General Knowledge

Longest, Largest, Biggest, Smallest, Tallest and Highest

Longest river (India)	Ganges
Longest river (World)	Nile
The longest tributary river of India	Yamuna
The longest river of the south	Godavari
Highest mountain peak	Godwin Austin (k2)
Largest lake (Fresh water)	Wular lake (Kashmir)
Highest Dam	Tehri Dam on Bhagirathi River
Largest Mosque	Jama Masjid, Delhi
Longest Road	Grand Trunk Road
State with longest coastline	Gujarat
Largest railway route	Dibrugarh in Assam to Kannyakumari in Tamil Nadu
Longest tunnel	Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)
Longest national highway	NH-7 which runs from Varanasi to Kanyakumari
Longest Dam	Hirakod Dam (Orissa)
Longest River Bride	Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna
Longest populated city	Mumbai (1.60 crore)
Largest Museum	National Museum, Kolkata
Largest Delta	Sunderban Delta, W. Bengal
Largest Dome	Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (Karnataka)
Largest Zoo	Zoological Gardens, Alipur, Kolkata
Largest man-made Lake	Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)
Largest Desert	Thar (Rajasthan)
Highest Tower	Pitampura Tower, Delhi
Smallest State (Area)	Goa
Smallest State (Population)	Sikkim
Highest Waterfall	Gersoppa waterfall (Karnataka)
Longest Electric railway line	From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
Densest populated State	West Bengal
Largest cave temple	Kailash temple, Ellora (Maharashtra)
Largest animal Fair	Sonepur (Bihar)
Highest Gateway	Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri (Agra)
Biggest Hotel	Oberal –Sharaton (Mumbai)
Largest State (Area)	Rajasthan
Largest State (Population)	Uttar Pradesh
Place of heaviest rainfall	Mausinram (Meghalaya)
Largest corridor	Rameshwaram temple corridor (Tamil Nadu)
Largest cantilever span bride	Howrah Bridge (Kolkata)
Largest forest state	M.P.
Highest straight gravity Dam	Bhakra Dam
Longest Railway Platform	Kharagpur (W. Bengal)
Largest Stadium	Salt lake (Yuva Bharti), Kolkata
Largest Port	Mumbai
Highest Lake	Devatal (Garhwal)
Largest Lake (Saline water)	Chika lake, Orissa
Highest Award	Bharat Ratna
Highest Gallantry Award	Paramveer Chakra
Largest Gurudwara	Golden Temple, Amritsar
Deepest river valley	Bhagirathi & Alaknanda
State with longest coastline of South India	Andhra Pradesh
Longest river which forms estuary	Narmada
Largest Church	Saint Cathedral (Goa)
Longest Beach	Marina Beach, Chennai
Highest Battle field	Siachin Glacier
Highest    Airport	Len (Laddakh)
Largest river island	Majuli (Brahmaputra river, Assam)
Largest Planetarium	Birla Planetarium (Kolkata)
Animal, Tallest	Giraffe
Archipelago, Largest	Indonesia
Bird, Fastest	Swift
Bird, Largest	Ostrich
Bird, Smallest	Humming Bird
Bridge, Longest Railway	Huey P. Long Bridge, Louisiana (U.S.A.)
Building, Tallest in the World	Burj, Dubai (UAE)
Canal, Longest Irrigational	The Kalakumsky Canal
Canal, Longest	Suez Canal
Capital, Highest	La Paz (Boliva)
City, Biggest in Area	Mount Isa Australia
City, Largest in Population	Tokyo
City, Costliest	Tokyo
City, Highest	Van Chuan (China)
Continent, Largest	Asia
Continent, Smallest	Australia
Country, Biggest (Area)	Russia
Country, Largest (Population)	China
Country, Largest (Electorate)	India
Creature, Largest	Blue Whale
Delta, Largest	Sunderban (Bangladesh & India)
Desert, Largest (World)	Sahara (Africa)
Desert, Largest (Asia)	Gobi
Dam, Largest	Grand Coulee Dam (U.S.A.)
Dam, Highest	Hoover Dam (U.S.A.)
Diamond, Largest	The Cullinan
Dome, Largest	Astrodome, in Housten (U.S.A.)
Epic, Largest	Mahabharat
Irrigation Scheme, Largest	Lloyd Barrage, Sukkur (Pakistan)
Island, Largest	Greenland
Sea, Largest	Mediterranean sea
Lake, Deepest	Baikal (Siberia)
Lake, Largest (Artificial)	Lake Mead (Boulder Dam)
Lake, Highest	Titicaca (Bolivia)
Lake, Largest (Fresh water)	Superior
Lake, Largest (Salt water)	Caspian
Library, Largest	United State Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Mountain Peak, Highest	Everest (Nepal)
Mountain Range, Longest	Andes (S. America)
Museum, Largest	British Museum, London
Ocean, Largest	Pacific
Palace, Biggest	Vatican (Italy)
Park, Largest	Yellow Stone National Park (U.S.A.)
Peninsula, Largest	Arabia
Place, Coldest (Habitated)	Verkhoyank (Siberia)
Place, Dryest	Iqique (In Atacama Desert, Chile)
Place, Hottest	Azizia (Libya, Africa)
Place, Rainiest	Mausinram (Meghalaya, India)
Planet, Biggest	Jupiter
Planet, Brightest	Venus
Planet, Smallest	Mercury
Plateau, Highest	Pamir (Tibet)
Platform, Longest	Kharagpur (India)
Railway, Longest	Trans-Siberian railway
Railway Station, Longest	Grand Central Terminal, Chicago (U.S.A.)
River, Longest	Nile (Africa)
River, Largest	Amazon (S. America)
Sea-bird, Largest	Albatross
Star, Brightest	Sirius
Statue, Tallest	Statue of Motherland, Volgagrad (Russia)
Telescope, Largest Radio	New Mexico (U.S.A.)
Tramway, World’s first	New York
Tunnel, Longest (Railway)	Tanna (Japan)
Tunnel, Longest (Road)	Mont Blanc Tunnel between France and Italy
Volcano, Highest	Ojos del Salado (Andes, Ecuador)
Volcano, Most Active	Maunaloa (Hawail-U.S.A.)
Wall, Longest	Great wall of China
Waterfall, Highest	Angel (Venezuela)
Water, Lowest body	Dead Sea
Zoo, Largest	Kruger National Park, South Africa

