ABBREVIATIONS
COFEPOSA : Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act
CARE : Co-operative for American Relief Everywhere
CHOGM : Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
CSO : Central Statistical Organisation
CVRDE : Combat Vehicles Research Development Establishment
EPZ : Export Processing Zone
ESMA : Essential Services Maintenance Act
FEMA : Foreign Exchange Management Act
GATE : Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
HUDCO : Housing and Urban Development Corporation
SUPERLATIVES
Largest delta : Sunderban
Largest diamond : The Cullinan
Largest archipelago : Indonesia
Smallest bird : Humming Bird
Largest library : United States Library of Congress, Washington (more than 59,000,000 items)
Largest sea bird : Albatross
Largest sea : South China Sea
Hottest place : Azizia (Libya, Africa 580 c (1360 F))
Largest peninsula : Arabia
Largest museum : American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Longest mountain range : Andes, South America - 8,800 km long
Deepest lake : Baikal (Siberia); Average depth 701 metre
Largest gulf : Gulf of Mexico
Largest desert : Sahara (Africa)
Largest creature : Blue Whale
PARLIAMENTS
COUNTRY PARLIAMENT
USA Congress
Sweden Riksdag
Russia Duma
Japan Diet
Denmark Folketing
Israel Knesset
China National Peoples Congress
Iran Majlis
Nepal National Panchayat
Poland Sejm
Afghanistan Shora
Norway Storting
Spain Crotes
Switzerland Federal Assembly
BRANCHES OF SCIENCE
Eugenics : is the study of ways in which the physical and mental characteristic of the human race may be improved. Modern elimination of genetic diseases.
Cryogenics : The science dealing with the production, control and application of very low temperature.
Metallurgy : It is the process of extracting metals from their ores.
Hydropathy : The cure of disease by the internal and external use of water.
Heliotherapy : It is the method of treating diseases by sunlight.
Ballistics : It is the science of launching projectiles into space.
YEARS
1885 : Formation of Indian National Congress
1905 : Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon
1906 : Muslim League was formed at Dacca
1911 : Partition of Bengal was cancelled by Lord Hardinge
1911 : India's Capital was Shifted from Calcutta to Delhi
1917 : Gandhiji’s Champaran campaign launched
1919 : Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
1919 : Khilafat Movement
1924 : Communist Party of India was formed
1929 : Poorna Swaraj resolution at Lahore session
1930 : Gandhiji’s Dandi March
1932 : Third Round Table Conference
1937 : Provincial Autonomy
1942 : Quit India Movement
1945 : Trial of INA at Red Fort
1946 : British Cabinet Mission visited India
1948 : Death of Mahatma Gandhi
1950 : India becomes a Republic
WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES AND NATIONAL PARKS
Hazaribagh : Bihar
Sivapuri National Park : Madhya Pradesh
Kanha National Park : Madhya Pradesh
Jim Corbet National Park : Uttaranchal
Manas Sanctuary : Assam
Ghana Bird Sanctuary : Rajasthan
Bandipur Sanctuary : Karnataka
Dachigam Sanctuary : Kashmir
Chandra Prabha Sanctuary : Uttar Pradesh
Kaziranga Sanctuary : Assam
Periyar Sanctuary : Kerala
Bharatpur : Rajasthan
Nagerhole : Karnataka
Tadoba National Park : Maharashtra
Gir Lion Sanctuary : Gujarat
FIRST IN INDIA
Actress to win Padma Shri Award — Nargis Dutt (1958).
Bharat Ratna Award winner — C. Rajagopalachari (1954).
Miss World — Reita Faria (1966).
Field Marshal — S.H.F.J. Manekshaw (1973).
Elected President — S. Radhakrishnan (1962-67).
Cosmonaut — Rakesh Sharma (1984).
Chief Justice of India — Harilal J. Kania (1950-51).
Chief Election Commissioner — Sukumar Sen (1950-58).
Chairman of Rajya Sabha — S.V. Krishnamoorthy (1952).
Woman to swim the English Channel — Arati Saha (1959).
Woman Jnanpith Award winner — Ashapurna Devi (1976).
Woman IPS officer — Kiran Bedi (1974).
Woman Governor — Sarojini Naidu (1947).
