SIM_MOCK TEST 02-Answer key

Answer Key Mock Test

Punch lines of Important Airlines

1) Emirates— Keep discovering

2) Austrian Airlines— The most friendly airlines

3) Cathay Pacific — The heart of Asia

4) Lufthansa— There is no better way to fly

5) Jet Airways— The joy of flying

6) Air Sahara— Emotionally yours

7) Thai Airways— Smooth as silk

8) Sri Lankan Airlines— You are our world

9) Qatar Airlines— Taking you more personally

10) Air Mauritius— Non-stop caring 

11) Malaysia Airlines— Going beyond expectations

12) China Airlines— We blossom everyday

13) Austrian Airlines — Fly with friends

14) Spice jet— Flying for everyone

15) BMI BMI— Those who know fly

16) British Airways — The world is waiting

17) Air India— Fly Well (tag-line)

18) Gulf Air — Colour your sky

19) KLM —The reliable airline

20) Turkish Airlines— Your magical gateway to the world

21) Indian Airlines Ltd. — New horizons. Enduring values

22) Qantas Airlines — Spirit of Australia (tag-line)

Gk questions about Countries and their Old Names

1. What is the old name of Iraq ?
Answer: Mesopotamia

2. What is the old name of Iran ?
Answer: Persia

3. What is the old name of Beijing ?
Answer: Peking

4. What is the old name of Ethiopia ?
Answer: Abyssinia

5. What is the old name of Ghana ?
Answer: Gold Coast

6. What is the old name of Indonesia ?
Answer: The Dutch East India

7. What is the old name of Istanbul ?
Answer: Constantinople

8. What is the old name of Mali ?
Answer: French Sudan

9. What is the old name of Myanmar ?
Answer: Burma

10. What is the old name of Zimbabwe ?
Answer: Rhodesia

India’s All-Time Olympic Medalists

1. K. D. Jadhav - Bronze -1952 (Helsinki) - Wrestling - Men's freestyle Bantamweight

2.Leander Paes - Bronze - 1996 (Atlanta) -Tennis - Men's singles

3.Karnam Malleswari - Bronze - 2000 (Sydney) -Weightlifting - Women's 69 kg

4.Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore - Silver - 2004 (Athens) - Shooting - Men's double trap

5.Abhinav Bindra - Gold - 2008 (Beijing) - Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle

6. Vijender Singh-  Bronze - 2008 Beijing - Boxing- Men's 75 kg

7. Sushil Kumar - Bronze - 2008 Beijing - Wrestling - Men's 66 kg Freestyle

8.Gagan Narang - Bronze - 2012 London - Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle

9.Vijay Kumar  - Silver - 2012 London - Shooting - Men's 25 Rapid Fire Pistol

10.Saina Nehwal - Bronze - 2012 London - Badminton - Women's singles

11.Mary Kom - Bronze -  2012 London - Boxing - Women's flyweight

12.Yogeshwar Dutt - Bronze - 2012 London - Wrestling - Men's 60 kg Freestyle

13.Sushil Kumar - Silver - 2012 London - Wrestling - Men's 66 kg Freestyle

First in India in Governance

• President of the Indian National Congress— Womesh Chandra Bannerjee, 1885

• President of the Indian National Congress of independent India— Acharya Kripalani, till Nov 1947

• President— Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)

• First Woman President— Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)

• The first Chief Election Commissioner — Sukumar Sen

• Industries and Supplies Minister— Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

• The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet— Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

• Vice-President— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 

• Prime Minister— Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964). India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was re-elected.

