General Awareness (History)

Hello visitors. This time I'm back with some general awareness questions related to hitory. These questions are very common in compitative exams like UPSC, PSC, CDS, WBCS, SSC, IPS, ICS, RAIL, BANK PO, BANK CLERK etc. If anyone knows more about it, please share with us.

1. Who was the founder of Tughlaq dynasty in India?
Ans: Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq.


2. Who was the second ruler of Tughlaq dynasty?
Ans: Mohammad Bin Tughlaq.


3. How long Mohammad Bin Tughlaq reled Delhi?
Ans: 1325 to 1351.


4. What is the best description of Mohammad Bin Tughlaq by historians?
Ans: Maniac who was a crazy and cold hearted ruler.


5. Which Tughlaq ruler shifted his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad?
Ans: Mohammad Bin Tughlaq.


6. Why Mohammad Bin Tughlaq did shifted his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad?
Ans: To administer the provinces located in the south.


7. Who introduced token currency in India after being inspired by the Chinese?
Ans: Mohammed Bin Tughlaq.


8. By which material token currency were made in Tughlaq dynasty?
Ans: Most of the coins were made of brass and copper, while gold and silver coins were kept for the royal treasury.


9. When did Mohammad Bin Tughlaq died?
Ans: While on a campaign at Sindh.


10. Who was the second ruler of the Khilji dynasty?
Ans: Alauddin Khilji.


11. Whose nephew was Alauddin?
Ans: Jalal-ud-Din Khilji.


12. During whose reign Alauddin Khilji was appointed the Governor of Awadh and Kara?
Ans: Jalal-ud-Din Khilji.


13. Who killed Jalal-ud-Din Khilji?
Ans: Alauddin Khilji.


14. Who was the first Muslim king who went to the south to expand his territory?
Ans: Alauddin Khilji.


15. Who was the army chief of Alauddin Khilji?
Ans: Malik Kafur.


16. Who killed Alauddin Khilji?
Ans: Malik Kafur.


17. Why did Mongols came to Delhi in 1299?
Ans: To establish themselves During reign of Alauddin Khilji.

Years To Remember 3

There are many years to remember in the past for their special events.In this post I am trying to introduce some of those memorable years to the visitors.This is the third post of this type.These datas are collected from various compititive exam practice sets. Stay in touch for this kind of post in future.

• Microsoft Corporation Established on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

• Dell Inc. was established by Michael Dell on November 4, 1984.

• Apple Inc. Founded on April 1, 1976 by the founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

• Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985.

• International Business Machines (IBM) was established on June 16, 1911.

• in 1996, Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.

• In 1997, Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google—a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.

• Microsoft Corporation invented DOS (Disc Operating System) in the year 1982.

• Dr. Edgar Frank Codd invented the first database in the year 1996.

• The inventor of fax machine was Alexander Bain. He invented in the year 1843.

• The first mouse that is wheel based was invented by Douglas Engelbart in the year 1963.

• Floppy disk was invented by Dr. Nakamats in the year of 1951.

• HTML stands for hyper text markup language. This language is used very often in the WebPages was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in the year 1990.

• James Gosling invented java in the year 1994. It is developed by sun Microsystems. It is an object-oriented higher level programming language.

• An object oriented script language was developer in the year 1995 by Brendan Eich of Netscape Communication Corporation. It was initially names as Mocha, again as live script later as JavaScript.

• Keyboard was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in the year 1875.

• Keys were invented by Linus Yale Jr, a mechanical engineer, in the year 1862.

• Linus Torvalds invented linux in the year 1991.

• Buyukkokten invented orkut in the year 2004.It is a Social networking site.

• Oracle was invented by Bob oats and Larry Ellison in the year 1977.

• The very first super computer was introduced by Seymour Cray in 1960 at Control Data Corporation.

• From 1985-90 new designs of super computer were introduced.
  

• UNIX is one of the operating system of computer. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson invented UNIX in the year 1969.

• Ubuntu, an open source operating system was developed by Mark Shuttleworth. It first release was in the year 2004.

• Rambaugh, Jacobson and Booch invented uml in the year 1994. Full form of uml is unified modeling language.

• Visual basic was invented by Microsoft in 1987. It is one of the world’s most widely used program development software.

• XML was developed by World Wide Web Consortium in the year 1966 under Sun Microsystems.

Important Facts on Dubai

This post is specially made for the people of Dubai and interested people of the world who wants to know more about important facts about Dubai. So, stay in touch for more general knowledge.

• Dubai is the second largest member of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

• It is the most important port and the commercial capital of UAE.

• Dubai is the fastest growing city in the world.

