BASIC KNOWLEDGE

Largest – World Largest palace ...... Imperial Palace, Beijing Largest ...... Three Gorges () Largest continent ...... Asia Largest landmass ...... The Eurasian Landmass Largest ocean ...... Pacific Largest park .. Wood Buffalo National Park (Canada) Largest river ...... Amazon Largest zoo ...... Krugal National Park (South Africa) Largest river basin ...... Amazon Largest river island ...... Majuli (Assam) Largest lake (salt water) ...... Caspian sea Largest inland sea ...... Mediterranean sea Largest lake (fresh water) ...... Lake Superior (North Largest canal ...... Keil Canal in Germany America) Largest reef ...... Great Barrier Reef, (Australia) Largest artificial lake ..... Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, Largest city (population)...... Tokyo (Japan) (USA). Originally known as Boulder. Largest bay ...... Hudson Bay (North Canada) Largest estuary...... Ob (Russia) Largest gulf ...... Gulf of Mexico Largest cave ...... Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (USA) Largest gorge ...... Grand Canyon (USA) Largest strait ...... Tartar strait Largest sea ...... South China sea Largest wall ...... The Great Wall (China) Largest delta...... Sundarbans ( & Bangladesh) Largest cemetery ...... Leningrad (Russia) Largest peninsula ...... Arabia Largest railway station ...... Grand Central Terminal Largest island ...... Greenland (New York) Largest country (in area) ...... Russia Largest university building ...... Largest country (in population) ...... China University of Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) Largest temple` ...... Angkorwat (Cambodia) Largest open university ...... Indira Gandhi National Largest archipelago ...... Indonesia Open University (New Delhi) Largest airport ... King Khalid International Airport at Largest steel plant ...... Nippon Steel plant (Japan) Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) Largest wingspan ...... Albatross Largest church ...... St.Peter's Basilica, (Rome) Largest active volcano ...... Mauna lao on Hawaii Largest planet ...... Jupiter Largest mosque ...... Sha Faisal Mosque (Islamabad) Largest bird ...... Ostrich Largest embassy...... Russian Embassy (Beijing) Largest sea bird ...... Albatross Largest war plane ...... Mirage (France) Largest diamond ...... The Cullinan Largest prison ...... Kharkov (Russia) Largest parliament . The National People's Congress Largest hotel ...... MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, of the People's Republic of China Las Vegas (USA) Largest north to south stretch of land ...... America Largest desert...... Sahara (Africa) Largest cold desert ...... Gobi (Mongolia) Largest forest ...... Coniferous Forests of Largest plateau ...... Pamir (Tibet) Northern Russia Largest mountain range ...... The Himalaya Largest stadium ...... Strahove (Czech Republic) Largest statue ...... Statue of liberty Largest library .... United States Library of Congress Largest bank ...... World bank (Washington) Largest museum ...... American Museum of Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system Natural History (New York) known in the world. It is situated in USA. It Largest animal ...... Blue whale became a World Heritage Site on October 27, Largest land animal ...... The African Bush Elephant 1981, and an international Biosphere Reserve on Largest democracy ...... India September 26, 1990. It is centered around the Largest electorate ...... India Green River, with a tributary, the Nolin River, Largest town ...... Mt. Isa (Queensland) feeding into the Green just inside the park. Largest army...... China HIGHEST – World Largest cricket stadium ...... Melbourne (Australia) Largest navy ...... USA Highest mountain peak - Mt. Everest (Nepal) Largest airforce...... USA Highest mountain - Himalaya Largest natural satellite ...... Ganymede (Jupiter) Largest port ...... New Jersey Highest lake - Titicaca (Bolivia) Largest book publishing company ...... Highest plateau - Tibet Mc Graw Hill (New York) Highest continent - Antartica Largest Dome in the World... Astrodome, in Housten Highest waterfall - Angel Falls, () (U.S.A) Largest Epic ...... Mahabharat Highest active volcano - Guayathiri (Chile) Largest carnivorous mammal ...... Polar Bear Highest capital city - La Paz (Bolivia) Highest town - Wenchuan (Tibet) SMALLEST – World Highest volcano - Cotopaxy (Ecuador) Smallest continent ...... Australia Smallest ocean ...... Arctic Highest airport - Lhasa Airport (Tibet) Smallest republic...... Nauru Highest railway station - Condor Station (Bolivia) Smallest colony ...... Gibraltar Highest river bridge - Royal Gorge (Colorado) Smallest state ...... Vatican Highest road bridge - Bailey bridge built by the Smallest landmass...... The Australian Mainland Indian Army at Smallest bird ...... Humming bird Smallest flowering plant ...... Wolfia Khardungla (Ladakh) Smallest planet...... Mercury Highest railway - Qinghai - Tibet (5072m) World's Smallest Museum ...... Arizona, US Highest Bridge - Milau (France) 2.46 km) World's Smallest PC ...... Space Cube LONGEST – World Abu Dhabi’s leaning Tower Longest river - Nile () Longest road - Pan American Highway The 160 metre Longest railway platform - Kharagpur, (West Ben- Capital Gate gal) Tower, developed Longest dam - Hirakud (Orissa) by the Abu Dhabi Longest mountain range - Andes (South America) National Exhibition Longest railway tunnel - Seikan Rail Tunnel (Ja- pan) Company has Longest railway line - Trans-Siberian Railway been recognized as (Russia) the ‘furthest leaning Longest ship canal - Suez Canal ‘man made Longest estuary - Obeestuary (Russia) tower’in the world Longest road tunnel - St. Gothard Road Tunnel (Switzerland) by Guinness world Longest bridge - Second Lake Pontchar- records. The tower train Causeway leans at 18 degrees over four times the Reliant Astrodome is the world's first domed angle of Italy’s fa- sports stadium, located in Houston, Texas, USA. mous Leaning It opened in 1965 as Harris County Domed Stadium and was nicknamed the Tower of Pisa. "Eighth Wonder of the World". Longest fresh water lake - Lake Tanganyika Biggest reptile ...... Saltwater Crocodile Longest epic - Mahabharatha Biggest lizard ...... Komodo Dragons Longest wall - Great Wall of China Biggest bird ...... African Ostrich Longest non-stop train - Flying Scotsman Biggest eggs ...... Ostrich Eggs Longest drought - Atacama Desert (North Biggest flower ...... Rafflesia. Chile) The Ostrich, Struthio camelus, is a large flightless Longest snake - Python bird native to Africa. The Ostrich is the Longest dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary largest living species of bird Longest Airport - Dallas (USA) Biggest planet ...... Jupiter Longest Railway Bridge – Lower Zambezi (Africa) Biggest passenger ship...... Queen Elizebeth II Longest Throughfare – Broadway (New York) Biggest diamond mine...... Kimberley (South Africa) Longest Shipping Canal – Baltic White Sea Canal Biggest car manufacturer ...... General Motors Longest day – June 21 (Detroit, America) Longest Beach – Rio de Janerio (Brazil) Irrigation scheme ...... Llyod barraye () Longest Corridor – Rameswaram Temple Island ...... Greenland (Renamed Kalaallit Nunnat) (India) Water fall ...... Guaira (Brazil) Longest Railway Line – Trans - Siberian Railway Hotel ...... Conrad Hilton Longest Swimming Canal – English Canal Biggest Park ...... Yellow stone National Park Biggest Auditorium...... Municipal Auditorium TALLEST – World at Atlantic City Biggest football stadium ...... Marakana (Brazil) Tallest fountain ...... Fountain Hills, Arizona DEEPEST – World Tallest free standing structure (tower) .... CN Tower, Toronto (Canada) Deepest ocean ...... Pacific Ocean Tallest active geyser ...... Steam boat Geyser Deepest lake ...... Lake Baikal, (Siberia) Yellowstone National Park, (USA) Deepest gorge ...... Hell’s Canyon, (USA) Tallest building ...... Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Deepest point in the ocean ...... Challenger deep of Tallest tree...... The Redwood Tree Mariana Trench in Pacific Ocean Tallest animal ...... Giraffe Tallest road.... Khardungla Pass (Leh Manali, India) MISCELLANEOUS – World Tallest office building ...... Petronas Twin Tower Fastest land animal ...... Cheetah (Kualalumpur, Malaysia) Oldest national flag...... Denmark Tallest bridge ...... Royal Gorge Arkansas, America) Fastest bird ...... Swift Tallest Statue...... Statue of Motherland (USSR) Shortest river ...... Roe river in Montana (61 m long) Tallest Minaret ...... Sultan Hassan Mosque (Egypt) Lowest point on earth ...... Dead Sea Tallest Railwayline ...... Quin - Hai - Tibet (China) Most densely populated province ...... Monacco BIGGEST –World Least populous city ...... Vatican The oldest plant ...... Rose Biggest dome ...... Gol Gumbaz (India) The oldest capital city...... Damascus Gol Gumbaz is the mausoleum of Mohammed Adil Most poisonous fish ...... Puffer fish Shah (1627-55) of the Adil Shahi dynasty who ruled Coldest place...... Vostok,(Antarctica) the Sultanate of Bijapur from 1490 to 1686. Hottest planet...... Venus Strongest natural fibre ...... Silk Biggest library ...... National Kie Library (CIS) Lowest temperature ...... Absolute Zero (-273oC) Biggest palace ...... Vatican (Italy) Biggest desert ...... Sahara (Africa) Widest Bridge...... Sydney Harbour Bridge Busiest airport Chicago O'Hare International Airport Island continents ...... Antarctica and Australia Slowest animal ...... Snail Lowest mountains ...... Bheinna Bhaile Heaviest Rainfall...... Mawsynram (India) Hottest region .... North-West Sahara, Azisia (Libya) Driest place ...... Death valley (California) Fastest planet ...... Mercury Hottest place ...... Azizia (Libya) Coldest planet ...... Neptune Furthest planet (from the sun) ...... Neptune Widest Waterfall ...... Khone Falls Shortest day...... December 22 Oldest Religion ...... Hinduism

FIRST in World

 The first persons to reach Mount Everest –  The first country to send man to the moon – Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary – U.S.A  The first person to reach North Pole  The first country to launch Artificial satellite in – Robert Peary the space – Russia  The first person to reach South Pole  The first country to host the modern Olympics – Amundsen – Greece  The first religion of the world – Hinduism  First human in space - Yuri Gagarin (Russia)  The first country to print book – China  The first city on which the atom bomb was  The first country to issue paper currency – dropped – Hiroshima (Japan) China  The first person to land on the moon Neil  The first country to commence competitive Armstrong followed by examination in civil services – China – Edwin E. Aldrin  The first President of the U.S.A  The first shuttle to go in space – Columbia – George Washington  The first spacecraft to reach on Mars – Viking-I  The first Prime Minister of Britain – Robert  The first woman Prime Minister of England Walpole – Margaret Thatcher  The first Governor General of the United Nations  The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country – Trigveli (Norway) – Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)  The first country to prepare a constitution – U.S.A  The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)  The first Governor General of Pakistan – Mohd. Ali Jinnah  The first woman cosmonaut of the world  The first country to host NAM summit – Valentina Tereshkova (Russia) – Belgrade (Yugoslavia)  The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly  The first European to attack India – Alexander, The Great – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit  The first batsman to score three test century in  The first European to reach China three successive tests on debut – Marco Polo – Mohd. Azharuddin  The first person to fly aeroplane  The first man to have climbed Mount Everest – Wright Brothers twice  The first person to sail round the world – Nawang Gombu – Magellan  The first U.S. President to resign Presidency  China's first man in space – Richard Nixon – Yang Liwei  Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein  The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize  Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great – Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)  Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin  The woman with the highest individual Test  Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong score making a new world record – Kiran Baloch (Pakistani cricketer, scoring 242  The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei runs playing women's cricket test against West Indies in Karachi in March, 2004)  The first European to visit China – Marco Polo  The first woman of the world to climb Mt.  Man to walk in Space – Alexei Leonov Everest four times  The first woman Prime Minister of a country – Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali) – Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike  The first woman to cross seven important seas  The first woman President of a country of the world by swimming – Maria Estela Peron – Bula Chaudhury (India)  The first woman to Command a Space Mission  First Asian city to host Olympics Colonel – Tokyo, Japan (1964) – Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)  First woman black tennis player to win a singles  First talkie movie in the world – “The jazz title at Wimbledon Singer” (1927). – A Gibson (1957)  The first residents of International Space station  First woman to win a Grand Slam – Bill Shepherd (USA), Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei – Maureen Catherine (195 3) Krikalev (Russia)  First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal – Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900)  The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest  First professional woman bullfighter – Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001) – Patricia Mccormick (1952)  The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary  First man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic General of Amnesty International – Charles Lindbergh (1927) – lrine Zubeida Khan  First person to cross Antarctic Circle  The first space astronaut to go into space seven – James Cook (1773) times till date  First people to reach the North Pole – Jerry Ross (U.S.A.) – Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and  The first South African to become the second Lt. William P. Benedict (1952) space tourist  First person to conquer the Everest twice – Mark Shuttleworth – Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965)  The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea  First person with only one arm to climb the – Ms. Chang Sang Everest  The first youngest grandmaster of the world in – American Gary Guller(2003) chess  First woman to fly solo around the world – Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine) – jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964)  