Thursday, August 22, 2013

GK new class II & III

Syllabus
o   Our Neighboring Countries, Music and Dance, Flags of Various Countries, India
o   Sports, Continents and Oceans, Books and Authors, Great Personality of India
o   Historical Buildings and Monuments, , Famous-Places of the World & India
o   Means of Livelihood, Our Solar System, Abbreviations, Extremes, Inventions, Misc

India’s neighboring countries

Facts on the neighboring countries of India. At a Glance:-
            1. India shares its borders with China, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh,    Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
            2. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has been formed for      the purpose of peace, stability, and economic progress in the region through mutual          cooperation.
            3. India and China have had links since ancient times. The Panchsheel Pact represented    an important stage in our relationship. A border dispute led to a war with China in 1962.            A long time after the war, relations between the two countries have begun to improve.
            4. India and Pakistan are parts of what was formerly one country. We share a common         tradition and culture. But we have had major wars and recently there was the Kargil        conflict. This has severed relations between the two countries. We are still trying to          develop and maintain a friendly relationship with Pakistan.
            5. India helped the people of Bangladesh achieve their freedom from Pakistan’s             domination. Strong political, economic, and cultural ties have been formed and kept up           with Bangladesh.
            6. India and Sri Lanka have ancient, mythological, historical, and cultural ties. There has        been some problem concerning people of Indian origin in Sri Lanka but our political and   trade relations have been good all along.
Country
Capital
Bangladesh
Dhaka
Bhutan
Thimphu
India
New Delhi
Maldives
Male
Nepal
Kathmandu
Pakistan
Islamabad
Sri Lanka
Colombo



 Classical Dances of India
Dance
State
Bharat Natyam
Tamil Nadu
Bihu
Assam
Bhangra
Punjab
Chhau
Bihar, Orissa, W. Bengal and Jharkhand
Garhwali
Uttaranchal
Garba
Gujarat
Hattari
Karnataka
Kathak
North India
Kathakali
Kerala
Kutchipudi
Andhra Pradesh
Khantumm
Mizoram
Karma
Madhya Pradesh
Laho
Meghalaya
Mohiniattam
Kerala
Mando
Goa
Manipuri
Manipur
Nati
Himachal Pradesh
Nat-Natin
Bihar
Odissi
Orissa
Rauf
Jammu & Kashmir
Yakshagan
Karnataka









Flags
                      
                        Australia                                                         Bangladesh
                     
                        Bhutan                                                                        Canada
                     
                        China                                                              Denmark
                                                          France                                                                         Mauritius
                  
                        Pakistan                                                          Saudi Arabia
                     
                        Sri Lanka                                                         Britain
                                                         United States






















                                                           
Sports
National sports of countries
Sri Lanka
Volleyball
Afghanistan
Buzkashi
Bhutan
Archery
China
Table Tennis
Norway Cross-country
Skiing
Switzerland
Shooting, Gymnastics
Turkey
Wrestling
United States
Baseball
Japan
Ju- Jitsu (Judo)
Australia
Cricket and Tennis
Scotland
Rugby Football
Spain
Bull Fighting
England
Cricket & Rugby Football
Russia
Chess & Football
Malaysia
Badminton
                                                                                         
                                                Names of Continents of the world
Names of oceans of the world
(oceans by size) 
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http://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif #1 Pacific (155,557,000 sq km)  dot
http://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif #2 Atlantic (76,762,000 sq km) 
dothttp://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif #3 Indian (68,556,000 sq km) 
dothttp://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif #4 Southern (20,327,000 sq km) 
dothttp://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif #5 Arctic (14,056,000 sq km)  
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(greatest depths in the oceans) 
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http://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif Mariana Trench, Pacific 35,827 ft
dothttp://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif Puerto Rico Trench, Atlantic 30,246 ft 
dothttp://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif Java Trench, Indian 24,460 ft 
dothttp://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif Arctic Basin, Arctic 18,456 ft 
dothttp://www.worldatlas.com/yellow.gif Southern Ocean, 23,737 ft 