• Dubai has one of the highest per capita incomes

• In Dubai, there are no taxes on income and there are no personal taxes either.

• In Dubai Emirates Mall, you can ski indoors while shopping, measuring 400 meters and using 6000 tons of snow.

• Burj Dubai become the world's tallest building, along with the world's tallest man-made structure, when it is completed.

• Eighty percent of the residents of Dubai are foreigners.

• Dubai is the Middle East supply hub for the jewelry market.

• Dubai is the world's second largest distributor of bullion. It imports 360 tonnes and re-exports almost all of it (350 tonnes).

• Dubai made the world's longest gold chain during DSF-1999. The chain was made in 22k gold and measured 4.2 kilometers. 9,600 people bought the chain, in necklace wear and bracelet size pieces.

• In Dubai, jewelry is sold on gold price plus making charges, unlike in the West, where it is per piece. 95 percent of all jewellery sold here is above 21 karat; the rest is 18 karat.

• On an average, one in every five person buys five pieces of gold jewellery every year in Dubai.

• Dubai has unveiled plans of the first man-made island in UAE, the Palm Island.

• No matter in which part of Dubai you are in, you will hear calls to prayer at least five times a day. Even in shopping malls, the calls to prayer are put out over the speakers, to remind Muslims that it is time to pray.

• Dubai shares legal, political, military and economic functions with the other emirates, within a federal framework.

• Dubai has the largest population of all the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

• Apart from Abu Dhabi, Dubai is the only emirate to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature.

• Since 1833, Dubai has been ruled by the Al Maktoum dynasty.

• Trade, real estate and financial services provide Dubai with majority of its revenues.

• Revenues from petroleum and natural gas contribute less than 6 percent to the economy of Dubai.

Important Years Declared By UNO

In this post I am presenting the list of important years declared by United Nations Organisation. Stay in touch for my upcoming post.

• 1968 : International Human Rights

• 1970 : International Education Year

• 1972 : International Book Year

• 1973 : Copernicus Year

• 1974 : World Population Year

• 1975 : International Women's Year

• 1979 : International Year of Children

• 1980-89: International Water Supply & Sanitation Decade

• 1981 : International year of Disabled

• 1983 : World Communication Year

• 1985 : International Youth Year

• 1986 : International Year of Peace

• 1987 : International Year of Shelter for the Homeless

• 1990 : International Literacy Year

• 1992 : International Space Year

• 1993 : International Year for the indigenous Populations

• 1994 : International Year of Family

• 1995 : International Year of Tolerance

• 1998 : International Year of Ocean

• 1999 : International Year of Older Persons

• 1991-2000: Development Decade

• 2000 : International Year of Universal Cultural Values

• 2001 : International Year of womens Empowerment

• 2002 : International Year of Ecotourism

• 2003 : International Year of Fresh Water

• 2004 : International Year of rice

• 2005 : International Year of Physics

• 2007 : International Polar Year

• 2008 : International Potato Year

• 2009 : International yaer of Reconciliation

• 2010 : International Year of Biodiversity

• 2011 : International Year of Forests

One Word Substitution

One word substitution is very important to write precisely and speak in a single word.In English language there are a lot of single words for a group of words. So, speak precisely and avoid the fear of misunderstood. Let me quote some one words for a group of words.

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• One who is out to subvert a government: Anarchist

• One who doubts the existence of god: Agnostic

• One who is greedy for money: Avaricious

• A study of ancient things: Archaeology

• A study of man: Anthropology

• One who is unmarried: Celibate

• One who questions everything: Cynic

• One who can make himself at home in all countries: Cosmopolitan

• A person who believes easily whatever he is told: Credulous

• Belonging or pertaining to an individual from birth: Congenital

• Misappropriation of money: Embezzlement

• A man who has too much enthusiasm for his own religion: Fanatic

• An exact copy: Facsimile

• One who is not easily pleased: Fastidious

• One who thinks only of welfare of women: Feminist

• One who is unable to pay his debts:Insolvent

• That which cannot be hurt: Invulnerable

• Something that is quickly and easily set on fire and burned: Inflammable

• The action of looking back on past time: Introspection

• A thing that cannot be seen with human eyes: Invisible

• The first speech made by a person: Maiden

• Hater of mankind: Misanthropist

• One who can do anything for money: Mercenary

• One who hates women: Misogynist

• One who hates mankind: Misanthrope

• One who looks on the dark side of things: Pessimist

• One who copies from other writers: Plagiarist

• One who knows many languages: Polyglot

• One who goes on foot: Pedestrian

• A Government by the rich: Plutocracy

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