• Deputy Prime Minister— Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950)

• Law Minister of India— B. R. Ambedkar

• Leader of Opposition— A. K. Gopalan 

• Prime Minister to be voted out of office— Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party

• Non-Congress government— Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980) 

• Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party— E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957

• Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years)— P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996

• Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years)— P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996

• Prime Minister from South India— P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991, H.D.Deve Gowda

• Women Railway Minister of India— Mamata Banerjee[18]

• The first Viceroy of India— Lord Canning, 1858

• Governor-General of Independent India— Lord Mountbatten, 1947

• Indian Governor-General of Indian Union— C Rajagopalachari, 1948

• Chief Justice of India— H. J. Kania (1947–1951)

• First Sikh Prime Minister— Manmohan Singh (2004–present)

• First Muslim President— Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)

• First Sikh President— Giani Zail Singh

• First Chief Minister of West Bengal— Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh

• Indian ICS Officer— Satyendranath Tagore, 1863

• Speaker of Lok Sabha— G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956) 

• Finance Minister of Independent India— R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949), for others see First Indian Cabinet

• Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence— R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947

• First Home Minister of India— Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

• First Indian President to die in Office— Dr Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969

• First Chief Minister to die in Office— C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu

• First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office— Morarji Desai, 1979

• First Woman Cabinet Minister in India— Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

• First Woman Minister in India— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

• First Woman Chief Minister— Sucheta Kriplani

• First Female Home Minister— Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt.

• First Woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha— Meira Kumar

• First Woman Finance Minister of State Government in India— Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.

New 7 Wonders of the World

1. Taj Mahal — Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India (AD 1632)

2. Chichen Itza — Yucatán Mexico( AD 800)

3. Christ the Redeemer — Rio de Janeiro Brazil (AD 1926)

4. Colosseum — Rome, Italy (AD 70)

5. Great Wall of China — China (BC 700)

6. Machu Picchu — Cuzco Region, Peru (AD 1438)

7. Petra —Ma'an Governorate, Jordan (BC 312)

IMPORTANT COMMITTEES

1. Parthasarathi Shome. – for Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC), Suggest a system to enforce better tax compliance

2. B. Shivraman Committee - NABARD

3. Suma Verma Committee - to update, and revise the Banking Ombudsman Scheme, 2006

4. Damodran Committee: on improvement of customer services in banks

5. Shri M. Narasimham Committee: on Banking Sector Reforms

6. Shri Raghuram Rajan Committee: on Financial Sector Reforms,

7. Shri B. Mahapatra Committee: to review the existing prudential guidelines on restructuring of advances by banks/ financial institutions.

8. Shri Aditya Puri Committee: Dissemination of Credit Information

9. Shri K.U.B. Rao Committee: recommended aligning gold import regulations

10. K M Chandrasekhar committee : for rationalization of foreign investment norms

11. Shri Pulak Kumar Sinha Committee: to study the feasibility of Aadhaar as an additional factor for authentication of card present transactions

12. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart's lobbying activities to enter India

13. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of India’s first women’s bank

14. Arvind Mayaram Committee –for giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII),

15. Committee Set Up On Uttarakhand Floods: The committee will be headed by AK Ganju (Chairman, Ganga Flood Control Commission, Patna)

16. JS Mathur committee : to revise Newspaper Advertisement Rates.

17. K. Ratna Prabha : Committee on indecent depiction of women in media

18. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart's lobbying activities to enter India

19. Mukul Mudgal Committee: to look at process of film clearance

20. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of India’s first women’s bank

21. SK Srivastava Committee: to formulate a policy on public-private partnership model to raise coal output

22. K M Chandrasekhar Committee – for rationalization of foreign investment norms

23. Arvind Mayaram Committee –for giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII)

24. Janakiraman Committee - To investigate the security transactions of the bank

25. MS Ahluwalia committee - to evaluate aspects related to set up of Nalanda University

26. Sitakant Mahapatra committee - for inclusion of Bhojpuri language in eighth schedule of constitution

27. N R Narayana Murthy committee - for evaluation of corporate sector participation in Higher Education.

28. C Rangarajan committee - for poverty scale estimates in the country

29. MB Shah committee - for inspection of illegal mining activities

30. N Rangachary committee - to examine taxation policies for I.T. sector

31. Parthasarathi Shome committee - implementation of GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rule)

32. Deepak Parekh committee – for Financing Infrastructure sector

33. Naresh Chandra committee - 14 member task force on security issues

34. Bhandari Committee - Reconstruction of RRBs

35. RS Gujral Committee - suggest measures to boost MSME exports.

General knowledge questions for competitive exams

1. Which countries are separated by 38th parallel ?
Answer: North Korea and South Korea

2. What is the maximum length of a day in pole ?
Answer: 6 month

3. What is the name of corridor, connects north-eastern states to the rest of India which is known as Chicken's Neck ?
Answer: Siliguri Corridor

