Who's who, what's What
THE USUAL areas that appear in the test of general knowledge, with a few examples:
THE EARTH: Shape, structure, continents, oceans, rivers, deserts, mountains, peaks (longest, tallest, smallest, etc,), rotation and revolution, ocean currents, trade winds, volcanoes, elements, atmosphere, biosphere, weather, latitudes, longitudes, Greenwich time.
THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Planets (smallest, largest, closest to the earth/sun, farthest from the earth/ sun, satellites, eclipses.
THE WORLD: Countries, capitals, currencies, languages, population), civilizations, cities on the banks of rivers, sobriquets (Land of the Rising Sun - Japan), old and new names (Ceylon - Sri Lanka), Agricultural production (First in coffee production - Brazil), minerals, prominent industries, places of tourist attraction, historical monuments, international organisations (U.N., European Community, WTO, SAARC, OPEC, Interpol, Red cross, etc.), Non-Aligned Movement, world religions, national flags.
HISTORY: Important events in world/Indian history and the corresponding years (the First world war broke out in 1914), great personalities (Gandhi, Napoleon, Churchill), India's freedom movement
BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Far from the madding crowd - Thomas Hardy; Panchatantra - Vishnu Sarma.
BOOKS AND CHARACTERS: Shylock - Merchant of Venice.
FAMOUS QUOTES: Government of the people by the people for the people - Abraham Lincoln.
INVENTIONS: Nuclear bomb - Oppenheimer - 1945.
UNITS OF MEASUREMENT: Electric current - Ampere.
BRANCHES OF KNOWLEDGE: Gerontology - study of old age.
SCIENTIFIC TERMS: Interferon, DNA, dementia, tissue culture, plasma, cloning; phobias.
SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENA: Osmosis, capillary action.
REASONS FOR SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENA: The sky is blue; why?
ELEMENTS, COMPOUNDS, ALLOYS SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR USES: Geiger counter - device for measuring radioactivity.
CHEMICAL NAMES OF COMMONLY USED SUBSTANCES: Baking soda - Sodium bicarbonate.
THE HUMAN BODY: The systems, bones, organs and their functions, hormones, vitamins and deficiency diseases, organs relating to specific diseases (diabetes - pancreas)
SPACE TRAVEL: landmarks
ASTRONOMY: galaxies, the Milky Way, novae, black hole
GREAT MEN/WOMEN AND THEIR FIELDS OF SERVICE: Mozart - Music, Greta Garbo - Film acting.
NICKNAMES: Iron man of India - Sardar Patel
PIONEERS: First woman cosmonaut - Valentina Tereshkova
AWARD WINNERS: Nobel Prize, Oscar Award, Booker Prize winners; first winner of the Jnanpith Award - Malayalam poet G. Sankara Kurup. The names of current winners of various film awards for various categories, winners of the miss world, miss international competitions.
SPORTS: The names of great sportsmen and their events, Olympics and world records of major athletic events, names of famous venues (Lords - Cricket, England), trophies (Santosh Trophy - football), terms (cue - billiards).
ABBREVIATIONS: Laser - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission Of Radiation.
IMPORTANT DAYS: September 5 - Teacher's Day.
INDIAN CONSTITUTION: Fundamental rights, directive principles, Parliament, President, Vice-President, Prime Minister, important Articles (356 - President assuming the functions of a State Government, in case of failure of constitutional machinery in the State); amendments (91st amendment in 2003, restricting the number of Central Ministers to 15 per cent of the strength of the Lok Sabha); Schedules.
NATIONAL ECONOMY: Five year plans, GDP, growth rate, development projects, agricultural and industrial production, irrigation schemes, power projects, roads and railways, airlines, privatisation, disinvestments.
INDIA: States, capitals, languages, rivers, mountains, peaks, lakes, major industries, projects, places of tourist attraction, tourism industry, centres of education, national flag, national anthem, national animal, national bird, famous people born in India (Rudyard Kipling - Nobel Prize winner in literature; Sabeer Bhatia - co-founder of Hotmail).
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