General Knowledge Questions & Answers Part 3

1. Who is popularly known as Indian Napoleon?

Samudragupta

2. World Water Day is celebrated on ------

March 22

3. Who was the architect of the Taj Mahal?

Ustad Isa

4. In which year the Jallianwala Bagh massacre happened?

13 April 1919

4. Who is the present Supreme Court Chief Justice of India?

T. S. Thakur

5. ------------- is known as suicidal bags of cell?

Lysosomes

6. Capital of Manipur

Imfal

General Knowledge Questions & Answers Part 2

1. The first totally literate district in India

Eranakulam

2. The Indian rupee sign (₹) designed by

D. Udaya Kumar

3. Who is the president of World Bank?

Jim Yong Kim

4. Which was India’s first nuclear reactor?

Apsara

5. Who is called the " Second Ashoka" ?

Kanishka

General knowledge questions & answers Part 1

1. Which is the first metal used by man?

Copper

2. Which is the biggest city by population?

Tokyo, Japan

3. Which chemical has the name of “the butter of Zinc”?

Zinc chloride

4. The national song of India was written by

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

5. The unit of electrical charge is the

Coulomb

6. Which was the 1st English newspaper in India?

Bengal Gazette

Deficiency Disease of Vitamins

Vitamin A – Night Blindness

Vitamin B1 – Beriberi

Vitamin B2 – Ariboflavinosis

Vitamin B3 – Pellagra

Vitamin B5 – Paresthesia

Famous Autobiographies and their Authors

ACE against Odds – Sania Mirza

An Autobiography – Agatha Christie

Autobiographical Fragment – Charles Dickens

Autobiographical Notes – Albert Einstein

Daughter of Destiny– Benazir Bhutto

Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama

Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography – Usain Bolt

Vitamins and Chemical Names

Vitamin A – Retinol 
Vitamin B1 – Thiamine

Vitamin B2 – Riboflavin
Vitamin B3 – Niacin
Vitamin B5 – Pantothenic acid

List of Lok Sabha Speakers

 G. V. Mavalankar (1952 – 1956)

 

M. A. Ayyangar (1956 – 1962)

Sardar Hukam Singh (1962 – 1967)

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1967 – 1969)

G. S. Dhillon (1969 – 1975)

Important International Organisations & Their Headquarters

 

Organisation	Headquarter
Amnesty International	London, UK
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)	Singapore
Asian Development Bank	Mandaluyong, Philippines
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank	Beijing, China
Association of South East Nations (ASEAN)	Jakarta, Indonesia
Commonwealth of Nations	London, UK
Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO)	Rome, Italy
International Atomic Agency	Vienna, Austria
International Committee of the Red Cross	Geneva, Switzerland
International Court of Justice	The Hague, The Netherland
International Cricket Council (ICC)	Dubai, UAE
International Labour Organisation	Geneva, Switzerland
International Maritime Organisation	London, UK
International Monetary Fund (IMF)	Washington DC, US
International Olympic Committee	Lausanne, Switzerland
International Organization for Standardization	Geneva, Switzerland
International Renewable Agency	Abu Dhabi, UAE
International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF)	Monaco
International Hockey Federation (FIH)	Lausanne, Switzerland
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)	Los Angeles, USA
New Development Bank (BRICS Development Bank)	Shanghai, China
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)	Brussels, Belgium
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)	Paris, France
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)	Vienna, Austria
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)	Kathmandu, Nepal
Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)	Zurich, Switzerland
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)	The Hague, The Netherlands
Transparency International	Berlin, Germany
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)	New York, USA
United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD)	Geneva, Switzerland
United Nations Education Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)	Paris, France
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)	Vienna, Austria
United Nations Organization (UN)	New York, USA
United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA)	New York, USA
UN Women	New York, USA
Universal Postal Union	Bern, Switzerland
World Bank	Washington DC, USA
World Economic Forum	Cologny, Switzerland
World Health Organization (WHO)	Geneva, Switzerland
World Intellectual Property Organisation	Geneva, Switzerland
World Meteorological Organisation	Geneva, Switzerland
World Trade Organisation	Geneva, Switzerland
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)	Gland, Switzerland

Rivers of Kerala

There are 44 rivers in Kerala. 

41 of them flow westward and 3 eastward.

All these rivers originate from the Sahyadri hills (Western Ghats).

East flowing rivers are:

Kabani 

Bhavani 

Pambar

West flowing rivers are: