HIGHEST - INDIA 1. Highest peak - Mt. K2 (Godwin Austin) 2. Highest water falls - Jog falls (Karnataka) 3. Highest gate way - Buland Darwaza (Fathepur sikri) 4. Highest literacy among state - Kerala 5. Highest tower - Qutabminar 6. Highest dam - Bhakra Dam (Punjab) 7. Highest multiple arch dam - Idukki (Kerala) LARGEST - INDIA 8. Largest populated city - Mumbai 9. Largest fresh water lake Kolleru (Andhra Pradesh) 10. Largest salt water lake - Chilka (Orissa) 11. Largest state - Rajasthan 12. Largest populated state - Uttar Pradesh 13. Largest museum - Indian museum (Kolkata) 14. Largest zoo - Zoological Garden (Kolkata) 15. Largest dome - Gol Gumbaz (Karnataka) 16. Largest mosque - Jama Masjid (New Delhi) 17. Largest desert - Thar (Rajasthan) 18. Largest river Island - Majuli (Brahmaputra) 19. Largest monastery - Tawang monastery (Arunachal Pradesh) 20. Largest cave temple - Ellora (Maharashtra) 21. Largest animal fair - Sonepur fair (Bihar) 22. Largest plateau - Deccan plateau 23. Largest river in South India - Godavari 24. Largest prison - Puzhal Jail (Chennai) 25. Largest planetarium - Birla planetarium (Kolkata) 26. Largest G.P.O - Mumbai G.P.O 27. Largest church - St. Cathedral (Old Goa) 28. Largest cinema theatre - Thangam Theatre 29. Largest exhibition ground - Pragati Maidan New Delhi) 30. Largest arch dam - Idukki dam (Kerala) 31. Largest library - National library (Kolkata) 32. Largest aircraft carrier - INS Viraat 33. Largest landing ship - INS Magrar 34. Largest union territory - Andaman Nicobar Islands 35. Largest gurudwara - Golden Temple (Amritsar) 36. Largest residence - Rashtrapati Bhavan 37. Largest river Barrage - Farakka Barrage 38. Largest open university - Indira Gandhi Open University (New Delhi) 39. Largest Ocean Island - Middle Andaman LONGEST- INDIA 40. Longest Canal - Indira Gandhi canal 41. Longest River - Ganga 42. Longest Tunnel Kharbude (Konkan Railway) 43. Longest Dam - Hirakud (Orissa) 44. Longest National Highway- N.H. 7 45. Longest Railway platform - Kharagpur (West Bengal) 46. Longest Corridor - Rameswaram Temple corridor 47. Longest Hanging bridge - Howra bridge 48. Longest Train Service - Himasagar express 49. Longest Bridge - Anna Indira(Rameswaram to Mandap) 50. Longest Glacier - Siachen Glacier 51. Longest River bridge - Mahatma Gandhi Sethu SMALLEST - INDIA 52. Smallest state (Area) - Goa 53. Smallest state (population) - Sikkim 54. Smallest state (forest area) - Haryana 55. Smallest Union Territory - Lakshadweep Miscellaneous (India) 56. Biggest hotel... Oberoi - Sheraton (Mumbai) 57. Highest statue... Gomateswara Statue 58. Highest award (civilian)... Bharat Ratna 59. Highest Gallantry award... Param vir chakra 60. Most literate state... Kerala 61. Least literate state...bihar 62. Most densely populated state... West Bengal 63. Least densely populated state...arunachal Pradesh Page 1 of 5 GK-Quiz-2018-Part-4 Narayana Vidhyashram
64. Most populated city... Mumbai 65. Busiest bridge... Howra (Calcutta) 66. Oldest Refinery...Digboi (Assam) 67. Most literate Union Territory... Lakshadweep 68. Fastest Train... Shatabdi express 69. Least populated Union Territory... Lakshadweep SOBRIQUETS - INDIA 70. All Seasons State : Himachal Pradesh 71. Blue Mountains : Nilgiri 72. City of Palaces : Calcutta 73. City of Golden Temple : Amritsar 74. Garden City of India : Bangalore 75. Gateway of India : Mumbai 76. Granary of India : Punjab 77. Land of Five Rivers : Punjab 78. Pearl of