General Knowldge 3

GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES

DISCOVERER ................................DISCOVERY

Christopher Columbus (Italian)................... America
Vasco da Gama (Portuguese) ...... Sea route to India
John Cabot (British) ....................... New foundland
Pedro Alvarez Cabral (Portuguese)................. Brazil
Tasman (Dutch) Island of Tasmania & New Zealand
Captian Cook (British) . Sandwich (Hawaiin) Islands
Robert Peary (USA)............................... North Pole
Amundsun (Norway) ............................. South Pole
Ferdinand de Lesseps (Designed) .......... Suez Canal
David Livingstone (British) ................ Victoria Falls
Bartholomew Diaz (Portuguese)....... Cape of Good Hope
Norseman Eric ........................................... Greenland
Leif Ericsson ....................................... North America
Mungo park ............................... Nigeria river in Africa
Richard Francis Burton ..................... Lake Tanganyika
Henry Hudson ....................................... Hudson Bay
Gobot Sebastian ................................ New Foundland
Marco Polo ..................................................... China
Kepler .......................................................... Planets

RIVERSIDE CITIES & COUNTRIES

City ....River.... Country

Alexandria.... Nile.... Egypt
Brussels.... Seine ....Belgium
Chittagong.... Karnaphuli.... Bangladesh
Glasgow ....Clyde ....Scotland
Khartoum.... Nile ....Sudan
Lisbon.... Tagus ....Portugal
Liverpool.... Mersey ....England
Shanghai.... Yangtze-Kiang ....China
Berlin ....Spree ....Germany
Bonn ....Rhine ....Germany
Amsterdam ....Amsel ....Netherlands
Baghdad..... Tigris.... Iraq
Bangkok.... Menam ....Thailand
Belgrade.... Danube ....Serbia
London .....Thames.... England
Montreal ....Ottawa.... Canada
Moscow.... Moskva .....Russia
Budapest.... Danube.... Hungary
Colombo ....Kaliganga ....Sri Lanka
Cairo ....Nile ....Egypt
Karachi ....Indus ....Pakistan
Lahore.... Ravi ....Pakistan
New York ....Hudson ....USA
Paris.... Seine ....France
Yangoon ....Irawadi ....Myanmar
Rome ....Tiber ....Italy
Tokyo.... Sumida ....Japan
Vienna ....Danube ....Austria
Warsaw.... Vistula ....Poland
Washington ....Potamac ....U.S.A.
Basra ....Eupharates and Tigris.... Iraq
Bristol ....Avon ....England
Cologne.... Rhine.... Germany
Dublin..... Liphi.... Ireland
Hamburg ....Elbe ....Germany
Philadelphia ....Delawara ....America
Prague.... Vitava.... Czechoslovakia
Quebec St. ....Lawrence.... Canada
Stalingrad ....Volga.... Russia

PERSONS WITH POPULAR NAMES

WORLD

Light of the world : Jesus
Prince of Pilgrimage : Huien Tsang
The Wizard of Menlopark: Edison
Rascal monk : Rasputin
Good Shepherd : Jesus Christ
Apostle of Free Trade : Richard Cobden
King of Rock & Roll : Elvis Presley
Columbus of Space : Neil Armstrong
Master of Suspense : Alfred Hitchcock
Second Duke : Benitto Mussolini
Iron Duke : Duke of Wellington
Poet’s Poet : Edmund Spenser
Desert Fox : Erwin Rommel
Lady with the Lamp : Florence Nightingale
G.B.S : George Bernard Shaw
Little Corporal : Napoleon Bonaparte
Maid of Orleans : Joan of Arc
Fuhrer (also Fuehrer) : Adolf Hitler
Man of Blood and Iron : Otto von Bismarck
Maiden Queen : Queen Elizabeth I
Bard of Avon : William Shakespeare
Grand Old Man of Britain : Gladstone
American Gandhi : Martin Luther King
The Daughter of East : Benazir Bhutto
Iron Butterfly : Margaret Thatcher
Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher
African Gandhi : Dr. Kenneth Kaunda

