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GENERAL GENERAL KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE Dr. T.K. Jain. AFTERSCHOOOL www.afterschool.tk www.afterschoool.tk www.afterschoool.tk
What is Human Rights day? • 10 December
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Farmer’s Day? • 23 December
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World Labour Day? • 1 May.
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What is the gap between world water day and world earth day? • One month – as world water day is on 22 March, world earth day is on 22 April.
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Founder of Rotary Club? • Paul Harris
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World’s second largest desert? • Libyan Desert in North Africa (1.6 ml. sq. km. area) (Sahara is the largest with 9 million sq. km.)
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What is Tera in measurement? • 10^12 • Mega is 10^6 Giga 10^9 Kilo 10^3 • Hecto 10^2 and Deca is 10^1
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On which river is Tehri Bridge located? • Bhagirathi River
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On which river is Theene Bridge located? • Ravi River in the Punjab.
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On which river are Gandhi Sagar, Ranapratap Sagar and Jawahar Sagar Bridges located?
• Chambal River.
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On which river is Nagarjun Sagar Bridge located? • Krishna River in A.P. near nandikona village.
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On which river is Bhakra Bridge located? • Satluj River in the Punjab.
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Who has written Meghdut, can you name his other creations also? • Author = Kalidas, his other creations are: Raghubansh,Kumar Sambhav, Ritusanhar, Malvikagnimitra etc. (5th century)
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Who has written Geet Govinda? • Jaidev (12th century)
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What is the capital of Ukrayina? • Keeve
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What is BT? When did it come to India? • BT is more popular for BT cotton – it was allowed in 2002 in India in MP and south India to be grown.
www.afterschoool.tk
Why are these ladies famous in corporate world – Anu Aga Mallika Srinivasan Naina Lal Kidwai Chanda Kochhar Amrita Patel Nandini Rangaswami Anuradha Desai www.afterschoool.tk
• Anu Aga - Thermax Mallika Srinivasan - Tafe Naina Lal Kidwai - HSBS Chanda Kochhar – ICICI Bank Amrita Patel- Dairy Industry • Nandini Rangaswami – Chandra Textile Anuradha Desai – Venkateshwar Hatcheries
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Where (name the company) are these ladies working: • • • • • • • • •
Usha Thorat Indira Nui Ilaben Bhatt Ilaben Pathak Lalita Gupte Kalpana Motaria Kiran Shaw Majumdar Bidya Chhabaria Mehar Aga
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• • • • • • • • •
Usha Thorat - RBI Indira Nui - PEPSI Ilaben Bhatt - SEWA Ilaben Pathak - AWAG Lalita Gupte - ICICI Kalpana Motaria - ICICI Kiran Shaw Majumdar - BIOCON Bidya Chhabaria - JAMBO Mehar Aga - THERMAX www.afterschoool.tk
Who was the first lady cabinet secretary in India? • Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
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First lady ambassador from India – later she became first lady chief of UN general assembly? • Vijay Laxmi pandit
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First miss world from India? • Rita Faria (1966)
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When did first election take place in independent India? • 1952 for 499 seats – in this women captured 24 seats.
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No. of Union Territories in India? • Six (excluding Delhi as it is a separate place - NCT ) • The union territories are Andaman, Chandigarh, Dadar, Daman, Pondicherry, and Laxdeep • We have 28 states.
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What is the ratio of men to women in India? • 1000 men – 933 women.
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Average Per capita Income (approx.) in India? • 440$ per annum
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Which State has third largest population in India? • Bihar (the first is UP, second is Maharastra).
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Which is third largest state as per area? • Maharastra (the first is Rajasthan, Second is MP)
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Which is largest Union Territory as per area? • Andaman and Nikobar (8.2 th. Sq. k.m.)
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Who wrote National Anthem? • Ravindra Nath Tagore (only the first five stanza have been adopted as national anthem). It was adopted on 24 jan. 1950
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Which country started civil services examinations first time? • China – 6 AD
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When was Jesus crucified? • 29 AD
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Which language is the third most popular language in the world? • Hindi • (the first is Mandarin, second is English)
www.afterschoool.tk
Who is the head of Amnesty International? • Ms. Irene Jubeda Khan • Amnesty is located in London with 150 branches in different countries – it was started in 1961.
www.afterschoool.tk
Who is the head of Red Cross? • Jacob Kelenberg • This organisation has got Nobel Prize thrice. (1917,44,63) • It was set up in 1863 by J H Dunant and has headquarter in Jenewa.