4. Who is the creator of painting Boy with a pipe ?
Answer: Pablo Picasso

5. Who presented the first budget in India (1860) ?
Answer: James Wilson

6. Which is the first country to get a loan from world bank ?
answer: France

7. The top secret 'Operation Lal Dora' which is recently in news is related to which incident ?
Answer: Landing of Indian troops in Mauritius

8. What is the name of border line that separates USA and Canada ?
answer: 49th parallel

9. Which is the largest soil group in India ?
Answer: Alluvial soil

10. Cartography is the study of ?
answer: Map

11. Who developed the system of latitude and longitude ?
Answer: Eratosthenes

12. Which river crosses the equator twice in its flow ?
answer: Congo River

Upcoming sporting events organized annual venue

 
Soccer
1) FIFA World Cup Soccer (20th) - 2014 Brazil
2) FIFA World Cup Soccer (21th) - Russia 2018
3) FIFA World Cup Soccer (22th) - 2022 Qatar
4) Euro Cup - 2016 France

Cricket
1) World Test Championship - England 2017
2) Twenty20 World Championship - 2014 Bangladesh
3) ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 - Australia / New Zealand

Hockey
1) Men's Hockey World Cup - 2018 India
2) Women's Hockey World Cup - England 2018
3) Men's Hockey World Cup - 2014 The Hague (Netherlands)
4) Women's Hockey World Cup - 2014 The Hague (Netherlands)
5) Apfaiac Indoor Hockey World Cup 2015 - Germany

Olympic sports
1) Olympic Games (31th) - 2016 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
2) Winter Olympic Games (22th) - 2014 Sochi (Russia)
3) Winter Olympic Games (23th) - 2018 The . Korea
4)Youth Olympic Games - 2014 Nanjing (China)

Commonwealth Games
1) Commonwealth Games (20th) - 2014 Glasgow (Scotland)
2) Commonwealth Games (21th) - 2018 Goldkost City (Australia)

Asian Games
1) Asian Games (17th) - 2014 Inchen (South Korea)
2) World Military Games (6th) 2015 - Mngyang (South Korea)

Other
1) IBF World Badminton Championships (21th) - 2014 Copenhagen (Denmark)

LIST OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN 2013

1) PHYSICS : 
François Englert(Belgium) & Peter W.Higgs(Britain) 

"For the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"

2) CHEMISTRY :
- Martin Karplus(USA), Michael Levitt(USA) & Arieh Warshel(USA)

"For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

3) PHYSIOLOGY/MEDICINE :
-BJames E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, Thomas C. Südhof

"For their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells". (All 3 are from USA)

4) LITERATURE :
- Alice Munro (Canada)

"For master of the contemporary short story"

5) PEACE PRIZE :
- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

"For its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons". Headquarter - Hague, Netherlands.

