GK/General Awareness
1-Panthalassa ocean, according to Wegener, surrounded Pangaea on all sides
2- Coal is known as ‘Black Gold’
3-Zainul Abedin, medieval Indian ruler prior to Akbar has been referred to as the ‘Akbar of Kashmir’.
4-Attorney General , law officer shall have the right to speak in both the Houses of Parliament.
5-European Union is the worlds second largest electorate
6-Indira point is the southern-most point of India.
7-Rigveda is the oldest Veda
8-Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor wrote a will and instructed his sons, that they continue Asad Khan as the vazir
9-The art and science of map making is called Cartography
10-The exchange of commodities between two countries is called Bilateral trade.
11-The National Development Council (NDC) was set up on August 6,1952
12-TRIPS and TRIMS are the terms associated with WTO
13-The World Habitat Day is observed every year on the First Monday of October
14-Thorium is used as a fuel in Nuclear power stations in India
15-Excise Duty is levied on Goods produced within the country
16-Harshacharita refers to ‘Pushyabhuti’ as the founder of the Vardhana dynasty .
17- Kuru, Panchal were regarded as the hub of Aryan culture during the later Vedic period
18-United States of America has maximum farm-houses
19-Lumbini Pillar edict inscriptions of Asoka refers to the grant of concession in land revenue to a village
20-Hunting and fishing are activities of the Eskimos and Lapps.