CURRENT AFFAIRS 2011

CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. United Nations Climate Change Conference 2010 is officially referred to as the ... session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

a. 18th

b. 17th

c. 16th

d. 15^th

2. Neutrino Observatory (INO) project is located near which of the following hills?

a. Anamalai Hills

b. Nilgiri Hills

c. Khasi Hills

d. Patkai Hills

3. Where was fi rst the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit held?

a. Thailand

b. Malaysia

c. India

d. Pakistan

4. Who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine 2010?

a. Richard Heck

b. Ei-ichi Negishi

c. Akira Suzuki

d. Robert Edwards

5. Ajay Jayaram is a well known … player.

a. Badminton

b. Golf

c. Tennis

d. Hockey

6. Toxic red sludge, a waste product from making which metal, burst out of a Hungarian factory's reservoir reachedDanube River of Europe?

a. Copper

b. Aluminum

c. Lithium

d. Rubidium

7. Who authored Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter?

a. Ruskin Bond

b. Mario Vargas

c. Jonathan

d. None of these

8. Suresh Tendulkar is associated with ...

a. Prime Minister’s Relief  Fund

b. Telecom Regulatory Au- thority of India

c. UN

d. None of these

9. Omkar Singh and Anisa Sayyed are associated with which of the following games?

a. Hockey

b. Basketball

c. Shooting

d. Cricket

10. With which company would you associate Partha S. Bhattacharyya?

a. Coal India Limited

b. NTPC

c. IOC

d. Bharat Electronics Limited

11. Robert Edwards shares an association with?

a. Physics

b. Chemistry

c. Biology

d. Mathematics

12. The total number of medals that India has won in Common Wealth Games 2010 is …

a. 101

b. 102

c. 103

d. 105

13. Which of the following is a Tennis Player?

a. Dan Carter

b. Greg Jones

c. Johnny Weissmuller

d. None of these

14. H. R. Bhardwaj is the governor of …

a. Karnataka

b. Kerala

c. Tamil Nadu

d. Andra Pradesh

15. Who has been awarded the Nobel Economics Prize2010?

a. Peter Granger

b. Jilly Cooper

c. Dale Mortensen

d. None of these

16. Jaitapur nuclear power plant is in which city?

a. Ratnagiri

b. Nagpur

c. Pune

d. Mumbai

17. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin fl agged off the construction of which space centre?

a. Vostochny Space Center

b. Vladimir Space Center

c. Hioto Space Center

d. None of these

18. Who is the State Chief Information Commissioner of Chennai?

a. Hiren Singh

b. R. K. Narayan

c. Vinod Joshi

d. K. S. Sripathi

19. Who is known as the "Father of  the Green Revolution in India"?

a. Norman Ernest Borlaug

b. M. S. Swaminathan

c. J. S. Thomson

d. None of these

20. Burning Bright: Irom Sharmila and the Struggle for Peace in Manipur has been written by ...

a. Arundhati Ray

b. Deepti Priya Mehrotra

c. Shivani Jain

d. None of these

21. South Korean Pohang-class cor-vette sank because of which of  the following torpedoes?

a. Wang Geon

b. Ulchi Mundok

c. Cheonan

d. None of these

22. Naoto Kan, the Prime Minister of Japan was preceded by …

a. Yukio Hatoyama

b. Yon Ki

c. Chiang Zell

d. Yukoto Ziang

23. Srikumar Banerjee is associated with which of the following?

a. Atomic Energy Commission

b. Bhaba Atomic Research Centre

c. Defence Research And  Development Organisation

d. None of these

24. Who built the Brihadishwara Temple?

a. Rajaraja

b. Vengi

c. Rajendra Chola

d. None of these

25. Sutlej River originates from?

a. India

b. China

c. Pakistan

d. None of these

26. Pallavan Double Plus and Pallavan Muthusaram RD are deposit schemes that belong to …

a. Indian Bank

b. Bank of Baroda

c. State Bank of India

d. Allahabad Bank

27. Indian Constituent Assembly adopted the design of Indian National flag on?

a. August 23, 1947

b. September 13, 1947

c. August 15, 1947

d. July 22, 1947

28. The Indian National Anthem was sung for the fi rst time in …

a. 1910

b. 1911

c. 1947

d. 1945

29. National fruit of India is?

a. Apple

b. Sugarcane

c. Orange

d. Mango

30. When was the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution adopted?

a. 1970

b. 1972

c. 1974

d. 1976

31. Who elects the Vice President of  India?

a. Members of Parliament

b. Members of Lok Sabha

c. Only b

d. Both a and b

32. Department of Agricultural Research and Education comes under the Ministry of …

a. Commerce and Industry

b. Agriculture

c. Commerce and Industry

d. Food Processing Industries

33. An insurance plan, ‘JiyoFit', has been launched by ...

a. HDFC standard life

b. Bharti AXA

c. LIC

d. Bajaj Allianz

34. Where is the National Institute of Smart Government located?

a. Hyderabad

b. Mumbai

c. Pune

d. Chennai

35. Defender Z+ is a …

a. Locker

b. Fighter plane

c. Car

d. Motorbike

36. Asia’s 1st EPZ was set up at …

a.  Kandla

b. Delhi

c. Falta

d. Noida

37. In which year was the Integrated Defence Staff formed?

a. 1959

b. 1961

c. 1981

d. 2001

38. How many Integrated Test Ranges does DRDO have?

a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d. 4

39. The Integrated Education for Disabled Children scheme was launched in …

a. 1954

b. 1965

c. 1974

d. 1991

40. When was the Rural Electrifi -cation Corporation Limited incorporated as a Company under Companies Act, 1956?

a. 1969

b. 1971

c. 1989

d. 1991

41. Fort William is located in ...

a. Chennai

b. Goa

c. Kolkata

d. Mysore

   

42. The Indian Tennis player who turned to Hollywood filmmaking is ...

a. Leander Paes

b. N. Night Shyamlan

c. Vijay Amritraj

d. Ashok Amritraj

43. Tritum is an isotope of ...

a. Nitrogen

b. Oxygen

c. Hydrogen

d. Phosphorous

44. In which country would you buy things using Lira?

a. Germany

b. Italy

c. USA

d. Myanmar

45. What does the acronym cc in an email mean?

a. Character conversion

b. Column code

c. Carbon Copy

d. Computer control

46. “Love” is associated with which of the following games?

a. Tennis

b. Horse riding

c. Lawn ball

d. Billiards

47. Which country will host the Commonwealth Games 2014?

a. Australia

b. Srilanka

c. Scotland

d. Canada

48. The Vrindavan Gardens are located in...

a. Mathura

b. Manali

c. Mysore

d. Mohali

49. For measuring the diameter of a thin wire, you would use ...

a. Screw driver

b. Screw gauge

c. Screw metre

d. Measuring tape

50. El sueño del celta has been written by …

a. Pablo Neruda

b. Shakespeare

c. Mario Llosa

d. None of these

ANSWERS

CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. c. 16th

2. b. Nilgiri Hills

3. a. Thailand

4. d. Robert Edwards

5. a. Badminton

6. b. Aluminum

7. b. Mario Vargas

8. a. Prime Minister’s Relief Fund

9. c. Shooting

10. a. Coal India Limited

11. c. Biology

12. a. 101

13. b. Greg Jones

14. a. Karnataka

15. d. None of these

16. a. Ratnagiri

17. a. Vostochny Space Center

18. d. K.S. Sripathi

19. a. Norman Ernest Borlaug

20. b. Deepti Priya Mehrotra

21. c. Cheonan

22. a. Yukio Hatoyama

23. b. Bhaba Atomic Research Centre

24. a. Rajaraja

25. b. China

26. a. India Bank

27. d. 22nd July 1947

28. b. 1911

29. d. Mango

30. d. 1976

31. d. Both a and b

32. b. Agriculture

33. d. Bajaj Allianz

34. a. Hyderabad

35. a. Locker

36. a. Kandla

37. d. 2001

38. b. 2

39. c. 1974

40. a. 1969

41. c. Kolkata

42. c. Vijay Amritraj

43. c. Hydrogen

44. b. Italy

45. c. Carbon copy

46. a. Tennis

47. c. Scotland

48. c. Mysore

49. b. Screw guage

50. c. Mario Llosa

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Some Ques on Budget

IMPORTANT QUESTONS ON BUDGET 2011-2012
1. For budget 2011-2012, how much have been allocated for public sector bank capitalization?
Ans-rs.6, 000 cr