The first adventurer flying successfully across  First woman to fly solo across the English the English Channel without aircraft Channel – Felix Baumgartner (July 2003) – Hariiet Quimby  First ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen RIVERSIDE CITIES & – Peter Habeler () and Reinhold Messner, (Italy) (1978) COUNTRIES  First woman to set foot on North Pole City River Country – Ann Bancroft, USA (1986)  Alexandria Nile Egypt – Jointly developed by Sony and Philips (1978)  Brussels Seine Belgium  First Atom Bomb  Chittagong Karnaphuli Bangladesh – “Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the  Glasgow Clyde Scotland US during the second world war (1945)  Khartoum Nile Sudan  First manned space vehicle  Lisbon Tagus Portugal – Vostok 1,USSR (1961)  Liverpool Mersey England  Shanghai Yangtze-Kiang China  First human to walk on the Moon  Berlin Spree Germany – Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969)  Bonn Rhine Germany  First human to walk in space  Amsterdam Amsel – Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)  Baghdad Tigris Iraq  Bangkok Menam Thailand GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES  Belgrade Danube Serbia DISCOVERER DISCOVERY  London Thames England Christopher Columbus (Italian)...... America  Montreal Ottawa Canada  Moscow Moskva Russia Vasco da Gama (Portuguese) ...... Sea route to India  Budapest Danube Hungary John Cabot (British) ...... New foundland  Colombo Kaliganga Sri Lanka Pedro Alvarez Cabral (Portuguese)...... Brazil  Cairo Nile Egypt  Karachi Indus Pakistan Tasman (Dutch) Island of Tasmania & New Zealand  Lahore Ravi Pakistan Captian Cook (British) . Sandwich (Hawaiin) Islands  New York Hudson USA Robert Peary (USA) ...... North Pole  Paris Seine France Amundsun (Norway) ...... South Pole  Yangoon Irawadi Myanmar  Rome Tiber Italy Ferdinand de Lesseps (Designed) ...... Suez Canal  Tokyo Sumida Japan David Livingstone (British) ...... Victoria Falls  Vienna Danube Austria Bartholomew Diaz (Portuguese)...... Cape of Good Hope  Warsaw Vistula Poland  Washington Potamac U.S.A. Norseman Eric ...... Greenland  Basra Eupharates Leif Ericsson ...... North America and Tigris Iraq Mungo park ...... Nigeria river in Africa  Bristol Avon England  Cologne Rhine Germany Richard Francis Burton ...... Lake Tanganyika  Dublin Liphi Ireland Henry Hudson ...... Hudson Bay  Hamburg Elbe Germany Gobot Sebastian ...... New Foundland  Philadelphia Delawara America Marco Polo ...... China  Prague Vitava Czechoslovakia  Quebec St. Lawrence Canada Kepler ...... Planets  Stalingrad Volga Russia NATIONAL EMBLEMS Eternal City : Rome, Italy EMBLEM ...... COUNTRY Forbidden City : Lhasa, Tibet Kangaroo ...... Australia Gateway of Tears : Strait of Bab-el Water Lilly ...... Bangladesh Mandeb White Lilly ...... Canada, Italy Garden of England : Kent Beach ...... Denmark George Cross Island : Malta Lily ...... France Granite City : Aberdeen Corn Flower ...... Germany (Scotland) Lioned Capital ...... India Herring Pond : Atlantic Ocean Lion ...... Sri lanka, Sierra Leone Hill Queen : Shimla Rose ...... UK, Iran Holy Land : Palestine Shamrock ...... Ireland Hermit Kingdom : Korea White Lilly ...... Italy Island of Pearls : Bahrain Chrysanthemum ...... Japan Island of Cloves : Madagascar Kiwi ...... New Zealand Key to the Mediterranean : Gibraltar Crescent ...... Pakistan Land of Eagles : Albania Eagle ...... Spain Elephant ...... Ivory Coast Land of Golden Fleece : Australia Lion with Crown ...... Luxembourg Land of Kangaroo : Australia Golden Rod ...... U.S.A Land of Lilies : Canada Secretary Bird...... Sudan Land of Golden Pagoda : Myanmar Bauhinia (orchid tree) ...... Hong Kong Land of Maple : Canada Baobab tree...... Senegal Land of Thousand Lakes : Finland Lion ...... Netherland, Norway, Belgium Land of Morning Calm : Korea Crescent and Star ...... Land of Rising Sun : Japan Cedar tree ...... Lebanon Land of Setting Sun : Britain The Soyombo...... Mongolia Land of Midnight Sun : Norway Land of Lakes : Scotland SOBRIQUETS Land of the Tulips : Netherlands World Land of White Elephant : Thailand Britain of the East : Japan Land of Thunder Bolt : Bhutan Britain of the South : New Zealand Land of Thousand Elephants : Laos Battle field of Europe : Belgium Manchester of the Orient : Osaka City of Cycles : Beijing Never, Never Land : Prairies, City of Dreaming Spires : Oxford N. Australia City of Eternal Springs : Quito (Ecuador) Land of Thunder Dragon : China City of Sky Scrappers : NewYork Nation of Thousand Hills : Rwanda City of Magnificent Distances: Washington D.C Pearl of Arabia : Bahrain City of Golden Gate : San Francisco Pearl of Antilles : Cuba (U.S.A) Pillars of Hercules : Strait of Gibraltar City of Seven Hills : Rome (Italy) Playground of Europe : Switzerland Cockpit of Europe : Belgium Quaker City of USA : Philadelphia,USA Copper Country : Zambia Queen of the Adriatic : Venice, Italy Dark Continent : Africa Roof of the World : Pamirs Empire City : New York (U.S.A) Sorrow of China : River Huang Ho Emerald Island : Ireland Sickman of Europe : Turkey Sugar Bowl of World : Cuba Myanmar ...... : Kyat Venice of the North : Stockholm, Russia ...... : Rouble Sweden Saudi Arabia...... : Riyal White City : Belgrade Vietnam ...... : Dong Windy City : Chicago Mongolia ...... : Tugrik World’s Bread Basket : Paris of N. America Algeria ...... Algeria Dinar Island of fire : Iceland Angola ...... New Kwanza Land of windmills : Polland Armenia ...... Dram Land of Perpetual Greenary : Natal Azerbaijan ...... Manat World Loneliest island : Tristanda Cunha Austria ...... Schilling Bahrain ...... Dinar COUNTRIES AND CURRENCIES Georgia ...... Lari Brazil ...... :Cruzeiro Real Ghana ...... Cedi Bulgaria...... : Lev Indonesia ...... Rupiah Belgium ...... Euro 16 European Countries with Eura as currency are: China ...... : Yuan/Renminbi Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Columbia ...... : Peso Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Cuba ...... : Peso Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. Costa Rica ...... Colon Croatia ...... Kuna COUNTRIES AND THEIR Cyprus ...... Cyprus pound PARLIAMENT Czech Republic...... Koruna Afganistan : Shora Denmark ...... : Krone Australia : Federal Parliament Egypt ...... : Egyptian Pound Bangladesh : Jatiya Sangsad Afghanistan ...... : Afghani Bhutan : Tshogdu (National Assembly) Argentina...... : Peso Britain : Parliament (Commons & Lords) Australia ...... : Australian Dollar China : National People’s Congress Bahrain ...... : Dinar Bangladesh ...... : Taka Denmark : Folketing Bhutan ...... : Ngultrum France : National Assembly Hungary...... : Forint Hungary : National Assembly Iran ...... : Rial Iceland : Althing Switzerland...... : Swiss Franc India : Parliament (Lok Sabha & Rajya Thailand ...... : Bhat Sabha) U.K...... : Pound Sterling Iran : Majlis U.S.A...... : Dollar Iraq : National Assembly Norway ...... Krone Israel : Knesset Vatican City State ...... : Lira Japan : Diet Iraq ...... : Iraqi Dinar Kuwait : National Assembly Israel ...... : Shekel Libya : General People’s Congress Japan ...... : Yen Maldives : Majlis Kazakhstan ...... : Tenge Myanmar : People’s Assembly Korea ...... : Won Nepal : National Panchayat Kuwait ...... : Kuwaiti Dinar Netherlands : States General Malaysia ...... : Ringgit Poland : Sejm Mexico ...... : Peso Russia : State Duma South Africa : House of Assembly Burkino Faso ...... Upper Volta Sweden : Riksdag Cape