Basic GK Quiz 3

The sex Ratio is females per thousand males. Kerala is the State with Highest Sex Ratio (1,058). The state with Lowest Sex Ratio is Haryana (861). UT with Highest Sex Ratio is Pondicherry (1001). UT with Lowest Sex Ratio is Daman and Diu (710).

Roorkee Engineering College (I.I.T. Roorkee) is the earliest Engineering Educational Institution in India. It was established in 1847 AD in the British Empire. It was formerly known as the University of Roorkee and Thomason College of Civil Engineering.

Indo-Gangetic Plains Uttar Pradesh (35,148,377) has the largest Scheduled Caste population, followed by West Bengal (18,452,555) and Bihar (13,048,608). These three states are located in Indo-Gangetic Plains.

Electronic Clearing Service (ECS) is an electronic method of fund transfer from one bank account to another. It is generally used for bulk transfers performed by institutions for making payments like dividends, interest, salary, pension, etc.

The full form of ATM is “Automated teller Machine”. It is an electro-mechanical machine that is used for making financial transactions from a bank account.

Kaiga-II plant is a unit of Kaiga Nuclear Power Generating Station situated at Kaiga, near the river Kali, in Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka.

Our National Anthem, Jana-gana-mana, composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the national anthem of India on 24 January 1950. It was first sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

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

Rajasthan is the largest state in India in terms of area. It covers 342,239 Sq km. Rajasthan is followed by Madhya Pradesh (308,245 Sq km), Maharashtra (307,713 Sq km) and Uttar Pradesh (240,928 Sq km). Smallest State is Goa. Largest Union Territory is Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Smallest Union Territory is Lakshadweep. Largest District is Kachchh (Gujarat).

Lord Ripon is rightly called the “Father of Local Self Government” in India. In 1882 the then Viceroy of India, Lord Ripon, passed a resolution of local self-government which lead the democratic forms of municipal governance in India.