6) ECONOMIC SCIENCES :
- Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller (All 3 are from USA)

Companies and its heads

Mr. Cyrus Mistry - Chairman Tata Sons

Mr. Mukesh Ambani - Chairman Relience Industries

Mr. Lakshmi Mittal - Chairman Mittal Arcelor Steels

Ms. Kiran Majumdar - Chairman Biocon

Ms. Chanda Kochhar - Managing Director & CEO ICICI Bank

Mr. Shiv Nadar - Chairman HCL Technologies

Mr. Naresh Goyal - Chairman Jet Airways

Mr. Sunil Mittal - Chairman Bharati Group

Ms. Indira Nooye - CEO Pepsico

Shikha Sharma - MD, CEO Axis Bank

S. D. Shibulal - CEO and Managing Director Infosys

Azim H. Premji - Chairman Wipro

Mr. Vineet Nayyar - Chairman of Mahindra Satyam

Mr. Rohit Nandan - Chairman & Managing Director of Air India

Mr. K. V. Kamath -Chairman ICICI Bank

Mr. C. M. Vasudev------ Chairman, HDFC Bank

Narayan Murthi---------- Founder & Chairman of Infosys

Steve Jobs-------------- Founder of Apple Company

Mr. Vijay Maliya-------- Chairman of Kingfisher Airlines

Mr. Sunil Mittal---------- Founder of Airtel 

Mr. Kumaramangalam Birla--- Chairman of Aditya Birla Group of Company

Mr. Anand Mahindra--------- Chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra Group

Rajan Bharti Mittal---------- President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India

Dr. Arup Roy Choudhury------------Chairman NTPC Mittu Chandilya CEO, Air Asia India

Current Affairs Quiz - 18th November 2013

Q1. The native people of the Andaman Islands belong to which race? 
Ans. Negrito, The Andamanese have benn classified as Negritos.

Q2. In which country, world’s first publicly accessible ATM machine which can exchange digital currency (Bit coins) for any official currency has been launched recently?
Ans. Canada

Q3. In association with which bank Vodafone India has provided M-Pesa service in Maharashtra recently?
Ans. ICICI

Q4. Who has been named world’s most powerful person by Forbes magazine?
Ans. Vladimir Putin

Q5. Union cabinet has recently given its approval for declaring which airports as International airports?
Ans. Bhubaneswar and Imphal

Q6. The state / Union Territory which has highest ATM density in India is ___ ?
Ans. Chandigarh

Q7. India’s “Geeta Chandran” is an exponent in which dance form?
Ans. Bharatnatyam

Q8. Which district of India has become the first zero-landless district in the country?
Ans. Kannur

Q9. The Muslim Uyghurs are an ethnic minority demanding to establish their own Independent state in which country?
Ans. China

Chemistry

 
1. Gun Powder is a mixture of ______ ?
Answer: Sulphur, Carbon and Nitre

2. Which is the only liquid nonmetal ?
Answer: Bromine

3. The first metal used by man was _____ ?
Answer: Copper

4. Which is the Most abundant Noble gas in the air ?
Answer: Argon

5. Which metal is present in Insulin ?
Answer: Zinc

6. Which metal is present in human tears ?
Answer: Zinc

7. Which metal is present in chlorophyll ?
Answer: Magnesium

8. Which metal is present in Sindur (the sacred material of Hindus) ?
Answer: Lead

9. Which metal is present in hemoglobin ?
Answer: Iron

10. Which is the Alkali metal used in photovoltaic cell ?
Answer: Cesium

Economics

1. Who is the father of Economics ?
Answer: Adam Smith

2. Who created Population theory ?
Answer: Thomas Robert Malthus

3. Who is the father of Indian Planning ?
Answer: M. Visvesvaraya

4. Who is the first Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission ?
Answer: Gulsarilal Nanda

5. Who is the Present Vice Chairman of Planning Commission ?
Answer: Montek Singh Ahluwalia

6. First Five year plan give priority to development of ________ sector ?
Answer: Agriculture

7. Second Five year plan give priority to development of ________ sector ?
Answer: Industrial

8. Which Five Year Plan is based on Mahalanobis Model ?
Answer: Second Five Year Plan

9. Which Five Year Plan is based on Harrod - Domer Model ?
Answer: First Five Year Plan

10. Who is the Father of Indian Budget ?
Answer: Mahalanobis

Very Important Information

1) Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission—Montek Singh Ahluwalia