www.afterschoool.tk
Who is the head of the World Bank? • Paul Volfovitz • Its headquarter is in Washington DC USA. • It was set up in 1946 as per Bretton Woods Agreement 1944 – to reconstruct world after II world war.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of UNIDO? • Vianna (Austria) • Its head is Carlos Alfredo Megarinos
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is headquarter of ADB? • Asian Development Bank has headquarer in Manila (Philippines) • Head is Haruhiko Kurido
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of ASIAN? • Djakarta ( Indonesia) • It was set up in 1967 • Its head is Ong Keng Yang
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of Commonwealth? • London • It is an association of 53 nations (which were earlier governed by Britain). It was set up in 1926. • Head is Don Maquinn.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of SAARC? • • • •
Kathmandu (Nepal) Head is C. Dorji (Bhutan) Started in 1985 Members are India, Myamar,Pak, Bangladesh,Srilanka, Bhutan,Nepal.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of NATO? • Brusseles (Belgium) • It was started in 1949 by group of countries – now there are 19 members.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of WMO • Jeneva • World meterological organisation is headed by Kaje Postale.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of WIPO? • World Intellectual Property Org. was started to promote intellectual property (Patents, copyrights, etc.) its head quarter is in Geneva • Its head is Kamal Indrees.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of WTO? • World Trade Org. has its headquarter in Geneva • It was started in 1995 to replace GATT. • Its head is Supachal . Panichapakadi
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of IMF? • International Monetary Fund has headquarter in Washington DC • Its head is Rodrigo De Rato • It was started in 1945.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of WHO? • World Health Org. is situated in Geneva. • Its head is John Buk Lee • It was started in 1946.
www.afterschoool.tk
www.afterschoool.tk
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www.afterschoool.tk
Thanks • Afterschoool conducts three year integrated PGPSE (after class 12 along with CA & CS) and 18 month PGPSE (Post Graduate Programme in Social Entrepreneurship) along with preparation for CFP / CFA / FRM. It also conducts workshops on social entrepreneurship in schools and colleges all over India – start social entrepreneurship club in your institution today with the help from afterschoool and help us in developing society.
www.afterschoool.tk
www.afterschoool.tk social entrepreneurship for better society
www.afterschoool.tk
What is Human Rights day? • 10 December
www.afterschoool.tk
Farmer’s Day? • 23 December
www.afterschoool.tk
World Labour Day? • 1 May.
www.afterschoool.tk
What is the gap between world water day and world earth day? • One month – as world water day is on 22 March, world earth day is on 22 April.
www.afterschoool.tk
Founder of Rotary Club? • Paul Harris
www.afterschoool.tk
World’s second largest desert? • Libyan Desert in North Africa (1.6 ml. sq. km. area) (Sahara is the largest with 9 million sq. km.)
www.afterschoool.tk
What is Tera in measurement? • 10^12 • Mega is 10^6 Giga 10^9 Kilo 10^3 • Hecto 10^2 and Deca is 10^1
www.afterschoool.tk
On which river is Tehri Bridge located? • Bhagirathi River
www.afterschoool.tk
On which river is Theene Bridge located? • Ravi River in the Punjab.
www.afterschoool.tk
On which river are Gandhi Sagar, Ranapratap Sagar and Jawahar Sagar Bridges located?
• Chambal River.
www.afterschoool.tk
On which river is Nagarjun Sagar Bridge located? • Krishna River in A.P. near nandikona village.
www.afterschoool.tk
On which river is Bhakra Bridge located? • Satluj River in the Punjab.
www.afterschoool.tk
Who has written Meghdut, can you name his other creations also? • Author = Kalidas, his other creations are: Raghubansh,Kumar Sambhav, Ritusanhar, Malvikagnimitra etc. (5th century)
www.afterschoool.tk
Who has written Geet Govinda? • Jaidev (12th century)
www.afterschoool.tk
What is the capital of Ukrayina? • Keeve
www.afterschoool.tk
What is BT? When did it come to India? • BT is more popular for BT cotton – it was allowed in 2002 in India in MP and south India to be grown.
www.afterschoool.tk
Why are these ladies famous in corporate world – Anu Aga Mallika Srinivasan Naina Lal Kidwai Chanda Kochhar Amrita Patel Nandini Rangaswami Anuradha Desai www.afterschoool.tk
• Anu Aga - Thermax Mallika Srinivasan - Tafe Naina Lal Kidwai - HSBS Chanda Kochhar – ICICI Bank Amrita Patel- Dairy Industry • Nandini Rangaswami – Chandra Textile Anuradha Desai – Venkateshwar Hatcheries
www.afterschoool.tk
Where (name the company) are these ladies working: • • • • • • • • •
Usha Thorat Indira Nui Ilaben Bhatt Ilaben Pathak Lalita Gupte Kalpana Motaria Kiran Shaw Majumdar Bidya Chhabaria Mehar Aga
www.afterschoool.tk
• • • • • • • • •
Usha Thorat - RBI Indira Nui - PEPSI Ilaben Bhatt - SEWA Ilaben Pathak - AWAG Lalita Gupte - ICICI Kalpana Motaria - ICICI Kiran Shaw Majumdar - BIOCON Bidya Chhabaria - JAMBO Mehar Aga - THERMAX www.afterschoool.tk
Who was the first lady cabinet secretary in India? • Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
www.afterschoool.tk
First lady ambassador from India – later she became first lady chief of UN general assembly? • Vijay Laxmi pandit
www.afterschoool.tk
First miss world from India? • Rita Faria (1966)
www.afterschoool.tk
When did first election take place in independent India? • 1952 for 499 seats – in this women captured 24 seats.
