GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

No.	Question	Answer
01	The first Prime minister of Bangladesh was	Mujibur Rehman
02	The longest river in the world is the	Nile
03	The longest highway in the world is the	Trans-Canada
04	The longest highway in the world has a length of	About 8000 km
05	The highest mountain in the world is the	Everest
06	The country that accounts for nearly one third of the total teak production of the world is	Myanmar
07	The biggest desert in the world is the	Sahara desert
08	The largest coffee growing country in the world is	Brazil
09	The country also known as "country of Copper" is	Zambia
10	The name given to the border which separates Pakistan and Afghanistan is	Durand line
11	The river Volga flows out into the	Capsian sea
12	The coldest place on the earth is	Verkoyansk in Siberia
13	The country which ranks second in terms of land area is	Canada
14	The largest Island in the Mediterranean sea is	Sicily
15	The river Jordan flows out into the	Dead sea
16	The biggest delta in the world is the	Sunderbans
17	The capital city that stands on the river Danube is	Belgrade
18	The Japanese call their country as	Nippon
19	The length of the English channel is	564 kilometres
20	The world's oldest known city is	Damascus
21	The city which is also known as the City of Canals is	Venice
22	The country in which river Wangchu flows is	Myanmar
23	The biggest island of the world is	Greenland
24	The city which is the biggest centre for manufacture of automobiles in the world is	Detroit, USA
25	The country which is the largest producer of manganese in the world is	USA
26	The country which is the largest producer of rubber in the world is	Malaysia
27	The country which is the largest producer of tin in the world is	Malaysia
28	The river which carries maximum quantity of water into the sea is the	Mississippi
29	The city which was once called the `Forbidden City' was	Peking
30	The country called the Land of Rising Sun is	Japan
31	Mount Everest was named after	Sir George Everest
32	The volcano Vesuvius is located in	Italy
33	The country known as the Sugar Bowl of the world is	Cuba
34	The length of the Suez Canal is	162.5 kilometers
35	The lowest point on earth is	The coastal area of Dead sea
36	The Gurkhas are the original inhabitants of	Nepal
37	The largest ocean of the world is the	Pacific ocean
38	The largest bell in the world is the	Tsar Kolkol at Kremlin, Moscow
39	The biggest stadium in the world is the	Strahov Stadium, Prague
40	The world's largest diamond producing country is	South Africa
41	Australia was discovered by	James Cook
42	The first Governor General of Pakistan is	Mohammed Ali Jinnah
43	Dublin is situated at the mouth of river	Liffey
44	The earlier name of New York city was	New Amsterdam
45	The Eifel tower was built by	Alexander Eiffel
46	The Red Cross was founded by	Jean Henri Durant
47	The country which has the greatest population density is	Monaco
48	The national flower of Britain is	Rose
49	Niagara Falls was discovered by	Louis Hennepin
50	The national flower of Italy is	Lily
51	The national flower of China is	Narcissus
52	The permanent secretariat of the SAARC is located at	Kathmandu
53	The gateway to the Gulf of Iran is	Strait of Hormuz
54	The first Industrial Revolution took place in	England
55	World Environment Day is observed on	5th June
56	The first Republican President of America was	Abraham Lincoln
57	The country famous for Samba dance is	Brazil
58	The name of Alexander's horse was	Beucephalus
59	Singapore was founded by	Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
60	The famous British one-eyed Admiral was	Nelson
61	The earlier name of Sri Lanka was	Ceylon
62	The UNO was formed in the year	1945
63	UNO stands for	United Nations Organization
64	The independence day of South Korea is celebrated on	15th August
65	`Last Judgement' was the first painting of an Italian painter named	Michelangelo
66	Paradise Regained was written by	John Milton
67	The first President of Egypt was	Mohammed Nequib
68	The first man to reach North Pole was	Rear Peary
69	The most famous painting of Pablo Picasso was	Guermica
70	The primary producer of newsprint in the world is	Canada
71	The first explorer to reach the South Pole was	Cap. Ronald Amundson
72	The person who is called the father of modern Italy is	G.Garibaldi
73	World literacy day is celebrated on	8th September
74	The founder of modern Germany is	Bismarck
75	The country known as the land of the midnight sun is	Norway
76	The place known as the Roof of the world is	Tibet
77	The founder of the Chinese Republic was	San Yat Sen
78	The first Pakistani to receive the Nobel Prize was	Abdul Salam
79	The first woman Prime Minister of Britain was	Margaret Thatcher
80	The first Secretary General of the UNO was	Trygve Lie
81	The sculptor of the statue of Liberty was	Frederick Auguste Bartholdi
82	The port of Banku is situated in	Azerbaijan
83	John F Kennedy was assassinated by	Lee Harry Oswald
84	The largest river in France is	Lore
85	The Queen of England who married her brother-in-law was	Catherine of Aragon
86	The first negro to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was	Ralph Johnson Bunche
87	The first British University to admit women for degree courses was	London University
88	The principal export of Jamaica is	Sugar
89	New York is popularly known as the city of	Skyscrapers
90	Madagascar is popularly known as the Island of	Cloves
91	The country known as the Land of White Elephant is	Thailand
92	The country known as the Land of Morning Calm is	Korea
93	The country known as the Land of Thunderbolts is	Bhutan
94	The highest waterfalls in the world is the	Salto Angel Falls, Venezuela
95	The largest library in the world is the	United States Library of Congress, Washington DC

