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FA 1 – MODULES 1-3
FA 2 – MODULES 4-6
SA 1 – MODULES 1-6
FA 3 – MODULES 7-9
FA 4 – MODULES 10-12
SA 2 – MODULES 7-12
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MODULE 1: PORTS AND CITIES
A. Write the name of port.
1. The only river port in India around 200 km from the sea and the oldest major port in the country is …………….
Answer: Kolkata port
2. India’s first private port located in Saurashtra region of Gujarat is …………….
Answer: Port Pipavav
3. India’s superport located in Maharashtra and renamed as the Jawaharlal Nehru port is …………….
Answer: Nhava Sheva
4. A port that has been famed for pearl fishing and is located in Tamil Nadu is…………….
Answer: Tuticorin port
5. The main iron exporting port and one of the oldest ports on the West coast of India is …………….
Answer: Mormugao port
6. A port on the cost of Andhra Pradesh, the deepest landlocked and protected port, is …………….
Answer: Visakhapatnam
7. A port is Odisha that generally handles coal and iron ore cargo is…………….
Answer: Paradip port
8. A new port commissioned by the former Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee located 25 km north of Chennai is ……………..
Answer: Ennore port
B. Write the new name of the following cities.
1. Baroda- Vadodara
2. Bombay - Mumbai
3. Cochin - Kochi
4. Calcutta - Kolkata
5. Madras - Chennai
6. Gauhati - Guwahati
7. Trivandrum - Thiruvananthapuram
8. Poona - Pune
9. Banaras - Varanasi
10. Calicut - Kozhikode
11. Waltair - Visakhapatnam
12. Pondicherry - Puducherry
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MODULE 2: HISTORY
A. Write the date of independence of the following countries.
1. Russia -12 June 1992
2. Italy - 2 June 1946
3. Argentina - 9 July 1816
4. Vatican City -11 February 1929
5. Pakistan -14 August 1947
6. Ireland - 24 April 1916
7. Zimbabwe -18 April 1980
8. Poland -11 November 1918
9. Mexico -16 September 1810
10. Canada -1 July 1867
11. Brazil -7 September 1822
12. United States of America - 4 July 1776
A. Answer the following questions.
1. What language did Lord Buddha speak?
Answer: Prakrit
2. What was the capital of Magadha?
Answer: Patliputra
3. What were Ashoka's Buddhist massage carrying pillars called?
Answer: Edicts
4. Whose caves were located in Udayagiri?
Answer: Jaina
5. In which year was Somnath temple invaded by Muhammad of Ghazni?
Answer: 1024
6. Who was the most famous of the Khilji kings?
Answer: Alauddin Khilji
7. What is the battle between Babar and Ibrahim Lodi called?
Answer: Battle of Panipat
8. Who wrote Akbarnama?
Answer: Abul Fazal
9. What was Shah Jahan’s real name?
Answer: Khurram
10. Which battle did Siraj-ud-daulah and the British fight in 1757?
Answer: Battle of Plassey
11. Who was the eldest son of Akbar whose real name was Sultan Muhammad Salim?
Answer: Jahangir
12. Which battle was fought between Mir Kasim and the British in 1764?
Answer: Battle of Buxar
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MODULE 3: CURRENT AFFAIRS – REVISION
