GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS FOR PPSC, SPSC, FPSC TESTS AND OTHER COMPETITIVE EXAMS OF CSS, ISSB, PMS, PAF, ARMY, NAVY AND POLICE
NTS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS
EVERYDAY SCIENCE, PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY
3rd Edition
A capacitor stores electric charge. Capacitors
are important components for making timers.
• Capacitors are used in filtering circuits like treble and bass in hi-fi
• Transistors can be used as logic gates
• Energy value of food items is expressed in kilojoules (kj) or thousands of
joules.
• British scientist James Prescott Joule discovered the principle of
conservation of energy.
• Which one of the following statements regarding sound is true? Its source is
always a vibrating material.
• Weight of an object put in a satellite orbiting in space around the earth is
reduced to zero
• Movie camera take pictures at rate of 24 pictures per second.
• Density of water is 1.
• Water expands as it freezes to ice. This makes ice less dense than water
which causes ice to float.
• Heat flows in three ways conduction, convection and radiation
• A concave lens is used for the correction of the Hyperphobia
• Silver metal has the highest electrical conductivity.
• Mohr’s scale hardest substance is diamond - what's the softest: Talc
• Ambati Balamyrali is the youngest (17-years old) doctor of Indian origin in
the world who received his medical degree from Mount Sinai, New York.
• Ambedkar, B.R is known as the architect of the Indian Constitution.
• Apsra is the first nuclear reactor of India.
• Aquaculture refers to fish-farming or fish culture.
• Baku is famous for the production of petroleum.
• Blue revolution relates to fish farming.
• Borlaug, Norman Ernest was American agricultural scientist t and winner of
the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1970. He was one of those who laid the groundwork
of the Green Revolution.
• Buoy stands for a man serving in any hotel for luggage transportation or as a
guide.
• Chakmas are refugees from Bangladesh settled in India.
• Charar-e-Sharief is the Dargah of Sufi saint Sheikh Nooruddin Wali in
Kashmir.
• Charminar is located in Hyderabad (India).
• Chernobayl is a Russian city having a nuclear power plant where a tank of
readioactive waste exploded in April, 1993. This explosion is known as
“Chernobyl Disaster”.
• Chris Patten was the last British Governor of Hong Kong.
• It is summer season in Australia during Christmas.
• Churchill was PM of U.K during WWII. He is known to have said “ I have
nothing to offer except blood, sweat and tears.”
• Conditioned Reflex is the term mainly discussed in Psychology.
• Cross-breeding is to be done for achieving quick increase in milk production.
• Crystal oscillator is in electric watch, the component corresponding to
pendulum of a pendulum clock.
• The production of cultured pearls is an important cottage industry of Japan.
• Debenture is a certificate issued by a company promising the payment of a
specified amount at a fixed rate of interest after a specified period.
• A deflector is a technique of adjusting for changes in price level.
• Desdemona is a character in the Shakespeare’s play Othello.
• Dicky Dolma is the youngest woman climber of Mt. Everest.
• Dr. Watson is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Dunkel Draft relates to international trade.
• Dzongkha is the official language of Bhutan.
• E.T.A is a terrorist organization in Spain.
• Elephant’s tusks are called enlarged cartilaginous bones.
• Erasmus was a Dutch writher. His Praise of Folly is still read.
• Esperanto is an artificial international language created to act as world
language.
• Euro is the name of New Single European Currency launched on January 1, 1999.
• Every Street is paved with Gold was authored by Kim Woo-Chung, founder of
Daewoo.
• Exfoliation is a type of weathering common both in the cold and in the hot
climate regions.
• Exit Poll is a term used to denote a post-election survey of voters regarding
the candidate in whose favour they had exercised their franchise.
• The readings of a Fahrenheit and a Centigrade temperature is the same at
-40°.
• Gregory Mendel is called the Father of Genetics.
• Fenugreek seeds can benefit a patient of diabetes mellitus by normalizing his
blood sugar level.
• Powder-type fire extinguisher is used for petroleum fire.
• India occupies first position in the world in the production of tea.
• It is the President and not the PM who presides over the cabinet meetings in
France.
• Sigmund Freud founded the technique of pshychoaralysis.
• Guemica is a painting by Pablo Picasso.
• Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
• Inflation means an increase in the amount of paper money which tends to raise
general price level of commodities. It is a comparative figure showing cost of
living, production prices, etc as compared with a base year. Debtors are likely
to benefit by Inflation.
• Zero Rate Inflation obtains necessarily in a year where the annual rate of
inflation is constant in every week of the year.
• ISBN: International Standard Book Numbering is an internation system by which
a distinct identifying number is assigned to each book.
• Jain Commission was associated with probing the conspiracy angle of the Rajiv
Gandhi assassination.
• James Bond is a character in the novels written by Ian Fleming.
• Jana-gana-mana is India’s National Anthem.
• Jantar Mantar is an observatory in Delhi constructed in 1724 during the days
of Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber.
• Thomas Jefferson authored American Declaration of Independence.
• Jurassic Park was directed by Steven Spielberg.
• Kabalega is a National Park of Uganda.
• Kalidas was the greatest of the Sanskrit daramatist. He authored Shakukntala,
etc.
• Kalinga Prize is awarded for popularization of science each year by UNESCO.
• Gary Kasparov is associated with Chess.
• Dr. V. Kurein is associated with Dairy Farming.
• Bhutan is called the “Land of Thunder Dragon”.
• Laos is the only land-locked country in South-East Asia.
• Last Supper is a famous Renaissance painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
• Leningrad is a famous town in Russia situated on the bank of river Neva.
• LIBOR is the basic interest rate on interbank loans in London.
• Lifeline Express is the world’s first hospital on rails operated in India.
• G.J. Mendel is known as founder of genetics.
