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Table of Contents

Abbreviations & Acronyms

Amazing Facts

Animal General Knowledge

Atomic Test

Biology

Books & Writers

Classical Folk and Tribal Dances in India

Computer Related Quiz

Corporate World Quiz

Current Affairs, Current Events, General Knowledge

Current Event 2010

Current Event 2009

Different Branches of Science

Earth General Knowledge

Famous Cities and River Banks

General Knowledge Questions

General Knowledge Test

Geographical Sobriquets

Historical Events

Human Body Quiz

Important Days - National and International

India History Quiz

Indian Independence Quiz

Indian Presidents

1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

2. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

3. Dr. Zakir Hussain

4. Varahagiri Venkata Giri

5. Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

6. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

7. Giani Zail Singh

8. Ramaswamy Venkataraman

9. Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma

10. Kocheril Raman Narayanan

11. Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

12. Smt. Pratibha Patil

President of India

Election Process

Elegibility to Contest Election for the President

Working Terms

Impeachment (Article 61)

Powers of President

Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil (25 July 2007 - till date)

DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (25 July 2002 TO 25 July 2007)

Shri K. R. Narayanan (25 July 1997 TO 25 July 2002)

Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma (25 July 1992 TO 25 July 1997)

Shri R Venkataraman (25 July 1987 TO 25 July 1992)

Giani Zail Singh (25 July 1982 TO 25 July 1987)

Shri Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (25 July 1977 TO 25 July 1982)

Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (24 August 1974 TO 11 February 1977)

Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri (3 May 1969 TO 20 July 1969 and 24 August 1969 TO 24 August 1974)

Dr. Zakir Husain (13 May 1967 TO 3 May 1969)

Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan (13 May 1962 TO 13 May 1967)

Dr. Rajendra Prasad (26 January 1950 TO 13 May 1962)

Indian Prime Ministers

Powers of Prime Minister

Dr. Manmohan Singh(May 22, 2004 - till date) - Party (INC)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (May 16, 1996 - June 1, 1996 and March 19, 1998 - May 22, 2004) - Party (BJP)

Shri Inder Kumar Gujral (April 21, 1997 - March 19, 1998) - Party (Janta Dal)

Shri H. D. Deve Gowda (June 1, 1996 - April 21, 1997) - Party (Janta Dal)

P. V. Narasimha Rao (June 21, 1991- May 16, 1996) - Party (Congress[I])

Shri Chandra Shekhar (November 10, 1990 - June 21, 1991) Party (Janta Dal[S])

Shri V. P. Singh (December 2, 1989 - November 10, 1990) - Party(Janta Dal)

Mr. Rajiv Gandhi (October 31, 1984 - December 2, 1989) - Party (Congress[I])

Shri Charan Singh (July 28, 1979 - January 14, 1980) - Party(Janta Party)

Shri Morarji Desai (March 24, 1977 - July 28, 1979) - Party (Janta Party)

Smt. Indira Gandhi (January 24, 1966 - March 24, 1977 and January 14, 1980 - October 31, 1984) - Party(Congress & Congress[I])

Lal Bahadur Shastri (June 9, 1964 - January 11, 1966) - Party(Congress)

Shri Gulzarilal Nanda (May 27, 1964 - June 9, 1964 and January 11, 1966 - January 24, 1966)- Party (Congress)

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (August 15, 1947 - May 27, 1964 )- Party (Congress)