1. Where is Kartarpur?
Answer: Punjab, Pakistan
2. What is the importance of Kartarpur?
Answer: Sikh Pilgrim centre
3. What is stubble burning?
Answer: Burning of straw
4. Which three states burn stubble?
Answer: Punjab, Haryana and UP
5. What is a Casino?
Answer: A game house
6. Where is the most famous Casino?
Answer: Las Vegas, USA
7. What is the full form of TET?
Answer: Teacher Eligibility Test
8. What is the full form of NET?
Answer: National Eligibility Test
9. Which is the largest circulated newspaper in the world?
Answer: Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan
10. Which is the largest circulated newspaper in India?
Answer: Dainik Bhaskar
11. Which is the largest mobile carrier in India?
Answer: Reliance Jio
12. How many subscribers are with Reliance Jio?
Answer: 33.1 crore
13. What is the full form of NCP?
Answer: Nationalist Congress Party
14. Who is the new president of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Gotabaya Rajapaksa
15. What is the capital of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Colombo
16. What is Geography?
Answer: The study of Earth’s surface
17. What is Geology?
Answer: The study of Earth’s rocks
18. How many medical colleges are there in India?
Answer: 235
19. How many AIIMSs are there in India?
Answer:9
20. Where is Char Minar located?
Answer: Hyderabad
21. What is spectrum?
Answer: A range of radio waves
22. What is the No 1 IIT of India?
Answer: IIT, Bombay
23. What is the No 1 IIM of India?
Answer: IIM Ahmadabad
24. Who is the richest person in India?
Answer: Mr Mukesh Ambani
25. What is the net worth of Mr Mukesh Ambani?
Answer: 56 billion $
26. What is the full form of IGI?
Answer: Indira Gandhi International Airport
27. What is the full form of APM?
Answer: Automatic Passenger Machine
28. What is the full form of CMP?
Answer: Common Minimum Programme
29. What is the busiest airport in India?
Answer: Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi
30. What is the full form of MSP?
Answer: Minimum Support Price
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MODULE 4: EXTREMES IN THE WORLD
1. Which is the biggest planet in the Solar System?
2. Which is the largest country in the world by area?
3. Which is the largest country by population?
4. Which is the biggest city by population?
5. Which is the largest bank in the world?
6. Which is the largest English speaking nation in the world?
7. Which is the largest football (or soccer) stadium in the world?
8. Which is the largest island in the world by area?
9. Which is the largest shopping mall in the world?
10. Which is the largest national park in the world?
11. Which is the world’s largest ocean?
12. Which is the world’s largest river by length?
13. Which is the world’s largest volcano?
14. Which is the largest zoo in the world?
15. Which is the world’s longest mountain chain?
16. Which is the world’s longest rail bridge?
17. Which is the longest cave in the world?
18. What is the longest English word?
19. Which is the longest highway in the world?
20. Which is the tallest building in the world?
Answers
1) Jupiter
2) Russia
3) China
4) Tokyo, Japan
5) Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)
6) United States
7) Rungnado May Day Stadium, North Korea
8) Greenland
9) New South China Mall
10) Northeast Greenland National Park
11) Pacific Ocean
12) Nile
13) Mauna Loa on Hawai’i Big Island
14) Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska
15) The Andes.
16) Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge, China
17) Mammoth Cave, near Brownsville, Kentucky, United States
18) pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis – a supposed lung disease – 45 letters (from Oxford Dictionaries Online)
19) Australia’s Highway 1
20) Burj Khalifa, Dubai
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MODULE 5: CURRENT AFFAIRS
1. Who is the Prime Minister of India?
2. Who is the President of India?
3. Who is the Home Minister of India?
4. Who is the Finance Minister of India?
5. Who is the Defence Minister of India?
6. Who is the Railway Minister of India?
7. Who is the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
8. Who is the Finance Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
9. Who is the Governor of Uttar Pradesh?
10. Who is the Chief Minister of Delhi?
11. Who is the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi?
12. Who is the Chief Minister of West Bengal?
13. Who is the Chief Minister of Uttaranchal?
14. Who is the Chief Minister of Rajasthan?
15. Who is the Chief Minister of Bihar?
16. Who is the Chief of the Defence Staff in India?
17. Who is the Chairman of SBI?
18. Who is the Chief Justice of India?
19. Who is the Chief Judge of the Allahabad High Court?
20. Who is the Vice-President of India?
ANSWERS
1) Mr Narendra Modi
2) Mrs. Draupadi Murmu
3) Mr Amit Shah
4) Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman
5) Mr Rajnath Singh
6) Mr Ashwini Vaishnav
7) Yogi Adityanath
8) Mr Suresh Khanna
9) Mrs Anandiben Patel
10) Mr Arvind Kejriwal
11) Mr Vinay Kumar Saxena
12) Ms Mamata Banerjee
13) Mr Pushkar Singh Dami
14) Mr Ashok Gehlot
15) Mr Nitish Kumar
16) General Anil Chauhan
17) Mr Dinesh Kumar Khara
18) Justice DY Chandrachud
19) Justice Pritinker Diwaker
20) Mr Jagdeep Dhankar
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MODULE 6: ABBREVIATIONS
ASEAN – Association of South-East Asian Nations
SAARC – South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
WTO – World Trade Organization
IMF – International Monetary Fund
WHO – World Health Organization
UNICEF – United Nations International Children’s’ Emergency Fund
UPU - Universal Postal Union
IBRD - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization
IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency
IIT- Indian Institute of Technology
ITI – Industrial Training Institute
ISI – Industrial Standard Institute
JEE – Joint Entrance Exam
UPSC – Union Public Service Commission
RRB – Railway Recruitment Board
NITI - National Institution of Transforming India
NIT - National Institutes of Technology
NEET – National Eligibility cum Entrance Test
IAS – Indian Administrative Service
UGC - University Grants Commission
IGNOU – Indira Gandhi National Open University
INTERPOLE – International Police
CBI – Central Bureau of Investigation
NIIT – National Institutes of Information Technology
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MODULE 7: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
