GK/General Awareness
1-Joa de Castro, Portuguese Governor decisively defeated the Bijapur forces which advanced againt Goa
2-Mizoram state of India has the highest percentage of scheduled tribe population
3- Chandragupta II, Gupta King had another name Devagupta
4-Rana Kumbha,Rajput ruler is known to have written a book on music
5-Rajendra I, was celebrated with the title of ‘Gangai-Konda’.
6-Chandragupta Maurya was the first to take initiative for water resource management in the Girnar region.
7-Colbert was the founder of the French East India Company
8-Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is known as ‘Missile Man of India’.
9- Winner of first Indian Olympic Individual medal – K. D. Jadhav, Bronze in wrestling at Helsinki in 1952
10-Dicky Dolma (19 years)- Youngest woman to climb Mount Everest
11-Leo Tolstoy wrote ‘War and Peace’.
12-Maize for fodder is also grown as a ‘Zaid’ crop
13- Mumbai is called the ‘Cottonopolis’ of India
14-Nandadevi is the highest mountain peak of Uttarakhand.
15-Stapes is the smallest bone in the human body
16- Seismograph is used for earthquake related information
17- Chola kingdom of South India was well known for its naval power .
18- Tarn landform is formed by glacier
19-Medhatithi, law giver of the post-Gupta period declared that Sudras were not slaves by nature
20-Megasthenese mentions about the meeting of Sandrokottas (Chandragupta Maurya) with Alexander, the Great.