2) Chief Election Commissioner of India— V. S. Sampath

3) Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission— Justice K.G. Balakrishnan

4) Chief Commissioner, Central Information Commission— Ms. Deepak Sandhu

5) Chairman, National Commission for Minorities Wajahat Habibullah

6) Chairman, National Commission for SC— P.L.Punia

7) Chairman, National Commission for ST— Dr Rameshwar Oraon

8) Chairperson, National Commission for Women — Ms. Mamta Sharma

9) Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission— Ratan Kumar Sinha

10) Chairman, ISRO — K. Radhakrishnan 

11) Chairman, Union Public Service Commission— D P Agrawal

12) Chairman, National Knowledge Commission— Sam Pitroda

NEW APPOINTMENTS FROM MARCH-JUNE, 2013

1. Cabinet Secretary - Shri Ajit Kumar Seth .

2. Union home secretary - Anil Goswami .

3. Secretary of Defense - R K Mathur .

4. Foreign Secretary - Sujatha Singh.

5. Union finance secretary - Rajiv Takru .

6. Economic Affairs Secretary - Arvind Mayaram .

7. Information and broadcasting (I&B) secretary - Bimal Julka

8. Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) - M F Farooqui

9. PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq elected Speaker of Pak Parliament.

10. Moin Khan, the former Pakistan captain and wicketkeeper, has been appointed the chief selector of the 
Pakistan national cricket team.

11. Najam Sethi named PCB’s interim chairman.

12. Kanji Ram became only the second Hindu to be part of the Pakistan’s Punjab assembly after Seth Bharta Ram.

13. Pakistan High Commissioner in India - Salman Bashir .

14. Raja Zafrul Haq - chairman of PML-N.

15. TCA Raghavan is India’s new envoy to Pakistan.

16. Arunachal Pradesh— Nirbhay Sharma – 29 May 2013

17. Bihar - D. Y. Patil – 9 March 2013

18. Kerala - Nikhil Kumar 9 March 2013

19. Meghalaya - K. K. Paul – 1 July 2013

20. Nagaland Ashwani Kumar – 9 March 2013

21. Odisha - S. C. Jamir 9 March 2013

22. Sikkim - Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil – 1 July 2013

23. Tripura - Devanand Konwar – 9 March 2013

24. Andaman and Nicobar Islands Lieutenant-Governor A. K. Singh – 1 July 2013

25. Delhi - Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung – 1 July 2013

26. Puducherry - Lieutenant-Governor Virendra Kataria – 1 July 2013

27. Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak.

28. Paraguayan president Federico Franco (Colorado Party ).

29. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

30. Parliamentary Speaker Abdul Hamid sworn in as Bangladesh President to replace Zillur Rahman, who died.

31. .Infosys’ S Gopalakrishnan is the new CII President.

32. Secretary in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) - Amarjit Singh .

33. Axis new President – Retail Banking - Rajiv Anand

34. Shri Sunil Kumar has taken over as Managing Director, Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS).

35. Senior IAS officer Sudhir Bhargava was Tuesday appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

36. Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien unanimously elected the Chairman of the prestigious Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) in Bangkok.

37. N. N. Vohra His Excellency Governor of Jammu & Kashmir & Chancellor, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University.

38. New head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission ——- Mary Jo White

39. N Ravi, Director of Kasturi and Sons Limited, publisher of “The Hindu” newspaper, has been unanimously elected President of the Editors Guild of India.

40. Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Arjan Kumar Sikri and Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court Sharad Arvind Bobde as new judges of Supreme Court.

41. Ajay S Shriram, chairman and senior managing director of DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd (DSCL) is president designate of CII for the year 2013-2014.

42. Ms. Rashida Manjoo (South Africa) was appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women.

43. Narendra Kumar has taken over as Managing Director of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL).

44. Raninder Singh re-elected president of National Rifle Association of India.

45. Jeev Milkha Singh becomes Volvo India brand ambassador.

46. Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA new chairman - Amarnath Sengupta .