2. For budget 2011-2012, how much have been allocated for regional rural banks recapitalization?
Ans-rs.500 cr

3. How much funds have been provided to sidbi for refinancing incremental lending by banks?
Ans-rs.5000 cr

4. How much funds have been provided to nabard to provide support to handloom weaver co-operative societies?
Ans-rs.3000 cr

5. How much funds have been provided to nabard’s short term rural credit fund?
Ans-rs.10, ooo cr

6. How much have been allocated for infrastructure development?
Ans-rs.2, 14,000 cr

7. How much have been allocated in the defence sector?
Ans-rs.1, 64,415 cr

8. How much have been allocated for sarva shiksha abhiyan programme?
Ans-rs.21ooo cr.

9. How much have been proposed to be allocated for green india mission from national clean energy fund?
Ans-rs.200 cr.

10. What percent have been allocated for education?
Ans-24%

11. How many mega leather clusters is to be set up during 2011-2012?
Ans-7

12. In 2011-2012 budget,the credit flow for farmers has been raised to?
Ans-rs.4, 75,000 cr

13. What is the increased fund under rashtriya krishi vikas yojana(RKVY)?
Ans-rs.7, 860 cr

14. How many mega food parks have been proposed to set up during 2011-2012?
Ans-15

15. What is the increased wage for anganwadi workers?
Ans-rs.3000/month.

16. What is the increased wage for anganwadi helpers?
Ans-rs.1500/month.

17. Under the UID mission how many aadhar numbers will be generated pe day?
Ans-10 lakhs

18. What is the increased allocation for primitive tribal groups?
Ans-rs.224 cr

19. Which bill has been proposed for strengthening inclusion?
Ans-National Food Security Bill (NFBS)

20. How much have been proposed for the allocation for BHARAT NIRMAN PROGRAMME?
Ans-rs.58,000 cr.

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ANDHRA PRADESH GRAMEENA VIKAS BANK GA Section

Please discuss Andhra pradesh Grameena vikas bank general awareness questions here and your attempts also

Q1) Saraswati samman award related to?
Literature

Q2.)Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar award related to?
science and technology

Q3.Currency of Bangladesh ?
Taka

Q4.saina nehwal is related to?
batminton

Q5.Merdeka cup is related to ?
football

Q6) Microfinance commitee?
YH Malegav commitee

Q7 13th finance commission headed by?
vijay kelkar

Q8)Basal 3 norms related to?

Q9) reverse repo rate used by RBI for ?
absorption of liquidity

Q10) which of the following not decided by rbi ?
bank interests on loans

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UIIC AAO Exam Questions

Hi all,
Please discuss about UIIC AAO exam held on 27 March 2011, General Awareness questions and about your attempts

Q1)Ishant sharma associated with which sports?
Cricket

Q2)Saina Nehwal is asociated with?
Badminton

Q3) Which is not a member country of TAPI
Iran

Q4)Yuvan is currency of ?
China

Q5) Question related to MGNREGA

Q6)Exporter’s insurance company?
ECGC

Q7)Sidhan is associated with which sports?

Q8)Find out a general insurance company?

UIIC

Q9)World Economic Forum held at—?
Davos

Q10) Full form of IFRS
International Financial Reporting Standards

Q11) General Insurance Company

Q12) Which of the following term is related to economy
Inflation

Q13) Which of the following term is related to economy
Casualty

Q14) What is the age for Vary senior citizen
80

Q15) Padma Vibhusan
Monket singh Ahluwalia

Q16) Jaitpur, where nuclear plants are to be set up is in
Maharashtra

Q17) How can a company raise funds
IPO and FPO

Q18) What is teaser loan
Initially low interest rate, then high interest rate

Q19) Who is Insurance regulator in India
IRDA

Q20) POSCO is a company basically from which country
South Korea

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Current Affairs & GK 2011 Set 61

These are General Awareness asked in the online test held on 8 April 2011, for those who could not give the test.

Q1) Recently Arjun Singh died, he was related to which of the following Parties?
a) BJP
b) DMK
c) Congress
d) SP

Ans:-c

Q2) A project of Reliance power to produce 4,000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Sasan, Sasan is in which state?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Maharashtra
c) Punjab
d) Haryana

Ans:-a

Q3) Indian Govt has decided to constitute a task force on direct subsidies given on LPG, Kerosene and other products. It is headed by …………?
a) Montek Singh Ahluwalia
b) Nandan Nilekani
c) A G Ghosh
d) K G Balkrishnan

Ans:-b

Q4) New Prime Minister of Nepal is …….?
a) Jhalanath Khanal
b) K H Mahesh
c) Pushpa Kamal Dahal
d) None of the above

Ans:-a

Q5) A JPC has been constituted for 2G scam recently, it consist of …. members.
a) 20
b) 25
c) 30
d) 35

Ans:-c

Q6) Ravi Bopara Plays for which Country?
a) New Zealand
b) India
c) England
d) Bangladesh

Ans:-c

Q7) Like Mobile Number Portability, IRDA has announced Health Insurance Policy Portability, it will come into effect from …..?
a) 1 April
b) 1 May
c) 1 June
d) 1 July

Ans:-d

Q8) Mukhya Mantri Kanya Suraksha Yojna is related to which of the following states?
a) Rajasthan
b) UP
c) Bihar
d) Haryana

Ans:-c

Q9) Swan Telecom which came into light in 2G scam is linked with which of the telecom company?
a) Airtel
b) Vodafone
c) Reliance
d) None of the Above

Ans:-c

Q10) Just after 2G scam, a new scam was uncovered about ISRO`s Antrix corp ltd and Devas media, the scam was related to …. band spectrum
a) S
b) C
c) Z
d) Q

Ans:-a

Q11) Deepika Pallikal is related to which of the following?
a) Tennis
b) Cricket
c) Squash
d) None of the Above

Ans:-c

Q12) Sushma Nath is India`s first women to be appointed as ……..
a) Deputy finance Secretary
b) Finance Secretary
c) Secretary of States
d) None of the Above

Ans:-a

Q13) Dhobi Ghaat is is a film directed by ………
a) Aamir Khan
b) Kiran Rao
c) Yash Chopra
d) None of the Above

Ans:-a

Q14) New President of Myanmar is?
a) Thein Shein
b) Than Shwe
c) Hu Jintao
d) Aung San Suu Kyi

Ans:-a

Q15) For budget 2011-2012, how much have been allocated for public sector bank capitalization?
a) Rs 5000 Crore
b) Rs 6000 Crore
c) Rs 7000 Crore
d) Rs 8000 Crore

Ans:-a

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Current Affairs & GK 2011 Set 60

Q1) Full form of MAT
a) Maximum Alternate TAX
b) Minimum Alternate TAX
c) Maximum Amount TAX
d) Minimum Amount TAX

Ans:-a

Q2) Budget 2011 reduces tax on Revenue from Foreign Subsidy From 30% to …….
a) 10%
b) 18%
c) 20%
d) 15%

Ans:-d

Q3) Artist of the year by Harvard University is
a) Ricky Martin
b) Shakira
c) A R RAHMAN
d) None of these

Ans:-b

Q4) Indai-ASEAN bussiness fair held at
a) Banglore
b) Hyderabad
c) Delhi
d) Chandigarh

Ans:-c

Q5) Contribution of Service sector in India GDP
a) 54.2%
b) 50%
c) 58%
d) 55.3%

Ans:-d

Q6) Foreign Investment Limit is increased in Corporation Infra bond from ……. to 25bn
a) 6bn
b) 2bn
c) 5bn
d) 10bn

Ans:-c

Q7) Next year target of public debt is
a) 49.1%
b) 40%
c) 44.2%
d) 41.5%

Ans:-c

Q8) Fiscal deficit for is 4.6% for
a) 2009-10
b) 2011-12
c) 2011
d) 2010-11

Ans:-b

Q9) Which is the first state to install Prepaid Electricity Bill
a) Maharastra
b) Delhi
c) Madhya pardesh
d) Tamil naidu

Ans:-a

Q10) P C CHAKO is the chaireman of JPC for
a) CWG scam
b) Adarsh Housing society scam
c) CVC
d) 2g Spectrum

Ans:-d

Q11) Harish Mariwala is the new President of
a) CVC
b) FICCI
c) SEBI
d) NABARD

Ans:-b

Q12) Deposits of commercial bank is hiked by
a) 16.22%
b) 16.33%
c) 16.44%
d) 16.88%

Ans:-d

Q13) Highest Inflow in April – December 2010 in which state and how much
a) Delhi – 35%
b) Maharastra-17%
c) Maharastra – 35%
d) Delhi-17%