NATIONAL LABORATORIES
National Physical Laboratory : New Delhi
National Institute of Oceanography : Panaji (Goa)
National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) : Nagpur
Indian Institute of Petroleum : DehraDun (Uttaranchal)
National Chemical Laboratory : Pune
Central Road Research Institute : New Delhi
Central Mining Research Station : Dhanbad (Bihar)
Central Drug Research Institute : Lucknow (UP)
Central Building Research Institute : Roorkee (UP)
Central Food Technological Research Institute : Mysore
Central Leather Research Institute : Chennai
National Aeronautical Laboratory : Bangalore
SPORTS TERMS
Scoop - Hockey
Baton - Relay (Athletics)
Fault - Badminton/Tennis
Punch - Boxing
Ashes - Cricket
Chinaman - Cricket
Off side - Football/Hockey
Bull’s eye - Shooting
Deuce - Tennis
Scissors - Wrestling
Volley - Tennis
COUNTRIES WITH CHANGED NAMES
New Name Old Name
Iraq – Mesopotamia
Iran – Persia
Zimbabwe – Rhodesia
Malaysia _ Malaya
Ghana – Gold Coast
Surinam – Dutch Guiana
Myanmar – Burma
Guyana – British Guiana
COUNTRIES WITH ALTERNATE NAMES
Japan – Nippon
Taiwan – Formosa
India – Bharat
FIRST IN THE WORLD
Woman to reach North Pole : Ann Bancroft
Test Tube Baby : Louise Joy Brown
Woman Prime Minister of a country : Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1960)
Woman President of a country : Maria Estela Peron (Argentina)
Men on Mt. Everest without Oxygen : Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler (1978)
Foreigner to get Bharat Ratna : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
First Chinese pilgrim to visit India : Fahien
Englishman to receive Nobel Prize for Literature : Rudyard Kipling (1907)
Pope to visit India : Pope Paul VI
Woman to climb Mount Everest : Junko Taibei
Muslim invader of India : Mohammad-bin-Qasim
QUOTATIONS
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - Alexander Pope
Man is by nature a political animal - Aristotle
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread - Alexander Pope
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever - John Keats
‘Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would not like to be a master’ - Abraham Lincoln
I came, I saw, I conquered - Julius Caesar
Jai Jawan Jai Kisan - Lal Bahadur Shastri
Gharibi Hatawo - Indira Gandhi
Child is the father of man - Wordsworth
PEN NAMES OF MALAYALAM WRITERS
Kovilan - V.V. Ayyappan
Omcheri - N. Narayana Pillai
Sanjayan - M.R. Nair
Cynic - M. Vasudevan
Nandanar - P.C. Gopalan
Thikkodian - P. Kunjananthan
Uroob - P.C. Kuttikrishnan
Vilasini - M.K. Menon
Mali - V. Madhavan Nair
Kakkanadan - George Vargheese
IMPORTANT YEARS IN WORLD HISTORY
776 BC : First Olympiad in Greece
4 BC : Birth of Jesus Christ
AD 570 : Birth of Prophet Mohammed
622 : Beginning of Hijra Era
1215 : Signing of Magna Carta
1492 : Columbus discovered America
1688 : Glorious Revolution in England
1776 : American War of Independence
1789 : French Revolution
1815 : Battle of Waterloo
1848 : Publication of Communist Manifesto
1918 : First World War ended
1948 : Myanmar and SriLanka achieved independence
1963 : Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1957 : First artificial satellite was launched by Russia
REFORMS AND EVENTS DURING BRITISH PERIOD
First Census - Ripon
Communal Award - Wellington
Doctrine of Lapse - Dalhousie
Dyarchy - Chelmsford
INA Trial - Wavell
Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy - Chelmsford
Permanent Settlement - Cornwallis
Quit India - Linlithgow
Sepoy Mutiny - Canning
Subsidiary Alliance - Wellesley
Cabinet Mission - Wavell
ALTERNATE NAMES
Bard of Avon - William Shakespeare
Sultan of Beypore - Vaikom Mohammed Basheer
Man of Destiny - Napoleon Bonaparte
The Birdman of India - Salim Ali
Andhra Kesari - T. Prakasam
Lok Nayak - Jayaprakash Narayan
Father of Medicine - Hippocrates
Lady with the Lamp - Florence Nightingale
Poet’s Poet - Edmund Spenser
Rajaji - C. Rajagopalachari
Deenabandhu - C.F. Andrews
Grand Old Man of India - Dadabhai Naoroji
Father of History - Herodotus
Father of Indian Industry - Jamshedji Tata
Father of Modern Chemistry - Joseph Priestley
Father of Indian Renaissance - Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Banga bandhu - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Tiger of the Snows - Tenzing Norgay
Indian Napoleon - Samudragupta
Man of Blood and Iron - Bismarck
Guruji - M.S. Golwalkar
Maid of Orleans - Joan of Arc
Father of Biology - Aristotle
Kerala Simham - Pazhassy Raja
Lokmanya - Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Nightingale of India - Sarojini Naidu
DISEASES AND AFFECTED BODY PARTS
PNEUMONIA - LUNGS
MENINGITIS - BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD
ECZEMA - SKIN
AIDS - IMMUNE SYSTEM
GOITRE - THYROID GLAND
JAUNDICE - LIVER
TRACHOMA - EYES
TUBERCULOSIS - LUNGS
MALARIA - SPLEEN
RHEUMATISM - JOINTS
DIABETES - PANCREAS
ARTHRITIS - INFLAMMATION OF JOINTS
CATARACT - EYES
DIPHTHERIA - THROAT
TYPHOID - INTESTINE; WHOLE BODY
PYORRHOEA - GUMS
Eugenics : is the study of ways in which the physical and mental characteristic of the human race may be improved. Modern elimination of genetic diseases.
Cryogenics : The science dealing with the production, control and application of very low temperature.
Metallurgy : It is the process of extracting metals from their ores.
Hydropathy : The cure of disease by the internal and external use of water.
Heliotherapy : It is the method of treating diseases by sunlight.
Ballistics : It is the science of launching projectiles into space.
National Physical Laboratory : New Delhi
National Institute of Oceanography : Panaji (Goa)
National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) : Nagpur
Indian Institute of Petroleum : DehraDun (Uttaranchal)
National Chemical Laboratory : Pune
Central Road Research Institute : New Delhi
Central Mining Research Station : Dhanbad (Bihar)
Central Drug Research Institute : Lucknow (UP)
Central Building Research Institute : Roorkee (UP)
Central Food Technological Research Institute : Mysore
Central Leather Research Institute : Chennai
National Aeronautical Laboratory : Bangalore
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - Alexander Pope
Man is by nature a political animal - Aristotle
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread - Alexander Pope
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever - John Keats
‘Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would not like to be a master’ - Abraham Lincoln
I came, I saw, I conquered - Julius Caesar
Jai Jawan Jai Kisan - Lal Bahadur Shastri
Gharibi Hatawo - Indira Gandhi
Child is the father of man - Wordsworth
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