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Highest,Biggest,Longest,Largest in India'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Highest Award-Bharat RatnaHighest Gallantry Award-Param Vir ChakraLongest Tributary river of India-YamunaLargest Lake-Wular Lake, KashmirLargest Lake (Saline Water)-Chilka Lake, OrrisaLargest Man-Made Lake-Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)
Highest Lake-Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand)Highest Peak-Karkoram-2of K-2(8,611 meters)Largest Populated City-MumbaiLargest State(Area)-RajasthanLargest State(Population)-Uttar PradeshHighest rainfall-Cherrapunji (426 inches per annum)State wise largest area under forest-Madhya PradeshLargest Delta-Sunderbans DeltaLongest River Bridge-Mahatma Gandhi Setu, PatnaBiggest Cave temple-ElloraLongest Road-Grand Trunk RoadLongest Canal-Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal (Rajasthan)
Largest Museum-India Museum at KolkataLongest Dam-Hirakud Dam (Orrisa)Highest Dam-Tehri Dam ( 260 meters , 850 ft )Largest District-Kutch districtLongest Highway NH-44 (NH-7) which turns from Varanasi to KanyakumariSmallest State (Population)-SikkimSmallest State (Area)-GoaLargest State (Area)-RajasthanLargest State (Population)-Uttar PradeshLargest Cave Temple-Kailash Temple, Ellora (Maharastra)Largest Port-Mumbai
Largest Church-Saint Cathedral (Goa)Longest Beach-Marina Beach, ChennaiHighest Airport-Leh (Laddakh)Largest River Island-Majuli (Brahmaputra River, Assam)
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Recent Awards & HonoursKailash Satyarthi selected for 2015 Harvard Humanitarian of the Year AwardFilmmaker IV Sasi honoured with J.C. Daniel AwardDr Shanthi Ranganathan conferred with Avvaiyaar Award 2015Jamaican writer Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for FictionAR Rahman to receive Hridaynath Mangeshkar AwardThe 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Angus DeatonThe Nobel Peace Prize to Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for 2015
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich.The Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonaldSheila Watt-Cloutier wins 2015 Right Livelihood AwardWinners of Safaigiri Awards 2015Russian Activist Lyudmila Alekseyeva wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights PrizeDr. Jacob Tsimerman wins 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan PrizeIndra Nooyi, Shobhana Bhartia presented with USIBC global leadership awardGaia Vince becomes the first woman to win the Top science book prizeEmployees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) gets SKOCH Awards24th Vyaas Samman conferred on eminent Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore GoenkaUrdu scholar Shamim Hanfi awarded Jnangarima Manad Alankaran awardAfghan refugee teacher Aqeela Asifi awarded with 2015 Nansen Refugee Award by UNHCR
Indian-AmericanSwetha Prabakaran selected for Champions of Change award in USBangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina wins UN Award for Leadership on Climate ChangeDRDO scientist Dr G. Satheesh Reddy conferred with Silver Medal by Royal Aeronautical SocietyGandhi Peace Prize 2014 conferred on ISROJhumpa Lahiri selected for 2014 National Humanities MedalHaryana Government wins Skoch Order-of-MeritIndia wins UNESCO Award for conserving Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple in KeralaBarcelonas Lionel Messi wins UEFA Best Player in Europe awardMountaineer Jot Singh awarded Tenzing Norgay National Adventure awardSyrian woman Journalist Zaina Erhaim wins 2015 Peter Mackler AwardTennis player Sania Mirza gets Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award
Scientist Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta to receive inaugural Sunhak Peace PrizeZia Haider Rahmans debut novel wins James Tait Black prize 2015Historian Babasaheb Purandare conferred with Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2015Boxing Coach Swatantra Raj Singh recommended for Dronacharya awardSania Mirza became second Tennis player to be recommended for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardSuhasini Haidar wins Prem Bhatia AwardComplete list of athletes recommended for Arjuna Award 2015Kerala government announces State film awards 2014Raghavendra Gadagkar awarded with Germanys Cross of Order of the MeritPresident of India presents Saraswati Samman to Dr. M Veerappa MoilyTourism Minister Shri. Dilip Parulekar bags Best Innovated Tourism Minister for the year 2015
Zhanna Nemtsova awarded with Solidarity Prize 2015 of PolandMathematician Dr. Amalendu Krishna wins 2015 Ramanujan PrizeHindi litterateur Kashinath Singh chosen for Bharat Bharti literary award 2014McCann bags Incredible India ad campaignTamil Nadu government instituted youth award in name of Dr APJ Abdul KalamSarbananda Sonowal presents Arjuna Award 2014 to cricketer R. AshwinWhistleblower Sanjiv Chaturvedi, Anshu Gupta win Ramon Magsaysay awardJorge Sampaio, Helena Ndume awarded with inaugural Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela PrizeBEL wins Dun and Bradstreet awardPeter Higgs receives Copley Medal, worlds oldest scientific prizeRamachandra Guha receives Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 2015
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Naomi Klein wins 2015 American Book AwardKerala Tourism gets PATA Award for Muziris Heritage ProjectIndian-Americanwoman Sunita Viswanath honoured with Champion of ChangeRailway PSU RailTel Bags 12th National Awards for Excellence in Cost Management 2014Four Indian scientists receive William Harvey Award 2015Krishnapatnam Port receives Golden Peacock award for environment management.