Kennedy...... Cape Caneveral Switzerland : Federal Assembly Cambodia ...... Kampuchia Germany : Bundestag Djibouti ...... French Somaliland Afganistan :Shora Ethiopia...... Abyssinia Algeria :National Peoples Assembly Ghana ...... Gold Coast Australia :House of representative of senate Guyana ...... British Guinia Cuba :National Assembly of people power Guianea Bissau ...... Portuguese Gayana. Egypt :People’s Assembly Harare ...... Salisburry Greenland :Landstraad Hawaiin Islands ...... Sandwich Islands Norway :Sterling Indonesia ...... The Dutch East India Pakistan :National Assembly Iran ...... Persia USA :Congress Iraq ...... Mesopotamia Srilanka :National State Istanbul ...... Constantinople Sudan :National Assembly Jakartha...... Batavia Syria :People Council Japan ...... Nippon USA: Congress Kinshasa ...... Leopoldville Kiribati ...... Gilbert Island Vietnam :National Assembly Laos ...... Lanxang NEW AND OLD NAMES OF Lesotho...... Basitoland PLACES, COUNTRIES Mexico ...... New Spain Malavi...... Nyasaland New Name ...... Old Name Mali ...... French Sudan Ankara ...... Angora Malaysia ...... Malaya Banjail ...... Bathurst Malabo ...... Santa Isabet Bengalooru...... Bangalore Madhya Pradesh ...... Central Province Beijing...... Peking Manchuria ...... Manchuko Belize ...... British Honduras Myanmar ...... Burma Bangladesh ...... East Pakistan Mosambique ...... Potuguese East Africa Botswana ...... Bechuana Land Mumbai...... Bombay Namibia ...... South West Africa National Flowers Nauru ...... Pleasant Island Maple leaf Orissa ...... Kalinga ...... Canada Lotus Papua New Guinea ...... Trust Territory of New Guinea India ...... Thistle Portuguese ...... Lucitania Scotland ...... Pomegranate Spain...... Gold Vatle Sri Lanka ...... Ceylon Australia ...... Narsissas St. Petersburg ...... Leningrad China ...... Sunflower Surinam ...... Dutch Gayana ...... Russia Water Lilly Taiwan ...... Formosa Bangladesh ...... Lilly Tasmani...... Van Diemen’s Land France ...... Corn Flower Germany...... Shamrock Thailand ...... Siam Ireland...... Chrysanthemum Togo ...... Togoland Japan ...... Golden Rose Tuvalu ...... The Ellice Islands USA...... Rose Varanasi ...... Banares UK ...... Volgograd ...... Stalingrad Largest exhibition ground - Pragati Maidan (New Zaire ...... Congo Delhi) Largest arch dam - Idukki dam () Zambia ...... Northern Rhodesia Largest library - National library Zimbabwe...... Rhodesia (Kolkata) Largest aircraft carrier - INS Viraat Largest landing ship - INS Magrar india Largest union territory - Andaman Nicobar Islands HIGHEST Largest gurudwara - Golden Temple (Amritsar) Highest peak - Mt. K (Godwin Austin) 2 Largest residence - Rashtrapati Bhavan Highest water falls - Jog falls (Karnataka) Largest river Barrage - Farakka Barrage Highest gate way - Buland Darwaza Largest open university - Indira Gandhi Open (Fathepur sikri) University (New Delhi) Highest literacy among state - Kerala Largest Ocean Island - Middle Andaman Highest tower - Qutabminar LONGEST Highest dam - (Punjab) Highest multiple arch dam Longest Canal - Indira Gandhi canal - Idukki (Kerala) Longest River - Ganga LARGEST Longest Tunnel - Kharbude (Konkan Railway) Largest populated city - Mumbai Longest Dam - Hirakud (Orissa) Largest fresh water lake - Kolleru Longest National Highway- N.H. 7 (Andhra Pradesh) Longest Railway platform - Kharagpur (West Largest salt water lake - Chilka (Orissa) Bengal) Largest state - Rajasthan Longest Corridor - Rameswaram Temple Largest populated state - Uttar Pradesh corridor Largest museum - Indian museum (Kolkata) Longest Hanging bridge - Howra bridge Largest zoo - Zoological Garden (Kolkata) Longest Train Service - Himasagar express Largest dome - Gol Gumbaz (Karnataka) Longest Bridge - Anna Indira(Rameswaram Largest mosque - Jama Masjid (New Delhi) to Mandap) Largest desert - Thar (Rajasthan) Longest Glacier - Siachen Glacier Largest river Island - Majuli (Brahmaputra) Longest River bridge - Sethu Largest monastery - Tawang monastery (Arunachal Pradesh) SMALLEST Largest cave temple - Ellora (Maharashtra) Smallest state (Area) - Goa Largest animal fair - Sonepur fair (Bihar) Smallest state (population) - Sikkim Largest plateau - Deccan plateau Smallest state (forest area) - Haryana Largest river in South India - Godavari Smallest Union Territory - Lakshadweep Largest prison - Puzhal Jail (Chennai) Largest planetarium - Birla planetarium Miscellaneous (India) (Kolkata) Largest G.P.O - Mumbai G.P.O Biggest hotel ...... Oberoi - Sheraton (Mumbai) Largest church - St. Cathedral (Old Goa) Highest statue ...... Gomateswara Statue Largest cinema theatre - Thangam Theatre Highest award (civilian) ...... Bharat Ratna Lake City : Udaipur Highest Gallantry award ...... Param vir chakra Switzerland of India : Kashmir Most literate state...... Kerala Paradise on Earth : Kashmir Least literate state...... Bihar Mini-Switzerland in India : Khajjar (Himachal Most densely populated state ...... West Bengal Pradesh) Sorrow of Bengal : River Damodar Least densely populated state ...Arunachal Pradesh Sorrow of Bihar : River Kosi Most populated city ...... Mumbai Sorrow of Assam : Brahmaputra Busiest bridge ...... Howra (Calcutta) Spice Garden of India : Kerala Oldest Refinery...... Digboi (Assam) Sugar Bowl of India : Uttar Pradesh Most literate Union Territory...... Lakshadweep Tea Garden of India : Assam Fastest Train ...... Shatabdi express Detroit of India : Pitampur Least populated Union Territory...... Lakshadweep Land of Sunrise in India : Arunachal Pradesh SOBRIQUETS Hi-Tech City : Hyderabad Manchester of South India : Coimbatore India Manchestor of India : Ahamadabad Mini Switzerland : Himachal Pradesh All Seasons State : Himachal Pradesh City of orange : Nagpur Blue Mountains : Nilgiri City of Palaces : Calcutta Weavers city of India : Panipat City of Golden Temple : Amritsar Silicon vally of India : Banglore Garden City of India : Bangalore Clouds of house : Megalaya Gateway of India : Mumbai Gods own land of India : Kerala Granary of India : Punjab City of Padala : Jaipur Land of Five Rivers : Punjab Holly wood of India : Mumbai Pearl of the Orient : Goa Silent Share : Hadakh Pink City : Jaipur Perly East : Goa

PERSONS WITH POPULAR NAMES

WORLD Poet’s Poet : Edmund Spenser Light of the world : Jesus Desert Fox : Erwin Rommel Prince of Pilgrimage : Huien Tsang Lady with the Lamp : Florence Nightingale The Wizard of Menlopark: Edison G.B.S : George Bernard Shaw Rascal monk : Rasputin Little Corporal : Napoleon Bonaparte Good Shepherd : Jesus Christ Maid of Orleans : Joan of Arc Apostle of Free Trade : Richard Cobden Fuhrer (also Fuehrer) : Adolf Hitler King of Rock & Roll : Elvis Presley Man of Blood and Iron : Otto von Bismarck Columbus of Space : Neil Armstrong Maiden Queen : Queen Elizabeth I Master of Suspense : Alfred Hitchcock Bard of Avon : William Shakespeare Second Duke : Benitto Mussolini Grand Old Man of Britain : Gladstone Iron Duke : Duke of Wellington American Gandhi : Martin Luther King The Daughter of East : Benazir Bhutto Acharya : Vinobha Bhave Iron Butterfly : Margaret Thatcher Sage of Paunar : Vinobha Bhave Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher Man of Peace : Lal Bahadur Shastri African Gandhi : Dr. Kenneth Kaunda Babuji : Jagjeevan Ram INDIA Little Master : Sunil Gavaskar Flying Sikh : Milkha Singh Prince of Beggars : Madan Mohan Malaviya Mysore Tiger : Tippu Sultan Bengali Tiger : Bipin Chandra Pal Maratha Kesari : Bal Gangadhar Tilak Sage of Kanchi : Sankaracharya Punjab Lion : Lala Lajpat Rai Saint of Gutters : Mother Theresa Sage of Sabarmati : Mahatma Gandhi Man of the Masses : K. Kamaraj Indian Machiavelli : Chanakya Golden Girl of Indian Athletics: P.T. Usha Indian Napoleon : Samudragupta Leopard of the Snow : Ang Rita Anna : C.N. Annadurai Indian Bismarck : Sardar Vallabhai Patel Akbar of Kashmir : Zian-ul-Abideen Light of Asia : Buddha Kuvembu : K.V. Puttappa Lokmanya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak Rani of Jhansi : Lakshmibai Loknayak : Jayaprakash Narayan Shahid : Bhagat Singh J.P : Jayaprakash Narayan C.R. : C. Rajagopalachari Kathal Mannan : Gemini Ganesan Rajaji : C. Rajagopalachari Natikar Tilakam : Sivaji Ganesan Deenabandhu : C.F. Andrews Chachaji : Jawaharlal Nehru Deshabandhu : C.R. Das Sher-e-Punjab : Ranjit Singh Grand Old Man of India : Dadabhai Naoroji Mahamana : Madan Mohan Punjab Kesari : Lala Lajpat Rai Malaviya Milkman of India : Varghese Kurian Mahatma : Gandhiji Bapu : Gandhiji KERALA Gurudev : Rabindranath Tagore Guruji : Golwalkar Bharat Kesari : Mannathu Padmanabhan Iron Lady of India : Indira Gandhi Beypore Sultan : Vaikam Mohammed Bashir Priyadarshini : Indira Gandhi Mayyazhi Gandhi : K.P. Kumaran Master Barefooted painter : M.F. Hussain Kerala Simham : Pazhassi Raja Kipper : K.M. Cariappa Swadeshabhimani : Ramakrishna Pillai Indian Shakespeare : Kalidasa Pulayaraja : Ayyankali Badshah Khan : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Valiya Diwanji : Raja Keshavadas Frontier Gandhi : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Kerala Kalidasa : Kerala Varma Valiya Faker-e-Afghan : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Koyithampuran Netaji : Subash Chandra Bose Kerala Panini : A.R. Rajaraja Varma Prince of Patriots : Subash Chandra Bose Kerala Vyasa : Kodungalloor Birdman of India : Salim Ali Kunhikuttan Thampuran Nightingale of India : Sarojini Naidu Kerala Chaucer : Chiramakavi Lion of Kashmir : Sheikh Mohammed Kerala Orphuse : Changampuzha Krishna T.T.K. : T.T. Krishnamachari Pillai Andhra Kesari : Tangutri Prakasam Kerala Gandhi : K. Kelappan Grand Old Man of Indian- Kerala Valmiki : Vallathol Narayana Menon Journalism : Tushar Kanti Ghosh Kerala Scott : C.V. Raman Pillai Kerala Ibsen : N. Krishna Pillai INDIA Kerala Mauppasant : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Father of the Nation ...... Mahatma Gandhi Kerala Thulasidas : Vennikulam Gopala Kurup Father of Ayurveda ...... Athreya Kerala Hemmingway : M.T. Vasudevan Nair Father of Astronomy...... Varahamihira Kesari : A. Balakrishna Pillai Father of Sanskrit Drama ...... Kalidasa : Ramakrishna Pillai Father of Indian Renaissance . Raja Ram Mohan Roy Sahitya Panchanan : P.K. Narayana Pillai Father of Surgery...... Susruta Father of Indian Unrest ...... Bal Gangadhar Tilak FAMOUS FATHERS Father of Indian Budget ...... Professor Mahalanobis Father of Indian Painting...... Nandalal Bose World Father of Indian Cinema ...... Dada Saheb Phalke Father of Psychology...... Sigmund Freud Father of Indian Engineering ...... M.Visweswariah Father of Cloning ...... Ian Wilmut Father of Indian Green Revolution ...... Father of Printing ...... Guttenberg Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Father of History ...... Herodotus Father of Indian Railway ...... Lord Dalhousie Father of Economics ...... Adam Smith Father of Co-operative Movement in India ...... Father of Philosophy ...... Socrates Frederic Nicholson Father of Indian Printing ...... James Hickey Father of Sociology ...... Augustus Comte Father of Local Self Government in India ... Lord Ripon Father of English Poetry ...... Geoffrey Chaucer Father of Biology...... Aristotle KERALA Father of Essay...... Montaigne Father of Medicine...... Hippocrates Father of Language ...... Ezhuthachan Father of Modern Travancore ... Marthanda Varma Father of Homeopathy ...... Samuel Haniman Father of Kerala Renaissance .... Sree Narayana Guru Father of Socialism...... Robert Owen Father of Modern Hinduism .. Adi Shankaracharya Father of Scientific Socialism ...... Karl Marx Father of Co-operation ...... Robert Owen WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND Father of Jurisprudence...... John Locke Father of Atom Bomb ...... Otto Hahn THEIR FOUNDERS Father of Genetics...... Gregor Mendel United Nations : Joseph Stalin (USSR), Father of Motor Car ...... Henry Ford Winston Churchill (UK) Father of Reformation ...... Martin Luther and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (USA) Father of Greek Democracy ...... Clesthenes Red Cross : Jean-Henri Dunant Father of Bangladesh . Sheikh Mujibur Rehman Boy Scouts : Baden Powell Father of Pakistan ...... Muhammed Ali Jinnah Y.M.C.A. : Sir George Williams Father of Tanzania ...... Julius Nyrere Kindergarten : Froebel Father of Mathematics ...... Pythagorus Lion’s Club : Melvin John Father of Modern Cartoon ...... William Hogarth Salvation Army : William Booth Father of Modern Computer ...... Charles Babbage Nursing System : Florence Nightingale Father of Nuclear Physics ...... : Ernest Rutherford Fascism : Benito Mussolini Father of Modern Drama ...... Henrik J. Ibsen Protestant Religion : Martin Luther Father of Modern Tourism ...... Thomas Cook Nazism : Adolf Hitler Father of Painting ...... Leonardo Da Vinci Montessori System : Maria Montessori Father of Green Revolution ...... Norman Borlaug Cubism : Pablo Picasso Father of Renaissance ...... Petrarch Amnesty International : Peter Berenson India Arunachal Pradesh ...... A palamis Jainism : Vardhamana Mahavira Tamil Nadu ...... Badagas Taoism : Lao Tse Uttar Pradesh ...... Bhotias Bahaism : Mirza Hussain Ali Hazaribagh ...... Birhor Confucianism : Confucius Himachal Pradesh ...... Gaddis Sikhism : Guru Nanak Orissa ...... Khonds Zorastrianism (Parsis) : Zoraster Madhya Pradesh ...... Kol Bhoodan Movement : Vinoba Bhave Manipur ...... Kuki Sarvodaya Movement : Jaya Prakash Narayan Ramakrishna Mission : Swami Vivekananda Sikkim ...... Labora Arya Samaj : Dayananda Saraswathi Tripura ...... Lushais Brahma Samaj : Raja Ram Mohan Roy Bihar ...... Munda Dev Samaj : Siva Narayan Agnihothri Kerala ...... Ooralis Prarthana Samaj : Kesab Chandra Sen Maharashtra ...... Warlies Suddhi Movement : Swami Shradhanand Chinmaya Mission : Swami Chinmayananda SIGNS AND SYMBOLS Servants of India Society: Gopalakrishna Gokhale  Red crystal flag : Red Cross Indian Association : Surendranath Banerji  Black Flag : Protest Peoples Education Society : Dr. B.R. Ambedkar  Yellow flag : Put on ship carrying people Vana Mahothsav : K.M. Munshi with infectious disease Theosophical Society of India : Annie Besant  Dove : Peace  Olive branch : Peace MANKIND AND VARIOUS  Red Flag : Revolution TRIBES  Red triangle : Family planning Mongolians living in Assam regions ...... Abhors  White Flag : Peace The Dutch born in South Africa ...... Afrikaners  Maharaja : Air India The people of England ...... Anglo Saxon  Lotus : Culture and Civilization Ancient Dravidians living in central India and  Wheel : Progress Rajastan ...... Bhils  Red Cross : Hospital / Medical Service Dutch settlers in South Africa ...... Boers  Black band arm : Sign of Mourning, in People of Croatia, Slovenia ...... Croats Protest People in south east frontiers of Russia .. Cossacks  Blind folded woman : Justice Inhabitants of Greenland and of Arctic regions... Eski- holding a Balance Scale mos  Flag at a half most :National Mourning Natives of the Philippine Islands ...... Flemings  Flag up side down :Distress Hill tribes of Assam ...... Khasis / Garos People of W.Asia. (Turkey, Iran and Iraq) ... Kurds Natives of New Zealand ...... Maoris OFFICIAL BOOKS Short sized people found in the forests of Africa ...... Pygmies  Blue Book : British Original inhabitants of North America . Red Indians  Green Book : Italy & France Aborigines of West Bengal, Bihar & Orissa...... Santhals  Orange Book : Netherlands Natives of Nilgiri Hills (South India)...... Todas  White Book : Germany & China People of South Africa living in certain parts of Natal  White Paper : India Zulus  Gray Book : Japan & Belgium The people of Nagaland ...... Angami INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

