KNOW ABOUT

BUSINESS FACTS OF INDIA

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KEY PERSONS:

AT & T-Bell Labs - President, Arun Netravalli

Lucent Technologies - Chief Scientist, Arun Netravalli

Hewlett Packard - GM, Rajiv Gupta

Adobe Systems - CEO, Shantanu Narayen

Founder and Creator of Hotmail - Sabeer Bhatia

Creator of Pentium chip - Vinod Dahm

CitiBank - CEO, Victor Menezes

Mckensey - CEO, Rajat Gupta

Stanchart - CEO, Rana Talwar

Sun Microsystems - Co-founder, Vinod Khosla

FACTS:

36% of NASA employees are Indians

34% of Microsoft employees are Indians

38% of doctors in America are Indians

28% of IBM employees are Indians

12% of scientists in America are Indians

17% of Intel employees are Indians

13% of Xerox employees are Indians

More than a million Indians are millionaires

INTERESTING FACTS:-"INDIA"

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The Indian city of Varanasi, also known as Benares, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun (5th century) as 365.259756484 days.

India is the world's premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the world pass through India.

The world's first university was established in Takshashila in 700 BC.

The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Navgatih'.

The place value system or the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

India is the only country that is home to 20 million migrants from its neighbouring countries.

India has the largest population of street children in the world. At least eighteen million children live or work on the streets of urban India.

India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.

India has one of the world’s highest rates of Abortion.

INTERESTING FACTS:-"ANIMALS"

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A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds, eats approximately seven times it's own weight, in a year. That amounts to almost 8,400-pounds of food.
A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk!
On an average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times, per minute.
An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.
The donkey’s eye placement helps it see all its four feet at a time.
It would take just one night for a mole to dig a tunnel measuring 300 feet in length.
The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘Pink sweat’.
Armadillos sleep for an average of 18.5 hours, a day
A Bear have 42 teeth.
There are no vocal chords in a giraffe.

www.factsaboutanimals.net

PERSONALITY QUIZ 1:ALEXANDER THE GREAT

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The young Alexander soon established himself, put down a Babarian rebellion, then savagely attacked which Greek city?
Thebes

In this year Alexander crossed the Hellespont, and began his invasion of Persia?
334 B.C.

How old was Alexander when he became king?
20 years

In 325 B.C., Alexander turned for the long road home, but decided to cross this pitiless desert?
The Makran

Which city was captured after seven month siege?
Tyre

What was the original name of Olympias?
Myrtale

What was the name of the elite Theban group whom Alexander defeated at Chaeronea?
Sacred Band

Where did Alexander's first battle with the Persians take place?
Granicus

Alexander married the daughter of which one of the four Paraetacene barons?
Oxyartes

What was the name of Alexander's heavy cavalry?
Companions

How many times did Darius offer to make a peace settlement with Alexander?
Three

By what name do we now know Afghanistan’s second largest city, founded by Alexander The Great in 4BC?

Kandahar

What was the name of Alexander's Hero?
Achilles

Once, during a drinking party Alexander accidentally killed a nobleman?what is his name?
Clitus

What was the name of the Persian colleague defeated by Alexander The Great?
Darius III

What was the word Alexandar used to separates Greak from Macedonian?
Koza-ni

Which actor played the role of Alexander in the 1956 epic film of the life of Alexander The Great?
Richard Burton

know about Places

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Which was built first?
A. the Eiffel Tower
B. the Pyramids at Giza
C. the Roman Coliseum
D. the cathedral at Notre Dame
E. the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings

The huge stone statues of Easter Island were carved by which of the three major societies of Oceania? Polynesia

The Kaaba is a small building sacred to Islam. Embedded in the southeast corner of the Kaaba is the Black Stone. This stone is ...a meteorite

As one of the British queen's residences, it is the largest inhabited castle in the world. Name it.
Windsor Castle

The Wailing Wall is a relic of the Temple of Herod, destroyed in the year 70 A.D. This wall is in what city?
Jerusalem

William Shakespeare's Globe Theater was in the shape of a(n) ...
Octagon

The eastern entrance to the Panama Canal lies in which ocean?
Pacific

Grand Coulee Dam, the largest concrete structure in the U.S., backs up the waters of what river?
Columbia

What is the Scottish city on the river Clyde?
Glasgow

What British colony, adjoining southern Spain, is at the entrance to the Mediterranean?
Gibraltar

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 10:

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1. What does “chiaroscuro” mean in painting?