47. The Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) Vice Chairman - P. Devadas

48. Hockey India set to appoint foreign goalkeeping coach - Greg Clarke (junior men’s team coach).

49. Sania Mirza joins Indian Tennis Players Association as Vice President.

50. Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) - Amitava Bhattacharyya .

About Banks

1. Which is the First Bank in India ?
Answer: Bank of Hindustan

2. Which is the first Bank managed by Indians ?
Answer: Oudh Commercial Bank

3. Which is the first bank started with Indian capital (Indian owned bank) ?
Answer: Punjab National Bank

4. Which is the first foreign Bank in India ?
Answer: Chartered Bank

5. Which is the first bank to get ISO certificate ?
Answer: Canara Bank

6. Which is the first bank in India to start its branches outside India ?
Answer: Bank of India

7. Which is the first bank in India to introduce ATM ?
Answer: H.S.B.C bank

8. Which is the oldest public bank in India ?
Answer: Allahabad Bank

9. Which is the paper used for making Indian currency ?
Answer: Rag

10. The currency of IMF is known as ?
Answer: SDR (Special Drawing Rights)

11. Which is known as Artificial currency or Paper Gold ?
Answer: SDR

Borrowed Features in Indian Constitution

 
1. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Fundamental Rights ?
Answer: America (USA)

2. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Supreme Court ?
Answer: America (USA)

3. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Preamble ?
Answer: America (USA)

4. From Which country India Borrowed Written Constitution ?
Answer: America (USA)

5. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Fundamental Duties ?
Answer: Russia (USSR)

6. From Which country India Borrowed Five year Plan ?
Answer: Russia (USSR)

7. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Speaker in Lok Sabha ?
Answer: Britain (UK)

8. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Parliamentary Election ?
Answer: Britain (UK)

9. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Election Commission ?
Answer: Britain (UK)

10. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed 'Suspension of Fundamental Rights during the Emergency' ?
Answer: Germany

11. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Concurrent list ?
Answer: Australia

12. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Federal System ?
Answer: Canada

13. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Union - State List ?
Answer: Canada

14. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Amendment of the Constitution ?
Answer: South Africa

Portals & their Founders

1. Google — Larry Page & Sergey Brin
2. Facebook— Mark Zuckerberg
3. Yahoo— David Filo & Jerry Yang
4. Twitter— Jack Dorsey & Dick Costolo
5. Internet— Tim Berners Lee
6. Linkdin— Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue& Koonstantin Guericke
7. Email— Shiva Ayyadurai
8. Gtalk— Richard Wah kan
9. Whats up — Laurel Kirtz
10. Hotmail— Sabeer Bhatia
11. Orkut— Buyukkokten
12. Wikipedia— Jimmy Wales
13. You tube— Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & JawedKarim
14. Rediffmail— Ajit Balakrishnan
15. Nimbuzz— Martin Smink & Evert Jaap Lugt
16. Myspace— Chris Dewolfe & Tom Anderson
17. Ibibo — Ashish Kashyap
18. OLX— Alec Oxenford & Fabrice Grinda
19. Skype— Niklas Zennstrom,Janus Friis & Reid Hoffman
20. Opera— Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner & Geir lvarsoy
21. Mozilla Firefox— Dave Hyatt & Blake Ross
22. Blogger— Evan Willam Belli

Important River Valley Projects In India

1. Bhakra Nangal Project —On Sutlej in Punjab. Highest in India.Ht. 226m. Reservoir is called Gobind Sagar Lake.

2. Mandi Project— On Beas in HP

3. Chambal Valley Project—- On Chambal in MP & Rajasthan, 3 dams are there:- Gandhi Sagar Dam, Rana Pratap Sagar Dam and Jawahar Sagar Dam

