Daily Dose

• Largest IT hub in the world -Dalian in China
• India will establish a military base in Mongolia
• Manikanchan in West Bengal is the first sector specific SEZ in India
• Thailand is the only South East Asian nation never to be colonized
• British Petroleum is the largest oil firm in the world
• John Bolton is the US Ambassador to UN
• STEREO-NASA's mission to Sun
• Croatia and Albania recently joined NATO
  
• NASDAQ- World's first electronic stock market
• World's first officially atheist nation- Albenia
• TATA bought British brands Jaguar and Land Rover
• Bhimsen Joshi belongs to Khirana gharana
• Jason II is the US-French satellite monitoring sea level
• Australia recently issued licence for cloned human embryos
• Georgia recently came out of CIS
• Cuba recently started land reforms
  
• NASA' Kepler mission-from Cape Canaveral,Florida-To find out extra solar planets in Galaxy
• Most spoken languages Mandarin-Hindi-English-Spanish-Bengali-Arabic
• BRIC Summit 2008-Yekaterinburg,Russia
• INS Talwar-Developed by Russia
• President's rule was first imposed in Kerala
• Khmer Rouge is the guerilla organisation in Cambodia
• New Amsterdam was the old name of New York
• Dulles Int Airport is the name of Washington airport
• Strahov in Czech Republic is the largest stadium on earth

Daily Dose

• Jet Airways recently became the first private airlines in India to launch flights to China
• 15 memeber CARICOM'S (Caribbean Community) annual summit was recently held at Mexico
• The rules and regulations of future trading are laid down by the Forward Market Commission
• Green Corridor will enable Indian farmers to move their agro products smoothly from rural to urban areas
• Recently Ireland rejected Lisbon Treaty
• Iraq acceded to CTBT in 2008
• Kerala recently became the first state in India to reserve government jobs for the HIV+ candidates and also started free insurance for HIV+ people
• India recently revised the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with Syria
• Belgium is the only country to have signed a social security treaty with India
• Denmark recently passes Climate Change Accountability Act
• "Imaging India"- a book written by Nandan Nilekani
• Juno is NASA's mission to Jupiter
• Victor Fung has been appointed as the Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce
• US will pull out troops from Iraq by 2011
  

Daily Dose-GK & CA

1. Talent Management Company Iconix owned by Saatchi& Saatchi group manages Sachin Tendulkar
2. Retd IAS R.S.Pandey receieved United Nations Public Service Award in 2008
3. Pranab Mukherjee was the first Rajya Sabha Member to hold a finance portfolio
4. Energy Summit 2008 was held in Jeddah
5. "Jyoti Punj", a book by Narendra Modi
6. Amartya Sen was recently invited by the Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to deliver a lecture on social Justice in the Lok Sabha
7. Narayan Murthi gave the"Superspike" theory on oil price hike
8. Sujatha Rangarajan headed the team that designed and manufactured Electronic Voting Machine
9. 2014 Commonwealth Games will be held in Scotland
10. Rwanada recently abandoned French as the official language and adopted English
11. Babli dam is a controversial project on river Godavari between Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra
12. China recently established a hotline with USA for security matters
13. Eka, developed by CDAC, India is the 4th fatsest supercomputer in the world
14. First ever stem cel research in govt sector in India will come up in Tamil Nadu
15. Green Plastic-Ecofriendly biodegradable plastic made up of cereals
16. Khuda Ke Liye was the first Pakistani film to be released in India after a span of 40 years
17. Sikkim recently passed a woman empowerment bill
18. Wrestling will be included in Commonwealth Games from 2010 for the first time
19. Boxing is the only sport in olympic which has age limit
20. Equador will purchase Dhruv helicopters from India
21. India's first defense university will be set up in Rewari(Haryana)
22. T.S.Narayanswami is the Chairman of Indian Banks' Association
23. Kerala has started Radio English for the primary school students as a part of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
24. Shivshankar Menon is India's foreign secretary
25. "The shape of the beast" written by Arundhati Roy
    

Daily Dose-GK & CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Ramanujan was the first Indian to be elcted fellow of Trinity College, Cambidge
• Sir J.C.Bose was the first from the Indian subcontinent to get a US patent back in 1904
• Churchil won Nobel Prize in literature in 1953.
• Lewis Hamilton(UK) recently became world's youngest F 1 Racing Champion.
• Igiby Bank(Babylon, 605 BC) was the earliest bank of the world
• Anoushesh Ansari(Iran) was the first woman space tourist
• John Adams was the first US president to reside in the White House
• Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya was led by the Kikuyu tribe against British rule
• Monroe Doctrine(1823)- European countries no longer vto colonize in America or interfere with existing colonies.Propounded by US President James Monroe.
• Camp Delta, Camp Echo and Camp X-Ray are all parts of Guantanamo Bay prison
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu ended French participation in the affairs of Vietnam
• US-Vietnam war was also known as Second Indo-China War
• Ralph Bunche was the first Black to win a Nobel(1950)
• The Jazz Singer was the first talkie in the world
• Y.V.Chnadrachud had the longest tenure as the Chief Justice of India(1978-1985)
• The 17th Parallel separates North and South Vietnam
• Domino Theory-If a country succumbs to communist regime, the neighbouring countries will follow.It was developed during Eisenhower administration
• 055 Brigade-Organisation of Al Qaida terrorists
  