Light and shade

2. Name the country that lifted ban on Books of Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens on February 11, 1968?

China

3. For whose armies were canned food developed to feed?

Napoleon's army

4. Who built the World’s first submarine?

Comelius Van rebbel

5. Who is a “vintner”?

A Wine Merchant

6. What was the title used by the rulers of the German Empire which ended in 1918?

Kaiser

7. Who is known as the “Man of a thousand faces”?

Lon Chaney

8. In psychiatry, what is “algophobia”?

Morbid fear of pain

9. Name the chief god in ancient Irish mythology?

Dagda

10. Name the official residence of the President of Italy?

Quirinal Palace.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 9:

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1. Under What pseudonym did English writer Charles Dodgson write his Novels?

Lewis Carroll

2. Which Country did Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral discover and name “Terra das anta Cruz”?

Brazil

3. What is an integrated battle field?

War area involving nuclear,chemical and conventional weapons.

4. In 2980 B.C., Memphis was the capital of which Republic?

Egypt

5. Name the only English Pope, who was born as Nicholas Breakspear?

Adrian IV

6. What is “ Cheiroplasty” ?

Plastic surgery of the Hand

7. Who is considered as the founder of Psychoanalysis?

Sigmund Freud

8. What was the name of the craft which carried men to the surface of the moon?

Apollo-11

9. Name the Piccasso painting which depicts the horrors of War?

Guernica

10. Which city had the old name “Krung Thep”?

Bangkok

CRICKET :--UNKNOWN HISTORY

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What is the highest first wicket partnership record for INDIA in one day International?

188 between Srikanth and Ravi shastri v/s England at Cuttack,1984-85

Who is the only player of Chinese Descent to play Test Cricket?

Ellis Achong of the West Indies

In which Test Were no-balls and Wides debited to blowers for the first time in Australia?

First Test between Australia and Pakistan in 1983-84

What was England's Headley variety best known for?

He established a First Class record of 10 wkts. for 10 runs v/s Notting-hamshire for Yorkshire in 1932

Which cricketer who lost his arm in the First World War,became a TEST umpire?

Frank Chester

Who holds the Test record for most innings before being out for Zero?

Clive Lloyd-58 innings

How many Indian blowers have taken more than 100 wickets in one day International?

Two.Kapil Dev and Ravi Shastri

Who scored a double century in a Test and was then dropped for 7 years?

England's Bill Edrich

Which three cousins have captains Pakistan in Tests?

Javed Burki , Majid Khan and Imran Khan

What is the Distance between the popping crease and the Stumps?

4 feet

Name the first three cricketers declared out for "Handling the Ball" in Tests?

Mohinder Amarnath,Mohsin Khan and Desmond Haynes

Against which country did Geoff Boycott make his Test Debut?
Australia in 1964 at Trent Bridge

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 8:

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Which Region of the Southern Germany is called BAYEM in German?
Bavaria
In which Country would you find AINU,a native race?
Japan
Name the Greek poet who Drew up the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Antipater of Sidon
What are freshwater fish that Spawn(Breed) in the sea called?
Catadromous
In which country did ICE HOCKEY originate?
Canada
How is Greco-Roman Wrestling different from the freestyle?
Greco-Roman Wrestling prohibits any holds below the Waist.
Name the main through-valley in the ALPS,connecting ITALY with AUSTRIA?
The Brenner Pass
What is a “Portmanteau Word”?
A word in which sounds of two words are combined (Smoke+Fog-Smog).
French mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes,based his philosophy on “COGITO ERGO SUM”.what does it mean?
“I think therefore I am”.
With what sport are golden fleece,snow knight and Grundy associated?
Derby race (names of horses)

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 7:

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Which South American Islands are Famous for giant Tortoises?
The Galapagos Islands
The Fur of which Rodent is known as “nutria”?
The coypu
Which Deer is Called the “paddy-Field Deer” in Sri Lanka?
Hog Deer. It feeds on growing rice.
Which Indian Ocean Island is the Habitat of The Lemurs, Lorises and Aye-ayes?
Mauritius
What sort of “milk” do pigeons feed on their Nestlings?
A “milk” secreted from the lining of the crop.