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Book's Name	Author's Name
A Bend in the River	V. S. Naipaul
A Gift of Monotheists	Ram Mohan Roy
A House for Mr.Biswas	V.S.Naipaul
A Journey	Tony Blair
A Minister and his Responsibilities	Morarji Bhai Desai
A Nation is Making	Surendra Nath Bandhopadhye
A Pair of Blue Eyes	Thomash Hardy
A Passage to India	E. M. Foster
A Revenue Stamp (autobiography)	Amrita Pritam
A Strange and Sublime Address	Amit Choudhary
A Suitable Boy	Bikram Seth
A Tale of Two Cities	Charls Dikens
A Voice of Freedom	Nayantara Shehgal
A week with Gandhi	L. Fischer
Adventures of Sherlock Homes	Arther Canon Doel
All the Prime Minister's Men	Janardan Thakur
Allahabad Prasasti	Harisen
Amitabh- the Making of the Superstar	Susmita Das Gupta
Amukta Malyad	Krishna Deva Raya
An Unknown Indian	Nirod C. Choudhary
Anand Math	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy
Aparajito	Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay
Apple Cart	G. B. Shaw
Aranyak	Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay
Arogyaniketan	Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Astyadhaye	Panini
Bakul Katha	Ashapurna Devi
Ban Palashir Padabali	Ramapada Chowdhury
Bandit Queen	Mala Sen
Bela Obela Kalbela	Jibanananda Das
Bengali Zamindar	Nilmoni Mukherjee
Bicramanchadev	Bilhon
Blind Beauty	Boris Pasternak
Buddhacharit	Asha Ghosh
Captive Lady	Michel Madhusudan Dutta
Causes of the Indian Mutiny	Sir Syyed Ahmed Khan
Charitraheen	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Chidambara	S. N. Panth
Circle of the Region	Amitabha Ghosh
City of Job Charnak	Nisith Ranjan Roy
Commedy Errors	Shekhspear
Conversations with Myself	Nelson Mandela
Coolie	Mulkraj Anand
Crisis of India	Ronal Segal
Das Capital	Karl Marks
Death of President	W. Marchent
Decamaren	Bocachio
Desert Village	Oliver Goldsmith
Devdas	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Development as Freedom	Amartya Sen
Devi Chaudharani	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye
Devine Comedi	Dante
Divine Life	Sivanand
Economic History of India	Ramesh Chandra Dutta
End and Means	Huxlay
Faust	Goethe
Ferary Queen	Edmond Spensar
Freedom at Midnight	Lapierre & Collins
Friend Not Master	Ayub Khan
Ganadebata	Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Gathering Strom	Churchil
Ghulam Giri	Jyotiba Phule
Global Crisis Recession and Uneven Recovery	Y.B. Reddy
Great Indian and Their Landmark Speeches	Manohar and Sarita Prabhakar
Guid	R. K. Narayanan
Gurdbaho	Bakpatiraj
Hero of Nymph	Aurobindo Ghosh
Hind Swaraj	M. K. Gandhi
Hindu View of Life	S. Radhakrishnan
Historica	Herodotus
I follow the Mahatma	K. M. Munshi
I Van Ho	Walter Scot
Ignited Minds - Unleashing the power within India	DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
In an Antique Land	Amitabh Ghosh
India 2020 - A Vision for the New Millennium	DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
India Divided	Rajendra Prashad
India for A Billion Reasons	Amit Dasgupta
India Wins Freedom	Abdul Kalam Azad
Indian Epigraphy	D. C. Sircar
Indian Village	S.C. Dube
Indian war and Independence	D. V. Savarkar
Indica	Megasthenis
Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace
Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai
Jalsaghar	Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Jhara Palak	Jibanananda Das
Jinnah- India, Partition, Independence	Jaswant Singh
Jungle Book	R. Kippling
Kanterbary Tells	Geofray Chosar
Kidnapped	Stevenson
Kubla Khan	Coleridge
Lalit Bihar	Ashwa Ghosh
Life Devine	Aurobindo Ghosh
Mahabhashya	Patanjali
Man and Superman	G. B. Shaw
Midnight Children	Salman Rushdi
Mitakshara	Vijnaneswara
Modernization of Indian Tradition	Yogendra Singh
Mother	Maxim Gorkay
Mother India	Katharin Mayo
Murder in Cathedral	Elliot
My Country My Life	Lal Krishna Advani
My Experiments With Truth	M.K. Gandhi
My Indian Years	Lord Hardinge II
My Journey	DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Myth of Independence	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Neel Darpan	Dinbandhu Mitra
Netaji Dead or Alive	Samar Guha
New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy	A. B. Vajpayee
New India	Annie Besant
One Night @ the Call Centre	Chetan Bhagat
Padma Nadir Majhi	Manik Bandopadhyay
Pakhtoon	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Palli Samaj	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Paradise Lost	John Milton
Parineeta	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Pather Panchali	Bibhuti BHushan Bandopadhaye
Poverty & Un-British Rule in India	Dadabhai Naoroji
Pratham Pratisruti	Ashapurna Devi
Precepts of Jesus	Ram Mohan Roy
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Principles of Sociology	Herbert Spencer
Prison Diary	Jay Prakash Narayan
Problems of the East	Lord Curzon
Putul Nacher Itikatha	Manik Bandopadhyay
Races and Cultures of India	D.N. Majumdar
Rajtarangini	Kalhan
Ramcharit	S. K. Nandi
Rashmirathi	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
River of Smoke	Amitav Ghosh
Saket	Mathili Saran Gupta
Satyarth Prakash	Swami Dayanand
Shadow Line	Amitabh Ghosh
Shadow of Ladakh	B. Bhattacharia
Shape of Things To Come	H. G. Wells
Sitaram	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye
Social Structure of Values	Radha Kamal Mukherjee
Straight from the Heart	Kapil Dev
Subarnalata	Ashapurna Devi
Tahakak - E - Hind	Albiruni
Talisman	Walter Scott
The Algebra of Infinite Justice	Arundhati Roy
The Bandit Queen	Mala Sen
The City of Joy	Dhominic Lapier
The Discovery of India	Jawahar Lal Nehru
The God of Small Things	Arundhuti Roy
The Harry Potter Series	J. K. Rowling
The Indian Struggle	Subash Chandra Bose
The Indian War of Independence	V. D. Savarkar
The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai
The Judgement	Kuldip Nayar
The Masque of Africa	V. S. Naipaul
The Miracle of Democracy: India's Amazing Journey	Mr. T. S. Krishnamurthy
The Nadars of Tamil Nadu	D.N. Dhanagre
The Nehrus; Motilal and Jawaharlal	B. R. Nanda
The Prince	Maciavaly
The Rediscovery of India	Meghnad Desai
The Satanic Verse	Salman Rushdi
The Science of Bharat Natyam	Saroja Vaidyanathan
The Sense of an Ending	Julian Barnes
The Silent Cry	Kenjaburo Ue
The Spirit of Islam	Syyed Amir Ali
The Village By the Sea	Anita Desai
The White Tiger	Aravind Adiga

