GK Tricks 24: First In India

First In India Important Question & Answers 


1. Where was the first Post Office opened in India ? 
Answer: Kolkata in 1727
2. Name of the first deputy Prime Minister of India ? 
Answer: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
3. Name of first Space Tourist of India ? 
Answer: Santosh George
4. Name of the first Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship ? 
Answer: I.N.S. Vikrant
5. Name of First Indian who reached south pole ? 
Answer: Col. I K Bajaj
6. Name of first Indian who won Billiards Trophy ? 
Answer: Wilson Jones
7. Name of the First Indian Prime Minister who resigned from Office ? 
Answer: Moraji Desai
8. First Indian recipient of Oscar Award ? 
Answer: Bhanu Athaiya
1. Name of the first Atomic Submarine of India ?
 Answer: I.N.S Chakra
2. What is the name of first British to visit India ? 
Answer: Hawkins
3. Name of the first election commissioner of India ? 
Answer: Sukumar Sen.
4. Name of the first university of India ? 
Answer: Nalanda University.
5. Where is India's First nuclear centre ? 
Answer: Tarapur
6. Name of the first Chinese pilgrim to visit India ? 
Answer: Fa-hien
7. Name of first foreign recipient of Bharat Ratna ? 
Answer: Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

GK Tricks 23 : Fact of India

MOST IMPORTANT: Fact of India


1. President of India- Shri Pranab Kumar Mukherjee
2. Prime Minster of India- Dr Manmohan Singh 
3. Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India: Hon'ble Justice P. Sathasivam ( Justice R.M.  Lodha will take over on 27 April 2014) 
4. Chairman of the Planning Commission of India: Dr. Manmohan Singh 
5. Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India: Montek Singh Ahluwalia 
5. Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Academy: Ms. Leela Samson 
6. President of Sahitya Academy: Dr. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari 
7. Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG): Shashi Kant Sharma 
8. Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC): Pradeep Kumar 
9. Chairman of the Election Commission /Chief Election Commissioner: V. S. Sampath 
10. Attorney General of India: Goolam E. Vahanwati 
11. Solicitor General of India : Mohan Parasaran 
12. Governor of Reserve Bank of India: Raghuram Rajan 
13. Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar 
14. Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Kariya Munda 
15. Chairman of the Rajya Sabha: Mohammad Hamid Ansari 
16. Deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha: P.J. Kurien 
17. Law minister to the Government of India :- Kapil Sibal 
18. Chief of the Army Staff: General Bikram Singh 
19. Chief of the Air Staff: Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha 
20. Chief of the Naval Staff: Admiral Robin K Dhowan

Current Affairs 2014

► Latest Current Affairs 2014 for  Various Exams ◄

 Narendra Kothari Appointed As new Chairman of NMDC(National Mineral Development Corporation Limited on 17 April
• Admiral Robin K Dhowan on 17 April took over as the 22nd Chief of Indian Navy
• State Bank of India (SBI) launched Tablet (Tab) Banking service for opening Savings Bank accounts
• The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark judgment on 15th April 2014, created the “third gender” status for transgenders.
• India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize.
• Arvind Mayaram has been appointed as the new Finance Secretary on 15 April.
• Baroda won the National Syed Mustaq Ali Cricket T20 Trophy title after defeated Uttar Pradesh in the final match by three runs on 14 April at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
• ‘ The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‘ written by Dr. Sanjaya Baru.
• Veteran film lyricist and director Gulzar has been chosen for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2013.
• Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) .
• Ratan Tata, the former chairman of the Tata Group which is one of the largest employers in Britain, has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth with a GBE (Knight Grand Cross), one of the UK’s highest civilian awards.
• R Chandrasekaran Takes Over As NASSCOM chairman.
• Sachin Tendulkar Adorns Cover of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Lowland” has been shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Prize, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman.
• Ravi Chauhan was appointed as Managing Director for SAP India.
• Koyal Rana won the coveted Miss India 2014 crown at the 51st edition of the pageant.
• Indian Cricket Captain MS Dhoni has won United Kingdom’s 2014 Asian award for outstanding achievement in sports.
• Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) received the Most Efficient Navratna Award for the year 2013.
• The government has appointed R Gandhi as deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 3 April.
• Union Government appointed senior IPS officer D K Pathak as the new Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF).
• The seventh annual World Autism Awareness Day 2014 was celebrated across the world on 2 April 2014.

Computer GK Questions

Computer GK Questions

1. What type of devices are computer speakers and headphones?
Answer: Output device
2. Who discovered Unix operating system?
Answer: Dennis Ritchie
3. The .......... of system includes the programs and instructions?
(a) Icon (b) Hardware (c) Software (d) Information
Answer: Software
4. What is the full form of USB?
Answer: Universal Serial Bus
5. What is the full form of WWW?
Answer: World Wide Web
6. Who invented computer mouse?
Answer: Douglas Engelbart
7. Who invented QWERTY type Keyboard?
Answer: Christopher Sholes
8. Who invented Compact Disc (CD)?
Answer: James Russell
9. Who is known as the Father of Internet?
Answer: Vint Cerf
10. Who is known as the Father of World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners Lee
11. Who invented Integrated Circuit (IC) chips?
Answer: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
12. Which is the Super Computer developed by India?
Answer: Param
13. Conversion of computer generated result into human acceptable form is a function of:
Answer: Output interface
14. Which type of files having the extensions .jpg, .png, .gif etc?
Answer: Image files
15. What is the full form of pdf?
Answer: Portable Document Format.

Full Forms

Did You Know This Full Forms 

¤ Yahoo–Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle.
¤ ADIDAS–All Day I Dream About Sports.
¤ NASA–National Aeronautics Space Administration.
¤ ISRO–Indian Space Research Organisation.
¤ KML–Keyhole Markup Language is a language schema based on the Extensible Markup Language It’sreleased recently by google to view google maps.
¤ Computer – Commonly Operating Machine Particularly Used for Technology Entertainment and Research.
¤ ICICI–Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India.
¤ HDFC–Housing Development Finance Corporation.
¤ Virus–Vital Information Resources Under Seize.
¤ PSD–Photoshop Document (Photoshop Standard Document)PSD Logo.
¤ PDF–Portable Document Format.