First in World Important general Knowledge Facts GK Trivia

First in World Important general Knowledge Facts GK Trivia

First talkie movie in the world - “The jazz Singer” (1927)

First Oscar winner for the Best Actor – Emil Jannings (1928)

First Oscar winner for Best Actress - janet Gaynor,  (1928)

First Asian city to host Olympics - Tokyo, Japan (1964)

First woman black tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon - A Gibson (1957)

First woman to win a Grand Slam - Maureen Catherine (195 3)

First Tour de France (road bicycle race) winner - Maurice Garin (1903)

First recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion -Tim Hyer (1841)

World’s first chess champion - Wilhelm Steinitz (1886)

First golf club in the world - Honour able Company of Edinburgh Golfers(1744)

First man to run a mile under 4 minutes- Sir Roger Bannister (1954)

First athlete disqualified at the Olympics for drug use - Hans-Gunnar Lijenwall  Mexico summer Olympics (1968)

The first cricket club - Cricket club founded in Hambledon,  England (1750)

First woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal - Charlotte Cooper, UK, Tennis singles (1900)

First professional woman bullfighter- Patricia Mccormick (1952)

First American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics - W Rudolph, Rome Olympics (1960)

First Women’s Olympic marathon Champion - Joan Benoit, Los Angles ( 1984)

First man to fly solo non stop across the Atlantic - Charles Lindbergh (1927)

First person to fly faster than the speed of sound - Charles Elwood Chuck Veager, he flew a Bell X-1 rocket at 670 mph in level flight (1947)

First man to reach the South Pole - Roald Amun-dsen, Norwegian team (1911)

First person to swim across the English Channel - Matthew Webb (1875)

First person to cross Antarctic Circle - James Cook (1773)

First humans to fly - Marquis d’ Arlandes & Pilatre de Rozier (1783)

First balloonist to fly solo nonstop around the world - Steve Fossett, U.S. (2002)

First man to cross the Pacific Ocean in hot air balloon - Ben Abruzzo and team in the Double Eagle V (1981)

First people to sight the North Pole- Roald Amundsen and  lincoln Ellsworth (1926)

First people to reach the North Pole - Lt Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict  (1952)

First successful conquest of Mount Everest-Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) (1953)

First conquest of Everest via the North Ridge - Chinese team (1960)

First person to conquer the Everest twice- Nawang Gombu Sherpa(1965)

First blind person to conquer the Everest- Erik Weihenmayer, USA (2001)

First person with only one arm to climb the Everest - American Gary Guller(2003)

First woman to fly solo - Bessica Medlar Raiche flew in an airplane built of bamboo, wire and silk (1910)

First woman to fly solo around the world - jerrie Fredritz Mock.(1964)

First woman to fly solo across the English Channel- Hariiet Quimby

First woman to climb Everest - Junko Tabei of Japan (1975)

First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic- Amelia Earhart (1932)

First woman to swim the English Channel - Gertrude Ederle (1926 )

First ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen - Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy) (1978)

First woman to set foot on North Pole- Ann Bancroft, USA (1986)

First woman to sail around the world solo in under 100 days - Ellen MacArthur, English Sailor (2001)

First person ever to transmit speech from one point to another by electrical means - Alexander Graham Bell, (1876)

First sound recording -Thomas Alva Edison’s Phonograph (1877)

First antibiotic drug - Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming (1928)

The first and only supersonic airliner - Concorde, twice the speed of sound, about 2,170 kph (1969)

The first mechanical computer  by - Charles Babbage (1835)

first computer programmer - Ada Byron’s (1842)

First Compact Disc (CD) - Jointly developed by Sony and Philips (1978)

First Atom Bomb -“Little Boy” dropped over Hiroshima by the US during the second world war (1945)

First submarine - Built by Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor(1620)

First artificial satellite launched into orbit- Sputnik 1, USSR (1957)

First manned space vehicle - Vostok 1,USSR (1961)