Ans:-c

Q14) ANTARANG is launched by CBEC it is
a) Internet Portal
b) Intranet Portal
c) Inter Mobile Portal
d) Modem

Ans:-b

Q15) Muhyiddin Yassin is Deputy Prime Minister of
a) Nigeria
b) Afganistan
c) Turkmenistan
d) Malaysia

Ans:-d

Q16) Person Topped Forbes Billionnaire 2011 is Carlos Slim he is from
a) America
b) Japan
c) Mexico
d) China

Ans:-c

Q17) Japan hit by Massive earthquake of ………. Richter scale
a) 9.9
b) 8
c) 7
d) 8.9

Ans:-d

Q18) KCC stands for
a) Kirana Credit card
b) Kisan commission card
c) Karishi Credit card
d) Kisan credit card

Ans:-d

Q19) O.Odein Ajiemgobia is Foreign minister of
a) Nigeria
b) Phillippines
c) Swizerland
d) Russia

Ans:-a

Q20) Saskatchewan is known world over as an important producer of minerals including potash, uranium, oil and gas, diamonds, etc and is an important trade partner of India.,It is from
a) China
b) Japan
c) Canada
d) Russia

Ans:-c

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150 more (un)known GK Facts

* Turtles have no teeth.
* Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.
* Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
* Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they're crying.
* Helium is a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.
* Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
* Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
* Camels can spit.
* An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
* Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
* Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.
* Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
* A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc.
* Sharks are immune to disease i.e. they do not suffer from any Disease.
* Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.
* Paris, France has more dogs than people.
* New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
* Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
* Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.
* There are 6 to 14 frog's species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.
* A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.
* The longest life span of a frog was 40 years
* The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey
* The name `India' is derived from the River Indus
* The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
* Chess was invented in India.
* The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
* The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices.
* India has the most post offices in the world
* 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH
* The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
* Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
* The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
* A snail can sleep for 3 years.
* The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
* Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
* Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
* The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along
* The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
* A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
* The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* Ants don't sleep.
* Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.
* Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time
* A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time
* Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".
* Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
* The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.
* Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
* Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
* Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
* The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
* Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
* A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere
* Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy
* The average woman uses about her height in lipstick every five years.
* The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, AD 336 in Rome.
* A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
* A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't
* A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
* About 10% of the world's population is left-handed
* Dolphins sleep with one eye open
* Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.
* Many spiders have eight eyes.
* The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.
* Birds don't sweat
* The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft
* Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts
* The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz
* The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.
* The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert
* Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
* A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, one will feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, one will die.
* Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
* Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them
* An elephant can smell water three miles away
* If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds
* A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
* India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history
* The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).
* The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
* The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
* The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
* The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
* Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint
* The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.
* 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica
* Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert
* Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter
* Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300 degrees.
* Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.
* Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.
* Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.
* Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.
* Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.
* Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have a least one radio. Most families have several radios.
* Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.
* At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio's amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer's voice travels.
* Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you want your antenna to "catch."
* Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. Its scientific name is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time, mountain lions were very common!
* The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out! Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time!
* Queen ants can live to be 30 years old
* Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour
* As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 435 times per second
* Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
* Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
* Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
* The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
* Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men
* Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible
* Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it.
* More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
* Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
* Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
* It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
* Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
* It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
* Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
* Slugs have 4 noses.
* Owls are the only birds that can see the blue colour.
* Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
* More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
* There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
* Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot
* After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
* Penguins are not found in the North Pole
* A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
* A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound
* Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf
* Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
* Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks
* Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
* 259200 people die every day.
* 11% of the world is left-handed
* 1.7 liters of saliva is produced each day
* The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
* The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That's bigger than your hand!
* A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!
* There are two kinds of radio stations: AM and FM. That's why there are two dials on your radio. AM is used mostly for stations that specialize in talking, such as Christian stations at have Bible stories and sermons; sports stations that broadcast live baseball and football games; and stations that specialize in news programs and "talk shows," where listeners call the station and discuss various topics. FM is used mostly for stations that specialize in music.
* The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil
* The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.
* The worst industrial disaster in India occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A deadly chemical, methyl isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide factory killing more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedy are being felt even today.
* Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet," because it looks reddish in the night sky. Mars has 2 moons.
* Venus is nicknamed the "Jewel of the Sky." Because of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter than Mercury, even though it's not as close to the sun. Venus does not have a moon but it does have clouds of sulfuric acid! If you're going to visit Venus, pack your gas mask!
* Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.