• Santa Catarina flood affected Brazil in 2008
• David Cameron is the Leader of Opposition in UK
• Operation Cyclone-Anti communist operation in Afghanistan by USA in late 70s and early 80s
• 40th Army- Soviet Army which invaded Afghanistan
• Mohd Zahir Shah ruled Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973
• Space X Falcon was the world's first privately developed space launch vehicle to successfully make orbit
• Albania and Croatia joined NATO in 2008
• Operation Mongoose-Operation by Kennedy Administration to overthrow Fidel Castroin late 1961
• Three Gorges Dam, China is the largest Hydroelectric project in the world
  

Mega Quiz 1

1>Which is the world's first certified green airport?

2>Who holds the record for delivering the longest speech in history?

3>Which country has recently decided to come out of OPEC?

4>What is the name of India's research station at Arctic?

5>Which is the only floating national park in the world?

6>"Project Arrow"- aims at revamping the ____ system of the country>Fill in the blanks.

7>Who was the highest scorer in Euro 2008?

8>Which is presently the fastest super computer in the world?

9>What is "Seigniorage"?

10>Name India's only amphibian warship.

11>What is Magitti?

12>Which national park in India boasts of the highest tiger population density?

13>Who is presently India's envoy to USA?

14>Name the first Indian to win grammy award.

15>Name Iran's first satellite launched recently.

16>Who is credited for developing Human Development Index?

17>Which is the oldest stock exchange in the world?

18>Which tennis player won all the grand slams in a year twice?

19>Which tennis player won the Golden Grand Slam?

20>Who was the first black tennis player to win Wimbledon?

21>Name India's first cloned animal.

22>Which is the smallest country in EU?

23>Which is the most populous country in EU?

24>What is the new name of Pretoria?

25>Who along with Sabeer Bhatia developed Hotmail?

QUIZ 3

1>Along with quranic sayings, there is only one name of a person in Kutub Minar.What is that?

2>Name the only single mosque in India named after a Hindu goddess.

3>Along with India 15th August is the independence day of another Asian country.Name it.

4>Name the country with highest population density.

5>Who is the present Director of Amnesty International?

6>Who is the first asian to be the Dy chairperson of the House of the Lord in UK?

7>Which day is celebrated as Mount Everest Day?

8>World's biggest refinery is being set up where and by whom?

9>Which is the only book written by Gandhiji in two languages?

10>Name the oldest surviving paliament in the world.

QUIZ 2

1>What is bariatric surgery?

2>In 2008 doctors of which country created history by performing robotic surgery?

3>Where in India the first PIO/NRI University will be set up?

4>Where in India the Kurinji flowers bloom once in every 12 years?

5>Who is the first black actress to win an oscar?

6>Which is now the hardest material?(it has replaced diamond as the hardest material recently)

7>What is the name of India's first super computer?

8>Where in India the largest solar power project located?

9>Which company has recently bagged the contract for passport processing in India?

10>Where in the world is the largest nuclear reactor complex located?

Day 1

Hi guys, hope u like my articles in my other blog@ saptarshinag.blogspot.com.Any suggestion from you is always welcome and from now onwards I'll start a different approach while catering to your needs.I will write a weekly article in my other blog whereas I'll try to present 10 interesting questions here regularly.This questions will help you to hone your GK skills and might be useful for various competitive exams.I'll put some current affairs questions as well so that you can keep in touch with the current events.Please help me to improve this blog by giving constructive suggestions.The answers of the questions asked will be given in the next day.So here we go...

1>Name the person who is the recipient of both Bharat Ratna and Nishan-e-Pakistan , the highest civilian awards of the two countries respectively?

2>Which is the Indian state with no home guards?

3>Footsie is the Stock market index of which stock market?

4>In 2008 where was World Social Forum held?

5>Name the Nobel Prize winner to star in world cup football?

6>Who was the first British PM to come to India?

7>Which port in India is the top traffic handler?

8>Which is the largest circulated daily in the world?

9>Where and when was the first telecom exchange in India established?

10>Bobby Fischer, the famosu Chess player hailed from which country?