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Books and authors

1.     Adam Bede                                         George Eliot
2.     A Suitable Boy                                                Vikram Seth
3.     A Tale of Two Gardens                      Octavio Paz
4.     Adventures of Sherlock Holmes        Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5.     Adventures of Tom Sawyer               Mark Twain
6.     Born Free                                            Joy Adamson
7.     Bubble                                                            Mulk Raj Anand
8.     Castle                                                  Franz Kafka
9.     Emma                                                  Jane Austen
10.  King Lear                                             Shakespeare
11.  Born free-                                           Joy Adamson
A child when born is free from worries, he is joyous, & then he gets the tag of a dumb son
12.  Das Kapital-                                        Karl marx       
Das are everywhere in capital of the country, which is actually a kala mark on the country’s name
13.  Expanding universe-                          AS Eddington
You are expanding universe by adding tons of mud on ass.
14.  Godan-                                                Prem Chand               
Gawu daan prem se chand pe
15.  Hamlet-                                               Shakespere                            
Helmet full of shake of pear
16.  Malgudi days  -                                   R.K. Narayan
Mall guddi bought by Narad muni saying narayan narayan
17.  Mill on floss-                                      George Eliot  
18.  A mill is be
19.  Great personalities of India

 

Persons - Sobriquets


1.     Abdul Gaffar Khan                 Badshan Khan; Frontier Gandhi
2.     C R Das                                    Deshabandhu
3.     Bal Gangadhar Tilak               Lokmanya
4.     Dadabhai Narorji                   Grand Old Man of India
5.     Rabindranath Tagore             Gurudev
6.     Subhash Chandra Bose          Netaji
7.     Vallabhai Patel                       Man of Iron
8.     Sarojini Naidu                         Nightingale of India
9.     Lal Bahadur Shastri                Man of Peace
10.  Lala Lajpat Rai                                    Punjab Kesari 

Historical buildings & Monuments, Famous places of India
1.      Agra Fort:                                          Agra
2.     Aga Khan Palace:                      Pune
3.     Ajanta Caves:                         Aurangabad, Maharashtra. 
4.     Charminar:                             Hyderabad,
5.     Ellora Caves:                           Aurangabad, Maharashtra
6.     Golconda Fort:                                 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. 
7.      Hampi:                                               Karnataka.
8.      Jantar Mantar:                                 New Delhi
9.      Kalibangan:                                       Rajasthan.
10.   Nalanda:                                            Bihar

                                    Famous places of world
11.  Grand Canyon:                       United states
12.    Great Barrier Reef:                          Australia
13.    Chichen Itza:                                     Mexico
14.    Machu Picchu:                                 Peru
15.  Pyramids:                                Egypt


Facts about solar system

1.     That the Sun makes up 99.86% of the Solar System's mass! That means that all the planets put together (including Jupiter) as well as all the asteroids only make up about 0.14% of the Solar System's mass.

2.     That Jupiter's magnetic field is so massive that it pours billions of Watts into Earths magnetic field every day!

3.     That a massive body 100km wide travelling at over 512,000km/h crashed into Mercury to form the Caloris Basin. The impaact was so great it sent shockwaves round Mercury creating its hilly lineated terrain.

4.     That just a pinhead of the Sun's raw material could kill someone up to 160 kilometres away!

5.     That the length of a Plutonian year is 248 of our years! That means that one orbit of the Sun takes about 2 and a half Earth centuries. That's a quarter of a Millenium!

6.     That Olympus Mons (on Mars) is the largest Volcanic mountain in the Solar System. It is 600 km across and 27 km high! And you thought Mount Everest (about 8 and a half km high) was tall! To see a great overhead picture of it click here.

7.     That a Supernova explosion produces more energy in its first ten seconds than the Sun during the whole of its 10 billion year lifetime and that for a brief period, it creates more energy than the rest of a galaxy put together!!

8.     That the comet with the longest ever recorded tail is the Great Comet of 1843. Its tail stretched over 800 million kilometres! This is about the same distance the Earth is from Jupiter!

9.     That the energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago - it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun!

10.  That almost all of the heavier elements in your body (eg calcium, iron, carbon) were made somewhere in supernovae explosions!

11.  That some rocks found on Earth are actually pieces of Mars!

12.  That Saturn has such a low density that it would float if put in water!

13.  That due to the fact that water expands when heated, the Atantic ocean increses in width by 3cm every year!

14.  That some volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io eject material at speeds of up to 1km/second! This is about 20 times faster than the volcanoes here on Earth can manage it!