the Orient : Goa 79. Pink City : Jaipur 80. Lake City : Udaipur 81. Switzerland of India : Kashmir 82. Paradise on Earth : Kashmir 83. Mini-Switzerland in India : Khajjar (Himachal Pradesh) 84. Sorrow of Bengal : River Damodar 85. Sorrow of Bihar : River Kosi 86. Sorrow of Assam : Brahmaputra 87. Spice Garden of India : Kerala 88. Sugar Bowl of India : Uttar Pradesh 89. Tea Garden of India : Assam 90. Detroit of India : Pitampur 91. Land of Sunrise in India : Arunachal Pradesh 92. Hi-Tech City : Hyderabad 93. Manchester of South India : Coimbatore 94. Manchestor of India : Ahamadabad 95. Mini Switzerland : Himachal Pradesh 96. City of orange : Nagpur 97. Weavers city of India : Panipat 98. Silicon vally of India : Banglore 99. Clouds of house : Megalaya 100. Gods own land of India : Kerala 101. City of Padala : Jaipur 102. Holly wood of India : Mumbai 103. Silent Share : Hadakh 104. Perly East : Goa PERSONS WITH POPULAR NAMES - WORLD 105. Light of the world : Jesus 106. Prince of Pilgrimage : Huien Tsang 107. The Wizard of Menlopark: Edison 108. Rascal monk : Rasputin 109. Good Shepherd : Jesus Christ 110. Apostle of Free Trade : Richard Cobden 111. King of Rock & Roll : Elvis Presley 112. Columbus of Space : Neil Armstrong 113. Master of Suspense : Alfred Hitchcock 114. Second Duke : Benitto Mussolini 115. Iron Duke : Duke of Wellington 116. Poet s Poet : Edmund Spenser 117. Desert Fox : Erwin Rommel 118. Lady with the Lamp : Florence Nightingale 119. G.B.S :George Bernard Shaw 120. Little Corporal : Napoleon Bonaparte 121. Maid of Orleans : Joan of Arc 122. Fuhrer (also Fuehrer) : Adolf Hitler 123. Man of Blood and Iron : Otto von Bismarck 124. Maiden Queen : Queen Elizabeth I 125. Bard of Avon : William Shakespeare 126. Grand Old Man of Britain : Gladstone 127. American Gandhi : Martin Luther King 128. The Daughter of East : Benazir Bhutto 129. Iron Butterfly : Margaret Thatcher 130. Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher 131. African Gandhi : Dr. Kenneth Kaunda PERSONS WITH POPULAR NAMES - INDIA 132. Prince of Beggars : Madan Mohan Malaviya 133. Bengali Tiger : Bipin Chandra Pal 134. Maratha Kesari : Bal Gangadhar Tilak Page 2 of 5 GK-Quiz-2018-Part-4 Narayana Vidhyashram
135. Punjab Lion : Lala Lajpat Rai 136. Sage of Sabarmati : Mahatma Gandhi 137. Indian Machiavelli : Chanakya 138. Indian Napoleon : Samudragupta 139. Leopard of the Snow : Ang Rita 140. Indian Bismarck : Sardar Vallabhai Patel 141. Light of Asia : Buddha 142. Lokmanya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak 143. Loknayak :Jayaprakash Narayan 144. J.P : Jayaprakash Narayan 145. C.R. : C. Rajagopalachari 146. Rajaji : C. Rajagopalachari 147. Deenabandhu : C.F. Andrews 148. Deshabandhu : C.R. Das 149. Grand Old Man of India : Dadabhai Naoroji 150. Mahamana : Madan Mohan Malaviya 151. Mahatma : Gandhiji 152. Bapu : Gandhiji 153. Gurudev : Rabindranath Tagore 154. Guruji : Golwalkar 155. Iron Lady of India : Indira Gandhi 156. Priyadarshini : Indira Gandhi 157. Barefooted painter : M.F. Hussain 158. Kipper : K.M. Cariappa 159. Indian Shakespeare : Kalidasa 160. Badshah Khan : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 161. Frontier Gandhi : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 162. Faker-e-Afghan : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 163. Netaji : Subash Chandra Bose 164. Prince of Patriots : Subash Chandra Bose 165. Birdman of India : Salim Ali 166. Nightingale of