GK 8

1.Singapore City is the nearest to the Equator.

2. Release to well & pond Gabusia fish for controlling mosquitoes .

3.Echidnas is the extant mammals who lay eggs.

4.During Jahangir’s time English East India Company established its first factory in India.

5.The tip of the match box contains white phosphorus.

6.Abahram Lincoln was 16^th President of USA.

7.The Discovery of India (during Jaharlawal Nehru's imprisonment ( 1942-46)  in Ahamednagar fort in Maharastra) by India’s first P.M . Jaharlawal Neheru.

8.Tansen Sanman is given by Madhaya Pradesh Govt.

9.Saraswati Sannman is given for Litarature.

10.  Norman Ernest Borlaug, who is regarded as the father of the Green Revolution in India, is from which country?-USA.

11. Who among the following is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web(WWW)? (Tim Berners Lee)

12. Who produced the first film in India " Raja Harishchandra" in 1913? Dada Saheb Phalke

13. Who is the author of the book 'Voice of Conscience'? V V Giri

14. Who is the author of 'A River Sutra'? Gita Mehta

15. Who is the author of the book 'Without Fear or Favour'? N Sanjiva Reddy

16. Who is the author of the book 'New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy'?

A B Bajpayee 

17. Who is the author of 'The Future of India'? Bimal Jalan

18. The author of the book A Brief History of Time is ...................Stephen Hawking

19.  Letters from father to his daughter was written by .....................JL Nehru

20. Who wrote Waiting for the Mahatama ?  R.K. Narayan

21. First Olympic Games were held in 776 BC 

22. Beighton Cup and Agha Khan Cup are associated with which of the following games? Hockey

23. Which of these international tennis events is played on a grass court? Wimbeldon

24. Who among the following sports personalities is known as the Payyoli Express? PT Usha

25. Who among the following has become the first Indian to score a triple century in Test Cricket. Virendra Sehwag

26.  A Pugilist is a ......................Boxer

27.  Ian Thorpe is associated with .......................Swimming

28. Which one of the following is the oldest Grand Slam of the world? Wimbledon

29. French Open which is one of the four Grand Slams of the Tennis is played on which surface? Clay

30. By virtue of which Act, Dyarchy was introduced in India? Government of India Act, 1919

31.  Diarchy was first introduced under: Montague-Chelmsford Reforms

32. Which of the following Acts was described by Jawaharlal Lal Nehru as “Charter of Slavery”?
The Government of India Act, 1935

33. The distribution of power between the Centre and the States in the Indian Constitution is based on the scheme provided in the­:
The Government of India Act, 1935

34. Rashtrapati Bhavan was designed by? Edwin Lutyens

35.  Who was the President of India at time of proclamation of emergency in the year 1975?
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad

36. The first President of Independent India hails from?Bihar

37. The Constitution authorizes the President to make provision for discharge of duties of Governor in extraordinary circumstances under the? Article 160