15.  That the amount of the Sun's energy reaching the Earth's atmosphere (known as the Solar constant) is equivalent to 1.37 kw of electricity per square metre!


Abbreviations
1.     AD:                  Anno Domini; in the year of Lord Christ
2.     AM:                 Ante meridiem; before noon
3.     ATM:               Automatic Teller Machine
4.     BC:                  Before Christ; Board of Control; British Columbia; Battery Commander
5.     NCR:                National Capital Region
6.     NEP:                National Education Policy
7.     CM:                 Command Module; Chief Minister
8.     CPU:                Central Processing Unit
9.     Pin Code:        Postal Index Number Code
10.  DTH:                Direct to Home
11.  EDUSAT:         Education Satellite
12.  PTO:                Please Turn Over
13.  EU:                  European Union
14.  GPS:                Global Positioning System
15.  HDTV:                         High Definition Television
16.  UFO:                Unidentified Flying Object
17.  ISO:                 International Standardisation Organisation
18.  ISP:                  Internet Service Provider

Inventions & discoveries
1.      Baird—                Television.
2.      Binet—                Intelligence Test.
3.      Carothers—        Nylon plastics.
4.      Marconi—          Wireless telegraphy; radio.
5.      Nobel—               Dynamite.
6.      Priestley—          Discovery of Oxygen
7.      Rontgen—          Discovery of X-rays.
8.      Galileo—             Telescope.
9.      James Watt—    Steam engine (patented in 1769).
10.   Waterman—      Fountain pen.
11.   Salk, Jonas E.— Anti-polio Vaccine.







Class III Sample Paper
1. Which of the following state doesn’t touch our neighboring countries?
a. Gujarat                   b. Uttaranchal                        c. Bihar                        d. Chhattisgarh
2. The National emblem of Australia is
a. Lion                         b. Kangaroo                c. Elephant                 d. Tiger
3.  Which planet has maximum number of the satellites?
a. Jupiter                     b. Mars                       c. Saturn                     d. Uranus
4How many players are there in a game of Base ball?
a. 11                            b. 7                              c. 8                              d. 9
5.  Which of the following continent has maximum number of countries in it?
a. Europe                    b. Africa                      c. Asia                         d. North America
6. Mariana Trench, the greatest depth, is in which Ocean?
a. Indian                     b. Arctic                      c. Atlantic                   d. Pacific
7. The book Jungle book was written by-
a. Rudyard Kipling      b. J.K. Rowling             c. C. Mark                    d. J. Arthur
8. ‘Nati’ folk dance belongs to which state of India?
a. Gujarat                   b. Kerala                     c. Himachal Pradesh d. Orissa
9. Elephanta caves are in which state of India?
a. Kerala                      b. Maharashtra          c. Andhra Pradesh      d. Tamil Nadu
10. Red Square is in which country?
a. U.S.A.                      b. Japan                      c. Britain                     d. Russia
11. Which is the largest country in the world?
a. China                      b. Russia                     c. Canada                    d. U.S.A.
12. The highest waterfall in the world is-
a. Angel                       b. Tugela                     c. Catarata                  d. Browne Falls
13. North Pole was discovered by-
a. Tasman                   b. John Cabot             c. Captain cook           d. Robert Peary
14. Small pox vaccination was invented by-
a. Koch                                    b. Jenner                     c. Harvey                     d. Salk
15. Tallest man made building in the world is-
a. Taipei 101               b. Petronas tower      c. Burja Khalifa           d. Willis Tower
16. Ob, the third largest river of the world belongs to which country?
a. U.S.A.                      b. Russia                     c. China                       d. Japan
17. Abbreviation ‘PhD’ stands for-
a. Doctor of Philosophy                     b. Doctor of Psychology
c. Professor of Diet                             d. Professor of Designing
18. A red ball on white rectangle based flag represents which country?
a. Japan                      b. Korea                      c. China                       d. Indonesia
19. Which wrestler of India won silver medal in 2012 Olympics?
a. Vijender Kumar      b. Rajesh Kumar         c. Sushil Kumar           d. Yogendra Kumar
20. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is famous to play which musical instrument?

a. Tabla                       b. Veena                     c. Shehnai                   d. Sarod

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