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Principal Rivers of the World

Principal Rivers of the World

River Source Outflow Length (km) Nile Tributaries of Lake Victoria, Africa Mediterranean Sea 6,690 Amazon Glacier-fed lakes, Peru Atlantic Ocean 6,296 Mississippi-Missouri- Red Rock Source of Red Rock, Montana Gulf of Mexico 6,240 Yangtze Kiang Tibetan Plateau, China China Sea 5,797 Amur-Argun Khingan Mts., China Tatar Strait 5,780 Ob Altai Mts., CIS Gulf of Ob 5,567 Yellow (Huang Ho) Eastern part of the Kunlan Mts., west China Gulf of Chihli 4,667 Yenisei Tannu-Ola Mts., western Tuva, CIS Arctic Ocean 4,506 Parana Conference of Paranaiba and Grande Rivers Rio de la Plata 4,498 Irtish Altai Mts., CIS Ob River 4,434 Congo Confluence of Lualaba and Luapula rivers, Zaire Atlantic Ocean 4,371 Amur Confluence of Shilka (CIS) and Argun (Manchuria) rivers Tatar Strait 4,352 Lena Baikal Mts., CIS Arctic Ocean 4,268 Mackenzie Head of Finlay river, British Colombia, Canada Beaufort Sea (Arctic Ocean) 4,241 Niger Guinea Gulf of Guinea 4,184 Mekong Tibetan highlands South China Sea 4,023 Mississippi Lake Itasca, Minnesota Gulf of Mexico 3,779 Missouri Confluence of Jefferson, Gallatin and Madison rivers, Montana Mississippi River 3,726 Volga Valdai Plateau, CIS Caspian Sea 3,687 Madeira Confluence of Beni and Maumore rivers, Bolivia-Brazil boundary Amazon River 3,238 Purus Peruvian Andes Amazon River 3,238 San Francisco Southwest Minas Gerais, Brazil Atlantic Ocean 3,198 Yukon Junction of Lewes and Pelly rivers, Yukon Territory, Canada Bering Sea 3,185 St. Lawrence Lake Ontario Gulf of St. Lawrence 3,058 Rio Grande San Juan Mrs. Colorado Gulf of Mexico 3,034 Tunguska (Lower) North of Lake Baikal, Russia Yenesei River 2,995 Brahmaputra Himalayas Ganges River 2,897 Indus Himalayas Arabian Sea 2,897 Danube Black Forest, Germany Black Sea 2,842 Euphrates Confluence of Murat Nehri and Kara Sun rivers, Turkey Shatt-al-Arab 2,799 Darling Central part of Eastern Highlands, Australia Murray River 2,736 Zambezi 11? 21’S, 24? E, Zambia Mozambique Channel 2,736 Tocantins Goias, Brazil Para River 2,699 Murray Australian Alps, New South Wales Indian Ocean 2,589 Nelson Head of Bow River, western Alberta, Canada Hudson Bay 2,575 Paraguay Mato Grosso Plateau, Brazil Parana River 2,549 Ural South Ural Mts., CIS Caspian Sea 2,533 Ganges Himalayas Bay of Bengal 2,506 Amu Darya (Oxus) Nicolas Range, Pamir Mts. Aral Sea 2,414 Japura Andes Colombia Amazon River 2,414 Salween Tibet, South of Kunlun Mts Gulf of Martaban 2,414 Arkansas Central Colorado Mississippi River 2,348 Colorado Grand Country, Colorado Gulf of California 2,333 Dnieper Valdai Hills, CIS Black Sea 2,284 Syr Darya Tien Shah, China / Kyrgyzstan Aral Sea 2,206 Ohio-Allegheny Potter Country, Pennsylvania Mississippi River 2,102 Irrawaddy Confluence of Nmai and Mali rivers, northeast Myanmar Bay of Bengal 2,092 Orange Lesotho Atlantic Ocean 2,092 Orinoco Serra Parima Mts., Venezuela Atlantic Ocean 2,062 Pilcomayo Andes Mts., Bolivia Paraguay River 1,999 Xi Jiang (Si Kiang) Eastern Yunnan Province, China China Sea 1,989 Columbia Columbia Lake, British Columbia, Canada Pacific Ocean 1,968 Don Tula, RSFSR, CIS Sea of Azov 1,968 Sungari China-North Korea boundary Amur River 1,955 Saskatchewan Canadian Rockey Mts. Lake Winnipeg 1,939 Peace Stikine Mts., British Columbia, Canada Great Slave River 1,923 Tigris Taurus Mts. Turkey Shatt-al-Arab 1,899 Rhine Confluence of Hinterrhein and Vorderrhein rivers, Switzerland North Sea 1,320