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12v Fluorescent Inverter by TIP3055

This is a low-cost project for 20 or 40 watt fluorescent tubes. However the most efficient is to use a 40 watt tube (or two 20 watt tubes in series). It’s a circuit you can put together from junk box components or build from a kit. It’s very simple to build and requires no printed circuit board.
The transformer is hand-wound on a ferrite rod (from an old transistor radio) and the winding wire can be salvaged from an old transformer.

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10W Audio Amplifier with Bass-boost by NE5532 + TIP41

This design is based on the 18 Watt Audio Amplifier, and was developed mainly to satisfy the requests of correspondents unable to locate the TLE2141C chip. It uses the widespread NE5532 Dual IC but, obviously, its power output will be comprised in the 9.5 – 11.5W range, as the supply rails cannot exceed ±18V.
As amplifiers of this kind are frequently used to drive small loudspeaker cabinets, the bass frequency range is rather sacrificed. Therefore a bass-boost control was inserted in the feedback loop of the amplifier, in order to overcome this problem without quality losses. The bass lift curve can reach a maximum of +16.4dB @ 50Hz. In any case, even when the bass control is rotated fully counterclockwise, the amplifier frequency response shows a gentle raising curve: +0.8dB @ 400Hz, +4.7dB @ 100Hz and +6dB @ 50Hz (referred to 1KHz).
Parts:
P1_________________22K Log.Potentiometer (Dual-gang for stereo)
P2________________100K Log.Potentiometer (Dual-gang for stereo)
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R10__________________R22 4W Resistor (wirewound)
C1,C8_____________470nF 63V Polyester Capacitor
C2,C5_____________100µF 25V Electrolytic Capacitors
C3,C4_____________470µF 25V Electrolytic Capacitors
C6_________________47pF 63V Ceramic or Polystyrene Capacitor
C7_________________10nF 63V Polyester Capacitor
C9________________100nF 63V Polyester Capacitor
D1______________1N4148 75V 150mA Diode
IC1_____________NE5532 Low noise Dual Op-amp
Q1_______________BC547B 45V 100mA NPN Transistor
Q2_______________BC557B 45V 100mA PNP Transistor
Q3_______________TIP42A 60V 6A PNP Transistor
Q4_______________TIP41A 60V 6A NPN Transistor
J1__________________RCA audio input socket
Power supply parts:
R11_________________1K5 1/4W Resistor
C10,C11__________4700µF 25V Electrolytic Capacitors
D2________________100V 4A Diode bridge
D3________________5mm. Red LED
T1________________220V Primary, 12 + 12V Secondary 24-30VA Mains transformer
PL1_______________Male Mains plug
SW1_______________SPST Mains switch

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Regulated Power Supply 40V 2A by LM317 + TIP42

This is circuit Fix power supply Regulator 40V 2A for main Power Amplifier 30W.
It is use IC LM317T (Hot IC Variable Regulator) and Transistor TIP42 for boost up Current to 2A max . Other detail see in circuit.
A very good and powerful Regulated Power Supply section was implemented by simply adding a PNP power transistor to the excellent LM317T adjustable regulator chip. In this way this circuit was able to deliver much more than the power required to drive two Mini-MosFet amplifiers to full output (at least 2Amp @ 40V into 4 Ohm load) without any appreciable effort.
Regulated Power Supply Parts:
R1_______________3R9 1 or 2W Resistor
R2______________22R 1/4W Resistor
R3_______________6K8 1/4W Resistor
R4_____________220R 1/4W Resistor
R5_______________4K7 1/2W Resistor
C1____________3300µF 50V Electrolytic Capacitor (or 4700µF 50V)
C2,C5__________100nF 63V Polyester Capacitors
C3______________10µF 63V Electrolytic Capacitor
C4_____________220µF 50V Electrolytic Capacitor
D1_____Diode bridge 100V 4A
D2___________1N4002 200V 1A Diode
D3______________LED Any type and color
IC1___________LM317T 3-Terminal Adjustable Regulator
Q1____________TIP42A 60V 6A PNP Transistor
SW2_____________SPST Mains switch
T1_____________230V Primary, 35-36V (Center-tapped) Secondary,
50-75VA Mains transformer (See Notes)
PL1____________Male Mains plug with cord

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