4. Damodar Valley Project— On Damodar in Bihar(Now Jharkhand) & West Bengal, Based on Tennessee Valley Project USA

5. Hirakud Project— On Mahanadi in Orrisa, World’s Longest Dam: 4801m

6. Rihand Project— On Son in Mirzapur, Reservoir is called Gobind Vallabh Pant reservoir.

7. Kosi Project— On Kosi in N.Bihar

8. Mayurkashi Project— On Mayurkashi in West Bengal

9. Kakrapara Project— On Tapi in Gujrat

10. Nizamsagar Project— On Manjra in Andhra Pradesh

11. Nagarjuna Sagar Project— On Krishna in Andhra Pradesh

12. Tugabhadra Project— On Tugabhadra in Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka

13. Shivasamudram Project— On Cauvery in Karnataka. It is the older river valley project in India.

14. Tata Hydel Scheme—- On Bhima in Maharashtra

15. Sharavathi Hydel Project— On Jog Falls in Karnataka

16. Kundah & Periyar Project—- In Tamil Nadu

17. Farakka Project — On Ganga in WB. Apart from power and irrigation it helps to remove silt for easy navigation.

18. Ukai Project—- On Tapti in Gujarat

19. Mahi Project—- On Mahi in Gujarat

20. Salal Project—-- On Chenab in J&K

21. Mata Tila Multipurpose Project— On Betwa in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh

22. Thein Project—- On Ravi, Punjab.

23. Pong Dam— On Beas, Punjab

24. Tehri Dam — On Bhgirathi, Uttarakhand

25. Sardar Sarovar Project—- On Narmada, Gujarat/MP

Constitution of India GK

1. India become a republic on ?
Answer: January 26, 1950 

2. What is the maximum time interval between two successive sessions of the parliament ?
Answer: Six months

3. In our constitution Education is included in the _________ list ?
Answer: Concurrent List

4. Who is the first Acting president of India ?
Answer: V.V Giri

5. Who was elected unopposed to the office of the President ?
Answer: Neelam Sanjiv Reddy

6. Which Indian state has a common Civil Code ?
Answer: Goa

7. What is the maximum age for the President ?
Answer: There is no age Limit

8. Which was the first state that established Lokayukta ?
Answer: Maharashtra

Oscar Awards (85th) 2013 winners' list

Best Picture - Argo

Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis for 'Lincoln'

Best Actress - Jennifer Lawrence for 'Silver Linings Playbook'

Best Direction - Ang Lee for 'Life of Pi'

Best Writing - Original Screenplay - Quentin Tarantino for 'Django Unchained'

Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay - Chris Terrio for 'Argo'

Best Original Song - Adele for 'Skyfall'

Best Original Score - Mychael Danna for 'Life of Pi' 

Best Production Design - 'Lincoln' - Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration).

Best Film Editing - William Goldenberg for 'Argo'

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Anne Hathaway for 'Les Miserables'

Best Foreign Language Film – ‘Amour’

Best Documentary - Feature – ‘Searching for Sugar Man’

Best Documentary - Short Subject - `Inocente`

Best Short Film - Live Action - Shawn Christensen for `Curfew’

Best Make-Up and Hair Styling - Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell for `Les Misérables`

Best Costume Design - Jacqueline Durran for ‘Anna Karenina’

Best Visual Effects - `Life of Pi` 

Best Cinematography - Claudio Miranda for `Life of Pi`

Best Animated Feature Film - `Brave`

Best Short Film - Animated - John Kahrs for `Paperman`

Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz for `Django Unchained`

Computer Questions of the day

1. name the fastest super computer in india ?Ans: Saga220

2. saga 220 is developed by ______?
Ans: vikram sarabhai space centre

3. First super computer from India ?
Ans: PARAM 8000

4. Lisp is a programing language related to _________?
Ans: Artificial intelligence

5. Father of Artificial intelligence who was died on 2011 ?
Ans: John McCarthy

6. What is the nationality of linus torvalds ?
Ans: Finland

7. Name the first supercomputer ?
Ans: Cray-1

8. India's first Super computer ?
Ans: Param