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Interesting Environmental Facts

Interesting Environmental Facts

Human Influenced Facts

If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 BILLION bags a year. 

1. On the average, the 140 million cars in America are estimated to travel almost 4 billion miles in a day, and according to the Department of Transportation, they use over 200 million gallons of gasoline doing it.
2. Every year we throw away 24 million tons of leaves and grass. Leaves alone account for 75% of our solid waste in the fall.
3. Over 100 pesticide ingredients are suspected to cause birth defects, cancer, and gene mutations.
4. Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
5. About 1% of U.S. landfill space is full of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose.
6. Energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours, and is the equivalent to half a can of gasoline.
7. Glass produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials reduces related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
8. Americans use 50 million tons of paper annually -- consuming more than 850 million trees.
9. Homeowners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers.
10. By turning down your central heating thermostat one degree, fuel consumption is cut by as much as 10%.
11. Insulating your attic reduces the amount of energy loss in most houses by up to 20%.
12. Enough glass was thrown away in 1990 to fill the Twin Towers (1,350 feet high) of New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.
13. One ton of carbon dioxide that is released in the air can be prevented by replacing every 75 watt light bulbs with energy efficient bulbs.
14. Many banks lent large sums of money to developing nations. In order to pay those debts plus interest many nations have turned to the mining of their natural resources as a source of financial aid.
15. Every day 40,000 children die from preventable diseases.
16. The public transportation that we have is a wreck. The U.S. continues to promote and invest in private car travel rather than public transportation.
17. The human population of the world is expected to be nearly tripled by the year 2100.
18. A three percent annual growth rate will result in the doubling of consumption and production of food and other products in 25 short years.  The amount of motor vehicles that are expected to be operated will increase 15 million a year until at least 2010.
19. The world's per capita grain production has been on the downfall since 1985 despite the use of fertilizers and pesticides.
20. Already a train system has been developed (back in 1987) which is based on magnetic levitation and causes minimal pollution. These versions of a train are already in use in several countries.
21. Fibre optics, made of glass, are being used to replace copper cables throughout the world.
22. The uncontrolled fishing that is allowed has reduced the amount of commercial species. Some species, up to one-tenth of their original population.
23. Every day 50 to 100 species of plants and animals become extinct as their habitat and human influences destroy them.

The Earth

1. Deserts are advancing and taking over the land. In Mali the desert has taken over about 220 miles in as few as 20 years. Deserts can be repelled, by developing tree-planting projects, having better agriculture and by managing the land better. However, governments still are reluctant to fund anti-desertification, despite horrific droughts that have occurred in recent years.
2. The Earth has been around for 4.6 billion years. Scaling this time down to 46 years we have been around for 4 hours and our Industrial Revolution began just 1 minute ago. During this short time period we have ransacked the planet for ways to get fuels and raw materials, have been the cause of extinction of an unthinkable amount of plants and animals, and have multiplied our population to that of a plague.
3. Despite all of the damage we have caused the environment most of it is reversible. We can restore habitats and return species to them; clean rivers; renovate buildings; replenish the topsoil, replant forests. However, these activities do not relieve the worst symptoms of the damage. We still have to fix the source of these problems, us and our vision that we must progress.