India : Sarojini Naidu 167. Lion of Kashmir : Sheikh Mohammed 168. T.T.K. : T.T. Krishnamachari 169. Andhra Kesari : Tangutri Prakasam 170. Grand Old Man of IndianJournalism 171. : Tushar Kanti Ghosh 172. Acharya : Vinobha Bhave 173. Sage of Paunar : Vinobha Bhave 174. Man of Peace : Lal Bahadur Shastri 175. Babuji : Jagjeevan Ram 176. Little Master : Sunil Gavaskar 177. Flying Sikh : Milkha Singh 178. Mysore Tiger : Tippu Sultan 179. Sage of Kanchi : Sankaracharya 180. Saint of Gutters : Mother Theresa 181. Man of the Masses : K. Kamaraj 182. Golden Girl of Indian Athletics: P.T. Usha 183. Anna : C.N. Annadurai 184. Akbar of Kashmir : Zian-ul-Abideen 185. Kuvembu : K.V. Puttappa 186. Rani of Jhansi : Lakshmibai 187. Shahid : Bhagat Singh 188. Kathal Mannan : Gemini Ganesan 189. Natikar Tilakam : Sivaji Ganesan 190. Chachaji : Jawaharlal Nehru 191. Sher-e-Punjab : Ranjit Singh 192. Punjab Kesari : Lala Lajpat Rai 193. Milkman of India : Varghese Kurian FAMOUS FATHERS - WORLD 194. Father of Psychology... Sigmund Freud 195. Father of Cloning... Ian Wilmut 196. Father of Printing... Guttenberg 197. Father of History... Herodotus 198. Father of Economics... Adam Smith 199. Father of Philosophy... Socrates 200. Father of Sociology... Augustus Comte 201. Father of English Poetry... Geoffrey Chaucer 202. Father of Biology... Aristotle 203. Father of Essay... Montaigne 204. Father of Medicine... Hippocrates 205. Father of Homeopathy... Samuel Haniman 206. Father of Socialism... Robert Owen 207. Father of Scientific Socialism...Karl Marx 208. Father of Co-operation... Robert Owen 209. Father of Jurisprudence... John Locke 210. Father of Atom Bomb... Otto Hahn 211. Father of Genetics... Gregor Mendel 212. Father of Motor Car... Henry Ford 213. Father of Reformation... Martin Luther 214. Father of Greek Democracy... Clesthenes 215. Father of Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman 216. Father of Pakistan... Muhammed Ali Jinnah Page 3 of 5 GK-Quiz-2018-Part-4 Narayana Vidhyashram
217. Father of Tanzania... Julius Nyrere 218. Father of Mathematics... Pythagorus 219. Father of Modern Cartoon... William Hogarth 220. Father of Modern Computer... Charles Babbage 221. Father of Nuclear Physics. : Ernest Rutherford 222. Father of Modern Drama... Henrik J. Ibsen 223. Father of Modern Tourism... Thomas Cook 224. Father of Painting... Leonardo Da Vinci 225. Father of Green Revolution...Norman Borlaug 226. Father of Renaissance... Petrarch FAMOUS FATHERS - INDIA 227. Father of the Nation...Mahatma Gandhi 228. Father of Ayurveda... Athreya 229. Father of Astronomy... Varahamihira 230. Father of Sanskrit Drama... Kalidasa 231. Father of Indian Renaissance. Raja Ram Mohan Roy 232. Father of Surgery... Susruta 233. Father of Indian Unrest...Bal Gangadhar Tilak 234. Father of Indian Budget. Professor Mahalanobis 235. Father of Indian Painting... Nandalal Bose 236. Father of Indian Cinema... Dada Saheb Phalke 237. Father of Indian Engineering... M.Visweswariah 238. Father of Indian Green Revolution... Dr. M.S. Swaminathan 239. Father of Indian Railway... Lord Dalhousie 240. Father of Co-operative Movement in India... Frederic Nicholson 241. Father of Indian Printing... James Hickey 242. Father of Local Self Government in India... Lord Ripon 247. Kindergarten : Froebel 248. Lion s Club : Melvin John 249. Salvation Army : William Booth 250. Nursing System : Florence Nightingale 251. Fascism : Benito Mussolini 252. Protestant