Indian State & Union Teritory

Indian National Flag

Indian Constitution

Indian Constitution Amendments

Indian Election Comission

Indian Parliament

Parliament of Other Countries

Indian Space Programme

Indian Cinema

57th National Film Awards

Dada Saheb Phalke Award

International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Award – 2009

Longest, Largest, Biggest, Smallest, Tallest and Highest

Major Irrigation Projects in India

Mahatma Gandhi Quiz

Most Spoken Languages

1. Mandarin language – China

2. English

3. Hindustani – Number of speakers: 497 million

4. Spanish

5. Russian

6. Arabic

7. Bengali – Number of speakers: 211 million

8. Portuguese

9. Malay – Indonesia

10. French

News Papers/ Journals

Nobel Prize Winner

Nobel Personalities in India

Olympic General Knowledge

Quiz on Religion

Quotations

Solar System Quiz

Sports related quiz

World Cup Cricket

World Cup Football

Strange Facts

Strange Laws

Trivia Questions To Test Your IQ

United Nations

Important UN Agencies

Other UN Agencies

World General Knowledge

Abbreviations & Acronyms

Short Name / Full Form or Abbreviations
3G / Third Generation
AAA / Asian Athletics Association
AAFI / The Amateur Athletics Federation of India
AC / Ante Christum (Before Christ), Ashok Chakra, Air Conditioner
ADB / Asian Development Bank
AFI / Athletics Federation of India
AFMC / Armed Forces Medical College
AI / Artifical Intelligence, Air India
AICTE / All India Council for Technical Education
AIFF / All India Football Federation
AIIMS / All India Institute of Medical Science
AITUC / All India Trade Union Congress
ALGOL / Algebric Oriented Language
AM / Ante Meridiem (before Noon), Amplitude Modulation
APEC / Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
ARPANET / Advanced Research Project Agency Network
ASCII / American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASEAN / Association of South East Asian Nations
ASLV / Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle
AT&T / American Telegraphic and Telephone Co. Ltd.
ATC / Air Traffic Control
ATM / Automated Teller Machine
AVSM / Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
B2B / Busines to Business
B2C / Business to Consumer
BARC / Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
BBC / British Broadcasting Corporation
BBS / Bulletin Board Service
BC / Before Christ
BHEL / Bharat Heavy Electri-cals Ltd
BIOS / Basic Input Output System
BIT / Binary Digit
BPL / Below Poverty Line
BPO / Business Process Outsourcing
BPR / Business Process Re-engineering
bps / bytes per second
BSE / Bombay Stock Exchange
BSF / Border Security Force
BSNL / Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
C2C / Consumer to Consumer
CA / Chartered Accountant
CAD / Computer Aided Design
CAT / Common Admission Test
CBI / Central Bureau of Investigation
CBSE / Central Board of Secondary Education
CDAC / Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing
CDMA / Code Division Multiple Access
CEO / Chief Executive Officer
CFSL / Central Forensic Science Laboratory
CGI / Common Gateway Interface
CIA / Central Intelligence Agency
CID / Criminal Investigation Department
CISC / Complex instruction-set computing
CITU / Centre of Indian Trade Unions
CNN / Cable News Network
COMSAT / Communications Satellite Corporation
COPRA / Consumer Protection Act
CORBA / Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPI(M) / Communist Party of India / Marxist
CPWD / Central Public Works Department
CRIS / Centre for Railway Information System
CSIR / Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
CTBT / Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
CYMK / Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Kinda
D.Litt. / Doctor of Literature
D.Phil. / Doctor of Philosophy
D.Sc / Doctor of Science
DC / Direct Current
DIG / Deputy Inspector General
DMA / Direct Memory Access
DMK / Dravida Munetra Kazhagam
DNA / Deoxyribo-nucleic Acid
DTP / Desktop Publishing
DVC / Damodar Valley Corporation
DVD / Digital Versatile/Video Disc
Short Name / Full Form or Abbreviations
E & OE / Errors and Omissions Excepted
EDI / Electronic Data Interchange
EIS / Executive Information System
E-MAIL / Electronic Mailing
EMI / Equated Monthly Instalments
ENIAC / Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
ENT / Ear, Nose and Throat
EOF / end of file
EOT / Eastern Daylight Time
EPABX / Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange
ERNET / Educational and Research Network
FAQ / Frequently Asked Question
FBI / Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBT / Fringe Benefit Tax
FBTR / Fast Breeder Test Reactor
FBW / Fly-By-Wire
FCI / Food Corporation of India; Fertilizer Corporation of India
FDI / Foreign Direct Investment
FEMA / Foreign Exchange Management Act
FICCI / Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
FIFA / International Football Federation (Federation Internationale de Football Association)
FIR / First Information Report
FM / Frequency modulation
FRCP / Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
FRCS / Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