The Rainforest

1. In Peninsular Malaysia, more tree species are found in 125 acres of Tropical Forest than in the entire North America.
2. In Peru a single bush may contain more ant species than in the British Isles.
3. A study has shown that there are possibly over 30 million species of insects dwelling in the canopies of tropical forests.
4. 63,000 square miles of Rainforests are being destroyed each year.
5. Rainforests higher than 3,000 feet above sea level are called cloud forests.
6. Already over half of the world's tropical forests have been lost.
7. Madagascar is the home to a rainforest where 60 percent of it's 12,000 different plant species are unique to that island.
8. When you visit a pharmacist, one in every four purchases will have come from a tropical forest.
9. Medicine produced in tropical forests bring in commercially 30 billion dollars a year.
10. Large areas of South and Central America are cleared and burned for cattle ranching. This is so that farmers can provide cheap beef to consumers in the West.
11. Every year approximately four billion tons of carbon accumulates in the air each year, about 30% of this comes directly from the continued burning of the rainforests.
12. More than anything else, rainforest is destroyed by peasant farmers. However, the responsibility for this lies largely with the governments who fail to promote land reform and sustainable agricultural practices as an alternative to forest clearance.
13. Greater than a quarter of our rainforest is in Brazil.

Interesting Animal Facts

1. Penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere and never in the Northern Hemisphere.
2. A single porcupine is known to kill 100 trees in one winter. It uses it's sharp claws to climb a tree, sits on a limb to gnaw away at the bark and twigs and then stuffs them all into its mouth at once. Because of it's liking for bark, the porcupine causes much damage to forests.
3. A scallop moves by sucking water into its shell and then squirting it out suddenly. It likes to wander around and this gives it enough force to push it in front in a zig zag manner.
4. A male garibaldi damselfish attract females for mating by covering a rock with a thick layer of alga. A male which clean off a rock to allow only algae to live have a higher chance of mating. The algae is also used to protect the eggs of the fish.
5. To prevent the nest from getting soaked, the rare white-chinned swift, which nests behind the waterfalls of Latin America plant pieces of moss in the nest which then grow and reinforce the nest.
6. A porcupine loves salt so much that it would walk into a camp and gnaw on anything that has been touched by salt or even by perspiring hands.
7. Despite having a shell of armour for the body, an armadillo has teeth that do not have enamel and thus have very soft teeth. It can only eat soft food such as ants, termites, grubs and bugs.
8. The tip of an elephant's trunk is so sensitive and flexible that it can pick up a pin.
9. If a mole does not find food within 12 hours, it will die. Its chief food consists of insects and earthworms.
10. A male nightingale stops singing when its eggs have hatched so as not to attract unnecessary attention to the nest. However he gives short calls to tell the female that all is well or danger is approaching.
11. Bolas spiders snare moths by producing chemicals similar to pheromones used by several species of female moths to attract mates.
12. The webbed feet of the stormy petrel enable it to 'walk' on water. It spends almost its entire life over the ocean and only comes to land to breed. If a storm arises, they can't walk on water and are forced to remain in the air all day and night.
13. Some giant land turtles are able to bellow.
14. No one knows what happens to the seahorse during winter as it is only seen during the summertime.
15. There is a species in the river Nile in Egypt that avoids its enemies by swimming with its black belly up and its white back down.
16. The arctic tern, a migrating bird is able to travel back and forth as much as 22000 miles in a course of a year.
17. The Amazon army ants raid nests of certain black ants and carry back to cocoons and larvae to their own homes. When the cocoons hatch, they will become the slaves of these army ants and do all their work.
18. The nest that an osprey is a huge and attractive one which is unhidden from sight and the bird adds new material each year to the same old nest. The nest can weigh up to 450 kilograms.

The Open Range

1. The Grasslands cover one-fifth of the land on Earth.
2. The majority of grasslands are found around the tropics.
3. Natural grasslands are; the savannahs of Africa, the North American prairies, and in southern USSR-the dry steppes.
4. Semi-natural grasslands are where the forest has been cleared and grazing, cutting or burning maintains the grass cover. Tending to be more productive most South and South-East Asian grasslands are semi-natural grasslands.
5. The temperate grassland soil contains a lot of organic material (more than the tropical)

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