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S.no Highest Peak Height in
Meters)
States
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of Sports Hcnds
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Amb
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SMOST
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Bank. India
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second-largest
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l f you
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Chemical
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cheese
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vegetab
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clot
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Observed
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Teachers Day September 5 Bi11hday of Sarvelli
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First Sa turday in September
Day
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ional Literacy Day
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literacy and sustainable
societies
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for
September
12
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ld First Aid Day September 12
Divas September
14
ineers Day
September
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ional day of Peace
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September 27
one billion
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End Rabies Together
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creating heart-hea l
thy
environments
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G.K. QUESTION BANK
S.No. QUESTION ANSWER
01 The first Prime minister of Bangladesh was Mujibur Rehman
02 The longest river in the world is the Nile
03 The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada
04The longest highway in the world has a length
ofAbout 8000 km
05 The highest mountain in the world is the Everest
06The country that accounts for nearly one third
of the total teak production of the world isMyanmar
07 The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara desert
08The largest coffee growing country in the
world isBrazil
09The country also known as "country of Copper"
is
Zambia
10The name given to the border which separates
Pakistan and Afghanistan isDurand line
11 The river Volga flows out into the Capsian sea
12 The coldest place on the earth isVerkoyansk in
Siberia
13The country which ranks second in terms of
land area isCanada
14 The largest Island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily
15 The river Jordan flows out into the Dead sea
16 The biggest delta in the world is the Sunderbans
17The capital city that stands on the river Danube
isBelgrade
18 The Japanese call their country as Nippon
19 The length of the English channel is 564 kilometres
20 The world's oldest known city is Damascus
21The city which is also known as the City of
Canals isVenice
22 The country in which river Wangchu flows is Myanmar
23 The biggest island of the world is Greenland
24The city which is the biggest centre for
manufacture of automobiles in the world isDetroit, USA
25The country which is the largest producer of
manganese in the world isUSA
26The country which is the largest producer of
rubber in the world isMalaysia
27The country which is the largest producer of tin
in the world isMalaysia
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28The river which carries maximum quantity of water
into the sea is theMississippi
29The city which was once called the `Forbidden
City' wasPeking
30 The country called the Land of Rising Sun is Japan
31 Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest
32 The volcano Vesuvius is located in Italy
33The country known as the Sugar Bowl of the
world isCuba
34 The length of the Suez Canal is 162.5 kilometers
35 The lowest point on earth isThe coastal area of
Dead sea
36 The Gurkhas are the original inhabitants of Nepal
37 The largest ocean of the world is the Pacific ocean
38 The largest bell in the world is theTsar Kolkol at
Kremlin, Moscow
39 The biggest stadium in the world is theStrahov Stadium,
Prague
40The world's largest diamond producing country
isSouth Africa
41 Australia was discovered by James Cook
42 The first Governor General of Pakistan isMohammed 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
47The country which has the greatest population
density isMonaco
48 The national flower of Britain is Rose
49 Niagara Falls was discovered by Louis Hennepin
50 The national flower of Italy is Lily
51 The national flower of China is Narcissus
52The 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 bySir Thomas
Stamford Raffles
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60 The famous British one-eyed Admiral was Nelson
61 The earlier name of Sri Lanka was Ceylon
62 The UNO was formed in the year 1945
63 UNO stands forUnited Nations
Organization
64The independence day of South Korea is
celebrated on
15th August
65`Last Judgement' was the first painting of an
Italian painter namedMichelangelo
66 Paradise Regained was written by John Milton
67 The first President of Egypt was Mohammed Nequib
68 The first man to reach North Pole was Rear Peary
69 The most famous painting of Pablo Picasso was Guermica
70The primary producer of newsprint in the world
isCanada
71 The first explorer to reach the South Pole wasCap. Ronald
Amundson
72The person who is called the father of modern
Italy isG.Garibaldi
73 World literacy day is celebrated on 8th September
74 The founder of modern Germany is Bismarck
75The country known as the land of the midnight
sun isNorway
76 The place known as the Roof of the world is Tibet
77 The founder of the Chinese Republic was San Yat Sen
78The first Pakistani to receive the Nobel Prize
wasAbdul Salam
79 The first woman Prime Minister of Britain was Margaret Thatcher
80 The first Secretary General of the UNO was Trygve Lie
81 The sculptor of the statue of Liberty wasFrederick Auguste
Bartholdi
82 The port of Banku is situated in Azerbaijan
83 John F Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harry Oswald
84 The largest river in France is Lore
85 The Queen of England who married herbrother-in-law was
Catherine ofAragon
86The first negro to be awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize was
Ralph Johnson
Bunche
87The first British University to admit women for
degree courses wasLondon University
88 The principal export of Jamaica is Sugar
89 New York is popularly known as the city of Skyscrapers
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90 Madagascar is popularly known as the Island of Cloves
91The country known as the Land of White
Elephant isThailand
92The country known as the Land of Morning
Calm isKorea
93The country known as the Land of
Thunderbolts isBhutan
94 The highest waterfalls in the world is the Salto Angel Falls,Venezuela
95 The largest library in the world is the
United States
Library of
Congress,
Washington DC