First manned private spaceflight - ‘Space Ship One’ piloted by Mike Melvill (2004)

First fully controlled soft landing on moon-Surveyor 1 (1966)

First spacecraft to orbit Saturn - Cassini Huygens (2004)

First living creature to orbit the earth- Laika, the dog, aboard the Soviet satellite, Sputnik 2. (1957)

First man in space - Yuri Gagarin USSR. (1961)

First human to walk on the Moon - Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11(1969)

First human to walk in space - Alexei Arkhovich Leonov (1965)

First Nobel Prize winner for Literature - Sully Prudhomme, France (1901)

First Nobel Prize winner for Peace -Jean Henri Dunant, Switzerland & Frederic Passy, France (1901)

First Nobel Prize winner for Economics- Ragnar Frisch, Norway & Jan Tinbergen, Netherlands (1969)

First person to win two Nobel Prizes - Marie Sklodowska Curie (Physics,1903) Chemistry,1911

First woman Nobel Prize winner - Marie Sklodowska Curie, Physics. She is the first to win Physics Nobel (1903).

First woman Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry - Marie Sklodowska Curie (1911)

First woman Mother and daughter to win Nobel prize - Marie Sklodowska Curie (1903) and daughter Irene Joliot Curie (1935)

First human heart transplant was per formed by - Dr. Christian Barnard(1967)

First human heart transplant recipient.- Louis Washkansky.  (1967)

First recipient of a permanent artificial heart - Barney Clark (1982)

Parkinson’s disease was first described by - James Parkinson, British neurologist (1817)

World UN GK for exams

World UN GK for exams
The United Nations Charter was drawn up by the representatives of 50 countries at the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, which met in San Francisco from 25 April to 26 june 1945.

The Charter was signed on 26 june 1945 by the representatives of the 50 countries.

The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 Oct l945.

United Nations Day is celebrated on 24 Oct. each year.

Official languages of the UN are: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
On the flag is the UN emblem in white centred on a light blue ground.

UN Headquarters: First Avenue, UN Plaza, New York City, NY. 10017, USA.

Principal Organs of the UN are:

• General Assembly
• Secretariat
• Security Council
• Trusteeship Council
• Economic and Social Council and International Court of justice

General Assembly
The Assembly consists of the representatives of all the member states. Each state has one vote, but may send 5 representatives. The General Assembly meets at least once in a year.

Security Council

• Security Council consists of 15 members
  There are five permanent and 10 non-permanent members
  Non-permanent members are elected for a 2-year term by a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly.
  The permanent members have the power to veto any move.
  Retiring members are not eligible for immediate re-election.
• Permanent Members: China, France, Russia, UK, USA.

Economic and Social Council
The Council’s Regional Economic Commissions:

• ECE (Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva);
• ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok);
• ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribbean, Santiago, Chile); ECA (Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Aba ba).
• ESCWA (Economic Commission for Western Asia, Amman, Jordan).

The International Court of justice

There are 15 judges in International Court
Head quarters : The Peace Palace, 2517 KJ The Hague, Netherlands.
Languages: French and English.

The Secretariat
The Secretariat is composed of the Secretary-General and international staff appointed by him under regulations established by the General Assembly.

The Secretary General, the High Commissioner for Refugees and the Managing Director of the Fund are appointed by the General Assembly.

HQ : United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA.

United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is the world’s largest agency for multilateral, technical and pre-investment co-operation.

HQ: New York

High Commissioner for Human Rights
The post was established in 1993. The Commission has 53 members.

United Nations Children’s Fund
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), established in 1946 as United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund .
Doing development activities aimed at improv ng the quality of life for children and mothers in developing countries.
HQ: New York

The UN Fund for Population Activities
The UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) was established in 1969 with aims to build up capacity to respond to needs in populaton and family planning.

UN Environment Programme(UNEP)

UN Environment Programme(UNEP) was Established in 1972, it works to encourage sustainable development through sound environmental practices.




