Basic GK Quiz 3

Japanese woman Junko Tabei was the first woman in the world to climb the world's highest peak of Mount Everest. She also became the first woman in the world to do an expedition of all “Seven Summits” — the tallest peak on each continent across the globe. Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) were the first in the world to scale Mount Everest.

Apiculture is the scientific rearing of honey bees for the commercial production of honey and other bee products like wax, pollen, bee venom and royal jelly. It is also called Bee Keeping.

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.

Namdapha National Park is in Arunachal Pradesh. With more than 1,000 floral and about 1,400 faunal species, it is a biodiversity hotspot in the Eastern Himalayas.

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.

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was established in 1963 as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to contribute in the skill building for the external trade sector of India. It is located in New Delhi.

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.

World's three highest mountain peaks are Mount Everest (Himalayas-8,850m), K2 or Godwin Austen (Karakoram-8,611m) and Kanchenjunga (Himalayas-8,586m). The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest in the Himalayas in Nepal.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was nationalised with effect from 1st January 1949 on the basis of the RBI (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948. All shares in the capital of the Bank were deemed transferred to the Central Government on payment of a suitable compensation.

Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel, Jammu and is the longest (railway) tunnel in India, measuring 11.215 km. Pir Pranjal runs through the heart of the Himalayas at an altitude of 11215 metres. Atal Tunnel, Himachal Pradesh, formerly known as the Rohtang Tunnel, is the longest highway tunnel in the world measuring 9.02 km. It is located in the Himalayas at an altitude of 3000 metres.