement and prison officials, legislators, and scholars to better understand criminals and the effects of treatment and prevention. See also delinquency, penology.


Social Psychology

Branch of psychology concerned with the personality, attitudes, motivations, and behaviour of the individual or group in the context of social interaction.

The field emerged in the U.S. in the 1920s. Topics include the attribution of
social status based on perceptual cues, the influence of social factors (such as peers) on a person's attitudes and beliefs, the functioning of small groups and large organizations, and the dynamics of face-to-face interactions.
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Your brain weight accounts for about 2 percent of your body weight. But your brain uses 20 percent of your body's oxygen supply and 20 to 30 percent of your body's energy.

When you are born, your brain weighs about a pound. But by age 6, it weighs three pounds. What happens? Learning to stand, talk, and walk creates a web of connections in your head—two pounds worth!

People with lower IQ are at greater risk of being concussed. A Danish study looked at 520 men who had sustained concussion after having their IQs tested by the national draft board. 30.4 percent of the concussed men had had dysfunctional scores. Experts decided lower IQ is a risk factor.[DOUBLEPOST=1359255191][/DOUBLEPOST]Nobel Prize Facts

1)The Nobel Prize is an international award given annually as per Alfred Nobel’s ( Swedish industrialist and inventor) last will. It is awarded for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Literature , Medicine / Physiology , Peace and Economic Sciences.


2)The award consists of a prize amount ( 10 Million Swedish Kronor ) , a gold medal and a diploma.


3)Each award can be given to a maximum of three recipients per year.If there are two winners in one category, the award money is split equally between them. If there are three winners, the awarding committee has the option of splitting the prize money equally among all three, or awarding half of the prize money to one recipient and one-quarter to each of the other two.


4)The Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Medicine and Peace are being awarded since 1901 while that in Economic Sciences is being given since 1969 by the Bank of Sweden.As the Nobel Prize in Economics was not a part of Nobel’s will so it is not paid for by his money,and is technically not a Nobel Prize.


5)The prize winners are announced in October everyear.They receive their awards on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.


6)The Peace Prize is awarded annually in Oslo ( Norway ) unlike the prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economics which are awarded in Stockholm,Sweden.


7)Since 1902, the King of Sweden has formally awarded all the prizes, except the Nobel Peace Prize, in Stockholm.


8)The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901, given by the President of Norwegian Parliament until the Norwegian Nobel Committee was established in 1904.


9)758 individuals and 18 organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize.Out of 758 individuals, 33 Nobel Prize Winners are women and 725 are men.


10)Some Laureates and organizations have been awarded more than one time:

The work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been honored by a Nobel Peace Prize three times ( 1917,1944 & 1963). Besides, the founder of the ICRC, Henry Dunant, was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

UNHCR ( United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ) was awarded Nobel Peace Prize twice in 1954 and 1981.

Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes - the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.

John Bardeen was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics twice ; in 1956 & 1972.

Marrie Curie was awarded Nobel Prize for contribution in Physics in 1903 and in Chemistry in 1911.

F. Sanger was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 and 1980.


11)The youngest Nobel Prize Winner , so far , is Lawrence Bragg who was 25 years old when he received the Physics Prize with his father in 1915.


12)The oldest Nobel Prize Winner , so far , is Raymond Davis Jr. who was nearly 88 years old when he was awarded the Physics Prize in 2002.


13)Two Winners who declined the Nobel Prize:

Jean Paul Sartre , awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the prize because he had consistently declined all official honors.

Le Duc Tho was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. They received the Prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord. Le Doc Tho said that he was not in a position to accept the Prize, giving as his reason the situation in Vietnam.


14)Four Winners who were forced by Authorities to decline the Nobel Prize:

Adolf Hitler forbade three German Nobel Prize Winners, Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt and Gerhard Domagq, to receive the Nobel Prize. All of them could later receive the diploma and the medal, but not the prize amount.

Boris Pasternack, the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature, accepted at first but was later caused by the authorities of his country (the Soviet Union) to decline the Prize.
 
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