Religion : Martin Luther 253. Nazism : Adolf Hitler 254. Montessori System : Maria Montessori 255. Cubism : Pablo Picasso 256. Amnesty International : Peter Berenson India 257. Jainism : Vardhamana Mahavira 258. Taoism : Lao Tse 259. Bahaism : Mirza Hussain Ali 260. Confucianism : Confucius 261. Sikhism : Guru Nanak 262. Zorastrianism (Parsis) : Zoraster 263. Bhoodan Movement : Vinoba Bhave 264. Sarvodaya Movement : Jaya Prakash Narayan 265. Ramakrishna Mission : Swami Vivekananda 266. Arya Samaj : Dayananda Saraswathi 267. Brahma Samaj : Raja Ram Mohan Roy 268. Dev Samaj : Siva Narayan Agnihothri 269. Prarthana Samaj : Kesab Chandra Sen 270. Suddhi Movement : Swami Shradhanand 271. Chinmaya Mission :Swami Chinmayananda 272. Servants of India Society: Gopalakrishna Gokhale 273. Indian Association : Surendranath Banerji 274. Peoples Education Society :Dr. B.R. Ambedkar 275. Vana Mahothsav : K.M. Munshi 276. Theosophical Society of India : Annie Besant WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR FOUNDERS 243. United Nations : Joseph Stalin (USSR), Winston Churchill (UK) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (USA) 244. Red Cross : Jean-Henri Dunant 245. Boy Scouts : Baden Powell 246. Y.M.C.A. : Sir George Williams MANKIND AND VARIOUS TRIBES 277. Mongolians living in Assam regions... Abhors 278. The Dutch born in South Africa... Afrikaners 279. The people of England...Anglo Saxon 280. Ancient Dravidians living in central India and Rajastan... Bhils 281. Dutch settlers in South Africa...Boers Page 4 of 5 GK-Quiz-2018-Part-4 Narayana Vidhyashram
282. People of Croatia, Slovenia...Croats 283. People in south east frontiers of Russia.. Cossacks 284. Inhabitants of Greenland and of Arctic regions... Eskimos 285. Natives of the Philippine Islands... Flemings 286. Hill tribes of Assam... Khasis / Garos 287. People of W.Asia. (Turkey, Iran and Iraq)... Kurds 288. Natives of New Zealand... Maoris 289. Short sized people found in the forests of Africa..... Pygmies 290. Original inhabitants of North America. Red Indians 291. Aborigines of West Bengal, Bihar & Orissa...... Santhals 292. Natives of Nilgiri Hills (South India)... Todas 293. People of South Africa living in certain parts of Natal Zulus 294. The people of Nagaland...Angami 295. Arunachal Pradesh... A palamis 296. Tamil Nadu... Badagas 297. Uttar Pradesh... Bhotias 298. Hazaribagh... Birhor 299. Himachal Pradesh... Gaddis 300. Orissa... Khonds 301. Madhya Pradesh... Kol 302. Manipur... Kuki 303. Sikkim... Labora 304. Tripura... Lushais 305. Bihar... Munda 306. Kerala... Ooralis 307. Maharashtra... Warlies 314. Red Flag : Revolution 315. Red triangle : Family planning 316. White Flag : Peace 317. Maharaja : Air India 318. Lotus : Culture and Civilization 319. Wheel : Progress 320. Red Cross : Hospital / Medical Service 321. Black band arm : Sign of Mourning, in Protest 322. Blind folded woman : Justice holding a Balance Scale 323. Flag at a half most :National Mourning 324. Flag up side down :Distress OFFICIAL BOOKS 325. Blue Book : British 326. Green Book : Italy & France 327. Orange Book : Netherlands 328. White Book : Germany & China 329. White Paper : India 330. Gray Book : Japan & Belgium SIGNS AND SYMBOLS 308. Red crystal flag : Red Cross 309. Black Flag : Protest 310. Yellow flag : Put on ship carrying people 311. with infectious disease 312. Dove : Peace 313. Olive branch : Peace Page 5 of 5 GK-Quiz-2018-Part-4 Narayana Vidhyashram