FRCS / Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
FRS / Fellow of the Royal Society
G7 / Group of Seven (US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, japan and Canada) G8 includes G7 plus Russia
GATE / Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
GATS / General Agreement on Trade and Services
GDP / Gross Domestic Product
GMAT / Graduate Management Admission Test
GMT / Greenwich Mean Time
GSLV / Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle
GSM / Global System for Mobile Communications
GSP / Generalised System Preference
GUI / Graphical User Interface
HAL / Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
HIV / Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HMI / Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
HTML / Hyper Text Markup Language
HUDCO / Housing and Urban Development Corp.
HVAC / Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
i.e. / id est (that is)
IAAI / International Airport Authority of India
IAEA / International Atomic Energy Agency
IARI / Indian Agricultural Research Institute
IAS / Indian Administrative Service
IATA / International Air Transport Association
IBM / International Business Machines
ICSE / Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
ICU / Intensive Care Unit
ICWA / Indian Council of World Affairs
IDA / International Development Agency
IDBI / Industrial Development Bank of India
IEEE / Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers
IELTS / International English Language Testing System
IFC / Industrial Finance Corporation, International Finance Corporation
IFS / Indian Foreign Service; Indian Forest Service
IGNOU / Indira Gandhi National Open University
IIPA / Indian Institute of Public Administration
IISCO / Indian Iron and Steel Company
IISS / International Institute of Strategic Studies
IIT / Indian Institute of Technology
ILA / Indian Library Association
ILO / International Labour Organisation
IMAP / Internet Mail Access Protocol
IMF / International Monetary Fund
INA / Indian National Army
INTUC / Indian National Trade Union Congress
IOC / Indian Oil Corporation
IP / Internet Protocol
IPC / Indian Penal Code
IPCL / Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation Ltd
IPI / International Press Institute
Short Name / Full Form or Abbreviations
IPO / Initial Public Offering
IPS / Indian Police Service; Inter Press Service
IQ / Intelligence Quotient
IRC / International Red Cross
IRDP / Integrated Rural Development Programme
IRS / Indian Revenue Service
ISBN / International Standard Book Number
ISDN / Integrated Services Digital Network
ISI / Indian Standards Institution; Inter Services Intelligence
ISKCON / International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISO / International Standards Organisation
ISRO / Indian Space Research Organisation
IST / Indian Standard Time
ITBP / Indo-Tibetan Border Police
ITES / Information Technology enabled services
ITI / Indian Telephone Industries<br> Industrial Training Institute
ITU / International Telecommunication Union
IVF / In-Vitro Fertilisation
IVM / In-vitro Maturation
JCO / Junior Commissioned Officer
JEE / Joint Entrance Examination
JPEG / Joint Photographic Expert Group
LASER / Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LCA / Light Combat Aircraft
LCD / Liquid Crystal Display<br>Least Common Denominator
LCM / Lowest Common Multiple
LIC / Life Insurance Corporation (of India)
LLB / Bachelor of Laws
LMC / Large Megallanic Cloud
LTTE / Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam
M.A. / Magisiter Artium (Master of Arts)
M.D / Doctor of Medicine
MBA / Master of Business Administration
MBBS / Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
MCC / Marylebone Cricket Club
MCI / Medical Council of India
MICR / Magnetic ink character recognition
MIDI / Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIPS / Million Instructions per Second
MIT / Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Master Instruction Tape
MLA / Member of Legislative Assembly
MNC / Multi-National Corporation
MODEM / modulator demodulator
MP / Member of Parliament; Madhya Pradesh
MPEG / Motion Picture Experts Group
MRCP / Member of the Royal College of Physicians
MTCR / Missile Technology Control Regime
MVC / Maha Vir Chakra
NAAC / National Assessment and Accreditation Council
NABARD / National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
NAFED / National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation
NALCO / National Aluminium Company Ltd.
NASA / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDAQ / National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
NASSCOM / National Association of Software and Service Companies
NATO / North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NAV / Net Asset Value
NCERT / National Council of Educational Research and Training
NCSA / National Centre for Supercomputing Applications; National Computer Security Association
NDA / National Defence Academy
NOC / No Objection Certificate
NPA / Non-performing Assets
NPT / Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NRF / National Renewal Fund
