- Ambati Balamyrali is the youngest (17-years old) doctor of Indian origin in the world who received his medical degree from Mount Sinai, New York.
- Ambedkar, B.R is known as the architect of the Indian Constitution.
- Apsra is the first nuclear reactor of India.
- Aquaculture refers to fish-farming or fish culture.
- Baku is famous for the production of petroleum.
- Blue revolution relates to fish farming.
- Borlaug, Norman Ernest was American agricultural scientist t and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1970. He was one of those who laid the groundwork of the Green Revolution.
- Buoy stands for a man serving in any hotel for luggage transportation or as a guide.
- Chakmas are refugees from Bangladesh settled in India.
- Charar-e-Sharief is the Dargah of Sufi saint Sheikh Nooruddin Wali in Kashmir.
- Charminar is located in Hyderabad (India).
- Chernobayl is a Russian city having a nuclear power plant where a tank of readioactive waste exploded in April, 1993. This explosion is known as “Chernobyl Disaster”.
- Chris Patten was the last British Governor of Hong Kong.
- It is summer season in Australia during Christmas.
- Churchill was PM of U.K during WWII. He is known to have said “ I have nothing to offer except blood, sweat and tears.”
- Conditioned Reflex is the term mainly discussed in Psychology.
- Cross-breeding is to be done for achieving quick increase in milk production.
- Crystal oscillator is in electric watch, the component corresponding to pendulum of a pendulum clock.
- The production of cultured pearls is an important cottage industry of Japan.
- Debenture is a certificate issued by a company promising the payment of a specified amount at a fixed rate of interest after a specified period.
- A deflector is a technique of adjusting for changes in price level.
- Desdemona is a character in the Shakespeare’s play Othello.
- Dicky Dolma is the youngest woman climber of Mt. Everest.
- Dr. Watson is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Dunkel Draft relates to international trade.
- Dzongkha is the official language of Bhutan.
- E.T.A is a terrorist organization in Spain.
- Elephant’s tusks are called enlarged cartilaginous bones.
- Erasmus was a Dutch writher. His Praise of Folly is still read.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language created to act as world language.
- Euro is the name of New Single European Currency launched on January 1, 1999.
- Every Street is paved with Gold was authored by Kim Woo-Chung, founder of Daewoo.
- Exfoliation is a type of weathering common both in the cold and in the hot climate regions.
- Exit Poll is a term used to denote a post-election survey of voters regarding the candidate in whose favour they had exercised their franchise.
- The readings of a Fahrenheit and a Centigrade temperature is the same at -40°.
- Gregory Mendel is called the Father of Genetics.
- Fenugreek seeds can benefit a patient of diabetes mellitus by normalizing his blood sugar level.
- Powder-type fire extinguisher is used for petroleum fire.
- India occupies first position in the world in the production of tea.
- It is the President and not the PM who presides over the cabinet meetings in France.
- Sigmund Freud founded the technique of pshychoaralysis.
- Guemica is a painting by Pablo Picasso.
- Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
- Inflation means an increase in the amount of paper money which tends to raise general price level of commodities. It is a comparative figure showing cost of living, production prices, etc as compared with a base year. Debtors are likely to benefit by Inflation.
- Zero Rate Inflation obtains necessarily in a year where the annual rate of inflation is constant in every week of the year.
- ISBN: International Standard Book Numbering is an internation system by which a distinct identifying number is assigned to each book.
- Jain Commission was associated with probing the conspiracy angle of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination.
- James Bond is a character in the novels written by Ian Fleming.
- Jana-gana-mana is India’s National Anthem.
- Jantar Mantar is an observatory in Delhi constructed in 1724 during the days of Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber.
- Thomas Jefferson authored American Declaration of Independence.
- Jurassic Park was directed by Steven Spielberg.
- Kabalega is a National Park of Uganda.
- Kalidas was the greatest of the Sanskrit daramatist. He authored Shakukntala, etc.
- Kalinga Prize is awarded for popularization of science each year by UNESCO.
- Gary Kasparov is associated with Chess.
- Dr. V. Kurein is associated with Dairy Farming.
- Bhutan is called the “Land of Thunder Dragon”.
- Laos is the only land-locked country in South-East Asia.
- Last Supper is a famous Renaissance painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
- Leningrad is a famous town in Russia situated on the bank of river Neva.
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