The IBEX is a wild goat. What is an IBIS?
A Wading bird.
Which poem by Matthew Arnold is based on a Persian National Epic?
Sohrab and Rustum
What is a MONODY?
A poem of Mourning
In speech,What is Hyperbole?
Exaggeration without Intent to Deceive
What name was given to the German lighting war in World War II?
Blitzkrieg

FAMOUS PEOPLE JOBS BEFORE THEY BECOME POPULAR

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Rod Stewart, the grave digger

Rod Stewart is the youngest of five children and was born in High gate, North London to parents who owned a newsagents shop there. Minutes before Stewart was born, a German V-2 rocket scored a direct hit on high gate Police Station just down the street. Rod Stewart had trials with the football clubs Celtic, and Brentford (based in West London). He then worked as a grave digger. He soon switched to a career in music joining folk singer Wizz Jones in the early 1960s as a street singer travelling around Europe; this resulted in his being deported from Spain for vagrancy.

Michael Dell, the dishwasher

Michael Dell, founder and chairman of Dell Computer Corp., was a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant earning $2.30 an hour. He is grateful for his early experience: “The best part was the wisdom of the restaurant owner, which I could capture if I came to work a little early. He took great pride in his work and cared about every customer who came through his door.”

Sean “Diddy” Combs: paperboy

Diddy’s first job as a paperboy at 12 years old may have been a humble beginning for the hip-hop mogul, but he’s since soared from lowly to load.

Pol Pot, the School Teacher

Before he became a world-famous war criminal, Pol Pot was named Saloth Sar. As a young man, Sar studied carpentry and radio engineering, but proved a poor student so he became – what else? – a teacher. (And you thought your classrooms were scary.) From 1954 to 1963, Sar taught at a private school in Phnom Penh before being forced out because of ties to communism. Ever fond of alliteration, Saloth Sar became Pol Pot and devoted himself full-time to Cambodia’s Communist Party, eventually becoming the party’s leader, and by 1975, his Khmer Rouge guerrilla army had overthrown the same government that once fired him. In his four years of rule, Pot killed more than a million Cambodians. When the Vietnamese came to the rescue and invaded Cambodia in 1979, Pot retreated to the jungle, though he continued to orchestrate guerilla attacks until his arrest in 1997.

Oprah Winfrey, the young reporter

Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to a Baptist family. Her parents were unmarried teenagers. Winfrey’s grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed “The Preacher” for her ability to recite Bible verses. Winfrey was self-helping her way to the top long before the world ever heard of Dr. Phil. Arriving at a radio station to collect a watch she had won through a promotional contest, a 16-year-old Winfrey read for producers and secured herself a spot as an on-air reporter earning $100 per week.

Teri Hatcher, the Cheerleader

An only child, she was sexually abused from the age of 5 by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage who was later divorced by Hatcher’s aunt. Hatcher began her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan Girls’ Ballet Studio in downtown Los Altos, California. She later studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as a cheerleader with the San Francisco 49ers.

Hitler, the postcard painter

As a child, Adolf Hitler attended a monastery school and harbored dreams of becoming a priest, but he dropped out after his father’s death in 1903. By then, Hitler had a new career in mind: professional artist. And though the Führer’s precise but emotionless landscapes showed moderate promise, he was rejected twice from Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts. Bitter, poor, and lonely, young Adolf moved between boardinghouses and hostels, earning a meager living painting postcards. Oddly enough, he might have been just another failed artist had it not been for World War I. Turning in his paintbrush for a pistol, Hitler volunteered as a runner for the German army. Turns out he enjoyed that world war so much that, a few decades later, he decided to start another one.

Sylvester Stalone, the lion cage cleaner

Sylvester Stalone, always the tough guy, was once employed as a lion cage cleaner. At fifteen, his classmates voted him the one “most likely to end up in the electric chair.” In the 1960s, Stallone attended the University of Miami for three years. He came within a few credit hours of graduation, before he decided to drop out and pursue an acting career. Stallone’s career began with the leading role, Stud, in a hard-core pornographic film called Party at Kitty and Stud’s. The film was originally hard core and depicted sexual acts, but after Stallone’s later success, the film was re-cut to soft-core and re-packaged as Italian Stallion (a reference to Rocky Balboa’s nickname). The hardcore footage is apparently lost.

Dan Brown, the High School Teacher

Prior to papering the world many times over with his best-selling art historical novel, “The Da Vinci Code,” Brown sculpted young minds as a high school English teacher.