Air Brake...... George Westinghouse Diesel Oil Engine ...... Rudolf Diesel Aniline Dyes ...... Hoffman Discovery of Solar System ...... Copernicus (1540) Adding Machine ...... Balise Pascal Discovery of Specific Gravity ...... Archimedes Aeroplane ...... : Wright Brothers Electric Battery ...... Volta Air Conditioner ...... : Carrier Electric Lamp ...... Edison Atom Bomb...... : Otto Hahn Electricity...... Faraday Aspirin ...... : Dreser Electron Theory ...... Bohr Alcohol Thermometer ...... : Farenheit Electrical Waves ...... Heitz Atomic Thermometer ...... : Bohr Electric Measurement ...... Gauss Atomic Theory ...... : Dalton DDT ...... : Dr. Paul Muller Atomic Number ...... Mosley Electron ...... : J.J. Thompson Atomic Structure ...... Bohr and Rutherford Electric Lamp ...... : Thomas Alva Edison Automobile ...... : Daimler Elevator ...... : Elisha G Otis Antiseptic Surgery ...... Lord Joseph Lister Fountain Pen ...... : Waterman Archimedean Screw ...... Archimedies Fahrenheit Scale ...... Fahrenheit Avogadro's Hypothesis ...... Avogadro Film & Photographic goods ...... Kodak Ball Pen ...... : Loud Glider ...... : George Cayley Balloon ...... : Montogolfier Generator ...... : Piciontti Blood Circulation ...... : Harvey Gramaphone ...... : Thomas Alva Edison Barometer ...... : Torricelli Gun Powder ...... : Roger Bacon Bicycle ...... : Mac Millan Geometry...... Euclid Braily System ...... : Louis Braille Hydrogen ...... : Cavendish Beri - Beri ...... Eijkman Helicopter ...... Broquett Blood Circulation ...... Harvey Helium Gas ...... Lockyer Boson ...... S.N.Bose Homoeopathy ...... Hahnemann Boyle's law ...... Boyle Hovercraft ...... Cockrell Braille ...... Louis Braille Hydrophobia ...... Louis Pasteur Computer ...... : Charles Babbage Jet Engine ...... : Sir Frank Whittle Chloroform ...... : James Young Simpson Intelligence Tests ...... : Binet Cinema ...... : Lumiere Brothers Insulin ...... : F. Banting Cinema Projector ...... : Thomas Alva Edison Induction of Electric Current ...... Faraday Crescograph...... : J.C. Bose Incandescent Bulb ...... Edison Celluloid ...... Parkes Induction Coil ...... Rohm Korff Chloroform ...... James Harrison and Insulin ...... F.Banting James Young Simpson Intelligence test ...... Binet Cholera Bacillus ...... Robert Koch Jet Propulsion ...... Frank Whittle Coloured Photography ...... Lippman Law of Gravitation ...... : Issac Newton Cosmic Rays ...... R.A.Millikan Law of Heredity...... : G. Mendal Cyclotron ...... Lawrence Laser ...... : Theodore Maiman Diesel Engine ...... : Rudolf Diesel Lightning Conductor ...... : Benjamin Franklin Dynamo ...... : Michael Faraday Logarithm ...... : John Napier Dynamite...... : Alfred Nobel Laughing Gas ...... Priestley Deuterium (Heavy Water) ...... H.C.Urey Life Boat ...... Henry Great Head Lift (Elevators) ...... Otis Railway Engine...... Stephenson Linotype ...... Mergenthaler Radio transmitter ...... Alexanderson Line of demarcation (ship) ...... Plimsoll Rare Gas ...... Cavandish Laws of Electrical Resistance ...... Ohm Replacing human heart ...... Christian Barnard Law of Electrolysis ...... Faraday Revolver ...... Colt Law of gases ...... Gay Lussac Quantum Theory ...... Max plank Laws of Gravitation ...... Newton Refrigerator ...... : James Harrison Laws of Heredity ...... Gregory Mandel Safety Lamp ...... Humphry Davy Laws of Motion ...... Newton Safety Match ...... Land Strom Laws of Natural Selections ...... Darwin Safety Pin...... William Hunt Laws of Multiple Proportion ...... Dalton Safety Razor ...... Gillette Liquid Oxygen ...... Dewar Sewing Machine...... Barthelling Thimonnier Machine Gun ...... : Dr. Richard Gattling Short Hand...... Pitman Maser ...... : Charles H. Townes Solar System ...... Copernicus Microphone ...... : Graham Bell Steam Engine ...... James Watt Measurement of Electrical Energy...... Joule, Steam Turbine ...... Parsons James Prescoft Spectroscope ...... Bunsen Meson ...... Hideki Yakawa Stethoscope ...... Rene Laennee Microscope ...... Janes Submarine ...... David Bushnell Molecular Scattering of light in fluid . Ramanathan Seismograph ...... Roberts Mallet Neon Gas ...... Ramsay, Travers Sextant ...... Hadley Neutron ...... Chadwick Steam boat ...... Fulton Nuclear Fission ...... Otto Hahn, Bohr and Fermi Submarine ...... Bushwell Nylon Plastic ...... Carothers Talkies...... Lee-de-Frost Oxygen ...... : J.B.Preistly Tank ...... Swinton Origin of Species ...... Charles Darwin Telegraphy .. William F.Cooke & Charles Wheatstone Parachute ...... : A.J. Garnerian Telegraph Code ...... Morse Pencillin ...... : Alexander Fleming Telephone ...... Alexander Graham Bell Photography (Film)...... : John Carbutt Telescope...... Galileo Periodic Law...... Mendeleef Television ...... J.L. Baird Phonograph ...... Edison Thermosflask ...... Dewar Phonographic Shorthand ...... Pitman Transistor ...... Shockly and Bardeen Photograph ...... Dauguerre Typewriter ...... Sholes Principle for lever (S.P.Gravity)...... Archimedes Theory of Evolution ...... Charles Darwin Phototherapy ...... N.R.Finsen Theory of Relativity ...... Albert Einstein Positive Electrons...... Anderson Uranium fusion ...... Oho Hahn Powerloom ...... Cartwright Uranus (Planet) ...... Herschel William Pneumatic Tyre...... Dunlop Vaccination ...... Jenner Printing for the Blind ...... Braille Vaccum Flask ...... Sir James Dewar Printing Press ...... Caxton Vulcanisation ...... Good Year Printing Types ...... John Guttenberg Washing Soda ...... Lablanc Psycho-analysis ...... Dr.Sigmund Freud Wireless Communication ...... Oliver Lodge Rayon ...... : Sir Joseph Swan Wireless Telegraphy ...... Marcony Radio-activity of Uranium ...... Henry Becquerel Wireless ...... Marconi Raman effect ...... C.V.Raman Radium ...... Madame Curie X-ray...... W.C. Rontgen FAMOUS LINES AND FRONTIERS • Boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan: India): 20th Parallel Durand Line • The border between USA and Canada: 49th Paral- • Boundary between India and China: McMohan Line lel • Line between India and Pakistan: Radcliff Line • The border between Germany and Poland: Oder • Line between North and South Vietnam: 17th Par- Niesse Line allel • Boundary between Germany and Poland : • Line between North and South Korea: 38th parallel Hindenberg Line • Border between France and Germany: Maginot Line • Boundary between Namibia and Angola : 16th Par- allel • The line which Pakistan claims to be the boundary • Boundary between Russia and Finland : Mannar line between India and Pakistan (Not acceptable to Haime Line