Problem 1. (Qs. 1 to 5). In an SSB interview for the NDA, a group testing officer allocates the following instructions to the candidates divided into 7 groups, who have to perform the tasks according to the input:
Group I: Monkey crawling long jump and rope climbing.
Group II: Monkey crawling rope jump and long climbing.
Group III: Rope crawling Monkey climbing long and jump.
Group IV: Climbing Monkey crawling rope jump and long.
Group V: Climbing Monkey and rope jump crawling long. and so
on ...
The questions below are based on logic given above.

1. If the task of IInd group is “Nothing is without be achieved to determination” then which will be the VI group?
(1) Without is nothing determination to achieved to
(2) Achieved nothing determination to is be without
(3) Nothing is achieved without be to determination
(4) Data is inadequate
(5) None of these

2. If “Terrorism Bush job incurbing remarkable did a” is Vth group task then which is “Bush did incurbing remarkable job a
terrorism” group?
(1) V (2) IV (3) II(4) VI (5) None of these

3. Asad is first selected for Ist group “you are my inspiration, guide and instructor”, after some time he was shifted to group IV.What is his new group task?
(1) Instructor you are and inspiration guide my
(2) You are my guide instructor and inspiration
(3) Inspiration and guide instructor you are my
(4) Data inadequate
(5) None of these

4. If the last (7th) group is “Not job you for this selected are” then which group is Ist?
(1) You are selected for this not job.
(2) Selected for this job you are not.
(3) Not you are selected for this job.
(4) You are not selected for this job.
(5) None of these

5. If the task of VI group is “pollution is becoming cause of deadly diseases” then what is third (IIIrd) group?
(1) Pollution is cause of deadly diseases becoming
(2) Diseases becoming is cause of deadly pollution
(3) Becoming is pollution diseases deadly of cause
(4) Data inadequate
(5) None of these

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