Jennifer Lopez, the Legal Assistant

Long before Jennifer Lopez sang, danced and acted her way to superstardom, she briefly traded in her velour tracksuit for a suit of the pin-striped variety while working at a law office.

Benito Mussolini, the Writer

Before becoming the world’s first fascist dictator, Mussolini worked for a socialist paper, Il Popolo d’Italia, for which he wrote a serial later published as a novel. The Cardinal’s Mistress tells the tragic story of; you guessed it, a 17th-century cardinal and his mistress. And boy is it bad. It’s the sort of book where “terrible groan [s] burst forth from characters’ breasts and characters ask one another to “cast a ray of your light into my darkened soul.”

Papa Doc, the Doctor

François “Papa Doc” Duvalier was, in fact, a doctor – although we can only imagine his bedside manner. Favoring hypocrisy to the Hippocratic Oath, the dangerous dictator was first a physician in Port-au-Prince for nearly a decade before immersing himself in politics full-time in 1943. Even more surprising, he actually rose to power in a legitimately democratic election. And though he was voted in as president in 1957, Duvalier promptly showed his gratitude to the Haitian nation by killing anyone who expressed the slightest opposition to his government. By the mid-1960s, Duvalier had established himself not only as President for Life but also as a quasi-divine manifestation of Haiti’s greatest (he claimed to have supernatural powers; Papa Doc even said he placed a curse on John F. Kennedy that resulted in Kennedy’s assassination).

Fidel Castro, the frustrated Ballplayer

Persistent rumors would have you believe that old Fidel was a talented baseball player who once tried out for a major-league team in America … which is completely untrue. The fact is, Castro did play a little ball back in school: he seems to have been the losing pitcher in a 1946 intramural game between the University of Havana’s business and law schools. But the point there is that he was in law school not so much to win ball games as to study law. Castro graduated and practiced in Havana between 1950 and 1952, when he failed miserably in his first attempted coup d’état. After a brief stint in prison and a few years exiled in Mexico and the United States, Castro and his family finally took control of Cuba in 1959.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 6:

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1)What could be the age of a Campfire Girl?
   Between 12 and 20(Teenage)

2)Name the Vitamin which prevents night Blindness?
   Vitamin A

3)When is the Commonwealth Day observed?
   May,24

4)Which tree was considered to be a Gift from the Goddess Athena to the Ancient Greeks?
   Olive

5)What is the Horn of the Rhinoceros made of?
   It is made of modified hair

6)Name the Pioneer of the Pneumatic Tyre?
   John Boyd Dunlop

7)Which bird was used by the Roman empire as a symbol of its power?
   The Golden Eagle

8)For what work did Einstein receive the Nobel Prize in 1921?
     Photo electricity

9)Which is the last feudal dynasty to rule China?
   Manchu

10)Which Viking explorer discovered the country Greenland?
   Eric,the Red

11)On which date Aryabhatta was launched?
   19 April 1975

12)Who is known as grand old man of India?
   Dada Bhai Naoroji

13)Muti model Intrnational Cargo Hub and Airport(MIHAN) project is in which city?
   Nagpur

14)Who is the Presided of the First session of Indian National Congress 1885?
   W.C.Baneerjee

15)Who produced India's First Dubbed film,Harischandra,in1944?
   A.V.Meiyappan

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 5:

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Which American Persident's published book was "Six Crisis"?

RICHARD N.NIXON

When and against whom dis Srilanka achieve their first ever Test Victory?

AT COLOMBO IN 1985 WHEN THEY DEFEATED INDIA BY 149 RUNS

What was Greg Chappell's score in his farewell Test innings?

182 AGAINST PAKISTAN AT SYDNEY IN 1984

Who surpassed Don Bradman's sheffield shield record of 8,896 runs?

JOHN INVERARITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

When was the first Five day Test played without a Rest day?

1968-69 PAK V/S ENG 3RD TEST

When was the Six Ball over introduced?

IN 1990

In which year was South Africa Permitted to re-enter the cricket arena?

1991

Name the tallest cricketer to have played in Tests?

AUSTRALIA'S BRUCE REID;6 FEET 8-1/2 INCHES

When did a fielding team use Eleven Bowlers in a Test?

AT OVAL TEST IN 1884;ENG V/S AUS

Name the Largest Carnivor on Land?

