Indian Railway system started its operation in:
- (A) 1847
- (B) 1849
- (C) 1853
- (D) 1861
- (C) 1853
The Indian Railways started its operations on the 16th of April, 1853. The first train, which was a passenger train, was hauled by three steam locomotives, Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan, and traveled a distance of 34 kilometers from Bori Bunder (Mumbai) to Thane. This was the dawn of railway transport in India.
The single biggest hydel power generation site is situated in:
- (A) Brazil
- (B) China
- (C) United States
- (D) India
- (B) China
The Three Gorges Dam, situated in Hubei Province in China on the Yangtze River, is the largest hydroelectric power site in the world. The dam currently holds the record as the largest power station in the world in terms of installed capacity, with 22,500 MW.
Penicillin was discovered by:
- (A) Victor Fleming
- (B) Ian Fleming
- (C) Alexander Fleming
- (D) Stephan Fleming
- (C) Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, in September 1928 at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, made a remarkable discovery. He found a mold, Penicillium notatum, which had contaminated one of his bacterial culture plates and was destroying the nearby colonies of Staphylococcus. Fleming’s discovery of penicillin is not the end of the story, as Florey and Chain went on to purify it.
First International Olympic Games were held in Greece in 1896 in the month of:
- (A) April
- (B) May
- (C) June
- (D) July
- (A) April
The modern Olympic Games officially started in Athens, Greece, in April 1896, from the 6th to the 15th. The opening ceremony was held on April 6 at the Panathenaic Stadium to signify the birth of modern Olympic Games.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon are located in modern day in:
- (A) Syria
- (B) Lebanon
- (C) Iraq
- (D) Jordan
- (C) Iraq
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are generally believed to have been situated near modern-day Hillah in Iraq’s Babil Governorate, some 55 miles or 88 kilometers to the south of Baghdad. While they are included in the list of ancient wonders, there is no archaeological evidence to support their existence, with some speculating their location to have been in Nineveh.
IMF and World Bank were created through:
- (A) Yalta Conference
- (B) New Deal
- (C) Treaty of Versailles
- (D) Breton Woods Agreement
- (D) Breton Woods Agreement
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which was originally called the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, came into existence as a result of the Bretton Woods Conference held in July 1944 in New Hampshire. At the conference, delegates of 44 Allied countries met to discuss a new international monetary system, which would stabilize the world economy, increase international trade, and support the reconstruction of the world economy after World War II.
Indian Rebellion of 1857 (War of Independence) began on 10th May from the town of:
- (A) Jhansi
- (B) Gwalior
- (C) Meerut
- (D) Lucknow
- (C) Meerut
The Indian Rebellion of 1857, also called the First War of Independence, began on the 10th of May, 1857, in the British garrison town of Meerut. On the night of the 10th, the sepoys of the British East India Company rebelled, liberated their jailed comrades, and then, as a united front, marched towards Delhi.
US President Barack Hussein Obama’s father was:
- (A) Indonesian
- (B) Nigerian
- (C) Egyptian
- (D) Kenyan
- (D) Kenyan
Barack Obama’s father was Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (1936–1982). He was a Kenyan senior governmental economist from the Luo community, born in Rachuonyo District, Kenya, who studied in the U.S. at the University of Hawaii and Harvard University, before returning to Kenya.
The book “Indian Musalmans” published in 1871 was written by:
- (A) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
- (B) William Wilson Hunter
- (C) Rudyard Kipling
- (D) Justice Ameer Ali
- (B) William Wilson Hunter
“The Indian Musalmans”, published in 1871 by William Wilson Hunter (W.W. Hunter), was an important work by an English official who argued that the Muslim population in India was an ongoing threat to British colonial rule. The book was reviewed by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in 1872.
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of UN, is from:
- (A) Australia
- (B) South Korea
- (C) Brazil
- (D) Austria
- (B) South Korea
Ban Ki-moon, the 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations (2007–2016), is from the Republic of Korea (South Korea). He served two terms, focusing on climate change and global crises.