www.afterschoool.tk
No. of Union Territories in India? • Six (excluding Delhi as it is a separate place - NCT ) • The union territories are Andaman, Chandigarh, Dadar, Daman, Pondicherry, and Laxdeep • We have 28 states.
www.afterschoool.tk
What is the ratio of men to women in India? • 1000 men – 933 women.
www.afterschoool.tk
Average Per capita Income (approx.) in India? • 440$ per annum
www.afterschoool.tk
Which State has third largest population in India? • Bihar (the first is UP, second is Maharastra).
www.afterschoool.tk
Which is third largest state as per area? • Maharastra (the first is Rajasthan, Second is MP)
www.afterschoool.tk
Which is largest Union Territory as per area? • Andaman and Nikobar (8.2 th. Sq. k.m.)
www.afterschoool.tk
Who wrote National Anthem? • Ravindra Nath Tagore (only the first five stanza have been adopted as national anthem). It was adopted on 24 jan. 1950
www.afterschoool.tk
Which country started civil services examinations first time? • China – 6 AD
www.afterschoool.tk
When was Jesus crucified? • 29 AD
www.afterschoool.tk
Which language is the third most popular language in the world? • Hindi • (the first is Mandarin, second is English)
www.afterschoool.tk
Who is the head of Amnesty International? • Ms. Irene Jubeda Khan • Amnesty is located in London with 150 branches in different countries – it was started in 1961.
www.afterschoool.tk
Who is the head of Red Cross? • Jacob Kelenberg • This organisation has got Nobel Prize thrice. (1917,44,63) • It was set up in 1863 by J H Dunant and has headquarter in Jenewa.
www.afterschoool.tk
Who is the head of the World Bank? • Paul Volfovitz • Its headquarter is in Washington DC USA. • It was set up in 1946 as per Bretton Woods Agreement 1944 – to reconstruct world after II world war.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of UNIDO? • Vianna (Austria) • Its head is Carlos Alfredo Megarinos
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is headquarter of ADB? • Asian Development Bank has headquarer in Manila (Philippines) • Head is Haruhiko Kurido
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of ASIAN? • Djakarta ( Indonesia) • It was set up in 1967 • Its head is Ong Keng Yang
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of Commonwealth? • London • It is an association of 53 nations (which were earlier governed by Britain). It was set up in 1926. • Head is Don Maquinn.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of SAARC? • • • •
Kathmandu (Nepal) Head is C. Dorji (Bhutan) Started in 1985 Members are India, Myamar,Pak, Bangladesh,Srilanka, Bhutan,Nepal.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of NATO? • Brusseles (Belgium) • It was started in 1949 by group of countries – now there are 19 members.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of WMO • Jeneva • World meterological organisation is headed by Kaje Postale.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of WIPO? • World Intellectual Property Org. was started to promote intellectual property (Patents, copyrights, etc.) its head quarter is in Geneva • Its head is Kamal Indrees.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of WTO? • World Trade Org. has its headquarter in Geneva • It was started in 1995 to replace GATT. • Its head is Supachal . Panichapakadi
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of IMF? • International Monetary Fund has headquarter in Washington DC • Its head is Rodrigo De Rato • It was started in 1945.
www.afterschoool.tk
Where is the headquarter of WHO? • World Health Org. is situated in Geneva. • Its head is John Buk Lee • It was started in 1946.
www.afterschoool.tk
www.afterschoool.tk
www.afterschoool.tk
www.afterschoool.tk
Thanks • Afterschoool conducts three year integrated PGPSE (after class 12 along with CA & CS) and 18 month PGPSE (Post Graduate Programme in Social Entrepreneurship) along with preparation for CFP / CFA / FRM. It also conducts workshops on social entrepreneurship in schools and colleges all over India – start social entrepreneurship club in your institution today with the help from afterschoool and help us in developing society.
www.afterschoool.tk
www.afterschoool.tk social entrepreneurship for better society
www.afterschoool.tk
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