POLAR BEAR

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 4:

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1.What sport is an adaptation of Hockey and Ice hockey?
   ROLLER HOCKEY
2.Name the Smallest State in U.S.A?
   RHODE ISLAND(LITTLE RODDY)
3.Who performed the first human heart transplantation?
   Dr.CHRISTIAN BARNARD
4.Who received the title "Patrician of the Romans"?
   CHARLEMAGNE or CHARLES THE GREAT
5.What is the original name of Dr.Seuss who is associated with Children's books?
   THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL
6.Which Japanese Emperor's throne is known as "The Chrysanthemum Throne"?
   EMPEROR HIROHITO
7.Where is the palace of nations located?
   GENEVA
8.Which French painter was known for his portraits of cafe People?
   TOULOUSE LAUTREE
9.Who First Discovered how to measure Density?
   ARCHIMEDES
10.Who first Spoke of the fourth Dimensions the time Dimension?
   ALBERT EINSTEIN

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 3:

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1.In which part of Australia are Koala Bears found?
   EASTERN AUSTRALIA
2.What are zebus and where are they originally from?
   COWS FROM INDIA
3.Name the Country in which Cats were first Tamed?
   EGYPT
4.Who wrote the "Ram Charitra Manas"?
   TULSIDAS
5.Who wrote:Gone with the Wind?
   MARGARET MITCHELL
6.What are Van Allen Belts?
   BELTS OF RADIATION ABOVE THE EARTH
7.What is an Odometer?
   AN INSTRUMENT MEASURING DISTANCE TRAVELLED
8.Which lady first married Louis V11 of France and then Henry 11 of England?
   ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE
9.Name the largest city of India?
   CALCUTTA
10.Who introduced the modern Four wheeler roller stake and when?
   JAMES PLYMPTON IN THE U.S.A,1863

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2:

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1 .Which is the Densest Metal?

OSMIUM

2.To which Country did karl Marx originally belong?

GERMANY

3.Which Famous Greek Philosopher never wrote any books?

SOCRATES

4.Which is the Longest River in Asia and to which Country does it belong?

THE YANGTZE-KIANG IN CHINA

5.What is a Church in which a Bishop or an archbishop has his Chair known as?

A CATHEDRAL

6.Which famous American comedian produced,directed and composed music for his films,besides acting in them?

CHARLES(CHARLIE)CHAPLIN

7.What are plants adapted to live in and religious called?

XEROPHYTES

8.What is the japanese name for their famous tea ceremony?

CHA-NO-YU

9.To which country do the Canary Islands belong?

SPAIN

10.Which Roman goddess is associated with the growth of Crops or Cereals?

CERES

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1:

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* How many teeth does the blue whale have?
None,it has Large brush-like baleen plates
* Which great dramatist is known as the Indian Shakespeare?
Kalidas
*Where is the Head quarters of the International Court of Justice?
The Hague,Holland
*Who wrote the "The Sleeping Beauty"?
Charles Persault
*Name of the Portuguese navigator who discovered Cape of Good Hope?
Dias Bartholomeu
*Name the city called "City of Seven Islands"?
Mumbai
*In which year did Russia and china sign the 20 year treaty of Friendship?
Feb 15,1950
*Name the Scandinavian god of thunder and war?
Thor
*Who Discovered The Victoria falls in Africa?
David Livingstone
*Which Australian State is an Island?
Tasmania

PEOPLE and PLACES

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TO CHECK YOUR ANSWER,SEND THE MAIL WITH YOUR ANSWERS TO "vickysgt@gmail.com"

1.What type of painting is an Aquarelle?

2.Which artist had a Blue Period?

3.What nationality was George Bernard shaw?

4.What temple Indiana jones in the films?

5.Who wrote the books about 007?

6.What country is famous for cuckoo clocks?

7.What is British flag called?

8.what is Speed Way?

9.Who wrote famous five Stories?

10.Who discovered a midnight garden?

QUIZ

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1.What name do we give rocks which allow liquids through?

2.What happened on 13 September 1959?

3.Which spacecraft first reached VENUS?

4.Who made the first orbit of the Earth?

5.What are the new continents of the new world?

6.What is the name of the ocean 250 million years ago?

7.why are the ALPS higher than the CALEDONIAN mountains in

Scotland?

8.Where was the oldest coal mine in Britain founded?

9.How much oil was spilt when the EXXON VALDEZ STRUCK a reef?

10.When was the longest lava flow in history?