United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established by the
UN General Assembly with effect from 1 jan. 1951.
UNHCR was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1955 and again in 1981.

HQ : Palais de Nations, 1211, Geneva 10, Switzerland.

Current UN Secretary General is Ban ki Moon

International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)

International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) was established on 29 july 1957

HQ : Vienna International Centre, P Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.

United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), provides advice on all aspects of industrial policy.
Converted into a specialised agency of UN in 1985.
HQ: Vienna International Centre, P.O.Box 300, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.

Famous dancers of India

Famous dancers of India
Kathak:

• Sharati Gupta
• Birju Maharaj
• Damayanti joshi
• Durga Das
• Gopi Krishna
• Kumudini Lakhia
• Sambhu Maharaj
• Sitara Devi

Bharathatyam:

• Bala Saraswati
• C. V. Chandrasekhar
• Leela Samson
• Mrinalini Sarabhai
• Padma Subramanyam
• Rukmini Devi
• Sanyukta Panigrahi
• Sonal Man Singh
• Yamini Krishnamurthi

Odissi:

• Debaprasad Das
• Dhirendra Nath Pattnaik
• Indrani Rahman,
• Kelucharan Mahapatra
• Priyambada Mohanty
• Sonal Man

Kuchipudi:

• josyula Seetharamaiah
• Vempathi Chinna Sathyam

Manipuri:

• Guru Bipin Sinha
• jhaveri Sisters
• Nayana Jhaveri
• Nirmala Mehta,
• Savita Mehta

Famous Musicians Instrumentalists of India Gk for Exams

Famous Musicians Instrumentalists of India Gk for Exams
Shehnai:

Bismillah Khan

Tabla:

Alla Rakha Khan

Kishan Maharaj

Nikhil Ghosh

Zakir Hussain

Sarod:

Ali  Akbar khan

Allauddin khan

Amjad All khan

Buddhadev Desgupta

Bahadur Khan

Sharan Rani

Zarin S.Sharma

Sitar:

Nikhil Banerjee

Ravi Shankar

Vilayat Khan

Hari  Shankar Bhattacharya

Violin:

Baluswamy Dikshitar

Gajanan Rao joshi

Lalgudi G. jayaraman

M.S. Gopala-krishnan

Mysore T. Chowdiah

TN krishanan

Diseases caused by protozoans Bacteria Virus Fungi Worms GK For exams

Diseases caused by protozoans Bacteria Virus Fungi Worms GK For exams

• Amoebiasis
• Malaria
• Sleeping sickness
• Kalaazar
• Diarrhea

Diseases caused by Bacteria:

• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Tuberculosis
• Leprosy
• Tetanus
• Typhoid
• Plague
• Whooping Cough
• Sore Throat
• Pneumonia
• Bacillar dysentery
• Gonorrhea
• Syphilis
• Botulism.

Diseases caused by Virus:

• Chickenpox
• Measles
• Poliomyletis
• Rabies
• Mumps
• Influenza
• Hepatitis
• Herpes
• Viral Encephalitis
• AIDS

Diseases caused by Fungi

• Ringworm
• Athlete’s foot
• Dhobi itch

Diseases caused by Worms:

Filaria

Tapeworm

Hookworm

Major Deficiency Diseases and their cause for exams

Major Deficiency Diseases and their cause for exams
Deficiency diseases: due to deficiency in the diet of nutrients.

Major Deficiency Diseases

• Protein deficiency : Kwashiorkor and Marasmus.
• Iron deficiency:  Anemia
• Iodine deficiency : Goitre
• Potassium deficiency :Hypokalemia
• Sodium deficiency :Hyponatremia.
• Vitamin A deficiency:Night Blindness, Xerophthalmia, Dermatosis
• Vitamin B deficiency :Beri-beri, Aribofla-vinosis, Pellagra,Pernicious Anemia
• Vitamin C deficiency : Scurvy
• Vitamin D deficiency :Rickets,Ostemalacia