Basic GK Quiz 2

Nanga Parbat is the ninth-highest mountain in the world at 8,126 metres above sea level. Located in Gilgit-Baltistan of POK. Nanga Parbat is the western anchor of the Himalayas. Nanda Devi (7,816 m) is the 23rd-highest peak in the world.

On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.

Angiology is concerned with the body's complex system of blood vessels, particularly the arteries and veins.

The Four Asian Tigers are the high-growth economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Fuelled by exports and rapid industrialization, the Four Asian Tigers have consistently maintained high levels of economic growth since the 1960s, and have collectively joined the ranks of the world's wealthiest nations.

The National Chemical Labouratory (NCL) is an Indian government labouratory located in Pune. A constituent member of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was established in 1950. CSIR-NCL is a research and development organization with a focus on chemistry, biology and chemical engineering.

Henry Ford developed the first automatic automobile. He was an American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Kanchenjunga is situated in Sikkim. It is situated in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Sikkim and Nepal. The mountain is part of the Great Himalaya Range.

The National Diet is Japan's bicameral legislature. Japan's constitution states that the National Diet, its law-making institution, shall consist of two Houses, namely the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors. Both houses are directly elected under a parallel voting system.

White coal is a form of fuel produced by drying chopped wood over a fire. It differs from charcoal which is carbonised wood. It was used in England to melt lead ore from the mid-sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. Over the course of the early twentieth century, the term white coal was used for Hydroelectricity, particularly in Europe, because of its capability to produce more energy than any other source except coal.

GOSAT (Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite) is the world's first satellite designed specifically for monitoring greenhouse gases from space. GOSAT was launched in January 2009 by Japan.