Miscellaneous GK Quiz 2

These were the famous words of George Bernard Shaw. He was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

The veena is the oldest of Indian musical instruments. From the reference to Vedic writings, it can date back to around the first millennium B.C.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

INS Vikramaditya is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier and the flagship of the Indian Navy, which entered into service in 2013.

Apollo was the god of practically everything – including but not limited to music, poetry, art, prophecy, truth, archery, plague, healing, sun and light (although the god is always associated with the sun, the original sun god was the titan Helios, but everyone forgot about him).

Agni missiles are surface-to-surface ballistic missiles developed by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). It is a family (Agni-I to Agni-V, Agni-P) of medium to long-range nuclear weapons capable missiles.

It is the statement from the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi “The Story of My Experiments with Truth”. It was written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War were foundational in her views about sanitation.

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was a fatal incident in the United States space program that occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere, killing all seven crew members including Indian astronaut Kalpana Chawla.

The Forest Research Institute (FRI) Dehradun is a Natural Resource Service training institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and is an institution in the field of forestry research in India for Indian Forest Service cadres and all State Forest Service cadres.