NSUI / National Students Union of India
NTPC / National Thermal Power Corporation
OBC / Other Backward Classes
OCR / Optical Character Recognition
ONGC / Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
OOP / Object Oriented Programme
OPEC / Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OSCAR / Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
PAN / Permanent Account Number
Ph.D. / Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophiae Doctor)
PIL / Public Interest Litigation
Short Name / Full Form or Abbreviations
PIN / Postal Index Number
PSLV / Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
PWD / Public Works Department;
R&D / Research and Development
RADAR / Radio Detecting and Ranging
RAM / Random Access Memory
RAW / Research & Analysis Wing
RBI / Reserve Bank of India
RDX / Research Department Explosive (Cyclotrim-ethylin Trinitrate)
RISC / Reduced instruction-set computing
RNA / Ribonucleic acid
ROM / Read Only Memory
RPM / Revolutions Per Minute
RTI / Right to Information
SAIL / Steel Authority of India Limited
SARS / Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SCSI / Small Computer Systems Interface
SEBI / Securities and Exchange Board of India
SENSEX / Sensitivity Index (of Share Price)
SEZ / Special Economic Zone
SGPC / Siromani Gurudwara Prabandak Committee
SIM / Subscriber Information Module
SLV / Satellite Launch Vehicle
SMS / Short Message Service
SMTP / Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
STD / Subscriber Trunk Dialling; Sexually Transmitted Diseases
TADA / Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act
TCP / Transfer Call Protocol<br> Transmission Control Protocol
TELCO / Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company
TFT / Thin-Film Transistor
TIFR / Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
TISCO / Tata Iron and Steel Company
TOEFL / Test of English as a Foreign Language
UAV / Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UGC / University Grants Commission
ULFA / United Liberation Front of Asom
UNESCO / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi-sation
UNI / United News of India
UNICEF / United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now, 'United Nations Children's Fund')
UNU / United Nations University
UPA / United Progressive Alliance
UPSC / Union Public Service Commission
URL / Uniform Resource Locator
VAT / Value Added Tax
VCR / Video Cassette Recorder
VIP / Very Important Person
VIRUS / Vital Information Resources Under Siege
VRML / Virtual Reality Modelling Language
VRS / Voluntary Retirement Scheme
VSSC / Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
WHO / World Health Organisation
WMO / World Meteorological Organisation
WTO / World Trade Orga-nisation
WWF / World Wildlife Fund
WWW / World Wide Web
WYSIWYG / What you see is what you get
XML / Extensible Mark-up Language
YMCA / Young Men's Christian Association
ZIP / Zone Improvement Plan

Amazing Facts

Tuesday is considered as the most productive day of the week.
In human body the right lung takes in more air than the left one.
The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer which is a brand of the microsoft’s rival company.
Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
In the 1930′s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
Jimmy Carter is the first USA president to have born in hospital.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Human birth control pill works on gorillas.
It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
Tru to spin an egg, Its strange that a hard-boiled egg will spin but an uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
Astronauts cannot burp in space.
People with blue eyes see better in dark.
The snowiest city in the USA is Blue Canyon, California.
Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
The gasoline can not freeze no matter how cold the temperature falls.
Human stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
The Polar Bear can can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

Animal General Knowledge

The Earth has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
All polar bears are left handed
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby
A cheetah does not roar like a lion – it purrs like a cat (meow)
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.
A butterflie have 6 Legs & 2 Pair of Wings & has 12,000 eyes.
Human birth control pill works on gorillas.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
Owl is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
The Swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
Elephant teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
Crane sleeps standing on one leg.
Shark cannot see, they are very sensitive to sound.
A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears .
Ants don’t sleep.
A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour)
Kiwis are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
Cassowary is one of the dangerous birds that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog.

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