INDIA

Prince of Beggars : Madan Mohan Malaviya
Bengali Tiger : Bipin Chandra Pal
Maratha Kesari : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Punjab Lion : Lala Lajpat Rai
Sage of Sabarmati : Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Machiavelli : Chanakya
Indian Napoleon : Samudragupta
Leopard of the Snow : Ang Rita
Indian Bismarck : Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Light of Asia : Buddha
Lokmanya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Loknayak : Jayaprakash Narayan
J.P : Jayaprakash Narayan
C.R. : C. Rajagopalachari
Rajaji : C. Rajagopalachari
Deenabandhu : C.F. Andrews
Deshabandhu : C.R. Das
Grand Old Man of India : Dadabhai Naoroji
Mahamana : Madan Mohan Malaviya
Mahatma : Gandhiji
Bapu : Gandhiji
Gurudev : Rabindranath Tagore
Guruji : Golwalkar
Iron Lady of India : Indira Gandhi
Priyadarshini : Indira Gandhi
Barefooted painter : M.F. Hussain
Kipper : K.M. Cariappa
Indian Shakespeare : Kalidasa
Badshah Khan : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Acharya : Vinobha Bhave
Sage of Paunar : Vinobha Bhave
Man of Peace : Lal Bahadur Shastri
Babuji : Jagjeevan Ram
Little Master : Sunil Gavaskar
Flying Sikh : Milkha Singh
Mysore Tiger : Tippu Sultan
Sage of Kanchi : Sankaracharya
Saint of Gutters : Mother Theresa
Man of the Masses : K. Kamaraj
Golden Girl of Indian Athletics: P.T. Usha
Anna : C.N. Annadurai
Akbar of Kashmir : Zian-ul-Abideen
Kuvembu : K.V. Puttappa
Rani of Jhansi : Lakshmibai
Shahid : Bhagat Singh
Kathal Mannan : Gemini Ganesan
Natikar Tilakam : Sivaji Ganesan
Chachaji : Jawaharlal Nehru
Sher-e-Punjab : Ranjit Singh
Punjab Kesari : Lala Lajpat Rai
Milkman of India : Varghese Kurian

FAMOUS FATHERS

World

Father of Psychology.................. Sigmund Freud
Father of Cloning ............................... Ian Wilmut
Father of Printing .............................. Guttenberg
Father of History ............................... Herodotus
Father of Economics ........................ Adam Smith
Father of Philosophy ............................ Socrates
Father of Sociology ................. Augustus Comte
Father of English Poetry .......... Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of Biology.................................. Aristotle
Father of Essay................................. Montaigne
Father of Medicine.......................... Hippocrates
Father of Homeopathy .............. Samuel Haniman
Father of Socialism......................... Robert Owen
Father of Scientific Socialism.................Karl Marx
Father of Co-operation ................... Robert Owen
Father of Jurisprudence.................. John Locke
Father of Atom Bomb .......................... Otto Hahn
Father of Genetics........................ Gregor Mendel
Father of Motor Car ......................... Henry Ford
Father of Reformation ................... Martin Luther
Father of Greek Democracy .............. Clesthenes
Father of Bangladesh . Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Father of Pakistan ............. Muhammed Ali Jinnah
Father of Tanzania ......................... Julius Nyrere
Father of Mathematics ...................... Pythagorus
Father of Modern Cartoon ........ William Hogarth
Father of Modern Computer.......... Charles Babbage
Father of Nuclear Physics ...... : Ernest Rutherford
Father of Modern Drama ............. Henrik J. Ibsen
Father of Modern Tourism ............ Thomas Cook
Father of Painting .................. Leonardo Da Vinci
Father of Green Revolution ........Norman Borlaug
Father of Renaissance............................ Petrarch

INDIA

Father of the Nation ...................Mahatma Gandhi
Father of Ayurveda ................................ Athreya
Father of Astronomy....................... Varahamihira
Father of Sanskrit Drama ....................... Kalidasa
Father of Indian Renaissance . Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Father of Surgery.................................... Susruta
Father of Indian Unrest .............Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Father of Indian Budget ........ Professor Mahalanobis
Father of Indian Painting............... Nandalal Bose
Father of Indian Cinema .............. Dada Saheb Phalke
Father of Indian Engineering ............ M.Visweswariah
Father of Indian Green Revolution .......................... Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
Father of Indian Railway ............. Lord Dalhousie
Father of Co-operative Movement in India .......... Frederic Nicholson
Father of Indian Printing ................ James Hickey
Father of Local Self Government in India ... Lord Ripon

WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR FOUNDERS

United Nations : Joseph Stalin (USSR),
Winston Churchill (UK)
and Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (USA)
Red Cross : Jean-Henri Dunant
Boy Scouts : Baden Powell
Y.M.C.A. : Sir George Williams
Kindergarten : Froebel
Lion’s Club : Melvin John
Salvation Army : William Booth
Nursing System : Florence Nightingale
Fascism : Benito Mussolini
Protestant Religion : Martin Luther
Nazism : Adolf Hitler
Montessori System : Maria Montessori
Cubism : Pablo Picasso
Amnesty International : Peter Berenson

India

Jainism : Vardhamana Mahavira
Taoism : Lao Tse
Bahaism : Mirza Hussain Ali
Confucianism : Confucius
Sikhism : Guru Nanak
Zorastrianism (Parsis) : Zoraster
Bhoodan Movement : Vinoba Bhave
Sarvodaya Movement : Jaya Prakash Narayan
Ramakrishna Mission : Swami Vivekananda
Arya Samaj : Dayananda Saraswathi
Brahma Samaj : Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Dev Samaj : Siva Narayan Agnihothri
Prarthana Samaj : Kesab Chandra Sen
Suddhi Movement : Swami Shradhanand
Chinmaya Mission : Swami Chinmayananda
Servants of India Society: Gopalakrishna Gokhale
Indian Association : Surendranath Banerji
Peoples Education Society : Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Vana Mahothsav : K.M. Munshi
Theosophical Society of India : Annie Besant