A. Write the name of musical instruments.
1. Goddess Saraswati has this wonderful musical instrument in her hands.
Answer: Veena
2. This musical instruments was popularized in the mid 17th century.
Answer: Nadaswaram
3. This is string instruments has covered frets on it.
Answer: Sitar
4. This musical instrument is actually a simple what used to drum fingers on.
Answer: Ghatam
5. This long musical pipe is seen prominently in carnatic music performance.
Answer: Shehnai
6. It is symmetrical pair of turned conical wooden drums which is played with hand.
Answer: Tabla
7. It is an Indian string instruments which is played with a bow.
Answer: Sarangini
8. It is popular folk drum of Northern India. It is barrel shaped with skins on both side.
Answer: Dholak
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MODULE 8: DEFINITIONS
A. Write the correct term.
1. A man who loves his country and will defend it.
Answer: Patriot
2. A person who disbelieves in the existence of God.
Answer: Atheist
3. A person who leaves his own country to settle in another.
Answer: Emigrant
4. The land laid out for landing and departure of aircraft.
Answer: Aerodrome
5. The official numbering of the population of a country.
Answer: Census
6. The place where dead bodies are buried.
Answer: Cemetery
7. A person who believes implicitly in fate.
Answer: Fatalist
8. A person who looks only at the bright side of things.
Answer: Optimist
9. A person who seeks protection in the foreign land.
Answer: Refugee
10. A person who walks while he is asleep.
Answer: Somnambulist
B. Write the correct term.
1. Basic living unit of the body - cells
2. The vice box - larynx
3. Hard substance found in hair, nails and claws - keratin
4. The body’s largest gland - liver
5. Group of tissues which work together - organ
6. Liquid released by glands in the mouth - saliva
7. Blood vessels that carry used blood back to the heart - veins
8. Helps the body to build and repair itself - protein
9. Smallest blood vessels - capillaries
10. Where the brain is located - skull
11. Long fibres made up of cells or bundles of fibres - nerves
12. Longest bone in the human body - femur
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MODULE 9: COUNTRY, CAPITAL & CURRENCY - 1
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MODULE 10: WORLD SOBRIQUETS - 1
Emerald Island – Ireland
Empire City – New York
Eternal City – Rome
Eye of Greece - Athens
Electronic City of India – Bengaluru
Forbidden City – Lasha, Tibet
Friendly Island – Tonga
Front Door of Australia – Darwin
Garden City of England - Kent
Garden City of World – Chicago
Garden City of India – Bengaluru
Garden Gods – Colorado, USA
Gateway of India – Mumbai
Gateway of Tears – Jerusalem
Granary of India – Punjab
Gift of the Nile – Egypt
Golden State – California, USA
Golden Peninsula – Thailand
Hermit Kingdom – Korea
Herring Pond – Atlantic Ocean
Horn of Africa – Somalia
Holy City – Jerusalem
Holy Land – Palestine
Holy Mountain – Fujiyama, Japan
Heart of Africa – Burundi
Hill Queen – Shimla
Island Continent – Australia
Island of cloves – Zanzibar
Island of Fire – Iceland
Island of Pearls – Bahrain
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MODULE 11: GENERAL AWARENESS
1. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. True or False?
Answer: True
2. How many planets are there in our solar system?
Answer: 8
3. Which is the hottest continent on Earth?
Answer: Africa
4. Which is the smallest continent in the world?
Answer: Australia
5. What is the top colour in a rainbow?
Answer: Red
6. How many years are there in a millennium?
Answer: 1000
7. Which country is home to the kangaroo?
Answer: Australia
8. ‘Stars and Stripes’ is the nickname of the flag of which country?
Answer: United States of America
9. Which language is used by the computer to process data?
Answer: Binary language
10. What type of bird lays the largest eggs?
Answer: Ostrich
11. What covers approximately 71% of the Earth’s surface: Land or water?
Answer: Water
12. Which is the hardest substance available on earth?
Answer: Diamond
13. Which is the biggest desert in the world?
Answer: Sahara desert
14. Which country gifted The Statue of Liberty to the United States?
Answer: France
15. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
16. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
17. What is the name of the Greek God of music?
Answer: Apollo
18. What does the “SIM” in the SIM card stand for?
Answer: Subscriber Identity Module
19. Which is the first element on the periodic table of elements?
Answer: Hydrogen
20. Which is the longest written Constitution in the world?
Answer: India
21. What is the largest joint in the human body?
Answer: Knee
22. What does the Internet prefix WWW stand for?
Answer: World Wide Web
23. How much of Earth’s surface is covered by ocean?
Answer: 71%
24. Which is the smallest bone in the human body?
Answer: Stapes (Ear bone)
25. Who discovered Penicillin in 1928?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
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MODULE 12: ANIMALS & YOUNG ONES
Ant- larva, antling
Ape- Infant
Bear- cub
Bee- fry
Camel- calf
Cat- kitten, kit
Cockroach- larva, nymph
Crocodile- crocklets
Deer- calf, fawn
Dog- whelp, pup, puppy
Donkey- colt, foal
Duck- duckling
Eagle- eaglet, fledgling
Frog- tadpole, polliwog, froglet
Goat- goatling, kid
Horse- foal
Kangaroo- joey
Monkey- infant
Owl- owlet
Rabbit- bunny, kit, kitten, leveret
Snail- spat, snailet
Snake- snakelet
Spider- spiderling
Swan- cygnet, flapper
Turtle- hatchling