Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

നിരന്തരമായി യുവതലമുറയോട് അറിവുകൾ പങ്കുവയ്ക്കുകയും സംവദിക്കുകയും ചെയ്ത രാഷ്ട്രപതി. ആണവശാസ്ത്ര മേഖലയ്ക്ക് സമഗ്ര സംഭാവന നൽകിയ മഹാൻ. സ്വപ്നം കാണാൻ യുവാക്കളെ പഠിപ്പിച്ചു.  ലാളിത്യം ഉയർത്തിപ്പിടിച്ചു.

Autobiography of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam?

Ans: Wings of Fire (അഗ്നി ചിറകുകൾ)

Place where APJ Abdul Kalam died?

Ans: Shillong, Meghalaya

Kalam was awarded Bharat Ratna in the year ?

Ans: 1997

Which of the Kalam’s books has the subject of unleashing the power within India?

Ans: Ignited Minds

The low-cost coronary stent developed by Kalam together with Dr. Soma Raju is named?

Ans: Kalam-Raju Stent

Total no. of mercy petitions received by Kalam was ?

Ans: 21

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The parent body of Door Darsan is Prasar Bharathi

Which Nobel Laureate wrote the famous poem “Love at first sight” : Wislawa Szymborska(Polish)

The origin of river Jahnavi is in Tibet

Khed near Pune was later named after teh native freedom figher named : Raj Guru (Along with Bhagat Singh and Sukh Dev he took part in the assassination of J.P. Saunders in 1928  and was hanged in 1931. Khed was renamed as Rajgurunagar)

What is 5/20 rule?

The 5/20 Rule is a norm of the Indian Aviation ministry under which national carriers are required to have an operational experience of 5 years and to have a fleet of minimum 20 Aircrafts to fly overseas.

According to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005, waged employment is to be provided to each rural households for at least _____ days in a financial year?

Answer: 100

Maharana Udaisingh founded the city of Udaipur (Rajasthan) on the banks or the lake_____ in year 1553.

Answer: Lake Pichola

What caused ‘Whiskey Rebellion’ in United States?

Answer: During the presidency of George Washington, in 1791, tax was imposed on distilled spirits, (of which whiskey was the most popular one) and was the first one imposed on a domestic product by the federal government. The rebellion was suppressed in 1794.

The word ‘Vihara’ in Buddhist parlance means: _______

Answer: Monastery

The Hindi language film in which Mithun Chakraborty made his debut as hero:

Answer: Mrigaya(1976), directed by Mrinal Sen

The Peacock Island is in the river : Brahmaputra(Assam)

Haldia, a major port of India is in the state of : West Bengal

Fatwa-j-Alamgiri is a compilation of Hanafi Law during the reign of : Aurangzeb

Bachpan Bachavo Andolan was founded by : Kailash Sathyarthi (Nobel Prize winner for Peace, 2014, shared with Malala Yousafzai of Pakisthan)

The first Asian airline to induct a jet Aircraft in its fleet : Air India (1960)

A group of crows is called : a murder of crows.

Which is the famous mosque on the banks of Dal lake, Kashmir : Hazratbal mosque

The ‘bel’ in the decibel stands for : The name Alexander Graham Bell. Decibel is one-tenth of ‘bel’, a unit which expresses the ration of two values of the power of sound. Decibel is commonly used unit.

The length of Panama Canal is : 77 Km (Canal which connects Atlantic and Pacific Ocean)

‘Kaviraja marga’, a work on grammar and poetics written in around 850 AD, was authored by Amoghavarsha I, a king of Rashtrakuta dynasty. The language in which the work was written is : Kannada