WHERE THEY REST Saketham ...... Ayodhya Place Person Purushapuram ...... Peshawar Gandharam ...... Khandahar Rajghat ...... Mahatma Gandhi Avanthi ...... Ujjayini Santhivan ...... Jawaharlal Nehru Chaithrabhoomi ...... B. R. Ambedkar Kanyakubjam ...... Kanouj Shakthisthal ...... Indira Gandhi Kamaroop ...... Assam Ekthasthal ...... Zail Singh Devagiri ...... Doulathabad Kisanghat ...... Charan Singh Kosalam ...... Faizabad Veerbhoomi ...... Rajiv Gandhi Kanchi ...... Kanchipuram Abhyaghat ...... Morarji Desai Vadodara ...... Baroda Narayanghat...... Gulzarilal Nanda Thiruvanchikkulam, Mahodayapuram...Kodungallur Samathasthal ...... Jagjivan Ram Madras ...... Chennai Vijayghat ...... Lal Bahadur Shastri Calcutta...... Kolkata Nigam Bodhghat...... Kishan Kant Bangalore ...... Bengalooru Karmabhumi ...... K. R. Narayanan NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES Shantivan ...... Sanjay Gandhi Budha Purnima Park ...... P. V. Narasimha Rao Started by Indians  Young India, Harijan: Mahatma Gandhi NEW AND OLD NAMES OF  National Herald: Jawaharlal Nehru PLACES IN INDIA  Vande Matharam, Karma Yogi: Aurobindo Ghosh Pondichery...... Puthuchery  New India: Annie Besant Indraprastham ...... Delhi  Voice of India: Dadabhai Naoroji Magadham ...... Bihar  Al-Hilal: Edited by Abdul Kalam Azad Vangarangyam ...... Bengal  Kesari: Bal Gangadhar Tilak Pataliputhram ...... Patna  Indian Opinion: Gandhiji Kalingam ...... Orissa  : K. Sukumaran Kashi ...... Banaras  : Kandathil Vargheese Prayag...... Alahabad Mappila Karnavathi ...... Ahemadabad  : K.P. Kesava Menon RIVERSIDE CITIES & STATES (INDIA)

CITY RIVER STATE Ayodhya ...... Sarayu ...... U.P Badrinath ...... Alaknanda ...... Uttarakhand Kolkata ...... Hoogly...... W. Bengal Cuttack ...... Mahanadi ...... Orissa Delhi ...... Yamuna ...... Delhi Guwahati ...... Brahmaputra ...... Assam Haridwar ...... Ganges (Bhagirathi) ...... Uttarakhand Agra ...... Yamuna ...... U.P Ahmedabad ...... Sabarmati ...... Gujarat Surat ...... Tapti ...... Gujarat Varanasi ...... Ganges ...... Uttar Pradesh Vijayawada ...... Krishna ...... Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad ...... Musi ...... Andhra Pradesh Kanpur ...... Ganges ...... Uttar Pradesh Lucknow ...... Gomati ...... Uttar Pradesh Nasik...... Godawari ...... Maharashtra Patna...... Ganges ...... Bihar Srinagar ...... Jhelum ...... J & K Allahabad ...... Ganga - Yamuna...... U.P Ferozepur ...... Sutlej ...... Punjab Jabalpur ...... Narmada ...... M.P Ludhiana ...... Sutlej ...... Punjab Madurai ...... Vaigai ...... Tamil Nadu Mysore ...... Kaveri ...... Karnataka Tirunelveli ...... Tamaraparni ...... Tamil Nadu Jamshedpur ...... Subarnarekha ...... Bihar Howarh ...... Hoogly...... West Bengal Alwaye ...... Periyar ...... Kerala Bhaglpur ...... Ganga ...... Bihar Buxar ...... Ganga ...... Bihar Dibugarh ...... Brahmaputra ...... Assam Kota ...... Chambal ...... Rajastan Karnool ...... Tungabhadra ...... Andhrapradesh Leh ...... Indus ...... Jammu & Kashmir Moradabad ...... Ramganga ...... U.P Mathura ...... Yamuna ...... U.P Pandharpur ...... Bhima ...... Maharastra Sambalpur ...... Mahanadi ...... Orissa Srirangapatanam ...... Cauvery ...... Karnataka Tiruchirapally ...... Cauvery ...... Tamil Nadu Ujjine ...... Narmada ...... Madya Pradesh Dhaka ...... Buriganga ...... Bangladesh Mongar ...... Ganges ...... Bihar WELL KNOWN QUOTATIONS  ‘Let a hundred flowers bloom and let a thousand schools of thought contend’  ‘Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would  “Powers flows from the barrel of a gun”. not like to be a master’ Mao- Tse -Tung  ‘A Government, of the people by the people and  “We can secure peace only by preparing for war”. for the people’ John F. Kennedy Abraham Lincoln  ‘The living need charity more than the dead  ‘Give us tool and we will finish the job’ George Arnold  ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and  ‘Reading make a full man, conference a ready man sweat.’ and writing an exact man’. Sir Winston Churchill  ‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swal- lowed and some few to be chewed and digested’.  ‘If God did not exist, it would be necessary to  ‘Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for invent him. ability’.  ‘Crush the infamous thing’. Francis Bacon Voltaire  ‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest  ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’ thought  ‘Other men live to eat. I eat to live.  “If winter comes can spring be far behind’’  ‘Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or P.B. Shelley after death.’  ‘Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great  ‘I know nothing except that fact of my ignorance’ judgement seat’.  ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’.  ‘East is East and West is West and never the twain Socrates shall meet’.  ‘The Gods help them who help themselves’ Rudyard Kipling Aesop  ‘The more things a man is ashamed of, the more  ‘The State ? It is me’ respectable he is’ Louis XIV Bernard Shaw  ‘I am not a culprit’  Where wealth accumulates, men decay’. Fidel Castro  ‘Wisdom makes but a slow defence against trouble,  ‘It was only one life, what is one life in the affairs though at last at sure one’. of a state’ Oliver Goldsmith Benitto Mussolini  ‘The roots of education are bitter, but fruit is sweet.  ‘Success is the sole earthly judge of right and  ‘Virtue is the mean state between two vices, the wrong’ one of excess and other deficiency’. Adolf Hitler  ‘Man is by nature a political animal’  ‘The throne is but a piece of wood covered with Aristotle velvet’.  ‘Give me good mothers. I shall give you a good  ‘Let them eat cakes’. nation.’ Marie Antoinette  ‘There is no word such as impossible in my dic-  “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me” tionary’ Jesus Christ Napolean Bonaparte  ‘Nevertheless it moves’  “Et tu Brute”. Galileo  Vini Vidi Vici (I came, I saw, I, conquered)  ‘Play the game in the spirit of game’. Julius Caesar Baron Peirre de Coubertin  ‘I am dying with the help of too many physicians’  ‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound’. Alexander the Great  ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’  ‘There is nothing either good or bad but thinking  ‘It takes two to speak the truth - on to speak and makes it so’. the other to hear’.  ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. Henry David Thoreau   ‘Frailty thy name is woman’. ‘The history of the world is but the biographies of great men’.  ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’. Thomas Carlyle  ‘Cowards die many times before their death, the  ‘Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven’. valiant never taste death but once’. John Milton  ‘All the world is a stage and all the men and women  ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’ merely players’ Dr. Samuel Johnson William Shakespere  ‘Better a live sparrow than a dead eagle’.  ‘All our knowledge brings us nearer to our igno- Fitzgerald rance’.  ‘Romanticism is disease classicism is health’ T.S. Eliot Von Goethe  ‘End justifies the means  ‘Taxation without prosperity’ Nicholo Machiavelli Jacob Molecschott  ‘Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine  ‘To every action there is an equal and opposite percent perspiration’. reaction.’ Thomas Alva Edison Sir Isaac Newton  ‘Knowledge is power’  ‘Thank God I have done my duty’. Thomas Hobbes Last words of Lord Nelson   ‘Superstition is the religion of feeble minds’ ‘Virtue is its own reward’ Edmund Burke  ‘The good of the people is the chief law’ - Cicero  ‘The style is the name himself’  “Give me a place to stand and I can move the Buffon entire earth”.  ‘Proper words in proper place’  ‘Eureka ! Eureka! (I have found it)’ - Johnathan Swift Archimedes  ‘Nature never did betray the heart that loved her’.  ‘Religion is the opium of the people’  ‘The child is the father of man’. Karl Marx William Wordsworth  ‘Man is a tool making animal’  ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. Benjamin Franklin  ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’  ‘Direct Action’ Alexander Pope Mohammed Ali Jinnah  ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’  ‘Good government is no substitute for self gov-  ‘Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are ernment’. sweeter’. Morley  “Beauty is truth and truth beauty”.  One small step for men a leap for mankind (On the John Keats stepping on moon)  ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power cor- Neil Armstrong rupts absolutely’.  ‘I think therefore I am’. Descartes Lord Acton  ‘Truth and non - violence are my God’  ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’.  ‘Do or die’  ‘Man is born free, yet every where he is in chains’.  ‘Hai Ram’ Jean - Jacques Rousseau  ‘Untouchability is a crime against God and man-  ‘Whom the Gods love die young’. kind’ Lord Byron  ‘A customer is the most important person in our  ‘More things are wrought by prayers than this premises’. world dreams of’. Mahatma Gandhi Tennyson  ‘Ram and Rahim are the two different names of  ‘Take care to get what you like or you will be the same God’ forced to like what you get’. Kabir Das George Bernad Shaw  ‘Kerala is a lunatic asylum’  ‘The goal of war is peace; of business, leisure’  ‘Live fast; die young’.  The roots of education are bitter, but fruit is sweet Swami Vivekananda Aristotle  ‘We have now to fight for peace with the same  Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid courage and determination as we fought against Voltaire aggression’.  ‘Know them thy self, presume not God to scan’  ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ Lal Bahadur Shastri  ‘The proper study of mankind of a man’  ‘One caste, one God, one religion for man’. Alexander Pope Sree Narayana Guru  The supreme happiness of life is the conviction  ‘Back to Vedas’ that we are loved’ Swami Dayananda Saraswati Victor Hugo  ‘Generations to come, it may be, will scarce be-  ‘Among freemen there can be no successful ap- lieve that such a one as this ever in flesh and peal from the ballot to the bullet’ blood walked up on this earth’. Abraham Lincolin Einstein (About Gandhi)  ‘There is no god higher than truth’  ‘The whole universe is my native land’ Mahatma Gandhi Kalpana Chawla  ‘The best portion of a good Men’s life. His little  ‘Swaraj is my birthright I shall have it’ nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of Balagangadhara Tilak love’  ‘We have made a tryst with destiny’. William Wordsworth  ‘Aram Haram Hai’  “I am restless, I thirst for the distant, the far away”  ‘At the stroke of midnight hour when the world  ‘I would sooner fail than not be among the great- sleeps India will wake to life and freedom’. est’ Jawaharlal Nehru John Keats  ‘Dilli Chalo’.  ‘The class struggle necessarily leads to the dicta-  ‘Give me blood’ I shall give you freedom’ Subhash Chandra Bose torship of the proletariat’  ‘Garibi Hatao’ Karl Marx (1818 - 83) Indira Gandhi  Big, Bright and beautiful  ‘Freedom is in peril. Defend it with all your might’. (Describing the view of the earth from the space)  ‘Work like a bull and live like a hermit’.  “The responsibility for their flight lies from with Dr. Ambedkar history and with the giants of science who pro-  ‘Aiming low is a crime’ ceeded the effort”. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Farewell telecast from space)  ...... the light that shone in this country was no Neil Armstrong ordinary light ..... for that light represented that  ‘Big brother is watching you’ living truth ... George Orwel Jawaharlal Nehru  ‘Be proud that you are Indian, proudly claim I am  ‘This was their finest hour’ an Indian, every Indian is my brother’ Sir Winston Churchill Vivekanada and drought ...... June 17 INTERNATIONAL DAYS Father’s Day...... June 20 World Laughter Day ...... January 10 UN Charter Signing Day ...... June 25 World Customs Day ...... January 26 International Day against Drug Abuse Valentine’s Day...... February 14 and Illicit Trafficking ...... June 26 World Mother Language Day ...... February 21 World Architectural Day ...... July 1 World Women’s Day...... March 8 World Population Day ...... July 11 World Consumer Day ...... March 15 World Breast Feeding Day ...... August 1 World Disabled Day ...... March 15 International Friendship Day...... August 3 World Forestry Day ...... March 21 Hiroshima Day...... August 6 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Nagasaki Day ...... August 9 Discrimination ...... March 21 World Youth Day...... August 12 (UN) World Day for Water ...... March 22 World Folklore Day...... August 22 World Meteorological Day ...... March 23 World Sanskrit Day...... August 22 World Tuberculosis Day ...... March 24 World Enforced Disappearance Day ...... August 31 World Theatre Day ...... March 27 World Coconut Day...... September 2 World Ship Day ...... April 5 World Literacy Day...... September 8 World Health Day ...... April 7 World Ozone Day ...... September 16 World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day ...... April 12 U.N. Peace Day...... 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January 15 National Rededication Day (Death anniversary of Netaji Day ...... January 23 Mrs. Indira Gandhi, birth anniversary of India Tourism Day ...... January 25 Sardar Vallabhai Patel) ...... October 31 Republic Day...... January 26 Legal Service Day ...... November 9 Martyr’s Day ...... January 30 Transport Day ...... November 10 Panchayat Day ...... February 19 Childrens Day...... November 14 Arunachal Day ...... February 20 National News Paper day ...... November 16 Central Excise Day ...... February 24 National Mental disorder day ...... November 17 National Science Day...... February 28 Indian Citizen Day ...... November 19 National Security Day ...... March 4 NCC Day ...... November 24 Ordinance Factories Day (India) ...... March 18 National Law Day ...... November 26 Orissa Day ...... April 1 Navy Day...... December 4 National Maritime Day ...... April 5 Armed Force Flag Day ...... December 7 Jallianwala bagh Day ...... April 13 National Mental disorder ...... 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August 20  National youth Day is being celebrated on the National Sports Day (Dhyanchand’s Brithday) ...... birthday of Vivekananda August 29  National Sports day is being celebrated on the Teachers Day (Birth anniversary of birthday of Dhyan Chand. Dr. Radhakrishnan) ...... September 5  National Technology day is being celebrated Hindi Day...... September 14 to commemorate India’s achievements on Engineers day...... September 15 nuclear capability. Deaf Day ...... September 26  National Science Day is celebrated on the day National Blood Donation Day ...... October 1 in 1928 C. V. Raman discovered Raman Effect. Gandhi Jayanti Day...... October 2  Doctor’s Day is celebrated on the birthday of National Voters Day Dr. B. C. Roy January 25 will here after be celebrated as National  National Broadcasting Day is celebrated on Voters Day. January 25 is the foundation day of that day when Gandhiji addressed the nation. the Election Commission of India. 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